Cut on action

Cuts that land during a movement feel fast and invisible.

Use when: Face cam edits, B-roll sequences, the step from hook to content.

Shown with: Whip pan. Clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

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Cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot.

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Hard cuts land on movement or a beat, never on a still pose.vendor: Director Chair field notes on video prompting
Cut at the peak of the motion, not before or after it, and film the same action from at least two angles.practitioner: 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)

Whip panPrompt

Hard cut on the action, no transition effect between the shots.

Hard cutPrompt

Jump cut between sentences of the same take, the framing unchanged, the pause between them removed.

Jump cutPrompt

Match cut: end on the round lid filling the centre of the frame, start the next shot on the round table seen from above at the same size and position.

Match cutPrompt

Sources

Own words 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) and the Director Chair script structure notes Checked 2026-11-13.

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Cut on action

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