I made a 15-minute YouTube video with Kling 4 through Shortpulse, and I didn't use a single starting image. 🎬 Here's the whole workflow: 1️⃣ Character sheets. I had Shortpulse generate a character sheet for every character: Gary the plumber, Mrs. Henderson with the flooded kitchen, the Pastor, the secret agents, and my AI cohost Tally. 2️⃣ Environment sheets. Then I generated environment sheets for every location: the funeral, the kitchen, the interrogation room, and the rest. 3️⃣ That's it. Those sheets were the only things I fed in for the entire video. No starting images and no first frames. Every clip came from the character and environment sheets. Why Kling 4? I wanted to test it, so the whole video is Kling 4. This was the real-world test: 15 minutes, a dozen-ish scenes and recurring characters. What I learned: - Build your sheets first. Once the characters and places are locked in, every scene gets easier. - Write the story before you generate anything. Every clip should have a job. - Never leave AI clips in silence. Sound effects and music sell the scene. And yes, my AI cohost is one of the characters. What she did behind the scenes is a story for another post. 👀 Watch it here 👉 https://youtu.be/XuVYeVkHGp0 Anyone else building with character sheets? What's your trick for keeping characters consistent? 👇

CHARACTER COLLECTIONS When I have a character in a collection and I am working on it, if I switch characters, it takes me completely out of the collection and back to the default character screen. I then have to double-click back in. Maybe add breadcrumbs to choose the subfolder (collection), or a mini nav. IDK. Vid Attached. CHARACTER SORTING It would be nice to be able to move folders around in the collections, or sort by most recent or alphabetically. Vid attached. PROJECT PORTFOLIOS There doesn't seem to be anywhere to create new portfolios. Did it move? Or did it accidentally disappear? CREDITS All my credits seem to keep disappearing. Arrrrgh! 🙃 --- That is all for now. Not necessarily a feature, but not bugs either. I'm sure you'll find a happy place for these on your pile.

Kristen from Atlanta here! I am trying to learn AI UGC! I want to master it!

And my subscription resets on the 13th. Sigh...

Went to a Dallas Stars game tonight and got there pretty early. The team hadn’t even come out for warmups yet, so I figured, why not see if I could get Jess into a Stars game? Since I’ve already got her based in Dallas, it made sense. I took a quick picture from my seat down by the glass. There were a bunch of people standing around, so I figured I’d just replace one of them with Jess. I went online, found a picture of a girl wearing some Stars gear that looked like something Jess would actually wear, and used that to make a character sheet. Honestly, that was just easier than trying to mess around with the mannequin and build an outfit from scratch, especially since the Wi-Fi was pretty spotty. Then I gave it a really simple prompt. Basically, put Jess down by the glass posing for a picture. As I was thinking about it, I figured it’d be funny to have a hockey player skate by and smack the glass to scare the shit out of her. Ran a few versions and got some pretty different results. But the whole point was really just to see what it was like using ShortPulse on my phone while sitting at a hockey game. And it works! It’s actually pretty interesting what you can do with it. The interface takes a little getting used to, though. You can’t really see everything at once, so you’re scrolling around trying to get to your reference grid. Then, when you’re ready to prompt, you pretty much have to close everything down so you can actually see what you’re typing. And if you don’t tap the reference grid just right, it’ll kick you back to the home screen and you have to start over. That happened a few times. So there’s definitely some fumbling around involved, but I was just messing around anyway. I uploaded all the assets I used so you can see how I put it together. The video is a bit long but you can scroll through it to see how painful this is. I’m not completely sold on the videos themselves. I probably could’ve gotten better results with some more thoughtful prompting and using the chat to work through the shots. But that wasn’t really the point.