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Chaining Keyframes Into Continuous Multi-Shot Scenes: Last-Frame Seeding and First/Last-Frame Interpolation


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A single clip caps out around five to ten seconds, so you build longer scenes by harvesting the last frame, seeding the next clip, and using first/last-frame interpolation to keep motion flowing across the seam. The catch is the join: generators decelerate the camera at clip ends, so naive concatenation reads as a freeze unless you match momentum and trim the deceleration tail.

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This episode pairs an AI video news rundown with a hands-on tutorial on chaining keyframes into continuous multi-shot scenes.

News (window June 15-19, 2026)

  • Grok Imagine Video 1.5 hits GA on 2026-06-16 across the Imagine API, web, and mobile, with a high-speed Fast variant the same week (explainx, gagadget). Image-to-video with native synchronized audio; reportedly 720p, 24fps, 6-second clips; Fast renders 6s/720p in about 25 seconds (GIGAZINE, winbuzzer). Verify-grade pricing: $0.080/sec, 60 req/min (xAI Docs); press frames 720p at $4.20/min, ~86% below legacy Sora 2 Pro.
  • ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini lands on Dreamina mid-June, broader API ~2026-06-22; ~2x faster than Seedance 2.0 Fast at ~$0.073/sec, keeps the 12-reference multimodal system (Pexo, Atlas Cloud).
  • Runway Studio Trim (2026-06-18): trim, stitch, reorder, export inside Studio on all tiers (Releasebot).
  • Arena Elo: Seedance 2.0 leads both I2V boards; Grok 1.5 sits #2-3, not the "#1" press claims (AA I2V).
  • Tutorial: Keyframe Chaining

    Why clips cap at 5-10 sec, the last-frame to start-frame workflow, the frozen-seam problem (CineLOG), first/last-frame interpolation per model (Kling, Luma, Runway, Pika, Veo 3.1, Wan FLF2V, Seedance), native extend vs manual chaining, fighting temporal drift and color shift (Knot Forcing), and a copyable end-to-end workflow with DaVinci Resolve and CapCut (tensorpix, seedance-2ai).

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