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Lessons you walk out with.
Every one of these is a thing, not a topic — a product photo, a thirty-second ad, a face that holds across eleven shots. The steps are in order, each one opens the room that does it with the first field already written, and the cost is printed on the front in credits, because you should know what a lesson will spend before you start it.
Nothing made here yet
Your first one
A product photo you would actually use
The first thing most people want, and the fastest thing to get right.
- Costs
- 36 credits
- Steps
- 4
13 minutes of your time, and about 3 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
Five seconds that moves
A still you already have, breathing. The cheapest real video anybody makes.
- Costs
- 159 credits
- Steps
- 3
7 minutes of your time, and about 5 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
A week of posts from one photo
Seven things to put out, from the one thing you already made.
- Costs
- 42 credits
- Steps
- 3
19 minutes of your time, and about 3 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
You have made a few things
Working in it
A thirty-second ad, end to end
Script, voice, clips and a cut, in one sitting, with every step yours to change.
- Costs
- 526 credits
- Steps
- 7
1.3 hours of your time, and about 17 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
28% under the obvious way
One product, five backdrops
The listing set. Same object, same light on it, five places it could be.
- Costs
- 54 credits
- Steps
- 3
19 minutes of your time, and about 4 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
A price on screen that is the price you typed
The one thing a generative model cannot be trusted with, and the reason this room exists.
- Costs
- Studio time
- Steps
- 5
21 minutes of your time.
A narrator that sounds the same every time
The thing that makes a channel sound like one channel instead of forty videos.
- Costs
- 12 credits
- Steps
- 3
21 minutes of your time, and about 2 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
You know the rooms and want the hard version
The deep end
A face that holds across eleven shots
The hardest thing in this medium, and the thing that separates a film from a slideshow.
- Costs
- 1,859 credits
- Steps
- 5
1.3 hours of your time, and about 55 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
Twelve creators saying the same thing differently
What a paid test actually needs: enough versions that the result means something.
- Costs
- 276 credits
- Steps
- 4
43 minutes of your time, and about 12 minutes of rendering while you do something else.
Finding which one actually worked
The half of this job nobody else's academy has a lesson for, because nobody else's product goes past the file.
- Costs
- Nothing
- Steps
- 4
29 minutes of your time.
Why it reads like this
A lesson that cannot tell you what it costs is half a lesson.
The price is arithmetic
Every step that renders something names a real job out of the published price list, so the total on each card is added up rather than guessed. Change a price and every lesson changes with it the same afternoon.
Cheap first, then once
Nearly every lesson here decides on the quick lane and commits on the good one. It is how people who do this for a living work, and it is the single biggest difference between a budget that lasts a month and one that does not.
Your time, counted apart
Minutes of your own attention are listed separately from minutes of rendering, because twenty minutes of typing and two hours of waiting is a different afternoon from the other way round.
No step without a room
A step either takes you somewhere and gives you something to type, or it is not a step. Nothing here says “consider your audience”.