Temporal consistency is a single generate holding together frame to frame. Scene continuity is the next problem: shot two has to look like it belongs after shot one even though it was a different job. That is why multi-scene generation hands the last frame of N to the start of N+1, and why a reusable character is a named asset instead of an adjective in the next prompt.
Character-consistency is the face. Continuity also includes the shirt, the room, the time of day. First-last-frame interpolates two stills you locked; it cannot invent the wardrobe that was not in either still. Video-extend continues one clip; it does not jump to a new setup and keep the cast.
If the board has a new location, continuity of place is not required — continuity of the person is. Write which one you actually need, then pick the handoff type that copies those pixels.
In practice
- Use a previous-scene or last-frame handoff when the same person has to walk into the next shot.
- Register the cast as reusable characters so scene four can look them up.
- Do not ask temporal consistency on an 8-second clip to stand in for a six-shot board.
The mistake to avoid
Regenerating shot two from a text prompt that names the same person and reading the recast as a model bug. Continuity needed pixels from shot one, not a synonym.
Where you will run into it
- AI Movie Maker — One prompt. A finished short film.
Related terms
Temporal consistency
Temporal consistency is how well a generated clip keeps things the same from one frame to the next — a shirt that stays the same colour, a background that stays put.
Character consistency
Character consistency is whether the same person, mascot or product still looks like itself across separate generations.
Multi-scene generation
Multi-scene generation is building a video as separately generated shots that are then stitched, rather than asking one clip to carry the whole story.
Reusable character
A reusable character is a named workflow asset — reference images saved once under a key — that later scenes in that recipe call without re-uploading.
Frame interpolation
Frame interpolation invents new frames between existing ones, raising a clip's frame rate or slowing it down without it becoming choppy.
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