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A scene sequencer where the order is the edit

Sequencing is deciding what comes after what. On this timeline the decision is a drag. Move a card and the episode you will join moves with it; render the cards and the join follows whatever order you settled on.

Opens the storyboard with this scene, runtime and framing already filled in.

Episode 1, The lamp goes dark

6 shots

41s planned45s target
W8s

The lamp room at dusk. The lens flickers and dies.

Static

M6s

Caoimhe on the stairs: "Third time this week."

Push in

OS6s

Over Ruaridh's shoulder, she holds up the logbook.

Handheld

C5s

His face. He does not answer.

Static

W9s
pending

Pan across the gallery to the open door.

Pan

POV7s
pending

Her eyes. He walks toward the lens.

Handheld

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Order before footage

In a conventional edit, the sequence is the last thing you decide because the footage has to exist first. Here the sequence is the first thing, because each card is rendered as a separate take and the join reads the timeline. That turns a question that used to be expensive to answer, what if the reveal came earlier, into a drag and a re-join for two credits.

Cards show their shot size and seconds on the face, so a sequence can be read without opening anything: W 8, M 6, OS 6, C 5, W 10. If that reads like a shot list, it is because it is one.

Rendering independent takes

Each card renders as its own job. That matters for sequencing because a change to one card never forces a re-render of the others. Swap the fourth shot for a different line, render only that card, and join again. The other takes are reused as they are.

Cast, outfits, props and the set are passed as reference images on every take, which is what keeps shot two and shot eleven looking like the same people in the same room. A voice style is a description in the prompt, so expect a voice in that style rather than a particular voice.

Joining and re-joining

The join conforms every take to one 9:16 frame at the sharpest resolution on the timeline, adds a silent track where a take has none, and concatenates them losslessly in card order. It runs in under a minute for a full twelve-card episode and costs two credits whether you join once or ten times.

The previous cut is retired when a new one is made, so the library does not fill with stale versions. The takes are never deleted by a join; they are separate files the episode references.

Sequencing for the small screen

Vertical episodes are watched on phones, where a cut lands harder than it does on a wall. Short shots tolerate rapid sequencing; a fifteen-second card should be a shot with somewhere to go. The runtime meter helps here too: a sixty-second target with twelve cards means five-second shots, which is a brisk rhythm, and the meter makes that arithmetic visible.

The default aspect ratio is 9:16 and every join outputs it. Cards do not have an aspect ratio of their own; the episode does.

Sample takes

Each one is a single card rendered as a take: one shot size, one camera move, one line.

8s

The lamp goes dark

Wide · Static

9s

Two tickets, one seat

Over shoulder · Handheld

8s

Someone moved the oars

Wide · Static

9s

Table nine is the critic

Medium · Handheld

Questions

What happens to takes when I reorder?+

They move with their cards. A take is attached to the card that rendered it, so dragging the card drags the take.

Do I have to re-render after changing the order?+

No. Order is read at join time. Re-join for two credits and the new sequence is the new cut.

Can two cards share one take?+

No. One card, one take. Duplicate the card and render it again if you want the same shot twice; the second render is a fresh take.

Who owns the episodes I make?+

The episodes are yours. Our terms of service set out the licence we need to host and operate the service. Because copyright law varies from one country to the next, a lawyer is the right person to ask about a specific plan for your work. Read the terms.

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