| name | Social media cut |
| description | Turn the current edit into a short vertical 9:16 cut with a hook, captions-style title, and tight pacing. |
Social media cut
Goal: a short (15 to 60 s) vertical clip that works muted and hooks in the
first 2 seconds.
- Call
describe_project and note the main-track clips, total duration,
and any music lanes.
- Set the canvas vertical:
set_canvas with aspect 9:16. Keep the
background dark unless the user asked otherwise.
- Pick the strongest moment (the user's selection if any, otherwise the
start of the longest main-track clip) and cut the timeline down around
it:
trim_clip / split_clip + remove_clip until the total is
inside the target length. Prefer removing whole weak sections over
shaving every clip.
- Reframe for vertical: for each kept main-track clip,
set_clip_transform
with a scale that fills the 9:16 frame (media is usually 16:9, so scale
up about 1.8 to 2.4 and keep position centered unless the subject is
off-center).
- Add a hook title in the first 2 seconds:
add_generated with a short,
punchy text (ask the user if no obvious hook exists) on a text track,
duration about 2.5 s, then set_clip_animation with a pop or bounce in
animation.
- Tighten the pacing: if any kept clip runs longer than about 6 s without a
cut, split it and either remove the slack or speed the middle up with
set_clip_speed (1.5 to 2x).
- If there is music, keep it under speech:
set_clip_audio with volume
about 0.4 on the music clip, fades of 0.3 s in and out.
- Finish with
describe_project and report the final duration and what
was cut.
