# Snap or clap

Edit / Transition / Gesture and movement. Checked 2026-11-13.

A gesture by the speaker triggers the change, so the cut feels caused.

- Use when: Face cam into B-roll.
- Phrase: she snaps her fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/transition/snap-transition
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/transition/snap-transition.json

## Watch out

- Use one marker per kind of change and keep it for the whole video: a snap or clap from face to B-roll, a swipe between B-roll shots, a jump cut from face to face. (practitioner; The Director Chair script structure notes)
- As an opening, the honest version is a gesture that becomes the product shot. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on short-form video (one TikTok account, 233 posts and 27 measured clips, read 30 Oct 2026))

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: the subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: the subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject snaps the subject's fingers at the lens and on the snap the shot changes to the product on the table. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Swipe: https://directorchair.ai/transition/swipe-transition
- Face cam plus B-roll: https://directorchair.ai/format/format-mixed
- Cut on action: https://directorchair.ai/transition/cut-on-action

## Source

Own words from the Director Chair script structure notes

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