{
 "slug": "cut-to-new-angle",
 "name": "Cut to a new camera on the line",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Cuts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "One take feels like a multi-camera shoot.",
 "use_when": "Interviews and talking heads filmed on one camera.",
 "phrase": "at 2.6 seconds, on the line that names the second camera, cut to a position 45 degrees to her right at eye height, the bookshelf now behind her",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Let the dialogue direct the cuts: cut on a line or a clear action about every 3 to 4 seconds, and make back-to-back shots different sizes.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 infinite angles (Rourke Heath)"
  },
  {
   "text": "In the creator's own demo it took three or four generations per sequence and one kept clip has a gesture that lands late. Keep the filmed take as the master and interleave the new angles.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 infinite angles (Rourke Heath)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Describe left and right by landmarks in the room; bare left and right flip.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 infinite angles (Rourke Heath)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "preset-angle-pass",
  "screen-direction",
  "profile-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 infinite angles (Rourke Heath)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/cut-to-new-angle",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/cut-to-new-angle.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: at 2.6 seconds, on the line that names the second camera, cut to a position 45 degrees to the subject's right at eye height, the bookshelf now behind the subject",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: at 2.6 seconds, on the line that names the second camera, cut to a position 45 degrees to the subject's right at eye height, the bookshelf now behind the subject",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. At 2.6 seconds, on the line that names the second camera, cut to a position 45 degrees to the subject's right at eye height, the bookshelf now behind the subject.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. At 2.6 seconds, on the line that names the second camera, cut to a position 45 degrees to the subject's right at eye height, the bookshelf now behind the subject. 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."
 }
}