higgsfield-pipeline

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---
name: higgsfield-pipeline
description: >
  Use when the user wants to create a complete multi-shot video, asks how to chain
  Higgsfield tools together, wants to build a short film or branded content series,
  asks "what's the full workflow", needs to connect Popcorn → image → video → Recast
  → audio → assembly, or wants to understand how the platform works as a production
  system rather than isolated tools.
user-invocable: true
metadata:
  tags: [higgsfield, pipeline, workflow, chain, production, multi-shot, short-film, popcorn, recast]
  version: 3.4.1
  updated: 2026-08-09
  parent: higgsfield
---

# Higgsfield Production Pipeline

## QUICK FACTS
*Generated-checked block (scripts/build_index.py verifies anchors). Read the linked sections for full context — these lines are routing aids, not the rules themselves.*
- 8-stage Master Chain: Popcorn → Seedream/Soul → Animate → Recast → Lipsync → Vibe Motion → Upscale → Assemble; most good short-form uses 3–5 stages [→](#the-master-production-chain)
- Lock 9 project fields before touching any tool; "what must stay consistent" is the load-bearing one [→](#step-01-start-with-the-project-not-the-prompt)
- One job per scene — six scene purposes; a good scene prompt answers six questions [→](#step-06-give-every-scene-one-job)
- 7 reusable prompt-module types: character identity, camera, lighting, style, motion, negative prompt, continuity [→](#step-07-use-prompt-modules)
- 80% rule: keep what worked, fix only the mistake; every diagnosed failure becomes a new negative rule [→](#step-0809-fix-failures-protect-what-worked)
- Build in 8 passes: Concept → Project script → Scene breakdown → Shot list → Image prompts → Video prompts → Review → Fix [→](#step-10-build-the-project-in-passes)
- Use the EXACT same character description (copy-paste) in every Popcorn prompt — continuity without Soul ID [→](#stage-1-storyboard-with-popcorn)
- Seedream edits the image, not the video — always edit the Hero Frame before animating, never after [→](#stage-2-image-editing-with-seedream)
- Model by scene type: Sora 2 for stunts/epic ("one continuous shot, no cuts"), Kling 2.6 portraits, Seedance quiet interiors [→](#stage-3-animate-by-scene-type)
- Recast swaps identity while preserving motion, camera, and lighting; the "prompt" is the reference image you upload [→](#stage-4-recast-character-swap)
- Audio routing: existing video + speech → Lipsync Studio; new content with audio → Kling 3.0; talking head → Kling Avatars 2.0 [→](#stage-5-lipsync-audio)
- Higgsfield has no native timeline editor — assemble in DaVinci Resolve / Premiere / CapCut [→](#stage-8-assembly)
- Pipeline E hard rules: 15-second cap per scene, one generation per style, feed the previous scene's video as continuity reference [→](#stage-5-seedance-20-with-keyframe-previous-video)
- Soul Cinema keyframes: deliberately short 5–15 word prompts with enhancer ON — long prompts starve the enhancer [→](#stage-1-soul-cinema-keyframe-style-first-enhancer-on)
- Never describe character age in Seedance prompts; >15s per scene degrades prompt adherence — split the scene [→](#pipeline-e-pitfalls)
- No extend button: attach the accepted clip as a video reference + open with "The scene continues." — and match the source's resolution AND duration [→](#the-extend-a-clip-workflow)
- Cap seamless extension chains at 2 (hard ceiling 3); re-anchor from ORIGINAL canonical refs, break chains with B-roll [→](#chain-management-depth-caps-and-re-anchoring)
- An attached source clip carries the state — prompt only the delta; motion vectors, camera-move phase, audio phase stay in prose when handing off from a still frame [→](#source-carries-state-rule)
- End extension prompts on a camera-angle change so the join reads as coverage; plan transitions ahead (last-channel-on-TV trick) [→](#clean-join-planning)
- Draw a top-down schema when 2+ characters, a key prop placement, or complex camera geometry — prompt in absolute terms ("A 2m from B") [→](#spatial-blockin