Cliffhanger Engineering for Serialised Verticals
Cliffhangers aren't a writing flourish in a 60-second vertical, they're the mechanism that gets episode two watched. The cut has to land early, not late.
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Cliffhangers aren't a writing flourish in a 60-second vertical, they're the mechanism that gets episode two watched. The cut has to land early, not late.
A rendered clip is several hundred frames deep. extract_video_frames pulls one you already paid for; analyze_video helps you find which one first.
Every video model caps clip length. The technique that holds a look across a longer scene isn't a longer prompt — it's defining frames and chaining the joins.
Spotify Canvas is 3-8 seconds, vertical, and loops on repeat. A clip generated to loop beats one trimmed from footage that was never built to.
Near a supplied keyframe, models drift toward their own priors instead of the prompt — and escalating the prompt with more restrictions reliably makes it worse.
Sora 2 is discontinued. Veo 3.1 still wins dialogue with native audio. Kling 3 still wins image-to-video, character consistency, and a lower price per second.