{
 "slug": "whip-transition",
 "name": "Whip between two subjects",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Gesture and movement",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The blur of a fast swing hides the join and carries the energy from one subject to the next.",
 "use_when": "Handheld cutaways from the face to the screen, loops, changes of place.",
 "phrase": "handheld whip from his face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "In a selfie diary measured at 2.57 visual changes per 10 seconds, the whip from the face to the monitor and back is the one camera move in the edit; everything else stays unproduced.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "whip-pan",
  "phone-selfie-rig",
  "edit-selfie-with-receipts"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026 and 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)"
 },
 "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/whip-transition",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/whip-transition.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen. 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."
 }
}