Best practices.
Rules we work by, each with the reason we have it. From our own productions with these models. New here? Start with the tutorial in the app: it walks you through a finished project, and finishing it adds $3 to your balance. These pages are for after.
How to keep a character consistent in AI video
Faces that hold: what goes wrong with a character reference
A smile in the reference ends up in every shot. So does everything else.
→02How to make location and prop reference images for AI video
Places and props: references that do not leak
Empty places, plain props, plain words. And never edit an edit.
→03How to write a shot list for AI video
Shot lists: follow the viewer's attention, and the floor plan
Tell the scene first. Give every hit a face. Hold one side of the line.
→04How to write video prompts for Seedance 2.5
Writing for Seedance 2.5: what we stopped doing
Do not describe the reference. One camera move a shot. The look written once.
→05How to cut the cost of AI video: stills first, then a draft
Still, draft, final, upscale: the order that wastes least
Find the mistake while it costs cents.
→06How to use Claude or ChatGPT to plan AI video shots
Working with Claude or ChatGPT in the project
Give it your shots, make it tell the scene first, and let it work in words.
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