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(4) Eye-trace: check that the viewer's eye lands where the next shot expects (face, hand, object) in the first frames after the cut; generated clips often start with the subject not yet in position. (5) Planarity: screen direction and eyeline across the cut (see C3-B571-12 for the 180-degree rule, eyeline match and match-on-...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Generated shots rarely satisfy every continuity criterion; reviewers need a rule for what to give up. Conditions. Multiple candidate takes or cut points for the same beat; labelled inference throughout, built on Murch's list (C3-B597-01). Method [inference]. (1) Emotion: pick the take whose performance or atmosphere is right for the moment, even if later criteria are flawed; reject takes that are clean but emotionally flat. (2) Story: the shot must show the story information (who, what changed); (3) Rhythm: choose the in and out point where the cut feels right, which is a free choice with generated footage because you can trim a clip anywhere inside it. (4) Eye-trace: check that the viewer's eye lands where the next shot expects (face, hand, object) in the first frames after the cut; generated clips often start with the subject not yet in position. (5) Planarity: screen direction and eyeline across the cut (see C3-B571-12 for the 180-degree rule, eyeline match and match-on-action). (6) 3D space: prop, wall and costume continuity between separately generated shots. Murch's rule says an audience tolerates lower-order problems when emotion, story and rhythm are right, so the cheapest items to accept are small 3D-space errors (a wall colour shift that sits behind the action), and the costliest are emotion or eye-trace failures. Practical limits [inference]: this applies to errors the viewer will not read as artefacts; generated defects that look like distortion (melting hands, flicker) are not 'spatial continuity' problems and are not forgiven by the rule. Use as a scoring sheet: for each candidate take, mark each of the six as ok/weak/fail and choose the highest-priority-first winner. Failure modes. Over-reading Murch's rule as permission to ship visible artefacts; for talking heads, lip-sync errors defeat emotion. Limitations. No source tests the rule on AI footage. 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