# Directing your agent
URL: https://remocn.dev/docs/guides/directing-your-agent

The first cut is a draft — how to get from there to the video you meant

Your agent's first cut will be roughly right and specifically wrong. That's not failure — that's where directing starts. You watch, you say what's off in plain sentences, you watch again. Two or three rounds is normal.

## The loop

1. **Watch** — Watch the whole video once, start to finish, without commenting.
2. **Note beat by beat** — Go beat by beat and say what's wrong, referring to beats by number.
3. **One message** — Put several notes in one message — one sentence per note.

**Watch again** — two or three rounds is normal

```text
In beat 1, hold each line longer — I can't finish reading.
In beat 3, the background is too loud, calm it down.
Cut beat 5 entirely.
```

## Pacing words

- **"Hold it longer"** / "it goes by too fast"
- **"Tighter"** — Cut the dead air between beats
- **"Let it breathe"** — Add a pause after a big moment
- **"Make the whole thing two seconds shorter"**

## Motion words

- **"Snappier"** — Faster, more decisive movement
- **"Softer"** / "calmer" — Less travel, less drama
- **"Come in from the left"** — Or right, or below
- **"Less bouncy"** — When things wobble too much
- **"The background is too loud"** — Dim it or slow it down

## Asking for options

When you can't name what's wrong, don't try — ask for variants instead.

"Show me two different openings for beat 1."

Watch both, pick one, move on.

## Redirect or restart

The one judgment call that saves the most time:

- **The details are wrong** — Pacing, a color, one beat's motion. → **Direct**, with the words above.
- **The structure is wrong** — Wrong story, wrong order, wrong number of beats. → **Restart**, don't patch it. Rewrite your beat list and prompt again from scratch.

Rebuilding structure through comments is always slower than restating it.

## Finishing

- **"Render the video."** — You get an `.mp4` in the project folder.
- **"Render a vertical version too."** — Need another shape? Ask.