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Inside Minicut2026-08-18 · 5 min read

The twenty pilot episodes we shipped, and what is inside each one

A template on most tools is a prompt with a nice name. These are finished episodes. Twenty of them, each one 60 seconds and 13 shots, each with its own cast, its own locations, its own shot-by-shot camera and light notes, and the generation prompts already written.

Across the twenty that comes to 260 shots, 780 generation prompts, 83 named characters, 80 scenes, and 60 episodes mapped ahead because every pilot is written as the first of three.

Open any of the twenty →

What one pilot contains

Every shot carries twenty-eight separate fields, and none of them is decoration. The ones that decide how the shot looks: what is in frame, where people start and end, shot size and angle, lens, camera move, light. The ones that keep it consistent: continuity anchors, screen direction, and the bindings that tie the shot to specific character references.

Then the ones that make it: a first-frame prompt, a last-frame prompt and a motion prompt. That is three of the 780. And two that most tools have no equivalent for at all: a note on what is likely to go wrong in this particular shot, and the plan for fixing it if it does.

What the twenty containThe number
Pilot episodes20
Shots260, exactly 13 in every one
Generation prompts780
Named characters83
Scenes80, exactly 4 in every one
Episodes mapped ahead60, three per pilot
Length of every episode60 seconds
Length of every first shot3 seconds

Counted from the twenty pilot files on August 18, 2026.

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Two ways to use one

Leave the text alone and the episode lands exactly as written: all thirteen shots, all the prompts, nothing regenerated. That is the fast path, and it exists so you can see a finished episode before deciding whether this is for you.

Change the text and the same cast, the same places and the same look carry over, while the shot count and the scene count come off the pilot and the writing follows your words instead. So the structure is kept and the story is yours.

Either way the pick lands in the prompt box with the story core already in it, rather than dropping you onto a finished board you did not build.

They were written in Chinese first

The titles, the loglines and all 780 prompts were authored in Chinese, because that is the market this format comes from and the language its craft conventions are written in. The English side is a translation layer that never edits the Chinese source.

The address of each pilot stays the Chinese title in both languages. Giving one pilot two addresses would split whatever either one earns in search, and the Chinese title is the actual search term in the market these are for.

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Got questions left?

Are the prompts published anywhere?

No. A preset page shows what the preset is: the poster, the story, the four beats, the cast by name and role, the places, the counts and the episode map. The 780 generation prompts live inside the flow and arrive in your prompt box when you pick one.

Can I use one and change everything?

Yes. Change as much of the text as you want. The structure that came off the pilot holds, meaning the shot count and the scene count, and the cast, places and look carry over unless you change those too.

Why is every one exactly 13 shots?

Because that is what fits sixty seconds without any beat feeling skipped, and sixty seconds is what plays whole in a vertical feed. It is a default rather than a limit; an episode you build yourself is whatever length the story needs.

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