A track out is a camera movement in which the camera physically moves backward away from the subject along a dolly track, slider, or rail system, increasing the distance between the lens and the subject and progressively widening the frame to reveal more of the surrounding environment. The track out is the spatial inverse of the track in, and like it, the physical displacement through space gives it a parallax-driven depth quality that an optical zoom out cannot replicate.

As the camera tracks out, the subject shrinks within the frame and background elements become more visible, expanding the visual context around the subject. The track out carries strong connotations of withdrawal, revelation, or distance: it is used to pull back from a scene and reveal the wider world it exists within, to create a sense of isolation as the subject is left behind, or to provide a final distancing perspective at the end of a sequence. The reveal track out is a common device for showing that a scene the audience believed to be in one context is actually within a much larger or different environment, using the widening field of view as a narrative surprise. A slow track out can feel elegiac, concluding, or ominous depending on the context. Combined with a simultaneous tilt up or boom up, a track out can create a sweeping withdrawal that feels both spatially and emotionally expansive.

In AI video generation, "track out," "pull back," "dolly out," and "move the camera backward away from the subject" all communicate this movement. Specifying what should be revealed as the camera withdraws helps the generation model construct a scene with appropriate depth and background content to make the movement meaningful rather than simply showing the camera retreating into featureless space.