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The Guide Chapter 10 of 13

Tips and tricks

The small things that make the difference between a result and a good one: how to get an invisible cut, when to use two frames, what to name, where the free steps are, and how to read an agent that has paused.

  • Exact cuts. An engine lands near its end picture, never on it. For an invisible cut, start the next clip on the real last frame of the one before (the chain maker does this; by hand, Use this frame at the end of a clip and make the next clip from that picture).
  • First and last frame. Two pictures that read as consecutive moments give a camera move; two different scenes give a morph. Kling 3, Kling 3 Pro and Seedance take both.
  • Real people. Seedance declines any picture of a real person, including you. Tick the real-person box, or let the studio route it to Kling 3 Pro; Motion sync is the way to make a person perform a motion, Genjutsu is for products, clothing and drawn characters only.
  • Cheapest first. Ask Spark for the lowest-cost engine that fits and it names the higher ones with prices in the same answer, so "make it the best quality" is one reply away.
  • Name things. Name this on any card puts a name and a note on the piece everywhere it appears; search finds it in the Library and in the Editor.
  • Keep for this edit. Pin a piece to an edit without putting it on the timeline; it waits on the This edit tab.
  • Per-join, not per-video. Change one join from its seam; change them all from Between every clip. A join that overlaps (crossfade, dissolve) makes the video that much shorter than its clips; the timeline head says by how much.
  • The SceneRender tag is yours to place: on or off, which corner, and whether the Made on SceneRender card follows the last clip. Turn it off for a client's deliverable.
  • Share a preview before posting: a plain page with the video and a note, open to anyone with the link, expiring after 7, 14 or 30 days, views counted.
  • The 1440p master is the same video scaled with a good scaler for YouTube's better codec; free, a few minutes.
  • Your voice, once. Record it under Your voice and every studio can narrate in it, a clip can be re-voiced in it, and a song can be sung in it.
  • Two or more things in one picture? Make a reference sheet in Image Studio (two to four pictures side by side on white) and start the video from that.
  • Frames are free. Use this frame in the Editor and a chain's last-frame pictures cost nothing and land in Image Studio ready for Make a video from this.
  • Agents keep pace. An agent that hits the pace point is not broken; it is asking whether to spend more. Say carry on.