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Beat

A beat is a single moment of action within a scene — one distinct thing that happens. In AI pre-production, each beat becomes a shot that can be visualized as an image and turned into video.

Where a scene defines the where, a beat defines the what — a single action or moment that moves the story forward. Dividing a scene into beats turns a block of prose into a sequence of plannable shots.

In Let There Be, beats are derived from your scenario during Ingest. Each beat knows which characters and set appear in it, and becomes a shot: you generate cinematic frames for the beat, choose the angle, and later add motion to produce video.

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