CineCraft: Unified Shot Planning, Capture, and Post-Processing for Mobile Cinematography

We present CineCraft, an interactive mobile application that unifies planning, capture, and post-processing for cinematography on a single device. Our key design insight is to use a storyboard-like shot plan as a persistent representation that connects different stages of the filmmaking process, emulating coordination strategies used by professional film crews. Our shot plans extend common storyboarding conventions to encode time-varying parameters (e.g., camera movement, focus, and zoom) on a shared timeline, enabling previsualization during planning and precise synchronization during capture. CineCraft uses shot plans to generate camera movement instructions, provide augmented-reality (AR) framing guidance during filming, automate focus and zoom, and organize takes for review and rough-cut assembly. By consolidating stages that are often fragmented across separate mobile apps and ad hoc workflows, our system enables rapid on-location iteration with immediate playback. We demonstrate our system through a range of examples and two user studies.