Director — Story-to-Video Production Pipeline

Overview

The Director skill runs a complete short film production from a text story. It breaks the story into scenes, generates start/end frames for each, creates video clips from frame pairs, and concatenates everything into a final video.

The pipeline runs Story Planning → Z-Image Hero + Character Refs → Qwen Edit Chain (all frames) → WAN 2.2 FLF Video Clips → ffmpeg Concatenation.

Key architectural decisions:

• 1 hero frame + edit chain for character consistency (NEVER independent Z-Image per scene)
• Inter-scene frame continuity. Scene N's end frame IS Scene N+1's start frame (same image file, no edit gap)
• Character reference images fed into Qwen Edit's extra image slots
• State file persists to disk for context compaction survival
• Each scene is independently retryable without affecting others
• clear_vram between every model family switch

CRITICAL: Inspect modes + verify every output

This pipeline drives the user's live canvas across many stages, so two habits are non-negotiable: