AI Video Made Crystal Clear · chapter 3: The Control Surface: Text, Image, Video and References
Mode selection
2026-10-25
Three questions pick the base mode; two follow-ups add references and length.
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 3.2), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
With the six slots defined, mode selection is three questions and two follow-ups. Do you have footage to change? Do you have a still that must be frame one? Must the clip end on a known image? Then: does something have to stay identical across shots, and do you need more than one clip's worth of time? Figure 3.2 draws the decision.
Recap
- The idea: Three questions pick the base mode; two follow-ups add references and length.
- The picture: Figure 3.2, from chapter 3 ("The Control Surface: Text, Image, Video and References") of AI Video Made Crystal Clear.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in AI Video Made Crystal Clear.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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