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Series formats: plate plus edits

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Five clips from one environment plate, casting by temperament, per-character pastes, anti-cosplay language, and a complete worked example with generic roles.

28 min readUpdated Sep 3, 2026
  • Nano Banana Pro
  • Kling 3.0
  • MiniMax H3
  • CapCut

Everything up to now has been one video at a time. This lesson is a different shape: a series, where five short clips cut together into one post and the joke only exists across all five. Two of our tracks work this way, and once you have the method you can invent your own.

A famous person and the creature they would come with, photographed together in a boring real location and played completely straight. The creature is the animal version of that person: same build, same temperament. The file that established it puts it best: "The dragon is not a mount and not a monster: it is the animal version of the player, same build, same posture, same temperament."

In this lesson

  • Why it is five clips and not one video
  • The plate is generated once
  • The face decides the engine
  • Casting by temperament, punchline last
  • Every character gets their own video paste
  • A worked example, start to finish

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