Framework
Three Days per Minute
Budget for the real labor behind AI video.
How it works
- 1Budget roughly three days of work for every 60 seconds of finished AI video.
- 2Expect to discard most of what you generate.
- 3Every retry costs money, so decide your look and plates before you start.
- 4The labor is real, even when critics assume it’s a button.
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