{
 "slug": "match-cut",
 "name": "Match cut",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Cuts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "Two different things read as one, because shape, position and movement line up across the cut.",
 "use_when": "Before and after, old way and new way, one product in two states.",
 "phrase": "match cut: end on the round lid filling the centre of the frame, start the next shot on the round table seen from above at the same size and position",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "For a true match cut the same element sits at the same position and scale at the end of one shot and at the start of the next.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on motion graphics"
  },
  {
   "text": "The short-form version is the same framing with different content: lock the camera and change only the subject.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "The Director Chair script structure notes"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "cut-on-action",
  "shape-morph",
  "high-contrast-hook"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from the Director Chair script structure notes and Director Chair field notes on motion graphics"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/match-cut",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/match-cut.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: match cut: end on the round lid filling the centre of the frame, start the next shot on the round table seen from above at the same size and position",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: match cut: end on the round lid filling the centre of the frame, start the next shot on the round table seen from above at the same size and position",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Match cut: end on the round lid filling the centre of the frame, start the next shot on the round table seen from above at the same size and position.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Match cut: end on the round lid filling the centre of the frame, start the next shot on the round table seen from above at the same size and position. 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."
 }
}