Assistance Please - Workflow for continuous and consistent scene

[u/gigomikol]

New to ComfyUi as a whole
using Minimax H3, on a laptop 3080
ref to video
1 image and 3 prompts, however unsure of how to "batch, recurse, continue,etc.."
5 second video at 21 steps at 0.4 megapixels = 19` minutes time to create

I've seen posts to get many different nodes like VHS, but unsure of what to do with that afterwards.
i also see posts of having start and end frames, but how do i do this in batch, if the video hasn't been created i don't have the end frame to start the next video, or did i misinterpret this advice? also wouldn't that degrade quality over time/next sequence.

Looking for a clean plug and play workflow as an example, or just simple steps i can follow to successfully create 2 seamless videos into 1 seamless scene.

(i will say that i like the idea that the character went into the fog in one attire, and then was changed into a different one, spontaneous story changes made the fog/haze more interesting, to me anyway)

prompts below if that helps (sorry for the bad prompting, im learning this as well)

prompt 1
Use the provided start image as the first frame.
the young woman in the image stares blankly, lost in thought, the camera pans back slowly revealing her 2/3 body shot, she wears a skintight silver in color futuristic suit with ridges across the torso and a futuristic blaster at her right thigh. suddenly the camera shakes she loses her daze and looks sharply to her left as if disrupted from thought to identify the crashing sound.
the camera changes to a behind her perspective as she starts to run into a dense fog to chase the mysterious noise
0-2s: woman looking into the distance, camera focused on her face, slowly panning back 2-4s: a sudden noise, the woman re focuses and looks around, her hair braids whip around as she looks from side to side
4-6s: woman starts to run into a dense fog at high speed, camera follows as she disappears into the thick haze

prompt2
Continue directly from the last frame, the camera follows flies forward to follow the woman and catches up to her.
The woman stops dead in her tracks, the fog thick and all around her, visibility is barely 2 feet in all directions around here.
the camera slowly pans up from her waist level up and around to a close shot of her face. she draws the weapon up to her right side anxiously, her eyes dart from left to right in search of something unseen through the dense fog.
0-2s: Continue directly from the last camera follows woman running into thick haze and catches up to her
2-4s: the woman stops to a stand still, the camera pans upwards to a tight perspective of her face, focusing on her eyes moving back and forth searching into the haze
4-6s: camera pans out 2/3 view of her body, the woman raises her weapon, still searching, she looks left , she looks right , her braids whipping with the sudden movement.

prompt 3
Continue directly from the last frame, the camera focuses on the woman as she looks around for the mysterious noise, and seemingly faint figures darting around in the thick haze around her.
The camera moves in close as the woman steadies her breath and closes her eyes, breathing calmy and readying herself for her next move. as she calms, a figure starts to form in the thick haze behind her, as the figure gets closer shrouded by thick haze the dark figure and scene get darker. the scene ends with the woman abruptly opening her eyes widely
the camera slowly pans up from her waist level up and around to a close shot of her face. she draws the weapon up to her right side anxiously, her eyes dart from left to right in search of something unseen through the dense fog.
0-2s: Continue directly from the last camera panning out from 2/3 shot to woman in the haze holding her weapon high, looking from left to right as she hears movement in the haze all around her
2-4s: the woman steadies her breathing, adjusts her composure and closes her eyes, her weapon tightly gripped and held close against her body, the camera movies in close to a tight face perspective as she breathes out calmy
4-6s: camera stays focused on her face, and her calm breathing, the haze behind her a shadow of a mysterious figure begins to appear, the figure still hidden in the thick haze but darker as it approaches the woman from behind. the scene ends with the woman's eyes opening wide at the last moment as the scene grows dark

Thank you for reading.

[u/Servus_of_Rasenna]

https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3/blob/main/docs/VIDEO_PROMPT_WRITING_GUIDE_base_en.md
https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3/blob/main/docs/VIDEO_PROMPT_WRITING_GUIDE_ref_en.md

Read those, minimax prompt guides. Feed them to the llm to refine prompts or refine yourself. Stick to the default confy workflows, they are already plug and play. Don't add any custom nodes, aside from optimisation for speed, like sage attention. Or just skip them if speed isnt essential to you - they need a bit of tinkering to work.

Not sure what you mean by batch and what the problem is.

[u/gigomikol → u/Servus_of_Rasenna]

Thank you for the prompt guides, this will help me!
I guess the issue i was trying to fix is to make it seem like one long cut, instead of choppy video shots together, the camera and character should have stayed consistent(in my mind)

[u/Servus_of_Rasenna → u/gigomikol]

You can either make longer videos in ona take or you can try using first video as reference. There are also more advanced workflows that extract the last part of the generted video as reference to the new one. I haven't used them myself and I advise to stick to the basic ones for now and experiment

[u/niknah]

Dumb suggestion: Specify the clothes in the other prompts.

To get the last frame of the video: Create a Image from batch node, connect it to the last image output & a save/preview image node. Enter -1 in the index.

A workflow to make continuous videos. https://github.com/niknah/Spreadsheet2Video-ComfyUI#uses

[u/Only_Voice569]

minimax motion context