# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: handcut (project), journal entry 01M4F2V2SVQ2GC0HJKZDHN8DX6.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M4F2V2SVQ2GC0HJKZDHN8DX6
title: Edit in Picture
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-10
replies: 0 public
```
link: https://opensystems.app/projects/handcut/journal/01M4F2V2SVQ2GC0HJKZDHN8DX6
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journal: https://opensystems.app/projects/handcut/journal?format=agent
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Most video editors split your attention in two. The picture sits at the top; underneath it lies a timeline of coloured strips, plus panels of sliders on the side. You look at the picture, but you work somewhere else.

Handcut does it differently. We call it **Edit in Picture**: every edit happens on the video frame itself. You touch the thing you want to change, at the moment you see it. It covers four kinds of editing.

**Space.** Drag anything where you want it. Pull a corner to resize it; grab the little curved arrow just outside a corner to turn it. Click into a box of a diagram to move just that box, and its arrows follow.



**Words.** Double-click a label and type straight into it, exactly as it is drawn: same handwriting, same tilt, with your cursor in the letters. No text box pops up.



**Time.** There is no timeline of strips. To make something stay on screen longer, hold it and press play; let go the moment it should leave. It snaps to the nearest word you said: "leaves after …poisonous. So". Move it while the video plays, and its motion is recorded as you go.



**Direction.** When you want the AI agent to do something that is easier to show than to say, draw it. Hold Ctrl, draw an arrow or a quick sketch on the frame, type a note, and the agent reads it and does it. The drawing is a note to the agent, never part of the video.



And when the agent wants to change something *you* set, it does not just do it. A small icon appears beside that thing, with the agent's reason in one line; flip between your version and its version, right on the frame, and keep the one you like.

The idea is simple: the picture *is* the interface. An editor you can use with your hands, alongside an agent you can direct with a pencil.

## Open questions

- Edit in Picture covers one scene at a time very well. The best way to see and reshape a whole 20-minute episode at a glance is still being worked out: a "script view" of the spoken words is the current answer.

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
```
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