fast-cut-beat

Fast cutting · technique 05 — ON THE BEAT. 10 shots, taken whole. One of the nine fast-cut disciplines, split out of the full reel beside it (fast-cutting.promo) so it can be studied and lifted on its own: a title card, the technique played straight, and a hold to land on.

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Every cut is a beat of the music bed (track 11, 176 bpm, ten frames a beat). The
title card is stretched at wall-clock time so its out-cut is the first beat past
0.6 s; from there every shot is a whole number of beats — 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 1 —
and its duration is read off assets/music/promoais/promo-track-11.beats.json, not
rounded from the bpm, so the grid never drifts. Two words hold two beats, then the
single-beat shots hit — a matched beat puck flares on every beat under the subject,
the subject pops with it, and a shutter + key-tick ride every cut. Hard cuts only:
a gap would smear the cut off the beat.

Rig: 1280×720 · 30 fps · gap-clock=run · every scene carries the three matched haze
lobes hz0/hz1/hz2 over the dark gradient, the studio HDR, and the closeup light
trio. Devices are iphone/laptop/ipad/chrome with ui3d(overlay=screen) stages;
same-kind neighbours share match=ph/mac/pad/web so the rig morphs across the gap.
Title cards are 0.7 s rhythm resets (hard cut in, hard cut out). The technique
label and the per-shot duration chip are layer text sized to the fixed camera,
so they only ride the fixed-camera shots — a framed closeup would fly past them.
Every cut wears a cue: whoosh on whips, shutter on hard cuts, impact on crash-ins,
a riser ending on the final impact. Shader ids and file names: assets/sfx/what-to-use.md.

Wall clock: 10 scenes, 6.28s + 0.00s of gaps = 6.28s. 25 audio tracks.
Preview: http://localhost:4444/runtime?project=promos/primitives/fast-cutting/fast-cut-beat.promo

Topic: fast-cutting
Scenes: 10
Kind: reference rig

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    Fast cutting · technique 05 — ON THE BEAT. 10 shots, taken whole.
    One of the nine fast-cut disciplines, split out of the full reel beside it
    (fast-cutting.promo) so it can be studied and lifted on its own:
    a title card, the technique played straight, and a hold to land on.

    Every cut is a beat of the music bed (track 11, 176 bpm, ten frames a beat). The
    title card is stretched at wall-clock time so its out-cut is the first beat past
    0.6 s; from there every shot is a whole number of beats — 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 1 —
    and its duration is read off assets/music/promoais/promo-track-11.beats.json, not
    rounded from the bpm, so the grid never drifts. Two words hold two beats, then the
    single-beat shots hit — a matched beat puck flares on every beat under the subject,
    the subject pops with it, and a shutter + key-tick ride every cut. Hard cuts only:
    a gap would smear the cut off the beat.

    Rig: 1280×720 · 30 fps · gap-clock=run · every scene carries the three matched haze
    lobes hz0/hz1/hz2 over the dark gradient, the studio HDR, and the closeup light
    trio. Devices are iphone/laptop/ipad/chrome with ui3d(overlay=screen) stages;
    same-kind neighbours share match=ph/mac/pad/web so the rig morphs across the gap.
    Title cards are 0.7 s rhythm resets (hard cut in, hard cut out). The technique
    label and the per-shot duration chip are layer text sized to the fixed camera,
    so they only ride the fixed-camera shots — a framed closeup would fly past them.
    Every cut wears a cue: whoosh on whips, shutter on hard cuts, impact on crash-ins,
    a riser ending on the final impact. Shader ids and file names: assets/sfx/what-to-use.md.

    Wall clock: 10 scenes, 6.28s + 0.00s of gaps = 6.28s. 25 audio tracks.
    Preview: http://localhost:4444/runtime?project=promos/primitives/fast-cutting/fast-cut-beat.promo
promo#fast-cut-beat(width=1280 height=720 fps=30 gap-clock=run)
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        track#sfx_2(sfx=key-tick start=0.716)
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        track#sfxf_10(asset="mixkit-cinematic-whoosh-deep-impact-1143" start=4.480 volume=0.7)
        track#sfx_13(sfx=success start=4.930)
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