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Provider-independent editing and montage direction for AI agents producing generated videos, ads, trailers, social clips, explainers, product videos, documentary-style pieces, and music- or beat-driven cuts. Use when planning, revising, QAing, or handing off an edit: story structure, shot selection, continuity, montage theory, rhythm and pacing, J/L cuts, match cuts, cutaways, transitions, beat sync, platform timing, source/generated asset management, revision workflow, and composition handoff.

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# Editing and montage direction

Use this skill when the edit itself determines whether a video works. Your job is to make decisions about sequence, duration, shot function, rhythm, continuity, audio/visual relationship, platform fit, and revision logic. Do not treat editing as "put the clips in order." Treat it as the craft of controlling what the viewer notices, understands, feels, and remembers.

Work provider-independently. The source clips may be human-shot footage, generated clips, stills animated in a composition engine, screen recordings, avatar footage, stock, captions, product UI, diagrams, or music. The same edit principles apply, but generated media needs stricter provenance, continuity, and QA because shots may not share stable identity, lighting, geometry, text, or physics.

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- Film-analysis sources commonly describe editing as the relationship between shots and the construction of graphic, rhythmic, spatial, and temporal relationships. Source: Yale Film Analysis, "Part 4: Editing" (<https://filmanalysis.yale.edu/editing/>).
- J-cuts introduce the next shot or scene's audio before the visual cut; L-cuts let prior audio continue after the visual cut. Source: DINFOS Pavilion, "How to Edit Video with the J-Cut and L-Cut," last verified 2025-01-16 (<https://pavilion.dinfos.edu/How-To/Article/2286253/how-to-edit-video-with-the-j-cut-and-l-cut/>).
- Prerecorded synchronized media with audio needs captions under WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 1.2.2 unless the media is an explicitly labeled media alternative for text. Source: W3C WAI (<https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/captions-prerecorded.html>).
- Practical caption placement guidance includes safe-zone placement and no more than two lines per caption. Source: DCMP Captioning Tip Sheet (<https://dcmp.org/learn/225-captioning-tip-sheet>).
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