I Set Out to Test If AI Video Could Sustain a Feature Film and Made Seven
bdylsing · reddit · 2026-09-13
A Redditor set out to test whether generative video could sustain long-form narrative and accidentally made seven one-hour films (C1-C7), starting with Sora 2 a month after launch and evolving from iPhone iMovie to Final Cut Pro plus multiple AI systems.
Key takeaways:
- The hard problem isn't generating pretty clips but production memory: after thousands of generations, someone must track characters, outfits, locations, plot and emotional history.
- The fix: the human became the production memory, feeding the model smaller, controlled subproblems.
- Editing creates complexity; individual generations don't have to.
- The films double as a longitudinal experiment documenting both the story and the author's learning as the tech evolved.
He asks the community: is generative video shifting from a prompting problem to a production problem?
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