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Dancing alongside, shot 6

From MiniMax H3 long takes from chained renders

Frame from the Dancing alongside, shot 6 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
8613402297755119
Ran on
RTX 5090 on RunPod

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What was wired in

  • Block 6
    <Picture 1>
    Block 6Aerial photograph of that block
  • Amber
    <Picture 2>
    AmberCharacter plate
  • Dany
    <Picture 3>
    DanyCharacter 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 long stepped concrete-and-glass hotel with a sharply sloping terraced facade filling the right side of the street, a large pale stone civic building with a green glass pyramid skylight on its roof filling the left, steel streetcar rails and overhead trolley wires down the centre, and the first tall palm trees along a widening brick-red sidewalk. 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.
<Subject 3> is the young woman in <Picture 3>, in her mid-twenties, with very long straight platinum-white hair braided back from the temples, fair skin and bright blue eyes, wearing a navy long coat worn open over a black corset-style bodice, a black skirt, dark tights and a small red heart pendant on a fine silver chain.

summary:
[reference generation + keyframe completion] The target video opens on an exact replay of the closing moments of the preceding segment and the camera arcs once around <Subject 1> to turn from the crossing behind her to the stepped hotel and first palms of <Subject 2> ahead, where <Subject 3> steps into her path, the two stop for a brief three-beat dance and a turn, and <Subject 1> then walks 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 stepped concrete-and-glass hotel with its sloping terraced facade, the pale stone civic building with its green glass pyramid skylight, the streetcar rails and overhead wires, the tall palms and the widening brick-red sidewalk are retained; the overhead aerial viewpoint is replaced by a street-level camera at chest height, and the block is brought into frame by a single arc around <Subject 1> rather than being present from the first frame.
<Subject 3> (appears in [Shot 1]): fully_preserved - her appearance and clothing as defined are retained.

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 begins in front of <Subject 1> and faces back toward her, holding a tracking shot that moves with her at her exact walking pace, keeping her centred and holding her at exactly the size and distance in frame that the replayed opening frames leave her at - neither closer nor wider than they leave her, and the camera never corrects that size - with the crossing, the signals, the street trees and the tower blocks of the intersection she is leaving filling the frame behind her exactly as they stand in the replayed opening frames. <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 at the same unhurried cadence she carries out of the replayed opening, her face relaxed and unselfconscious, lips closed and jaw loose, eyes moving over the street ahead. She does not smile at the lens and does not perform for the camera. For the first full second after the replayed opening the camera stays exactly where those frames leave it, at the same distance, height and angle, travelling with her and changing nothing about the framing. From about the two-and-a-half-second mark the camera begins a single continuous arc shot to the left around her, with large amplitude at a steady moderate speed, swinging over the next one and a half seconds from directly in front of her, round past her shoulder, to a position beside and slightly ahead of her so that it comes to face along the street the way she is walking. She keeps walking at her steady pace all the way through the swing and is never lost from frame; it is one unbroken orbit around her. Because the camera turns rather than travels, this is a change of viewpoint on one continuous stretch of street and not a move to a different place: the crossing and signals behind her slide out of frame to one side as the camera comes round, and the next stretch of the same street swings into frame on the other - the long stepped concrete-and-glass hotel with its sharply sloping terraced facade filling the right side, the large pale stone civic building with its green glass pyramid skylight on the left, the steel streetcar rails and overhead trolley wires threading down the centre, and the first tall palm trees standing along the widening brick-red sidewalk with their fronds moving in the wind. By about the four-second mark the orbit completes and the camera settles into a steady tracking shot moving with her, and from that point the stepped hotel, the civic building with its green pyramid skylight and the palms stay in frame through to the final frame, changing only in perspective as she walks. The low sun stays behind her, rimming her curls and shoulders in warm orange and flaring softly into the lens. At about the four-and-a-quarter-second mark <Subject 3>, the young woman with very long straight platinum-white hair braided back from the temples, a navy long coat worn open over a black corset-style bodice, a black skirt and dark tights, pushes off a cast-iron lamppost on the right and steps directly into her path. <Subject 1> pulls up and stops, and the camera stops with her and holds a static shot on the pair. At about the four-and-three-quarter-second mark <Subject 1> (S1), her body and face angled about forty-five degrees toward the lens so her mouth stays clearly visible in three-quarter profile, but her eyes and attention held on <Subject 3> throughout the line and never on the camera, her delight showing plainly in her eyes, raised brows and lifted cheeks rather than in her mouth, which stays free to work so her jaw and lips open and close distinctly on each syllable instead of settling into a fixed open smile or a laugh, says in a mid-pitched, clear young female voice with a faint warm rasp low in it, an unhurried and evenly measured delivery, and a neutral American accent, <d>[English] Dany!</d> Only as the line ends does her surprise break into a laugh. At about the five-and-three-quarter-second mark <Subject 3> (S2), her body and face angled about forty-five degrees toward the lens so her mouth stays clearly visible in three-quarter profile, but her eyes and attention held on <Subject 1> throughout the line and never on the camera, her delight showing plainly in her eyes, raised brows and lifted cheeks rather than in her mouth, which stays free to work so her jaw and lips open and close distinctly on each syllable instead of settling into a fixed open smile or a laugh, her hands still at her sides, answers in a deep, smoky contralto with a slow deliberate delivery, long drawn vowels and a crisp British accent, <d>[English] Three steps. That is all I need.</d> Only after the line does she start clapping out a slow beat with her hands. From about the seven-and-three-quarter-second mark the two of them fall into a quick three-beat step together on the spot, a side-together-side shuffle in time with the clap, coat and curls swinging; on the third beat <Subject 3> lifts her right hand and turns <Subject 1> once underneath it, the copper curls fanning out and the iron cross pendant swinging wide. <Subject 1> comes out of the turn laughing and steadies herself. At about the nine-second mark <Subject 3> gives a small flourishing bow, steps aside and lets her past. <Subject 1> walks on, rebuilding her pace, smoothing her hair down with both hands, and the camera picks up with her, holding her centred and alone at the original steady cadence through the final frames.

overall_soundscape:
The open-air street ambience carries straight on from the preceding segment without interruption: traffic on the avenue, wind moving strongly through the palm fronds overhead and the murmur of pedestrians. A second set of harder heel-steps arrives and both sets stop, three slow hand claps mark the beat, the two women scuff and turn on the brick paving through the shuffle and the turn, both laugh, and afterwards a single set of even footsteps builds back up and continues alone.

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

Notes

A friend falls into step, dances alongside, then drops back