Multi-Shot Video Generation

Overview

The field studies how to generate videos made of multiple shots that remain coherent in story, appearance, motion, and cinematic style. Common approaches use scripts, storyboards, keyframes, and camera plans to structure shots, alongside diffusion or autoregressive models conditioned on entity memories and retrieved visual references. Agentic systems also plan, generate, inspect, and refine sequences, while benchmarks increasingly assess identity continuity, narrative logic, shot transitions, camera control, editing, and audio-visual alignment. A central challenge is sustaining causal and visual consistency over long sequences without sacrificing shot quality, controllability, or generation efficiency.

Latest papers

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70 papers13 papers in the last four weeks, up 44% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. ReferStream: Interactive Subject Injection for Streaming Video Generation

    Oct 27, 2026Shuolin Xu, Guanyuan Li, Boyu Li +5Streaming Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  2. Making MLLM Latents Matter: Factor-Aware Predictive Learning for Cinematic Video Generation

    Oct 22, 2026Songlin Yang, Zhe Wang, Xiaotong Zhao +8Multimodal Video GenerationVideo Generation

  3. CineEvolve: An Agentic Self-Evolution Framework for Cinematic Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Oct 21, 2026Jingzhe Zhang, Peixuan Zhang, Genying Li +4Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  4. Mise-en-Video: Fine-Grained 3D Control for Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Oct 19, 2026Yingshuang Zou, Xiaoyu Shi, Yawen Luo +8Multi-Shot Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  5. Any Time, Any Space: A World-State-Centric Framework for Agentic Video Generation

    Oct 14, 2026Weijie Wang, Haomin Zhang, Ye Li +7Agentic Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  6. CineMem: Attention-Aligned Fine-grained Memory Retrieval for Multi-Shot Long Video Generation

    Oct 13, 2026Xiaoxue Wu, Xinyu Gao, Fang Yu +2Memory-Augmented Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  7. REEL: Learning to Retrieve, Evaluate, and Evolve Visual Memory for Any Long-Horizon Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Oct 12, 2026Hang Xu, Guohui Zhang, Xiaoxiao Ma +7Memory-Augmented Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  8. Structured Stateful Relational Scripts with a High-Quality Dataset for Multi-Shot Audio-Visual Video Generation

    Oct 11, 2026Chen Zhao, Lehan Shen, Qilong Huang +5Audio-Video GenerationVideo Generation

  9. From Video Clips to Creation Trajectory: Sora100K for AI-Native Video Creation

    Oct 8, 2026Sicong Yang, Ruihuan Yang, Jian Lu +3Video EditingMulti-Shot Video Generation

  10. Weave Forcing: Compositional Memory Routing for Interactive Long Video Generation

    Oct 2, 2026Ziyi Wang, Junchi Yao, Heqian Qiu +5Compositional Video GenerationVideo Generation

  11. Memory-Guided B-Roll Generation from User Video Collections

    Oct 1, 2026Cusuh Ham, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Josef Sivic +1Video-Reference Video GenerationMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  12. SubjectAnchor: Subject-Aware Memory-to-Video for Multi-Shot Storytelling

    Sep 28, 2026Xinyu Wang, Huafeng Shi, Zian Li +4Video Diffusion ModelsMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  13. StoryEngine: A State-Grounded Agentic Framework for Video Storytelling

    Sep 27, 2026Yingrui Wang, Zeqing Wang, Yeying JinLong Video GenerationAgentic Video Generation

  14. MVAgent: Multi-Agent Video Generation via Consistent Condition Construction and Shot-Level Policy Optimization

    Sep 24, 2026Xiangyu Kong, Wenjie Zhou, Fengping Tian +5Agentic Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  15. WanPE: Towards Cinematic Prompt Enhancement for Modern Text-to-Video Generation

    Sep 24, 2026Yubo Zhu, Yawen Shao, Ziyun Dai +27Prompt Optimization for T2V GenerationT2V Generation

  16. VideoGen-Agent: Reinforcing Video Generation Agents

    Sep 21, 2026Binxu Li, Haoyi Duan, Yuhui Zhang +9RL for Video GenerationAgentic Video Generation

  17. CamPilot: A Multi-Agent Cinematic Assistant for Camera-Controlled Movie Generation

    Sep 10, 2026Yang Wu, Stefano Petrangeli, Ishita Dasgupta +1Camera-Controlled Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  18. Beyond Coherence: Benchmarking Professional Editing-Technique Execution in Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation

    Sep 8, 2026Tianyi Zeng, Junchao Liao, Yujie Wei +9Video Editing BenchmarksAudio-Video Generation

  19. Better Call CineCrew: Consistent Ultra-Long Narrative-to-Film Generation

    Sep 7, 2026Jiaben Chen, Sixun Dong, Qinhong Zhou +4Identity-Preserving Video GenerationLong Video Generation

  20. MVWeaver: A Hierarchical Music Video Generation Agent with a Learned Song-to-Visual Bridge

    Sep 6, 2026Sifei Li, Minyan Luo, Xu Li +7Video-to-Music GenerationAudio-Video Generation

  21. Multi-Grid Post-Training for Long-Form Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Sep 6, 2026Jiawei Mao, Haoqin Tu, Hardy Chen +8Long Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  22. CineForge: Self-Improving Agents for Long-Horizon Video Generation

    Aug 30, 2026Junxiang Liu, Lin Wang, Haiyu Shi +10Long-Horizon Video GenerationAgentic Video Generation

  23. SEAM: Shot Entity-Attribute Memory for Consistent Short-Drama Generation at Scale

    Aug 24, 2026Jiaqi Liu, Maolin Ran, Xiaoyang Lu +5Temporal Consistency in Video GenerationMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  24. PersonaShot: Benchmarking Person-Centric Narrative Continuity in Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Aug 17, 2026Yuji Wang, Yuheng Chen, Teng Hu +7Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  25. LogiShot: Logically Coherent Cross-Shot Video Generation

    Aug 9, 2026Shuai Guo, Yuhang Yang, Zeyu Zhang +4Memory-Augmented Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  26. Vorch-Director: Interactive World Story Model via Noise-Aware Error Rectification

    Aug 6, 2026Lisai Zhang, Yidi Wu, Qi Liu +7Audio-Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  27. ContextMaster: Interactive Multi-Shot Video Creation via Fixed-Budget Sparse Context Routing

    Aug 5, 2026Xu Guo, Zhengxuan Wei, Xinghui Li +11Video Diffusion ModelsMulti-Shot Video Generation

  28. CineWeaver: Training-Free Reference-Controllable Multi-Shot Long Video Generation for Cinematic Storytelling

    Jul 29, 2026Yuyang Huang, Yabo Chen, Wenrui Dai +6Video Diffusion ModelsLong Video Generation