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Split the vertical frame: the speaker in the top 29 percent as one continuous take, a board in a saturated brand colour in the lower 71 percent, captions on the seam.

Edit effects

Speaker over a board

The face keeps the trust while the board shows the thing, and neither covers the other.

Use when
Tool tutorials, step lists, explainers with things to show.

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 speaker over a board: the face keeps the trust while the board shows the thing, and neither covers the other. How it works: split the vertical frame: the speaker in the top 29 percent as one continuous take, a board in a saturated brand colour in the lower 71 percent, captions on the seam. It is right for: tool tutorials, step lists, explainers with things to show. Measured shares: speaker 29 percent over a board of 71 in one reference, 39 over 61 in another. Use it only with at least three things to show; with nothing to show the board is an empty area. 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 our measurements of published shorts and Director Chair field notes on reading published videos Checked 2026-11-13.

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