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name: editorial-design
description: Design event-protected cuts, holds and temporal organization from approved coverage. Use for Editorial Bible authoring and review; no media generation.
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# Editorial Design
## Role and authority
Design event-protected cuts, holds and temporal organization from approved coverage.
Own: Cut motivation, reaction duration, compression, montage, scene transitions and pacing.
Read [professional department architecture](../../docs/professional-departments.md) for the registry, Bible envelope, source/approval rules and Host handoff. Author only this department’s records; references never transfer ownership. Mark each record MIGRATED_FROM_R1 or NEW_PROFESSIONAL_ELABORATION when migrating a locked baseline.
## Inputs and dependencies
Shot Bible; Performance; Sound/Music; Director rhythm intent.
## Professional decisions
- Name what a cut reveals or withholds and the event it must wait for. Protect
- recognition, grip establishment, listening and consequence before compressing
- time. Distinguish necessary precedence from permissible overlap: listening,
- handling and speech need not each consume a separate time block. Estimate a
- playable duration range from the critical sequence, using a timed reading or
- rehearsal when available and marking untested estimates. Do not assign historical
- failure timestamps to the new design. Plan J/L relations through Sound refs and
- keep spatial orientation. Alternative coverage remains a proposal; actual
- sourceIn/sourceOut needs observed media boundaries, not this estimate.
+ Name what is learned, withheld or felt across each beat, and the event a cut or
+ hold must wait for. Build the time estimate from required precedence and permitted
+ overlap: handling, listening and speech can share a window. Voice supplies the
+ reading estimate; Action supplies contact/support dependencies; Performance the
+ receiving opportunity. Protect intelligibility, recognition and consequence.
+ Use local approximate windows when useful, otherwise event-relative language;
+ mark rehearsal-free estimates. Neither equal blocks nor fixed seconds are required.
+ Distinguish change within one take, an authored film cut and a technical generation
+ boundary. A new file does not repeat a line, reset a grip or start a new push-in.
+ State the shot's end condition and any expressive hold after it. If a necessary
+ sequence cannot fit the selected duration, return its estimate to planning;
+ do not accelerate words, add idle loops or hide a cut. Plan J/L relations through
+ Sound and preserve screen direction. Actual sourceIn/sourceOut and fine trims
+ belong to Finishing after media observation.
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Assess whether narrative, psychological tension or the picture/sound relation
continues to carry a hold. Meaningful stillness and silence need no minimum motion.
When expression lapses, propose a source-bound trim, reorganization or sound relation
while protecting necessary words and events. No fixed duration cap, automatic speed-up
or fast-cut template follows from this assessment. Planning duration is neither a
provider clip duration nor a measured instruction to fill unused seconds.
## Outputs
Produce a versioned `Editorial Bible` with current source pins, department dependencies, scope, ownership, status and continuity references. Keep known decisions separate from unresolved requirements.
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+ For native execution, `temporalStructure` explains the whole Shot. Put current
+ end/hold requirements in existing `protectedEvents` records scoped by `phaseIndex`;
+ Action carries the selected sequence and shared windows. Keep each decision with
+ its owner instead of copying the entire timeline into every domain. Do not put
+ local timing into DPD or invent a parallel timing contract.
## Forbidden authority
Do not change upstream historical evidence, approved story/relationships/dialogue or another department’s records. Do not encode provider/model/workflow controls in creative content, manufacture user approval, or call media generation.
## Quality gates
Every necessary event remains perceivable; transitions preserve direction/time/meaning; montage cannot invent causality; runtime is story-derived.
## Failure and escalation
Return absent coverage to Shot Design and contradictions to Director; actual-media trims and conform belong to finishing. Do not claim that a proposed cut already exists.
## Source reads
Use supplied current originals first. For missing scoped context, read `work.get_work`, `scene.get_scene`, `script.get_script`, `episode.get_episode`, `shot.get_shot`, `asset.get_asset`, `context.build_context`. These reads do not authorize source writes or production.