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Lesson 8 · 20 min

Your 30–60 s short film: from the shot list to the checked final file

Time to put it all together: the edit plan, the sound map, the assembly, the color and the checklist become a short film of 30 to 60 seconds. The page checks the final file, and the project folder keeps what you decided, ready to remake the film in any tool.

Start the lesson
A small dark screening room with empty armchairs; on the screen, a neighborhood bakery at dawn with the shop window lit.

In this lesson you will

  1. 1Put plan, sound, cut, color and label together in one film
  2. 2Check the final file and the version for social media
  3. 3Organize the project folder so you can remake it in another tool
  4. 4Plan the next few weeks with the plan generator

Goal: deliver the 30 to 60 s short film checked by the page, with the plan, sound map, color recipe and checklist in the project folder.

01The course map

Four steps that become your short film. Click an exercise to see the "done when".

Lesson 1Shot

beats and deliverables

2 exercises

plano-edicao.txt checked.

See the lesson
Lesson 2Sound

native or separate

2 exercises

mapa-som.txt checked.

See the lesson
Lessons 3 to 5Cut and color

assembly and look

2 exercises

assembly checked and cor.txt.

See the lesson
Lessons 6 and 7Label

rights and record

2 exercises

checklist.txt checked.

See the lesson
At the end of the courseA 30 to 60 s short film checked by the page and a folder with plan, sound, color and checklist.
8 files
Click an exercise to see what to do and the "done when".
  1. 1/5

    Shot

    Function, timing and source of each shot, and the delivery formats, before you spend credit.

  2. 2/5

    Sound

    What you hear in each shot and what goes into the assembly: score, narration, mix.

  3. 3/5

    Cut and color

    Cuts, captions and the color recipe applied the same way to every shot; or the film made only with photos.

  4. 4/5

    Label

    Visible label, permission for face and voice, music and model license, record of what was generated.

  5. 5/5

    The whole course

    Four steps, each with its own checked file. The short film in this lesson brings them all together.

Suggested order: each step uses what the previous one decided.

02How to finish the short film

From the folder of files to the checked film.

1. The project folder

One folder per film, with the plan, the sound map, the color recipe, the checklist, the label, the clips and the final file. Names by shot number.

It is the folder that lets you remake the film if a tool changes its price or shuts down, as happened with Sora in 2026.

Foldera-primeira-fornada/ · plano-edicao.txt · mapa-som.txt · cor.txt · checklist.txt · rotulo.txt · clipes/ · curta.mp4

03Check your short film

Choose the final MP4. The page reads the duration and size in your browser; nothing is uploaded. Try it first with the example that passes (the rehearsal short from the first batch) and with the example with an error.

curta.mp4

Choose your video. It is read here in the browser: nothing is uploaded.

04Optional: check in the terminal

Only for people who already use a terminal and have ffmpeg installed. In the course folder downloaded from GitHub; for your own file, replace --exemplo with its name (curta.mp4).

Terminal (in the course folder)
python3 conferir.py curta --exemplo; echo "saída: $?"
python3 conferir.py curta --errado; echo "saída: $?"
Example from the repository
$ python3 conferir.py curta --exemplo; echo "saída: $?"
OK: 32,0 s · 1280×720 · 16:9
saída: 0

05Final practice

Your short film, from plan to file. Generating the shots is up to whatever tool you have; photos and rehearsal clips count too.

Short film · 30 to 60 s checked

2 h

Assemble the short film following your edit plan, with sound, color, subtitles and label, and export it as MP4 H.264. Choose the file in "Check your short film" and save it in the project folder as curta.mp4.

Done when: the page answers OK: [s] s · [w]×[h] · [p], with a duration between 30 and 60 s and a 16:9 or 9:16 format.

Deliverable · the social media version

40 min

Make the second deliverable from your plan (for example, the 9:16 cut reframed by hand) and check that too.

Done when: the page answers OK: … for both versions, each with its own format in the answer.

Folder · the complete project

15 min

Check that the project folder has the plan, the sound map, the color recipe, the checklist, the label and the short film.

Done when: the folder has plano-edicao.txt, mapa-som.txt, cor.txt, checklist.txt, rotulo.txt and curta.mp4, and each .txt passes again in the checker from its lesson.

06Generate your plan with dates

Choose when you start and how much time you have per week. The plan lists the exercises from the eight lessons.

07Final quiz

Five questions about the whole course. The explanation shows up after each answer.

Question 1 of 5

In what order do you finish the film in the edit?

08The course in three sentences

Plan before you generateBeats, sources, sound and deliverables decided in text, checked by the page.
Finish in the editCut, sound, color and subtitles in a free editor; the final file is checked here.
Publish with a labelRights cleared, label visible and record kept.

Going further

Course 3 · Motion by code with an agent: HyperFrames and Remotion (the next in the program)Course 1 · Generation: image and video with AI in Oct/2026Course 0 · Direction: think like a director before you generate
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