director

1# Director — Story-to-Video Production Pipeline
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3## Overview
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5The Director skill runs a complete short film production from a text story. It breaks the story into scenes, generates start/end frames for each, creates video clips from frame pairs, and concatenates everything into a final video.
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7The pipeline runs Story Planning → Z-Image Hero + Character Refs → Qwen Edit Chain (all frames) → WAN 2.2 FLF Video Clips → ffmpeg Concatenation.
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9Key architectural decisions:
10- 1 hero frame + edit chain for character consistency (NEVER independent Z-Image per scene)
11- Inter-scene frame continuity. Scene N's end frame IS Scene N+1's start frame (same image file, no edit gap)
12- Character reference images fed into Qwen Edit's extra image slots
13- State file persists to disk for context compaction survival
14- Each scene is independently retryable without affecting others
15- `clear_vram` between every model family switch
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17## CRITICAL: Inspect modes + verify every output
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19This pipeline drives the user's live canvas across many stages, so two habits are non-negotiable:
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