Next shot, frames and reference videos on a board

A clip on a board can hand on its frames and its motion. Next shot starts a new clip from where one ends, a frame can become a picture of its own, and a clip wired into another can be followed, carried on, edited or lip-synced.

Next shot

Right-click a finished clip and choose Next shot, or press the Next shot badge on the clip card's right edge. Two cards appear:

1. a picture card for its last frame, named after the clip;
2. a new, empty clip card, with that picture wired into its Start frame.

When the first clip was made on the board, the new one keeps its model, shape, resolution, length and sound setting, so you only write what happens next and press Run. Taking the frame is free; you pay when you run the new clip, at the price on its button. Repeat on each new clip to build a sequence, then cut them together on a Finish card: see Run all and Finish: from cards to one cut.

These actions are there once a clip has its file, for anyone who can edit the board.

A frame as a picture

Right-click a finished clip for First frame as a picture or Last frame as a picture. Each makes a picture card, free, that you can wire into any card that takes a picture. If a frame can't be taken, its card says Frame not taken, with the reason, and Take it again.

Start and end frames

A video card's Start frame port makes the clip open on that picture; End frame makes it land on one. Each takes one picture. The card shows only the ports its model uses: Seedance, Kling 3.0 and Wan 3.0 take both, and some models take neither. A wire left on a port the model doesn't use is dashed, and pointing at it says to pick a model that uses it or remove the wire.

The card tells you when two inputs can't go together, such as an exact end frame beside a video ref or image refs, and asks you to disconnect one of them.

Kling 4.0: Keyframes or Omni

On Kling 4.0 the card has a Mode menu beside the model:

• Keyframes: the card takes a Start frame, an End frame and a Keyframes port. The pictures wired into Keyframes are frames between the start and the end, in the order you wired them. The card says how many the clip's length takes: one more frame in all than its whole seconds, up to 10, the start and end among them. Run stays off while there are more, or while there's no start frame.
• Omni: the card takes Image refs and Video refs, and no frames.

Switching keeps the wires: the same pictures become frames between on Keyframes and image refs on Omni. A card that was never set to a way runs on Omni when pictures or clips are wired in as refs, as Kling 4.0 cards did before Mode existed; wiring a picture in sets the card to the way it shows, so the picture means what its port says.

Kling 4.0 Flash has the same Mode menu. On its Keyframes the card takes a Start frame only, with no End frame and no frames between.

Video refs: a clip to follow

Wire a finished clip, or an uploaded one, into a video card's Video refs port, and the new clip follows its motion, camera and timing while your words set the look. The people in it don't come with it unless your words name the clip and say so. The models that take video refs follow up to a set length in all: Seedance 2.0, for example, up to three clips and 15 seconds, and Seedance 2.5 up to ten clips and 30 seconds.

• The seconds are charged. The card says how many seconds of video ref are billed beside the clip, and the price on its button already allows for them.
• Too long is refused before any charge. The card says how much the model follows, and asks for a shorter clip or fewer of them.
• Use only part of it. With one clip wired in, press Whole clip to choose the part that goes in. Only that part is sent and billed; Use the whole clip puts it back.

What a card does with a clip

When a clip is wired into a video card, With the clip sets what the card does with it:

• Follow its motion: a new clip with its motion, camera and timing.
• Extend it: carries it on from its end, as a new clip.
• Edit it: keeps the footage and changes it the way your words say: night, rain, a red coat.
• Move a character like it: the picture on Start frame becomes a character who moves the way the clip moves.
• Lip-sync it: its mouth is matched to a voiceover, or another clip's sound, on Audio.
• Upscale it: the same clip at 1080p, sharper. Pick its Quality: Standard (Topaz Precision, in seconds) or Best (Topaz Starlight, finer detail, a few minutes).

The right-click menu on a clip offers the same jobs as new cards: Extend this clip, Edit this clip, Move a character like this clip, Lip-sync this clip and Upscale this clip to 1080p. Each is priced on its own button when you run it.

Uploaded clips and real people

An uploaded clip asks Who is in this clip? before it's lip-synced, edited by a model that keeps its people, or used for its sound in another clip. An uploaded picture asks the same before motion control moves it. Following a clip's motion asks nothing. See Real people: faces, voices and consent.