# Title card on black

Edit / Transition / Cards and finish. Checked 2026-11-13.

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

- Use when: Spec ads, deadpan comedy, a break between sections.
- Phrase: cut to a title card on black: one line of small white sans, centred, held three seconds
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/transition/title-card-on-black
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/transition/title-card-on-black.json

## Watch out

- Put the payoff card last, after the visual punchline. In our own spec ad the claim card follows the stunt and the payoff card closes the film. (measured; Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026)
- As the opening of a feed video a title card gives no reason to stop. Keep it for inside the video and the end. (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 to a title card on black: one line of small white sans, centred, held three seconds
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: cut to a title card on black: one line of small white sans, centred, held three seconds
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Cut to a title card on black: one line of small white sans, centred, held three seconds.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Cut to a title card on black: one line of small white sans, centred, held three seconds. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Hard cut: https://directorchair.ai/transition/hard-cut
- Deadpan spec ad: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-deadpan-spec-ad
- The commercial for a fear: https://directorchair.ai/preset/preset-spec-commercial

## Source

Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026 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.