{
 "slug": "reel-grid-proof",
 "name": "Grid of playing reels",
 "category": "effect",
 "group": "Overlays and inserts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "Many small playing videos say that many people do this.",
 "use_when": "Social proof for a method or a format.",
 "phrase": "the frame shrinks into a grid of nine playing reels, then snaps back to full frame",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Footage is your own, the client's or licensed. A grid of other creators' reels is reposting, and a rights risk.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on short-form video (one TikTok account, 233 posts and 27 measured clips, read 30 Oct 2026)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "proof-first",
  "platform-ui-receipts"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair notes on Reel Kit (Justyn The AI Guy) (described from the frames of two clips; no result per effect was measured)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/reel-grid-proof",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/reel-grid-proof.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is grid of playing reels: many small playing videos say that many people do this. How it works: the frame shrinks into a grid of nine playing reels, then snaps back to full frame. It is right for: social proof for a method or a format. Footage is your own, the client's or licensed. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}