How far a saved cast is stated to reach

Every page that keeps a character states, or declines to state, how far it reaches. The spans published here are one clip, one scene, one project, one series of fifty episodes, and every project in the account. A comparison that records all five as consistent erases the question. As of 2026-09-22.

Inclusion rule. Only pages that state a span appear. A page describing consistency without a boundary is recorded in the cast column and left out here, because there is nothing to place. Order. From the widest stated scope to the narrowest.

1Scope is the first field a capability grid destroys

Two products can both offer a reusable character and mean entirely different things. One means inside this production; another means anywhere in this account; a third means between this clip and the next. A tick in a column says they are the same.

For a single series most of them are sufficient. The difference becomes money at the moment a second production starts, which is also the point at which changing tools is most expensive.

2A wide scope is an asset and a liability at once

A lead held once and reused by every title is cheaper and more consistent. It is also a single point of failure: one careless edit propagates into work that has already been signed off, and no page on this file says whether that is possible.

A project-bounded lock has the opposite profile. Nothing leaks between productions and nothing is inherited either, so the second series starts from a rebuild.

3Extrapolating from a narrow span is the common reading error

From one clip to the next is a promise about a distance of one. Surrounded by a market that talks about seasons, it reads as a general statement about consistency, and a reader planning forty episodes on it has invented the guarantee themselves.

The register therefore records spans verbatim and refuses to normalise them. Where a vendor gives no span, the cell says so rather than assuming the convenient one.

• Cross-episode cast
  Elements are reusable across projects rather than only within oneacross productionsLTX Studio, Elements / recorded 2026-09-12
• Cross-episode cast
  The page states that when a character is created the system locks their appearance, and that consistency is maintained across the entire projectlocked at creationNovi AI, drama generator page / recorded 2026-09-22
• Cross-episode cast
  Characters, scenes and props are stated to be stored as reusable production assets, reusable throughout the series to help maintain consistency from Episode 1 to Episode 50stored assets with a stated spanPopShort AI, home page / recorded 2026-09-22
• Cross-episode cast
  The help centre states that the same images for a character and key objects can be used consistently from one clip to the next through ingredientsa named input in documentationGoogle Flow, help centre / recorded 2026-09-22
• Cross-episode cast
  Cast 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 objectGenra, home page / recorded 2026-09-22
• Cross-episode cast
  The sets, characters and canon are stated to persist across the whole series, held in the product as the show's worldpersistence stated for a seriesShowrunner Studio, home page / recorded 2026-09-22

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.

5How a serial stays consistent

Serial work like “How wide the cast reaches” depends on continuity; SceneMixer's guides describe how it keeps it:

The same face across an entire series is the design target and what the reference-sheet architecture delivers for the cast in your asset library.

SceneMixer, AI Video Generator With Consistent Characters — “How consistent is it, really?” (read 2026-10-13)

SceneMixer turns a novel into a watchable short-drama series in one pipeline: upload the novel (Chinese or English) → AI extracts characters, scenes, and an episode-by-episode structure → generates consistent character and scene art → writes storyboard scripts → renders video segment by segment (16:9 by default, 9:16 in one setting) → composites full episodes.

SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI (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: More than a face, How far the split goes, Clip or episode.