[ Reposted here from the VIP thread I wrote earlier, as it makes sense for it to be here as well. ] Here's something I created this morning in ShortPulse (even while on the call). It may be the first whole video I have done without using anything else. Creating the Character References I started by grabbing some clothes for my 3 avatars and then creating the mannequins for Lea and Audra (as they didn’t have any yet). I used to use character sheets for this, so I am gonna test this out and see how it compares. Then I went to edit and created all three mannequin sheets. Created the Character Reference Slots I went into each character and added a slot for them and grabbed all my assets from the Quick Slot Inventory (learned this the hard way by trial and error, but now that I have a rhythm, it’s much better). Create a keyframe replacing all the people in the original video. Had to create and chat a prompt to replace all the people with my characters. A little trial and error, as the two women in the back were coming out as children. A little more chatting fixed that. Now I have a clean keyframe for reference. Create a Motion Control video I started with the chat again and created my prompt. I gave it screenshots throughout the video and got a detailed prompt with descriptions of the scene and characters as well as timing. I ran this thing 4 different ways in the Motion Control tab, and it was a hot mess every time. (see attached 2nd vid) It would only run a 6-second video, and then it hallucinated everything at the end. I don’t know why, but Motion Control is not my friend. Create a Seedance 2.5 Video Same setup, but I could now access all my characters and then upload the source video and some screenshots of what things should look like, and then BAM! Perfect video in the wrong aspect ratio—TWICE! Reran again at 9:16; I so crave to get what you see attached. There is some goofy AI rendering at the bottom of the jump, but JFS! Post production None. Not yet anyway. Not sure I need to, and if I am truly gonna streamline things, it will be nice to not have to open Adobe Premiere every time. Maybe when I have no dialog that needs captions or extra SFX (Scotty showed some cool new slots that might be game-changers).

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Hannah is still trying to figure this out. I’m not telling her.

Forgot to post this in the ShortPulse group! So I knew that this was going to be a challenge when Scotty and Kirk announced the 7th being the soft release of Short Pulse. I'm away from home this week at Nationals for dance. So needless to say...I'm not supposed to be working on my silly little music videos!! Nevertheless...I couldn't help myself!!! Here is the Bubba Moh version of My Own Man! I used ShortPulse for everything except the lipsync. I used Kling Motion Control for that. But this time I didn't get too intricate with it...i used 25-30 second clips and ran with it. I wanted to use as much ShortPulse footage as possible. For ShortPulse...the first thing I did was add my prompts. When I create my music videos, I have a Project in Claude. The first thing I do is create the image prompts. But I have some anchors that I use for each prompt. Before ShortPulse I would have to copy everything into my Notes app on my mac. Then I would have to click back and forth, copying the anchor, then the individual prompt for the image. Ex. CHARACTER ANCHOR: Bubba Moh — large heavily-built man, broad shoulders and thick forearms, bald head, full dark beard streaked grey, mid-30s–40s, match reference. Wearing a dark navy sleeveless hoodie over a plain tee, no jewelry, no props that warp. Photoreal cinematic music-video still, 35–50mm feel, shallow depth of field, fine film grain, 16:9, no text or captions. WOUND STATE LIGHTING ANCHOR: single hard source — one bare bulb / work lamp / high window shaft. Warm bulb color but crushed and high-contrast, deep black shadow eating the frame edges, the room around him unlit. Isolated pool of light in darkness. ANSWER STATE LIGHTING ANCHOR: soft ambient daylight filling the whole room, morning window fill, corners visible, nothing hard pointing at him. Warm but even, ordinary, lived-in. Lights simply on. So these were the anchors that I used...then the first image prompt is this: 1-A — CORE · Bookend A (load-bearing) [CHARACTER ANCHOR] + [WOUND LIGHTING]. Wide-ish medium shot, locked static camera, eye-level. Bubba sits at a plain wooden kitchen table, camera-left, elbows on the table, one hand loosely clenched into a fist resting on the wood. An empty mismatched wooden chair faces him across the table, camera-right, unoccupied. A single bare bulb hangs low over the table, hard warm light on his face and fists, the rest of the kitchen swallowed in black. He stares at the empty chair, jaw set, not sad — hard. Night.