Cinematic Camera

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Cinematic Camera for FiveM
Cinematic Camera for FiveM1920×898 243 KB

Cinematic Camera

A free in-game director for FiveM. Fly the camera, save your angles, lay the shot out on a timeline and play it back while OBS records. No framework and no database: drop the folder in, add two lines to server.cfg and type /ar16_cam.

The same resource also runs on RedM and picks the game by itself.

Download: arbat16_camera-v1.8.0.zip
Source on GitHub: AppiChudilko/ARBAT16-CINEMATIC_CAMERA
Docs and video: store.arbat16.com/cinematic-camera

Features

Free flight
W A S D to move, Q and E for height, the mouse to look. Shift to go faster, Alt or Ctrl to creep into position. Off, Light, Medium and Strong stabilization.

Timeline
Drop points with F, set how long each move takes and how it eases. Linear, Catmull-Rom and Bezier paths, six easing modes, cuts, holds, copy and paste, 50 steps of undo, playback from 0.1x to 8x.

Free flight and timeline
Free flight and timeline1600×1006 199 KB

Route recording
Press R, fly the shot by hand, press R again. Up to 30 samples a second with real timing, takes up to five minutes, and the clip stays editable on the timeline. H hides the interface for a clean frame.

Vinewood Hills
Vinewood Hills1600×668 287 KB

Composition guides
G toggles rule of thirds, golden ratio, diagonals, a fine grid, a centre cross or safe areas. Field of view and roll with exact numbers.

Composition guides
Composition guides1600×1006 117 KB

Looks, frames and depth of field
Natural, Cinema Scope, Urban, Quiet Portrait, Handheld and Dream Sequence, plus Black and White from a GTA V timecycle. Frames from native to 2.39:1 CinemaScope, filter strength, up to 40 presets of your own. A shallow depth of field switch with focus distance and blur strength.

Downtown Los Santos
Downtown Los Santos1600×668 199 KB

Saved cameras and scenes
Up to 100 named cameras with markers in the world, drag them onto the timeline as holds. Scenes live on the server per player license, with JSON import and export. Time and weather per keyframe. Attach a route to the player or their vehicle.

Penthouse
Penthouse1600×668 108 KB

Install

  1. Download the ZIP and put the arbat16_camera folder into resources.
  2. Add to server.cfg:
add_ace group.admin arbat16_camera.use allow
ensure arbat16_camera
  1. Restart the server and type /ar16_cam. Tab starts flying, F1 opens the in-game guide.

Record Route saves the camera movement, not a video. Play the route back and capture it with OBS or any recorder. Time and weather are local overrides, so a weather sync script that keeps pushing its own weather can overwrite them while you film.

License

Free for any server, commercial ones included, and you can sell the videos you make with it. You can change the code and share it for free. Selling the resource or a changed copy is not allowed. Full terms in the repository (ARBAT16 Source-Available License 1.0, No Resale).

Performance
Code is accessible Yes
Subscription-based No
Lines (approximately) ~4,500
Requirements & dependencies None (standalone)
Support No
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Can we please have a small tutorial video?

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Great work—it’s a really useful tool. It was a good move to release it for free; it’s going to help a lot of people. Best wishes, and thanks for the script!

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Quick tip for anyone unsure how the camera works:

Press Tab to move the camera, then F to save a point. Each point remembers your position, height and the direction you’re looking.

For example: save a point 30 cm above the ground, then move forward and save another at 80 cm. During playback, the camera moves between those positions, gradually rising and turning towards the angle saved at the next point.

For a smooth, continuous shot, select a point on the timeline and go to Advanced → Travel to the next point:
• Transition: Spline · smooth curve
• Easing: Linear
• Travel time: increase it for slower movement.

Start turning before a corner and spread the turn across a few points to avoid sharp camera movements.

Press Space to play the route and H to hide the interface. Capture the video with OBS—the script records camera movement, not video.

One issue I ran into: Ctrl+A selects all points, but the dropdown can show the first point’s value even when the others differ, so selecting that same value may not apply it to everyone. Switching to another value and back may help. I’ve patched this locally and added a button to apply Spline + Linear to the entire route. If the creator wants the fix, I’m happy to send it over!

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Great work!