Continuation Frames: Longer Videos Without a 30-Second Engine

Length is a stitch, until you pay for Seedance

/glossary/continuation-frame is the short definition. This guide is the how-to: export the last frame, feed it as the next image-to-video source, merge with Smart Blend. That is how a 24-second story exists on Wan credits.

This page is the Pixogen-specific version of the topic. Credit numbers below match the generate button in the studio as of August 2026. If a model ships a new badge, we update the routing note here within a day — that is the newsroom rule, not a landing-page rewrite.

Credit math

Three 7-credit clips + one merge. Compare that to one Seedance 8-credit long take.

Credits never expire. Failed jobs refund automatically. Do not budget as if a missed render is gone. Packs start at 200 credits for $19.99; a launch week for a persona is usually cheaper than one stock-license bundle.

Pipeline on Pixogen

/academy/video-storytelling-multi-shot and /ai-video-merger.

Internal links that belong on this job: the matching tool landing, the pipeline hub, and one glossary term. Do not leave a guide live without those three. Related reading lives in Learn and Academy, not in a footer dump.

Model routing

Wan 3 for each beat. Seedance when you refuse a cut.

If you are choosing an engine for the first time, open /models/compare. Portraits, motion, lipsync and photoreal each have a different default. Wan 3.0 is the motion hero as of this writing; Nano Banana 2 still wins in-image text.

Mistakes that waste credits

• Changing wardrobe between beats.

Publish checklist

1. Lock identity before you batch.
2. Write the credit total on the brief so the client sees the number before the job.
3. Export clean — no watermark — then brand in your editor.
4. Ping the changelog if this guide rode a model drop.

See /glossary/continuation-frame, /pricing/video-pipeline.