diff --git a/conditioning.py b/conditioning.py
index 9f61e3b2..0c860980 100644
--- a/conditioning.py
+++ b/conditioning.py
@@ -10213,7 +10213,7 @@ class FunPackVideoRefinerV2(FunPackVideoRefiner):
                   value_guidance=True, latent=None, seed_output_connected=False,
                   steer_mode="relative", absolute_strength=0.6,
                   h3_phrase_emphasis=False, h3_phrase_variability=0.0, camera_moves=False, camera_moves_chance=0.7,
-                  shot_cuts=False, shot_cut_chance=0.5,
+                  shot_cuts=False, shot_cut_chance=0.0,
                   shot_views=False, shot_view_chance=0.4,
                   prompt_enhance=False, prompt_enhance_system="", prompt_enhance_reference_intro="",
                   prompt_enhance_temperature=0.7, prompt_enhance_top_p=0.92,
@@ -14241,7 +14241,7 @@ class FunPackStudio:
             camera_moves=bool(rf.get("camera_moves", False)),
             camera_moves_chance=float(rf.get("camera_moves_chance", 0.7)),
             shot_cuts=bool(rf.get("shot_cuts", False)),
-            shot_cut_chance=float(rf.get("shot_cut_chance", 0.5)),
+            shot_cut_chance=float(rf.get("shot_cut_chance", 0.0)),
             shot_views=bool(rf.get("shot_views", False)),
             shot_view_chance=float(rf.get("shot_view_chance", 0.4)),
             h3_phrase_variability=float(rf.get("h3_phrase_variability", 0.0) or 0.0),
diff --git a/movie_editor/backend/settings_card.py b/movie_editor/backend/settings_card.py
index 4a3b288a..6996b636 100644
--- a/movie_editor/backend/settings_card.py
+++ b/movie_editor/backend/settings_card.py
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ _EDITOR_DEFAULTS = {
     "camera_moves": False,
     "camera_moves_chance": 0.7,
     "shot_cuts": False,
-    "shot_cut_chance": 0.5,
+    "shot_cut_chance": 0.0,
     "shot_views": False,
     "shot_view_chance": 0.4,
     "h3_phrase_variability": 0.0,
diff --git a/movie_editor/frontend/engine_settings.js b/movie_editor/frontend/engine_settings.js
index 72f55ae5..e35a88ae 100644
--- a/movie_editor/frontend/engine_settings.js
+++ b/movie_editor/frontend/engine_settings.js
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@
       hint: "How often a [Shot N] block gets camera moves at all. Each one that does gets one to three (mostly one), sometimes travelling from the first thing to the last, sometimes ending with a pull-back — drawn per shot from the seed, so no pattern repeats in every prompt. 1 = every eligible shot." },
     { name: "shot_cuts", label: "Shot cut times (H3)", kind: "bool", default: false,
       hint: "Gives every [Shot N] after the first its cut time (\"At 00:04.000, the camera cuts to...\"), spread over the scene's length and rounded to whole seconds, and adds a cut inside a shot where its main point changes. Prompts that already carry cut times are left alone. Needs the Editor's scene lengths." },
-    { name: "shot_cut_chance", label: "Cut-in-shot chance", kind: "float", default: 0.5, min: 0.0, max: 1.0, step: 0.05,
+    { name: "shot_cut_chance", label: "Cut-in-shot chance", kind: "float", default: 0.0, min: 0.0, max: 1.0, step: 0.05,
       dependsOn: "shot_cuts", dependsVals: [true],
-      hint: "How often a shot whose main point changes is split into two shots at that point." },
+      hint: "0 = never (default): the shots you wrote stay as they are and only get cut times. Above 0, a shot whose main point changes is sometimes split in two at that point — it cannot tell where one of your shortcuts ends and the next begins, so it may cut between two of them." },
     { name: "shot_views", label: "Shot views (H3)", kind: "bool", default: false,
       hint: "Opens some [Shot N] blocks after the first with a view — POV, side, front, from above / below / behind. Never the same twice in a row; shots that already state a view are left alone. Shot 1 is skipped because it may sit on a reference image." },
     { name: "shot_view_chance", label: "Shot view chance", kind: "float", default: 0.4, min: 0.0, max: 1.0, step: 0.05,