# Whip between two subjects

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

The blur of a fast swing hides the join and carries the energy from one subject to the next.

- Use when: Handheld cutaways from the face to the screen, loops, changes of place.
- Phrase: handheld whip from his face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/transition/whip-transition
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/transition/whip-transition.json

## Watch out

- In a selfie diary measured at 2.57 visual changes per 10 seconds, the whip from the face to the monitor and back is the one camera move in the edit; everything else stays unproduced. (measured; Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Handheld whip from the subject's face to the monitor, the frame smearing for a few frames, landing on the screen. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Whip pan: https://directorchair.ai/move/whip-pan
- Phone selfie: https://directorchair.ai/rig/phone-selfie-rig
- Selfie with receipts: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-selfie-with-receipts

## Source

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

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