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A whoosh on the zoom, an impact as the title lands, a soft tick on each counted number.

Sound

Which sound for which event

Each kind of event gets a sound the viewer already understands.

Use when
Placing sound effects on an edit.

Prompt instructions

Give me a sound brief: what to record or pick, where it sits on the timeline, the levels, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is which sound for which event: each kind of event gets a sound the viewer already understands. How it works: a whoosh on the zoom, an impact as the title lands, a soft tick on each counted number. It is right for: placing sound effects on an edit. A stricter rule from one creator of coded ads: whooshes only for movement, a pop or a tick for a cut or a morph, no dings, bells or typing sounds, and never the same sample twice at the same pitch. One effect per visual event at most. 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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Notes

The usual pairs

SoundEvent
Whoosha zoom, text sliding in
Risertension before a reveal
Click and impacttext or an object appearing
Dinga right answer, good news
Cash registermoney, a price
Camera shuttera scene change, before and after
Shocka pattern interrupt
Buzzera mistake, a myth debunked

From a creator's TikTok series, collected in our hook framework. Pairs to start from, not rules.

Related

Sources

The pairs come from 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), in our own words Checked 2026-11-13.

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