ig-pacing

Keeps a short-form edit from ever going flat by auditing and filling pattern-interrupt gaps — something changing on screen or in the mix at least once every 1-2 seconds — and owns zoom pulses and shot-scale alternation, driving Adobe Premiere Pro over MCP to place the fixes; the interrupt budget is spent on the graphics/caption layer as often as on the cut, so a single static talking-head take can still cut fast. Use this as step 6 of the editing SOP, after captions/graphics/music/SFX exist, whenever an edit feels boring, drags in the middle, needs energy, or needs its retention risk audited before export. Triggers: pacing, pattern interrupt, this feels boring, add zoom, zoom pulse, push in, shot scale, it drags, retention, keep attention, energy, the middle sags.