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Anchor Frames (The Glue Method)
Still images are cheap and fast. Video generation is expensive and slow. Anchor first, animate second — and the video model bridges between your stills instead of inventing new backgrounds.
How it works
- 1Generate high-quality still images for the start, optional middle, and end of every scene using GPT Image 2.
- 2Feed those stills to the video model as anchors so it has fixed endpoints to connect.
- 3Reuse anchors as a tiled storyboard canvas before a single second of video is rendered.
- 4Images cost cents. Final video generation costs dollars and takes time. The economics favor anchoring heavily.
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