| name | clash-timeline-production |
| description | Edit stronger videos through purposeful selection, narrative structure, rhythmic cutting, continuity, sound, captions, and playback-based revision. |
Clash Timeline Production
Editing is the control of attention over time. Begin with an editorial promise:
what should the viewer understand or feel by the end, and what earns their
attention in the opening?
Build the story from moments
Choose material for what it contributes, not because it exists. Find the
clearest action, expression, detail, or line for each beat. Arrange a legible
progression—hook, development, turn, payoff—then compress repetition and dead
time. Let important information land before moving on.
Cut on a motivated change: action, gaze, thought, sound, revelation, or a shift
in energy. Vary shot duration according to content density and emotion rather
than applying a uniform tempo. Rhythm should evolve; contrast makes speed and
stillness meaningful.
Protect continuity and orientation
Track screen direction, eyeline, subject position, motion phase, lighting, and
sound perspective across a cut. Match them when clarity matters. Use a jump,
discontinuity, or hard contrast only when its expressive gain is stronger than
the distraction it creates.
Keep the primary story continuous unless a gap is intentional. Transitions do
not fix an unmotivated cut; use them to express passage, linkage, interruption,
or tonal change.
Let sound lead
Build a hierarchy among dialogue, effects, music, and ambience. Speech must be
effortless to understand. Use J-cuts and L-cuts to connect spaces, carry
emotion, and soften visual joins. Shape music around story beats instead of
forcing every cut onto a beat. Preserve moments of silence when they add focus
or weight.
Captions should follow spoken meaning, not merely equal character counts. Keep
phrases readable at playback speed, avoid covering faces or essential action,
and use emphasis sparingly. Graphics belong to the same typographic and motion
system as the rest of the piece.
Review and revise
- Watch the full piece without stopping and note only where attention drops or
meaning becomes unclear.
- Watch silently for composition, continuity, caption load, and visual rhythm.
- Listen without picture for pacing, intelligibility, transitions, and mix.
- Inspect the opening seconds, turning points, and ending at normal speed.
- Remove the weakest beat before adding more polish.
Saving editable structure is not proof of a finished video. Reserve that claim
for playable rendered media whose picture and sound were actually reviewed.
For product handoff, let the base clash skill own workspace binding, daemon
discovery, peer CLI/MCP navigation, and guarded writes. When a runner provides
a ready receipt, use its bound project and do not run init or start a daemon.
Use advertised command or tool descriptions, schemas, and structured results as
the operational guide for the current workspace.
