# Show the making

Edit / Edit effect / Type and emphasis. Checked 2026-11-13.

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.
- Phrase: an editing timeline with tracks and waveforms builds under the speaker and a playhead runs across it
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/effect/show-the-making
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/effect/show-the-making.json

## Watch out

- 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. (practitioner; Director Chair notes on A Blender film from one request (Riley Brown, Claude Fable 5.2))

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
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.
```

## Goes well with

- Chapter bar under the frame: https://directorchair.ai/effect/chapter-bar
- Prompt bar: https://directorchair.ai/effect/prompt-bar

## Source

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)

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.