{
 "slug": "jump-cut",
 "name": "Jump cut",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Cuts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "Takes the dead air out of one take; the speaker sounds quick and unpolished in a way viewers trust.",
 "use_when": "Face cam, between sentences of the same take.",
 "phrase": "jump cut between sentences of the same take, the framing unchanged, the pause between them removed",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Propose the removals before cutting: pauses longer than 0.35 seconds trimmed to 0.12, filler words and restarted phrases. A false start can be the joke, so a person decides per cut.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on editing (our editing defaults)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Pair it with a punch-in on every other segment, for example 1.12 times, when the take is sharp enough to crop.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on editing"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "punch-in",
  "hard-cut",
  "format-face-cam"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Definition from Director Chair field notes on reading published videos; use from the Director Chair script structure notes"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/jump-cut",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/jump-cut.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: jump cut between sentences of the same take, the framing unchanged, the pause between them removed",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: jump cut between sentences of the same take, the framing unchanged, the pause between them removed",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Jump cut between sentences of the same take, the framing unchanged, the pause between them removed.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Jump cut between sentences of the same take, the framing unchanged, the pause between them removed. 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."
 }
}