26-second seven-scene launch video with stills per scene

7 scenes. 26 seconds. 8 model calls. About $1.18. The other end of the scale is a $2,175 twelve hour run, and the difference isn't quality. It's the brief. > The receipt: what one cheap, clean launch video actually cost to make > The renderer: HyperFrames or Remotion turns Opus 5.5's code into an MP4 for free > The effort setting: why max is reserved for measured gains, not every run > The build block: one still per scene, then stop before animating > The structure block: same template, swapped for each of the five video types