technique · 3 recipes
Pedestal Shot
A pedestal translates the complete camera vertically while holding pitch fixed; it is neither a tilt nor a pivoting-arm arc.
Selected recipe
Pedestal Up
Pedestal Up is a variant of Pedestal Translation. It retains its own complete execution recipe.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Translate only vertically. Lock horizontal position, pitch, yaw and focal length; reveal or re-occlude surfaces through height change rather than tilting or approaching.
Pedestal: A pedestal translates the complete camera vertically while holding pitch fixed; it is neither a tilt nor a pivoting-arm arc. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Reveal objects by overcoming the edge of the table through vertical parallax, or change the occlusion between characters and the foreground.
- How it works
- Use the edge of the table or the base to preset vertical obstruction, and first check if the starting point really blocks the target. Keep the gimbal horizontal and the horizontal coordinates unchanged, only raise or lower to the specified height.
- Common mistakes
- Replace lifting with forward tilt or push The starting point has already displayed all table ball positions, making the reveal invalid
How to read this page
Pedestal Shot is one technique in Camera Movement. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
The clip above is one reading, made with a third-party video model. Another model, or the same model on another day, can land on a different frame. It is an example, not a promise that a prompt will match it.
The free short prompt is a starter sentence. The shot card is the timed recipe: scene, start and end frames, action, light, and color. Three sample cards are free on the site. The rest are part of GrokCine Pro. A second name for the same shot keeps its own URL and points back at this definition.
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Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：Saddler with cowhide · tack room
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
The near edge of a low bench hides a spread cattle hide and the resting hands of a saddler in a brown shop coat, inside a tack room.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
The near edge of a low bench hides a spread cattle hide and the resting hands of a saddler in a brown shop coat, inside a tack room.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Pedestal Up is a shot card
The full recipe for Pedestal Up is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
Related families
- Tilt Shot
Tilt ShotA tilt pitches the camera around a horizontal axis from one fixed station, changing vertical direction without changing support height. - Crane Shot (Jib / Boom)
Crane Shot (Jib / Boom)A crane shot transports the camera on a supported arm through a designed vertical and horizontal path rather than rotating from a tripod. - Pan Shot (Whip Pan)
Pan Shot (Whip Pan)A pan turns the camera around its vertical axis from a fixed station, changing horizontal direction without sideways travel. - Dolly Shot (Push In)
Dolly Shot (Push In)The camera translates on a smooth supported path, changing viewpoint and spatial overlap rather than only image scale.
More in Camera Movement
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Videos
- CineTracer: virtual tripod panning and tilting between marks
@mattworkman · 2020-09-04 · X
A virtual tripod that pans and tilts smoothly between marks — the basic tripod moves.