Whether a page names a thing or an act
Pages in the cast column divide almost evenly between those naming a thing the product keeps and those naming something the product does. A noun can be asked about by name, edited and shown to a new operator. A verb can only be trusted. As of 2026-09-22.
| Tool | What is published | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Hyperframe | A noun, with a proper name | Face, wardrobe and voice, every episode |
| A cast card | A noun a user opens | A face and a voice, across every scene |
| Sets, characters and canon | A noun covering three kinds of thing | Persisting across a series |
| Locking faces | A verb the tool performs | Across every episode, on a timeline |
| Locking identity and range | A verb inside a workflow | Listed as a step |
| Locking face and personality | A verb with six objects | Scene to scene |
Inclusion rule. Recorded from the grammar of the vendor's own sentence. A page naming both a noun and an act is recorded under the noun, because the noun is the part that can be inspected. Order. Nouns first, then verbs.
1A verb describes a service and a noun describes an asset
A page written in verbs promises the work will be done for the buyer, which is a reasonable thing to sell. A page written in nouns says where the work is kept, which is what a second operator needs on their first morning.
Both can produce identical footage. They differ in what the production owns afterwards and in whether a drift can be traced to something, and those are the questions that decide whose afternoon is spent repairing it.
2Proper names create obligations vendors did not have to take on
Giving a mechanism a capitalised name means support conversations, documentation and a buyer's questions all have the same handle. It also means a failure has a name, whereas consistency that quietly degrades is nobody's specific fault.
Two pages on this file name their mechanism outright. A third names a card, a fourth names a canon. Those four are the only cells where a reader can ask a question with a noun in it.
3Long verb lists are the least useful shape
Locking a face, an outfit, a personality, a visual identity, locations and a style is six promises and no machinery. The wider an unsupported claim reaches, the less any part of it can be planned around, because a failure anywhere is still consistent with the sentence.
Recording the grammar is not a judgement about the footage. It is a statement about how much of the product a buyer is permitted to understand before paying for it.
- Cross-episode castHyperframe is named as what locks a character's face, wardrobe and voice across every episode, and the identity of a product or brand in every shota named mechanism
- Cross-episode castCast cards are described as holding a face and a voice so characters keep their look and speak in their own voice across every scenea named card object
- Cross-episode castThe page describes locking characters' faces across every episode, syncing dialogue to lip movement and assembling everything on a timelinean action without a stored object
- Cross-episode castLocking identity, wardrobe, face and emotional range is listed as a step in the workflowa listed instruction
- Cross-episode castLocking each character's face, outfit, personality and visual identity is named as a step, with locations and style kept consistent from one scene to the nextan action with no stored object
- Cross-episode castThe sets, characters and canon are stated to persist across the whole series, held in the product as the show's worldpersistence stated for a series
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.
5One pipeline's continuity
Serial work like “Object or action” depends on continuity; SceneMixer's guides describe how it keeps it:
That is SceneMixer's core design: characters live in a persistent asset library with locked reference art, and every segment that features a character is generated against those references — same face in episode 1 and episode 50.
SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Can AI keep the same actors across 50 episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)
An AI short drama is a serialized show of 60–120 second vertical episodes whose cast, sets and footage are generated by AI. Making one takes six steps: analyze the script into episodes, lock a consistent cast with reference art, localize for your market, write and edit storyboards, generate each 4–15 second shot, then composite and publish.
SceneMixer, How to Make an AI Short Drama, Step by Step (read 2026-10-13)
6Sources
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: How wide the cast reaches, More than a face, How far the split goes.