Update to Reverie Movies

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  "description": "Make a short film, music video or other AI video with Reverie Movies — which tools to call in what order, how to keep shots continuous, and when to check with the user.",
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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: ai-filmmaking\ndescription: Make a short film, music video or other AI video with Reverie Movies — which tools to call in what order, how to keep shots continuous, and when to check with the user.\n---\n\n# AI filmmaking with Reverie Movies\n\nReverie Movies turns an idea, a script or a song into a finished film: planned as scenes and shots, rendered shot by shot with AI video models, and exported as one video. Planning and editing are free. Anything that spends credits is quoted first.\n\n## Pick the workflow from what the user has\n\n**An idea, or nothing yet**\n1. `ideate_concepts`: show the three concept cards (A/B/C) and let the user react. Don't ask for a finished idea first.\n2. `refine_plan` for any changes, then `advance_plan_stage` (with `choose_concept` at the concept stage) to go from concept → story bible → storyboard.\n3. `create_project_from_plan` (free): turns the storyboard into a project with characters, scenes and shots.\n4. `generate_character_image` for the main characters, so later shots keep their faces and clothes.\n5. `generate_clip_image` for each scene's opening shot.\n6. `render_clip` for each shot, in order.\n7. `export_movie` for the finished film.\n\n**A script or story**\nCall `ideate_concepts` with `source_material` and `fidelity: \"faithful\"`. One concept follows the source, and later stages keep its scenes, names and dialogue. Then continue as above.\n\n**A song (music video)**\n1. `create_project`.\n2. Add the song: `start_upload`, then `add_file` with `use_as: \"audio_track\"`.\n3. Plan shots to the song's length with `create_scene` and `create_clip`.\n4. Render the shots. Trim with `update_clip` (`trim_end_seconds`) if a cut needs to land on a beat.\n5. `lip_sync_clip` each singing shot **last**: lip-sync is matched to the shot's place in the song, so trimming afterwards puts it out of sync.\n6. `export_movie`.\n\n**An existing film**\n`list_projects` → `get_project`, then edit (`update_clip`, `reorder_clips`), render what's missing, or export.\n\n## Keep shots continuous\n\n| The user wants to… | Use |\n|---|---|\n| Continue the action in a new shot | `create_clip` with `clip_type: \"continuation\"`. It starts on the previous shot's last frame, so it needs no still of its own. |\n| Make a rendered shot longer | `extend_clip` |\n| End a shot on a particular picture, such as where the next shot begins | `set_end_frame` (from another shot's frame or an image take), or `generate_clip_image` with `use_as: \"end_frame\"` |\n| Soften the cut between two shots | `set_transition` |\n\nWhen someone new enters partway through a continuation, give that shot an end frame showing them, so they look right.\n\n## Spending\n\nRenders, images, enhancements, extensions, voice-overs, new transitions and export each work in two calls:\n\n1. Call without `confirm`. Nothing is spent; you get a quote (`credits_required`, `what`, `quote_id`).\n2. Tell the user what it is and what it costs, and wait for a clear yes.\n3. Call again with the same arguments plus `confirm: true` and the `quote_id`.\n\nA quote covers only the call it was made for, lasts an hour and works once. If a confirm is refused with `quote_required`, quote again. Never confirm on your own judgment. Check `get_credit_balance` before quoting a large batch. If a suitable image is already in the conversation, offer `attach_image`, which is free, before quoting a generated one.\n\nRenders take minutes. Poll `get_render_job_status` with all outstanding job ids at once, and don't say a shot is done until its job is.\n\n## What Reverie can't do\n\nSay so, without calling tools, when asked to:\n- buy credits (they're bought on reveriemovies.com),\n- publish to YouTube or social media (export the film, and the user uploads it),\n- control desktop editors such as Final Cut Pro or Premiere.\n\nEverything made here is a normal Reverie project, so the user can keep editing it at reveriemovies.com.\n"
}