Director Chair
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An editing timeline with tracks and waveforms builds under the speaker and a playhead runs across it.

Edit effects

Show the making

The viewer sees the work behind the video, which makes a claim about the process believable.

Use when
Videos about how something was made or edited.

Prompt instructions

Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is show the making: the viewer sees the work behind the video, which makes a claim about the process believable. How it works: an editing timeline with tracks and waveforms builds under the speaker and a playhead runs across it. It is right for: videos about how something was made or edited. People keep how-it-was-made material: one 3D film's post, with its making-of linked under it, had more bookmarks than likes, 6,322 against 6,143. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.

The same prompt works in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.

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Sources

Own words from Director Chair notes on Reel Kit (Justyn The AI Guy) (described from the frames of two clips; no result per effect was measured) and Director Chair notes on A Blender film from one request (Riley Brown, Claude Fable 5.2) Checked 2026-11-13.

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