Stop burning credits. Paste this prompt first

Hey guys,

asked me a great question: how do you make your credits last?

Because that's what gets you hired. Hitting the brief, on time, on budget. Every time.

Here's the trick. Before you spend a single credit on ANY platform, make the AI study it for you. Open ChatGPT or Claude (web search on) and paste this:

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I have [number] credits on [platform name and website]. My project: [describe it in 2-3 lines: length, number of shots, style, deliverable].

1. Read the platform's pricing page, credit costs and help docs. List what every action costs in credits (image, video by length and resolution, 3D, upscale, edits). If you can't find a cost, say "unknown" and don't guess.

2. Sort those actions from cheapest to most expensive.

3. Design a workflow for my project that does all the exploring with the cheapest actions, locks the look and the blocking, and only uses the expensive actions on shots I've already approved.

4. Give me a credit budget per step, with a 20% reserve for redos.

5. Tell me the 3 most common ways people waste credits on this platform, and how to avoid them.

6. Before I commit, design a test that costs 20 credits or less. Pick the actions my workflow depends on most, plus any cost you marked "unknown". For each test generation, tell me exactly what to make (a ready-to-use prompt, using a piece of MY project), the settings, the credits you expect it to cost, and what to check in the result. Then give me a short table to fill in: expected cost, real cost, good enough yes/no.

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Run the little test, fill in the table, paste it back into the same chat, and ask it to fix the plan with the real numbers. Now you're spending the rest of your credits on facts, not guesses.

Want free credits to try it on?

→ Yuumeh: sign up through our link and the first 20 AIFCA members get 1,000 extra credits on top of the usual bonus. Ends TOMORROW, Monday Nov 16, 12 PM ET.

→ FluidFit AI: 2,000 free credits for AIFCA members, first 100 only. Claim them in the FluidFit AI thread here on Skool.

Both are on the AIFD Tools & Platforms page, with the links → https://aifilmmakersdirectory.com/pages/ai-tools-platforms

Try the prompt and post what it gives you in the comments. I want to see who builds the leanest plan.

Alex

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Stop burning credits. Paste this prompt first