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title: A trip, cut to a reel, with rules
summary: Turn a shoot into a timed reel of short moments, chosen by your rules, with a running order you approve before it renders.
lede: State the pacing rules up front, read the plan before anything renders
outcome: cut
tools: get_project, get_clip_metadata, quick_cut_plan, quick_cut_export, job_wait, commit_to_library
order: 3
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> Pull everything in GroundSlate project prj_0a1b2c3d4e (Portugal) and plan me a two minute reel of six second moments. Choose and order the clips yourself before you plan: open on p203 (Mila), put a wide before each new location, and leave out any clip whose shot log says the camera is still moving where you would cut. Show me the running order with durations before you render anything, then make it 1920x1080, filling the frame, and file it in the project with a name.

- The planner picks the best moment inside each clip you give it, at the length you name, and applies no rules of its own. Your agent applies yours: the shot log records camera movement, shot size and who is in frame, so it chooses and orders the clips from that before handing them over.
- Read the running order first. Changing your mind is cheap before anything encodes.
- A quick cut is hard cuts only: no transitions, no titles, no music. Ask for a produced reel when you want those.