Loop Forge

Under the street trees, shot 5

From MiniMax H3 long takes from chained renders

Frame from the Under the street trees, shot 5 clip
Watch it in the video at 2:05
Resolution
864Ă—480
Length
192 frames, 8.00s
Handoff
Opens on the last 39 frames of the render before it
Steps
20
Seed
1078725334576013
Ran on
RTX 3060, 12GB (local)

What was wired in

  • Block 5
    <Picture 1>
    Block 5Aerial photograph of that block
  • Amber
    <Picture 2>
    AmberCharacter plate
  • No tagMiniMaxH3AddGuide: the last 39 frames of the previous render, plus its audio

The prompt

subject_definitions:
<Subject 1> is the young woman in <Picture 2>, in her early twenties, with long thick copper-orange curly hair falling well past her shoulders, pale freckled skin, blue-grey eyes and a slim build, wearing a plain cream short-sleeved crew-neck t-shirt, a long dark iron cross pendant on a thin dark chain, blue denim jeans, a wide tan leather belt with a brass buckle, a small tan leather belt pouch on her right hip, dark braided rope bracelets on both wrists and thin silver rings. Only her face, hair, body and clothing are taken from <Picture 2>; the snow, cliffs, green aurora and wooden sailing ship behind her in that image are not part of the target video.
<Subject 2> is the block of Market Street in San Francisco photographed from directly overhead in <Picture 1>: a tall white tower with deep vertical fluting standing on the right, an ornate pale beaux-arts building with an arcaded upper storey and a small domed clock turret on the left, steel streetcar rails converging in the roadway, a low pavilion with an octagonal roof at the corner, and street trees and planters lining the brick-red sidewalks between wide white-striped crosswalks. Only the street layout, building shapes, materials and colours are used; the overhead aerial viewpoint and map-like flattening of <Picture 1> are not retained, and the target video is filmed at street level.

summary:
[reference generation + keyframe completion] The target video opens on an exact replay of the closing 1.6 seconds of the preceding segment of the same unbroken take and carries straight on from it as <Subject 1> passes alone beneath the street trees of <Subject 2>, between the fluted white tower and the ornate beaux-arts building, squinting into the low sun as dappled light crosses her face.

retention_analysis:
<Subject 1> (appears in [Shot 1]): fully_preserved - her face, freckles, blue-grey eyes, long copper-orange curls, cream t-shirt, iron cross pendant, tan leather belt and belt pouch, denim jeans, braided rope bracelets and silver rings are retained exactly.
<Subject 2> (appears in [Shot 1]): partially_preserved - the fluted white tower, the ornate beaux-arts building with its arcaded upper storey and domed clock turret, the converging streetcar rails, the octagonal-roofed corner pavilion, the street trees in planters and the brick-red paving are retained; the overhead aerial viewpoint is replaced by a street-level camera at chest height.

detailed_description:
The target video is photorealistic live-action in a naturalistic documentary-cinematic style, filmed on a stabilised gimbal with a 35mm-equivalent lens held at chest height, in clear late-afternoon San Francisco light, with no on-screen text and no subtitles anywhere.
[Shot 1] The segment opens on an exact replay of the closing moments of the preceding take and carries that motion straight through with no join: the camera is already in front of <Subject 1>, facing back toward her and travelling backwards at exactly her walking speed, holding her centred and framed from mid-thigh up for the whole eight seconds with no cut. The camera holds its distance exactly for the entire segment and never pushes in, pulls out or zooms, so her height in the frame at the end is identical to her height in the frame at the start. She holds the exact body pose, head angle, gaze direction and facial expression carried in by the replayed opening frames, continuing them without any reset before moving into the actions below. <Subject 1>, the young woman with long copper-orange curls, the cream crew-neck t-shirt, the iron cross pendant, the tan leather belt with its small pouch and blue denim jeans, walks on toward the lens on the same foot and at the same unhurried cadence she carries out of the replayed opening, alone in the centre of frame. She moves along the brick-red sidewalk of <Subject 2> under a run of street trees set in square planters, and their canopies break the low sunlight into a moving pattern of bright patches and shadow that sweeps rhythmically across her face, her cream t-shirt and her copper curls with every step. The tall white tower with its deep vertical fluting rises the full height of frame on her left, its ribs catching hard orange light down one edge, and the ornate pale beaux-arts building with its arcaded upper storey and small domed clock turret stands on her right; behind her the steel streetcar rails converge and run away up the avenue, and the low octagonal-roofed pavilion sits at the corner. The sun stays low and directly behind her, so a strong warm rim traces her shoulders and the outline of her hair, and a soft flare washes the upper corner of the lens. Around the three-second mark she comes out of the tree shade into an open stretch of direct sun, narrows her eyes against it and lifts her left hand briefly to shade her brow, then lowers it again. Near the five-second mark she reaches down with her right hand, presses the flap of the small tan leather pouch flat against her hip and lets her arm swing back into rhythm; the rope bracelets slide on her wrist. Her expression is calm and unhurried, her gaze moving between the lens and the buildings passing at the edges. A cyclist crosses the far background from right to left, and pedestrians pass in soft focus at the frame edges. In the final second the framing is unchanged and she walks straight into the lens, mid-stride, at the same steady pace.

overall_soundscape:
The open-air street ambience carries straight on from the preceding segment without interruption: steady traffic along the avenue, wind moving through the street-tree canopies overhead and the murmur of passing pedestrians. A bicycle freewheel ticks past in the background, a distant streetcar bell sounds once far up the street, and her even footsteps on the brick paving continue unbroken throughout with the light rustle of denim close to the microphone.

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

Notes

Dappled light under street trees; she squints into the sun