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Camera

Shot sizes 16 Angles 17 Camera moves 43 Rigs 6 Lenses 10 Focus and depth 4

Frame

Composition 14 Aspect ratios 11

Light and look

Light 22 Time of day 12 Colour looks 14 Film stock and texture 9 Art styles 6

People and places

Characters 6 Expressions 31 Settings 6

Motion

Subject motion and speed 9

Edit

Transitions 21 Edit effects 41 Sound 14

Story

Hooks 46 Script arcs 10 Video formats 11 Calls to action 5 Test and publish 16

Recipes

Presets 28 Prompt guides 11

Tools

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

Hard cut

Nothing softens the change, so attention goes straight to what happens next.

Use when: Ads played straight, talking heads, most short-form edits.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: hard cut on the action, no transition effect between the shots

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Watch out

Our own 25-second spec ad uses hard cuts only, each on the action: 2.4 visual changes per 10 seconds, median shot 2.57 seconds. Any other transition is listed as a failure of that style.measured: Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026
Hard cuts land on movement or a beat, never on a still pose.vendor: Director Chair field notes on video prompting

Related

Cuts that land during a movement feel fast and invisible.Cut on actionPrompt

Takes the dead air out of one take; the speaker sounds quick and unpolished in a way viewers trust.

A quiet line on black lets the copy carry the joke or the claim with nothing competing.

Title card on blackPrompt

Sources

Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026 (our own film) and Director Chair field notes on editing Checked 2026-11-13.

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