{
 "slug": "match-frame-to-footage",
 "name": "Animation into real footage",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Motion graphics",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The animated product becomes the real one without a visible join.",
 "use_when": "Animated ads that end on a filmed product or person.",
 "phrase": "the animation ends on exactly this still, and the filmed clip starts on the same frame",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Give the builder the target still first and design the ending backwards from it: pull the exact frame, measure the object in it, then check the frame-to-frame difference at the join.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Motion graphics with Claude (Rourke Heath)"
  },
  {
   "text": "In the creator's own example the first render had the wrong product details. Hold the real product next to the render before trusting the join.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Motion graphics with Claude (Rourke Heath)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "match-cut",
  "shape-morph"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair notes on Motion graphics with Claude (Rourke Heath)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/match-frame-to-footage",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/match-frame-to-footage.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: the animation ends on exactly this still, and the filmed clip starts on the same frame",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: the animation ends on exactly this still, and the filmed clip starts on the same frame",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The animation ends on exactly this still, and the filmed clip starts on the same frame.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The animation ends on exactly this still, and the filmed clip starts on the same frame. 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."
 }
}