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Craft use (inference): a pan or tilt is a rotation-only pose sequence, a dolly/truck/pedestal is translation-only, a crane combines translation with rotation, and zoom (focal length) is not obviously covered by pose-only conditioning since pose files carry extrinsics, so it is likely fixed by the training intrinsics. Failure modes. Not stated in the sources fetched beyond the training-data finding; apparent pose-range limits follow dataset camera distribution (RealEstate10K-style indoor tours are the cited trajectory source in the README data prep). Limitations. Backbones are 2023-24 models with short low-resolution clips. Version/date. MotionCtrl SIGGRAPH 2024 (arXiv 2312.03641); CameraCtrl arXiv 2404.02101.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Zoom/intrinsics point is inference: I did not read the CameraCtrl or MotionCtrl code for focal-length handling. 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