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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 2:53
Resolution
1376×768
Length
243 frames, 10.12s
Handoff
Opens on the last 39 frames of the render before it
Steps
20
Seed
1078725334576013
Ran on
RTX 5090 on RunPod

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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 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. 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 moments of the preceding segment and continues the walk alone beneath the street trees of <Subject 2>, <Subject 1> squinting into the low sun and pausing at a crossing before walking on.

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. 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. The camera sits in front of <Subject 1> and faces back toward her in one continuous ten-second take, matching her speed exactly so her size and position in the frame stay constant; she is centred and framed from mid-thigh up, and there is no cut at any point. The camera holds its distance and never pushes in, pulls out or zooms. When she slows or stops, the camera slows and stops with her, holding the same gap, and picks up again at the moment she does. <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 at the same unhurried cadence she carries out of the replayed opening, alone in the centre of frame. Between the scripted beats her face is relaxed and unselfconscious, the ordinary expression of someone walking a route she knows well: lips closed, jaw loose, eyes moving over the buildings, the traffic and the pavement ahead, narrowing now and then against the low sun. She does not smile at the lens and does not perform for the camera. Any change of expression is a brief, specific reaction to something in the scene and settles back to that neutral walking face within a second or two. She moves along the brick-red sidewalk of <Subject 2> under a run of street trees set in square planters, their canopies breaking 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, tracing a strong warm rim along her shoulders and the outline of her hair, with a soft flare in the upper corner of the lens. At about the three-second mark the low sun clears the edge of a building far behind her and catches her full in the face; she narrows her eyes hard against it and lifts her left hand to shade her brow for two seconds before lowering it again. The trees, planters and buildings around her only ever drift past through her own forward walking; the location never changes, and at no point does the scene cut, jump or relocate to different surroundings. Near the five-second mark she reaches the kerb at a crossing, slows to a halt and glances left along the roadway, waiting; the camera stops with her. A car passes. At about the seven-second mark she steps down off the kerb and walks on, rebuilding her pace, and reaches down with her right hand to press the flap of the small tan leather pouch flat against her hip, the rope bracelets sliding on her wrist. A cyclist crosses the far background from right to left. Through the final two seconds she is centred, mid-stride at the steady pace, her expression calm and unhurried.

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. Her footsteps slow and stop at the kerb, a single car passes close by, a bicycle freewheel ticks past in the background, and her even footsteps resume on the brick paving and continue to the end.

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

Notes

Dappled light under street trees; she squints into the sun