# Cut on action

Edit / Transition / Cuts. Checked 2026-11-13.

Cuts that land during a movement feel fast and invisible.

- Use when: Face cam edits, B-roll sequences, the step from hook to content.
- Phrase: cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/transition/cut-on-action
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/transition/cut-on-action.json

## Watch out

- 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))

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
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 2.0

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

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Cut in the middle of the hand movement and continue it from a different angle in the next shot. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Whip pan: https://directorchair.ai/move/whip-pan
- Hard cut: https://directorchair.ai/transition/hard-cut
- Jump cut: https://directorchair.ai/transition/jump-cut
- Match cut: https://directorchair.ai/transition/match-cut

## Source

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

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