@ zoomkat thanks for these links, gives me somewhere to start!
@ raschemmel by precise, I mean the ability to repeat a camera move twice, and have those moves be identical, ala motion control. and maybe that's just not possible for a noob-tinker-setup like this will be--but I can dream 
So the motion can be duplicated programmatically, just getting the starting point to align each time will be difficult?
thx both for the help