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MultiShotMaster: A Controllable Multi-Shot Video Generation Framework

arXiv 2512.03041 ↗First posted 2 Dec 2025cs.CVcited by 33

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Current video generation techniques excel at single-shot clips but struggle to produce narrative multi-shot videos, which require flexible shot arrangement, coherent narrative, and controllability beyond text prompts. To tackle these challenges, we propose MultiShotMaster, a framework for highly controllable multi-shot video generation. We extend a pretrained single-shot model by integrating two novel variants of RoPE. First, we introduce Multi-Shot Narrative RoPE, which applies explicit phase shift at shot transitions, enabling flexible shot arrangement while preserving the temporal narrative order. Second, we design Spatiotemporal Position-Aware RoPE to incorporate reference tokens and grounding signals, enabling spatiotemporal-grounded reference injection. In addition, to overcome data scarcity, we establish an automated data annotation pipeline to extract multi-shot videos, captions, cross-shot grounding signals and reference images. Our framework leverages the intrinsic architectural properties to support multi-shot video generation, featuring text-driven inter-shot consistency, customized subject with motion control, and background-driven customized scene. Both shot count and duration are flexibly configurable. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance and outstanding controllability of our framework.

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  1. 2026FastVMT: Eliminating Redundancy in Video Motion Transfercited by 23
  2. 2026ShotStream: Streaming Multi-Shot Video Generation for Interactive Storytellingcited by 22
  3. 2026Mode Seeking meets Mean Seeking for Fast Long Video Generationcited by 12
  4. 2026Group Editing: Edit Multiple Images in One Gocited by 11
  5. 2026CausalCine: Real-Time Autoregressive Generation for Multi-Shot Video Narrativescited by 8
  6. 2026ShotVerse: Advancing Cinematic Camera Control for Text-Driven Multi-Shot Video Creationcited by 7
  7. 2025SemanticGen: Video Generation in Semantic Spacecited by 6
  8. 2026Script-a-Video: Deep Structured Audio-visual Captions via Factorized Streams and Relational Groundingcited by 6
  9. 2026A2RD: Agentic Autoregressive Diffusion for Long Video Consistencycited by 6
  10. 2026EntityBench: Towards Entity-Consistent Long-Range Multi-Shot Video Generationcited by 6
  11. 2026OmniDirector: General Multi-Shot Camera Cloning without Cross-Paired Datacited by 6
  12. 2026EvalVerse: Pipeline-Aware and Expert-Calibrated Benchmarking for Professional Cinematic Video Generationcited by 5
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  2. 2026Soap2Soap: Long Cinematic Video Remaking via Multi-Agent Collaborationcited by 4
  3. 2026GroundShot: Visually Consistent Multi-Shot Long Video Generation via Entity-Grounded Shot Schedulingcited by 4
  4. 2026UnityShots: Memory-Driven Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation with Boundary-Aware Gatingcited by 4
  5. 2026CineWeaver: Training-Free Reference-Controllable Multi-Shot Long Video Generation for Cinematic Storytellingcited by 4
  6. 2026EM-Vid: Training-Free Entity-Centric Memory for Efficient and Consistent Multi-Shot Video Generationcited by 2
  7. 2026SmartDirector: Keyframe-Conditioned Cinematic Video Generation with Narrative Pacing Controlcited by 2
  8. 2026EvoState: Closed-Loop Visual State Management for Long-Form Video Generationcited by 2
  9. 2026RECAP-Forcing: Retaining Content Appearances for Long Video Generationcited by 2
  10. 2026InstanceAnimator: Multi-Instance Sketch Video Colorizationcited by 1
  11. 2026SlotMem: Character-Addressable Internal Memory for Narrative Long Video Generationcited by 1
  12. 2026LynnReal-Omni: Native multi-modal Video Generation for Agentic Visual Workflowscited by 1
  13. 2026SubjectAnchor: Subject-Aware Memory-to-Video for Multi-Shot Storytellingcited by 1
  14. 2026Video2LoRA: Unified Semantic-Controlled Video Generation via Per-Reference-Video LoRAcited by 0
  15. 2026CineOrchestra: Unified Entity-Centric Conditioning for Cinematic Video Generationcited by 0
  16. 2026Disco-LoRA: Disentangled Composition of Content, Style, and Motion for Multi-concept Video Customizationcited by 0
  17. 2026ShotPlan: Cinematic Video Generation with Learnable Planning Tokencited by 0
  18. 2026ContextMaster: Interactive Multi-Shot Video Creation via Fixed-Budget Sparse Context Routingcited by 0
  19. 2026PersonaShot: Benchmarking Person-Centric Narrative Continuity in Multi-Shot Video Generationcited by 0
  20. 2026The Missing Temporal Link: Temporal Context Routing for Script-Driven Audio-Video Generationcited by 0
  21. 2026Multi-Grid Post-Training for Long-Form Multi-Shot Video Generationcited by 0