cut-the-curve

SKILL.md

Cut the Curve — the technique catalog

Five SEAM techniques, one principle: cut at peak velocity, match direction and speed
on both sides of the cut — plus the two in-scene techniques (§6 arrivals, §7 slides).
The seam LAW — vector law, the current, the ledger, the Seam Gate — lives in
motion-doctrine; read it first. This skill is the parameters and mechanics.
All GSAP code templates (worker + registry): examples/gsap-implementation.md.

Catalog

#
Technique
Scope
Axis
Use for

1
Zoom-Through (forward)
Within-scene text swap
Z, toward viewer
progressing deeper into the same thought

2
Inverse Zoom-Through
Arrival / payoff beat
Z, away from viewer
something bigger lands

3
Cut the Curve
Between scenes
X / Y
the default boundary, the film's current

4
Waterfall Cut
Text-to-text seam
X, per-word
word-level handoff between big-text beats

5
Rack-Focus Blur-Cut
Same-surface state swap
X / Y / Z
the one cut you want SEEN — a DSLR focus-pull flourish

6
Waterfall Entry
In-scene ARRIVAL (no seam)
Y, from below
title cards, segment openers, list intros

7
Nudge Curve
In-scene group slide (no seam)
X / Y
repositioning a composed group to make room