Hosted video models, hands on

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Which model for which shot

Lesson 9 of 10 in Hosted video models, hands on.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 25 September 2026.

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This guide is dated 25 September 2026 and will be wrong by spring. It rests on what each maker's documentation says its model does, on the prices printed on their pages, and on the few clips we have made ourselves, and it says which is which. The method will outlast the table. Take one approved still, run it through two candidates at their cheapest settings with the same motion prompt, and let the clips decide.

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Which model to try first for each kind of shot, and what to watch for, dated 25 September 2026.
An ink drawing of six coloured film strips laid in a row on a cutting table, each showing a different subject, with a magnifying glass resting on one.
Six kinds of shot, and each one has its own test.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The job a shot does in the edit, which decides what a model must get right.”

    • Clip log
    • Shot type
    • Text to video
    • Clean plate
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The same still and motion prompt through two or three models, compared side by side.”

    • Deprecation notice
    • Operation
    • Bake-off
    • Ray 3.2
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A clip with no words in it, so type can be set over it in the edit.”

    • Clean plate
    • Bake-off
    • previous_interaction_id
    • Credit

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