render-3d-character-explainer

Assemble a glossy 3D-character animated-explainer video ad (~77s, 9:16) built on an "N types of X" listicle spine — a recurring human protagonist plus a locked cast of N persona characters, one per list item. Given the per-scene i2v clips + a per-scene target-duration table + a narration track, it trims each clip to its scene window, re-encodes every segment to identical 1080x1920/30fps/libx264/yuv420p (decrease+pad, never crop) so the concat demuxer never drops frames, concats, and muxes audio — in RESTYLE mode the source ad's VO+music mix is reused verbatim, in ORIGINAL mode fresh per-scene VO (loudnorm I=-14) is mixed under an optional music bed (loudnorm I=-26). A static-still fallback loops a scene's keyframe when its clip is missing/failed, so the master always assembles; libass captions are burned last. FREE deterministic assembly (Python + ffmpeg, no bash, no paid calls); the recipe supplies the clips, keyframes, VO or source audio, and caption table and gates the paid cast-anchor/keyframe/Kling-i2v/VO/music calls to their own capabilities. Use for the 3d-character-explainer listicle format.