{
 "slug": "cut-on-action",
 "name": "Cut on action",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Cuts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "Cuts that land during a movement feel fast and invisible.",
 "use_when": "Face cam edits, B-roll sequences, the step from hook to content.",
 "phrase": "cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Hard cuts land on movement or a beat, never on a still pose.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  },
  {
   "text": "Cut at the peak of the motion, not before or after it, and film the same action from at least two angles.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "The Director Chair hook framework (our 2026 synthesis of @marco.thecreative's TikTok series, OpusClip's hook formulas, a Brandefy article, Meta retention research and a Gemini research report)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "whip-pan",
  "hard-cut",
  "jump-cut",
  "match-cut"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from the Director Chair hook framework (our 2026 synthesis of @marco.thecreative's TikTok series, OpusClip's hook formulas, a Brandefy article, Meta retention research and a Gemini research report) and the Director Chair script structure notes"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "whip-pan",
  "name": "Whip pan",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Whip pan",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/03-whip-pan-right-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/03-whip-pan-right-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/03-whip-pan-right-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/03-whip-pan-right-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/03-whip-pan-right-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/cut-on-action",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/cut-on-action.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "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."
 }
}