# Canvas tour with a corner presenter

Recipes / Preset / Edit styles. Checked 2026-11-13.

The viewer has the map and the part being explained on screen at once.

- Use when: Process explainers and step lists where every step has a real artefact to show.
- Phrase: one canvas holds the whole process as linked cards, a virtual camera walks it step by step, a presenter cut-out talks from the bottom-left corner, two-word captions beside them
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-canvas-tour
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/preset/edit-canvas-tour.json

## Watch out

- Each step lands on one real artefact: the tool's own panel, the prompt, the output. Never a stock icon. (practitioner; Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026)
- Measured: 2.86 moves per 10 seconds with a median hold of 2.2 seconds, calmer than a stacked board at 4.7, because each card needs a second to read. (measured; Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026)
- The source's true peak is -0.4 dBTP, which our QA fails. Keep the peak at or under -1.5. (measured; Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026)

## Measured on the reference

| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Length | 209.8 s |
| Aspect | 9:16 |
| Visual changes per 10 s | 2.86 |
| Median segment | 2.2 s |
| First visual change | 7.2 s |
| First spoken word | 0.0 s |
| Spoken words per second | 3.18 |
| Loudness, integrated | -14.1 LUFS |
| True peak | -0.4 dBTP (too hot) |
| Sound floor | -85.7 dBFS (clean silences, no music) |
| Face in sampled frames | not usable: the detector counts the people pictured on the canvas |
| Plays, saves | 31,200 plays, 6.2 percent saved (read 23 Oct 2026) |
| Against the account's median | 5.9 times |

## The recipe

1. Build one large canvas first: a title, then every step as a card in reading order, linked by dashed lines, each card holding the real artefact of that step.
2. Place the presenter as a cut-out in the bottom-left corner, about 30 percent of the width and the lowest quarter of the height, for the whole video.
3. Frame 0: the title and the full step map, readable. The first word is on frame 0.
4. Move the camera to each card when its step is named and hold until the next: 2.5 to 3.5 moves per 10 seconds, each hold 1.8 to 2.6 seconds.
5. Pin a dark pill with the step number and name at the top left, and show the step title large with its number in an accent circle.
6. Zoom out to the whole canvas once near the end, then close on the map of frame 0 so the loop restarts cleanly.
7. Captions of two words (one to three), white bold sans on a dark rounded box to the right of the presenter, the spoken word in the accent colour.
8. No music, no sound effects. Voice at -14 LUFS.

## Not for

Emotional stories, testimonials, product beauty, live-action brands, anything under 30 seconds.

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
Give me a production plan: the shots or scenes in order, what each one needs, and the edit settings, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is canvas tour with a corner presenter: the viewer has the map and the part being explained on screen at once. How it works: one canvas holds the whole process as linked cards, a virtual camera walks it step by step, a presenter cut-out talks from the bottom-left corner, two-word captions beside them. It is right for: process explainers and step lists where every step has a real artefact to show. Each step lands on one real artefact: the tool's own panel, the prompt, the output. Measured: 2.86 moves per 10 seconds with a median hold of 2.2 seconds, calmer than a stacked board at 4.7, because each card needs a second to read. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
```

## Goes well with

- Camera move on one canvas: https://directorchair.ai/transition/canvas-move
- Presenter in the corner: https://directorchair.ai/effect/corner-presenter
- The whole list as a map in frame 0: https://directorchair.ai/hook/map-in-frame-zero
- Loop back to frame one: https://directorchair.ai/transition/loop-close
- Type and shapes carry it: https://directorchair.ai/format/format-motion-graphics

## Source

Our own reading and measurement of a TikTok by @pro.glitch, posted 22 Oct 2026. The clip is a third-party reference and is not shown; the words here are ours https://www.tiktok.com/@pro.glitch/video/7699370338722860301

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