Assembling segments into a finished episode

Eleven tools name assembly as a step of the product and two publish a rate for it: one credit per second of finished output on one page, and an episode cut from three credits a second after a one-credit draft pass on another. Fifteen say nothing about the step at all. As of 2026-09-22.

Fig. 1 A price on a step is evidence the step is inside the product. Silence is not evidence that it is not, which is why the two cannot be read the same way.

Fig. 2 Filled where the tool publishes a mechanism for that step, hollow where it publishes nothing on it.

What is published about turning generated segments into a deliverable episode. Recorded 2026-09-22.
Tool	What is published	Detail
SceneMixer	Documented and priced	Composited from segments, 1 credit per second of output
AI Dramas	Documented and priced	A draft pass from 1 credit a second, an episode cut from 3
Anijam	Documented	Everything assembled on a timeline
StoryShort	Documented	Clips assembled into one vertical episode
Showrunner Studio	Named as publication	Publishing straight from the product
TrendShort	Named as an export	A 9:16 cut with captions as the export target
Dramily	Named as an output	Export-ready episodes listed among the outputs
Fifteen other tools	Not addressed	Assembly left to an editing application

Inclusion rule. Steps documented on the vendor's own pages. Assembly performed in an external editor is outside this register. Order. Documented steps first.

1A priced assembly step tells you it is inside the product

When a vendor charges for joining segments, the join is a product feature with a cost attached rather than a task handed back to the customer. That is a structural fact about the workflow and it is the kind of thing a feature list rarely makes obvious.

The price itself is small next to generation. What it buys is the absence of an editing step, which for a serial pipeline is worth more than the number suggests.

2A published default shape is rarer than it should be

Vertical is the format of this whole category and most tools do not state their shape on a page a buyer reads. The one that does publishes a widescreen default with vertical one setting away, and a published default plus a published alternative settles at generation time what would otherwise be discovered in an edit.

The register records it because shape cannot be fixed afterwards without moving faces out of frame.

3For everyone else assembly is real work that is simply not described

Every tool here produces segments and every series needs episodes, so assembly happens regardless. On fifteen of the twenty-six it happens outside the product and nothing published addresses it.

That is recorded as not addressed rather than as a missing feature, since an editor is a perfectly ordinary place for the step to live.

Assembling an episode
Episodes are composited from segments, billed at 1 credit per second of outputa priced stepSceneMixer, price list / recorded 2026-09-12
Serial format
Episodes default to 16:9 with 9:16 available, and outlines are generated with cliffhanger pacingstated as the defaultSceneMixer, generator overview / recorded 2026-09-19

4The words this register uses

Terms with a page of their own, each recording what vendors publish about it, include segment and shot, reference image, character consistency, storyboard script, scene plate, novel to video, AI short drama and vertical micro-drama.

5Sources

Each cell above traces back to a vendor page named in the register, read 2026-09-22. Where the boundary sits between documented, claimed and absent is spelled out under how read. Also here: Claimed vs shown, Several markets, Vertical by default.