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Cast once. Shoot anywhere.
Getting one good frame is easy. Getting the second one to look like the same person is the whole problem — and it is the one thing Ochra is built around.
Getting one good frame out of a video model is easy now. Getting the second one is where it falls apart. Change the light, the angle or the setting and the face moves with it — a slightly different nose, a jaw that has shifted, someone who resembles the person you uploaded. Across a thirty-second clip that happens fifteen times, and what you have is a montage of strangers who look related.
That is the problem this studio is built around. Not generating an image — everything generates images now. Holding one person still while everything else changes.
Casting is a step, not a setting
You cast a character once: three to five photographs of the same face, one straight to camera and one turned a little to each side, in daylight or by a window. More angles hold a likeness steadier than one very good photograph does, because the model is being asked to render that face from directions your best photo never showed it.
After that the face is an input rather than a hope. Wardrobe, location, lighting and lens all change around it.
Shooting the sequence
The published Become Radha in Vrindavan template is the clearest example of what that buys. One 30-second clip, 9:16, fifteen shots across the locations of Vrindavan — driven by a single prompt of 9,301 characters, not fifteen prompts stitched together.
The difference matters more than it sounds. Fifteen separate generations each start from nothing and reinvent the face, so the drift you were trying to avoid arrives once per cut. One prompt plans the whole thirty seconds at once.
It is organised into labelled blocks — GOAL, ASSET ROLES, SETUP, SHOTS, TRANSITIONS, CONSISTENCY and NEGATIVE — so you can rewrite the wardrobe without unpicking the other fourteen decisions. CONSISTENCY is the block doing the work this whole piece is about.
What it costs, before you run it
Seventy-eight credits for that clip. The figure sits on the template page before you press anything, and it is the number that gets charged — there is no separate render step to pay for afterwards.
Credits are bought in one-off packs. No subscription, no billing date, and they do not expire. Every pack works out at the same rate with the same 30% bonus, so buy the size that matches what you plan to make rather than the size that looks like a deal.
Or read the full Radha recipe first — every step and the complete prompt, with a copy button, no account needed.
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