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What clip durations and how many actions or shots per prompt do the vendors document at 2026-10-22, and which models or products listed have been retired?

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Documented clip lengths at the observation dates: Veo 3.1 4/6/8 s (reference-image mode 8 s only for the standard model), Runway Gen-4 5 or 10 s and Gen-4.5 2 to 10 s, Luma Ray3.14 5 or 10 s (Ray 3.2 API 5 or 10 s), Kling 3.0 3 to 15 s, Sora 2 API 4 to 20 s (retired 2026-09-24). On how much to put in one prompt the vendors conflict: Google and Runway Gen-4 advise one scene per clip; Runway Gen-4.5, OpenAI's guide and Kling 3.0 describe multi-step or multi-shot prompts as supported. Product churn is large: Gemini API Veo 3.1 Preview is shut down on 2026-10-22 and Sora is retired. Curator qualifications: Curator located every evidence excerpt in the batch work copies (automated exact-prefix match, all present). One-scene-per-clip vs multi-shot prompts is a genuine cross-vendor conflict; retired products (Sora 2 API, Veo 3.1 preview ids) are correctly flagged. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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      "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/video/best-practice",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/veo/3-1-generate",
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    },
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      "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/video",
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    {
      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260803200249id_/https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/46974685288467-Creating-with-Gen-4-5",
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261016083106id_/https:/help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/39789879462419-Gen-4-Video-Prompting-Guide",
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260824062517id_/https:/help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/48324313115155-Image-to-Video-Prompting-Guide",
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      "url": "https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/34c5048a2a5bdcb7e169254b7e23ec7f12e134ec/examples/sora/sora2_prompting_guide.ipynb",
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      "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/video-generation",
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260329180344id_/https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12460853-creating-videos-with-sora",
      "note": "lengths; notice; duration; durations"
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      "url": "https://lumalabs.ai/learning-hub/ray314-user-guide",
      "note": "lengths; notice; duration; durations"
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260612042130id_/https:/klingai.com/blog/kling-video-3-0-ai-director-features-guide",
      "note": "lengths; notice; duration; durations"
    },
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261016041430id_/https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/37327109429011-Creating-with-Gen-4-Video",
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      "url": "https://docs.agents.lumalabs.ai/guides/videos/generation/index.md",
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20261016083106id_/https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/39789879462419-Gen-4-Video-Prompting-Guide",
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260612042130id_/https://klingai.com/blog/kling-video-3-0-ai-director-features-guide",
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      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260824062517id_/https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/48324313115155-Image-to-Video-Prompting-Guide",
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Documented clip lengths at the observation dates: Veo 3.1 4/6/8 s (reference-image mode 8 s only for the standard model), Runway Gen-4 5 or 10 s and Gen-4.5 2 to 10 s, Luma Ray3.14 5 or 10 s (Ray 3.2 API 5 or 10 s), Kling 3.0 3 to 15 s, Sora 2 API 4 to 20 s (retired 2026-09-24). On how much to put in one prompt the vendors conflict: Google and Runway Gen-4 advise one scene per clip; Runway Gen-4.5, OpenAI's guide and Kling 3.0 describe multi-step or multi-shot prompts as supported. Product churn is large: Gemini API Veo 3.1 Preview is shut down on 2026-10-22 and Sora is retired. · locator: lengths; notice; duration; durations source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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