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Continuity: two shots that carry on as one.
Usually every shot starts fresh: people re-pose, the light shifts, the camera resets. For a shot that carries straight on from the one before (the same moment, the camera still running), one line says so: “The shot before” is the one before it in the cut: move a shot on the timeline and it continues from its new neighbour.

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1. Set up an episode to compare them

This makes Dean’s Lullaby: the same two moments twice, joined one way in sq01 and the other in sq02.
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A new episode

Project folders → the Dean show’s folder → New episode… (ep02). It gets its own copy of the series config and shares the show’s refs folder.
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Paste the script

Open the Script window and replace what’s there:
Save, then Build.

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2. continuous: first

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Generate missing

Press Generate missing. A continuing shot waits for the shot before it: in Jobs, sh020 says it’s waiting for sh010, and starts from sh010’s new take once it’s in.
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Where it renders

sh020 opens on sh010’s last frame. FastH3 Omni and H3 Ref2VA don’t read a first frame, so seriesmith renders sh020 on H3 FL2VA by itself. (Any model that reads a first frame can do first, hosted ones included.)
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Play sq01

Right-click sh010 → Play from here. The picture carries over the cut; the movement and the humming start again.

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3. continuous: latent

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Its render waits too

sh040 waits for sh030 the same way.
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What it does

The end of sh030’s take (39 frames by default, overlap: to change it) is held at the start of sh040, and the model generates the rest. sh040 keeps its own pictures and prompt; the held frames are trimmed after.
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Play sq02

The hum and the hand carry straight on across the cut: one movement, one sound.

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4. Side by side

Play all: sq01, joined by its first frame, then sq02, by its latent. Compare each join with a wipe (Compare with…).
Live playback can blink at a join. The assembled episode (Export, or the master) is seamless.

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In the script

  • On a shot: continuous: first or continuous: latent, as above.
  • On a sequence’s # header: every shot after the sequence’s first continues. It stops at the next #; continuous: none on a shot breaks the chain.
  • Across a sequence boundary: only the shot itself can say it, on the first shot of the new sequence.
  • From the editor: a take’s menu has Use this frame as the next shot’s first frame and Use previous shot’s last frame as first frame, for a keyframe from a frame you choose.

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Next

11 · Voices and your own dialogue

Who says the lines, and how they sound.

Continuous shots

The design, in detail.