Camera Rig Pro — Cinematic Camera Moves for Blender

Camera Rig Pro — Cinematic camera moves in Blender, one click at a time.

Stop hand-keyframing camera moves. Camera Rig Pro puts a full virtual camera crew in your 3D Viewport sidebar: seeded handheld shake, crane/jib and dolly rigs, one-click transitions, a multi-camera shot sequencer, and real compositor letterbox bars.

What you get

Handheld Shake — Five seeded presets (Subtle Handheld, Walking, Running, Documentary, Custom) with Seed / Intensity / Frequency controls. Same seed = same motion on every render, every machine. Bakes onto a removable parent empty; one click restores the camera exactly.

Crane / Jib — One click builds a base → arm → head → camera chain at the 3D cursor, auto-aimed at its target. Animate Crane bakes a rising tilt + pan with easing.

Dolly — Straight or circular track; the camera follows the path while tracking your subject. Animate Dolly bakes the move with easing built in.

Transitions — Frame your start shot, Save Setup A, frame the end shot, Save Setup B, pick a move (Push In, Pull Out, Orbit Left/Right, Pan Reveal, Tilt Up/Down) and build. Location, rotation and focal length are keyframed with your chosen easing.

Shot Sequencer — Build an ordered shot list, bind it to the timeline as camera-bound markers with the frame range fitted, or generate VSE scene-strip cuts.

Letterbox — Real black bars built in the compositor (2.39:1, 2.35:1, 1.85:1, 16:9, 4:3 or custom aspect), plus safe-area guides. They render.

Compatibility

Blender 4.5 LTS and 5.2 LTS. Windows / macOS / Linux. No dependencies, works offline. Fully tested: 245 checks passed on Blender 4.5.14, 246 on Blender 5.2.2, plus 44 exact-ZIP fresh-install checks on each version. Installs from the included ZIP:
1. Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install from Disk…
2. Pick camerarig-v1.0.0.zip and enable Camera Rig Pro.
3. 3D Viewport sidebar (N) → PolyForge tab → Camera Rig.

Honest limitations

• Shake bakes a keyframe on every frame of the range (by design, for exact reproducibility) — long ranges mean many keyframes.
• Crane/dolly rigs are plain empties + constraints, meant to be tweaked by hand after baking.
• Transitions keyframe the camera directly; existing animation on that camera in the same frame range will be overwritten.
• Safe Areas toggles Blender's built-in guide display; custom margin values are not exposed by Blender's API.
• On Blender 5.2, rendering WITH the compositor letterbox assigned needs a GPU/EGL context; in headless environments without EGL, apply the letterbox for the node setup, then remove it before rendering (or render on a machine with a display). Blender 4.5 renders the letterbox normally everywhere.

By PolyForge Studio.