Films start in about six seconds

Last time the first frame took 5 to 29 seconds. Six runs in nine came in under ten. The slow ones were a thinking model warming up.

What changed

Scene one now comes from a small fast model with its thinking turned off. A bigger model writes the other scenes at the same time. The film starts the moment scene one lands.

The numbers

Same three asks, three runs each. Engine, settings, compound interest.

• Median first frame: 5.8 seconds, down from 6.7.
• Under ten seconds: 9 of 9, up from 6 of 9.
• Slowest run: 8.0 seconds, down from 28.7.

A cold start still costs about three seconds. And the small model names scenes with spaces, so the parser learned to accept them.