Camera test
Crane to skyline
The prompt: “Crane shot rising from street level to reveal a city skyline at golden hour”
Large vertical translation revealing new scene content that must be plausible and stable.
Every model, same prompt
#1
Grok Video
xAI
5.00/5 best on this prompt
Real reveal-style crane rise, stable architecture — succeeds where Sora failed on this exact prompt.
#2
Kling 3.0
Kuaishou
5.00/5
Textbook crane reveal with stable parallax — succeeds where Sora failed on this exact prompt.
#3
OpenAI Sora 2
OpenAI
3.83/5
FAILURE MODE: skyline is fully visible from frame 1 — no reveal, just a subtle drift, so the requested crane move is not really delivered despite clean geometry.
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