You chain scenes. In Yeşilçam Studios a single generation never runs longer than ten seconds — the Cinema tiers stop at eight. A longer piece means joining scenes, each starting from the last frame of the one before, on the Cinema Studio timeline. Three tools build the chain, and each solves a different kind of cut.
Why does every clip stop at ten seconds?
The limit isn't in the studio, it's in the engines. Text-to-video models are computationally heavy and output quality drops as the clip gets longer, which is why every tier caps a single generation. Draft and Standard offer five or ten seconds; Cinema and Cinema Pro offer four, six, or eight.
Price is linear, so the cap costs nothing extra. A ten-second draft clip is 980,000 tokens; two five-second draft clips together are also 980,000. Splitting a shot in two gives you a second attempt and a cut point for the same money.
How does one scene connect to the next?
Flow Studio carries the chain. Every scene after the first has a Continue from previous scene switch, and the scene card says what it does. The start frame comes from the last frame of the previous scene. Subject, light, and framing carry over, and the second scene picks up where the first left off.
There are two more controls underneath. Each scene has Start frame and End frame selectors that each take a still, so a shot can be pinned at both ends with frames approved in image mode for 29,750 tokens. And when one film fills up, the film list lets you drag one film on top of another to make it a sequel.
The switch has no visible charge. On 2 September 2026, a two-scene draft film showed 392,000 tokens on each scene card whether the switch was on or off, and 803,600 total on a Pro account — two clips plus the merge transition.
Which tool for which cut?
You look at what changes between the two scenes. Continuity editing — the film term for keeping the viewer inside one consistent time and place across a cut — and each tool covers a version of it.
The same action continues — a walk, a departing tram, a reaching hand. Continue from previous scene.
Same place, new angle. The same still as the start frame of both scenes, or the end frame of the first as the start frame of the second.
A different place. The continuity tool doesn't apply. You cut on the timeline and let composition do the work — like a match cut, carrying a shape or a motion across two unrelated shots.
Too many scenes for one film. The script is split into two films, and one is dragged on top of the other.
What does the timeline add?
Cinema Studio joins the pieces. It runs at 30 fps, takes video, audio, text, and a watermark, and has three lanes — one for video, one for audio, and one for text and graphics. The audio lane can be marked as music, and music ducks on its own while speech is playing.
Transitions and the audio mix are applied at render, so the preview shows hard cuts and raw levels. A 400-token 720p render, an 800-token 1080p, or a 2,400-token 2160p — checking the edit before the master is the cheap way to do it.
Where the chain breaks
Here's the limit: the continue feature carries the frame, not the motion. One camera move is applied per clip and the next scene starts from a still frame, so a pan or orbit that should run across two scenes restarts at the cut. Motion that shouldn't stop is the one case where a ten-second clip beats two five-second clips.
Two smaller limits follow from that. When a film is created the script locks, so a new moment means the Add scene button and a new synopsis rather than editing the script. And there's no preview of transitions — a dissolve is judged from the rendered file.
A sixty-second piece is twelve five-second scenes — 7,980,000 tokens before speech, music, and render at the standard tier. The how much an AI video costs article breaks that down line by line.
FAQ
One ten-second clip or two five-second clips? They burn the same money — 980,000 tokens at the draft tier. Two clips give two attempts and a cut point. One clip gives a camera move that never stops. Ten seconds is chosen only when the motion matters more than the cut.
Does Continue from previous scene cost extra? It has no visible charge. Each scene card shows the same tier price switch on or off, and the film total is the scenes plus the merge transition.
Can I chain clips without Flow Studio? Yes, in the Create panel, by generating each clip with Pick from library as its source so it opens from an approved still. Only the hand-off of one scene's last frame to the next is automatic — and only in Flow Studio.
