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Directing your agent

The first cut is a draft — how to get from there to the video you meant

Your agent's first cut will be roughly right and specifically wrong. That's not failure — that's where directing starts. You watch, you say what's off in plain sentences, you watch again. Two or three rounds is normal.

The loop

  1. 1WatchWatch the whole video once, start to finish, without commenting.
  2. 2Note beat by beatGo beat by beat and say what's wrong, referring to beats by number.
  3. 3One messagePut several notes in one message — one sentence per note.

Watch againtwo or three rounds is normal

text
In beat 1, hold each line longer — I can't finish reading.
In beat 3, the background is too loud, calm it down.
Cut beat 5 entirely.

Pacing words

  • "Hold it longer""it goes by too fast"
  • "Tighter"Cut the dead air between beats
  • "Let it breathe"Add a pause after a big moment
  • "Make the whole thing two seconds shorter"

Motion words

  • "Snappier"Faster, more decisive movement
  • "Softer""calmer"Less travel, less drama
  • "Come in from the left"Or right, or below
  • "Less bouncy"When things wobble too much
  • "The background is too loud"Dim it or slow it down

Asking for options

When you can't name what's wrong, don't try — ask for variants instead.

"Show me two different openings for beat 1."

  • Opening A
  • Opening BPick one

Watch both, pick one, move on.

Redirect or restart

The one judgment call that saves the most time:

  • The details are wrongPacing, a color, one beat's motion.
    Directwith the words above
  • The structure is wrongWrong story, wrong order, wrong number of beats.
    Restartdon't patch itRewrite your beat list and prompt again from scratch.

Rebuilding structure through comments is always slower than restating it.

Finishing

  • "Render the video."You get an .mp4 in the project folder.
  • "Render a vertical version too."Need another shape? Ask.