@David Harrison No problem. I am going to make more of an effort to engage in here. I feel like maybe a lot of people are just burnt out with all the stuff going on in the industry (and world) and trying to find out where they are in the general landscape. My background was on set as a pa/ad and then moving onto assisting writers, director and producer. Post was something I was always intrigued by, but as I got further on my path, I got further away from post. Once I decided to go all in, the industry crashed due to covid and strikes. And now AI is throwing things out of whack too. I love learning new things, so I'm all in on AI, creatively anyway. I added some images I generated in Midjourney as my starting points.

@Lawrence Jordan Hi Larry. I did not use AE at all. Strictly Seedance for video generation. I currently use Claude, Midjourney, Higgsfield (Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.0), Suno for music, Artlist for soundFX (one day hopefully Boom Library 😎) and DaVinci Resolve for post. I have provided the full prompt I used for one of my Seedance video generations. It was a 15 second clip, generated at 1080p. You could go shot for shot, as well, and what you would do in that regard is have a start frame (the last frame of the first shot as the start frame for the second shot) so that way the shots work seamlessly together, if that's what you are after. ***The <<<?>>> are the place holders for the elements I created to "attach," if you will, to the prompt so I can get the consistency I am after. It's not 100% full proof, but pretty damn close. Ultimately, the idea is to be able to have some usable footage to cut together and regenerate parts of the video that you'd like to tweak, while maintaining character consistency. SHOT 1 (0-4s) — The Walk - EFFECT: none — clean handheld tracking - Low-angle tracking shot moving backward in front of him as he walks steadily down the dirt path , <<<421b25fa-f1a9-4b0e-937c-fa33886ab8cb>>> , weathered tan face set flat and unbothered, toothpick (pale birch, "GenHQ" etched mid-shaft) <<<6678cc6d-bfc0-4e69-a3ea-fdc554efe22c>>> rolling slightly at the corner of his mouth. Black suit jacket shifts with each stride, white shirt and black tie crisp against the tan skin. The cantilevered concrete-and-glass house glows warm against its boulder outcrop in the background, golden light raking across the granite. - 35mm lens, tracking dolly at knee-to-hip height, slight handheld breathing - SFX: rhythmic crunch of pebbles underfoot, distant desert wind - Transition: cut to profile as the car enters frame SHOT 2 (4-7s) — Approach / Car Reveal - EFFECT: rack focus - Wide shot, camera holds static as he <<<aba152d3-7ae7-482e-9feb-51c739b782c8>>> continues walking; the black 1966 Cadillac Coupe de Ville <<<d804f319-42db-4f61-bb9a-c17748f7f086>>> sits in sharp foreground focus at a pure side-profile angle — chrome side spear and wire wheel covers catching the low sun, whitewalls bright against the dirt — while he closes distance in the middle ground. Focus racks from car to man as he nears.