# Swipe

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

The new shot pushes the old one out in the direction of the movement.

- Use when: Between B-roll shots, phone and app content.
- Phrase: the shot slides out to the left as the next one slides in from the right, in the direction the thumb swipes
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/transition/swipe-transition
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/transition/swipe-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)
- In code-rendered video this is a push slide: the incoming scene pushes the old one out. It suits the scenes in the middle of a video. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on motion graphics)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: the shot slides out to the left as the next one slides in from the right, in the direction the thumb swipes
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: the shot slides out to the left as the next one slides in from the right, in the direction the thumb swipes
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The shot slides out to the left as the next one slides in from the right, in the direction the thumb swipes.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The shot slides out to the left as the next one slides in from the right, in the direction the thumb swipes. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Snap or clap: https://directorchair.ai/transition/snap-transition
- POV phone scroll: https://directorchair.ai/hook/pov-phone-scroll

## Source

Own words from the Director Chair script structure notes and Director Chair field notes on motion graphics

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