About this site
24frames (二十四格, “twenty-four frames”): one second is 24 frames, and every frame deserves a name.
How to use it
Search in plain words
Searching “circle around someone” finds “Orbit”; searching dolly or push in works too. You don’t need to know the term first.
See what it actually does
Each term starts with one plain sentence before the professional name. A dolly and a zoom are not the same thing; mix them up in a prompt and the image warps.
Copy the template
Paste it straight into tools like Kling, Runway, Sora, Veo or Midjourney, then change the subject to fit your scene.
Check the pitfalls last
Where each term most often goes wrong, and which sentence you must spell out to keep it from collapsing, is listed under “Common pitfalls”.
Why the name
24 frames is one second of film, the plainest unit of measure in cinema. When you make AI video, what you control is exactly what happens frame by frame: how the camera moves, where the light falls, how many seconds a beat should hold.
The problem it solves
One person can now make a whole film: writer, director and cinematographer, all driven by prompts to an AI. What non-professionals actually lack isn’t skill but words. If you don’t know what a camera move is called, you can’t get the AI to reproduce it precisely. This site compresses just that one step: from “a shot I can’t describe” to “a word the AI understands”.
What’s here now
- 166 terms: 100 for video, 50 for images.
- Camera Move, Shot Size, Lens, Lighting, Color, Composition, Texture, Pacing, Transition, Sound, Genre, Style, AI Workflow, Screenwriting, Directing: 15 dimensions in total.
- Each term has its English and Chinese names, a one-line summary, when to use it, prompts, pitfalls and parameter tips.
Content limits
Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits. All example material is made in-house; no clips from released films.
The site started in Chinese and the English edition is translated from it. Chinese names are kept next to each term in case you work with Chinese tools or collaborators.