Hashiryu Returns

I make AI music videos: Suno for the song, Midjourney for the stills, Vidu for motion. I post how each shot gets made, what broke, and the fix.

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Butterfly Dream, an AI music video with koto and shakuhachi.

One woman, four worlds: Japan in red, China in jade, Europe in gold, the far north in white. Every door she opens is another world.

122 clips: Midjourney stills, Vidu Q4, Suno.

https://t.co/1nAmvApEGC

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Athos's roll-call, 2 seconds. Her back to the camera at the start, the salute at the end. Vidu only chose the way between.

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Changed how I make the shots.

Before: a Midjourney still, and hope Vidu moves it the way I want.

Now: GPT Image draws one 4K sheet, four moments of a move. Vidu Q3 gets the first as the start frame and the last as the end, and fills in the rest. The move is the one I planned.

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Before planning a single shot, I ran cut detection on an AI MV I admire. 2:55 long.

I expected fast cutting. About 60% of it is holds of 3 seconds or more, landing on the bars.

So Rapier Rouge is planned in 2-bar holds. At 150 BPM, that's 3.2s.

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My wife is French, so she went through the lyric line by line.

"La loyauté ? Hors saison": the right word there is "démodé", but it breaks the rhyme.

Her fix: "Hors de question". Loyalty? Out of the question. Better than mine.

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Full song, unlisted on YouTube:
https://t.co/GXzn6n1oMq

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Same lyric, two songs.

I wrote Rapier Rouge as English with Japanese phrases in it, then put French in the same places. The French one is the MV.

The Japanese one isn't going anywhere, so here are the first two minutes. Full song in the reply.

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@luluoksana Thanks! Every door is a different cloth, and she walks through it into the next world.

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Butterfly Dream, an AI music video with koto and shakuhachi.

One woman, four worlds: Japan in red, China in jade, Europe in gold, the far north in white. Every door she opens is another world.

122 clips: Midjourney stills, Vidu Q4, Suno.

https://t.co/1nAmvApEGC

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Starting my next AI MV in public: Rapier Rouge.

Three musketeers summoned to a world under two moons. They don't fight for anyone. They fight because they're good at it and it looks good.

The song is done. English with French in it, made in Suno. First 40 seconds:

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@wildvinemusic Thanks. She's the only constant, so every change shows on her. That's what I wanted it to feel like.

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Made a 3.5-minute AI music video with koto and shakuhachi: "Butterfly Dream".

One woman, four worlds. Every door she opens is another world, and every change happens on her.

122 clips, all Vidu Q4 Preview, stills from Midjourney, music from Suno.

https://t.co/sbnzziKGyN

#Vidu

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@Eight_Pointed Mostly by not chaining clips. Every shot is its own Image to Video from a Midjourney still, so a bad take costs one clip, not the ones after it.

Continuity lives in the stills: her face, one lineup per world, and a baseline for any costume that comes back.

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@Reelcinestudio Locking the stills first. Every Midjourney still attaches her world's lineup, and Image to Video keeps the still's face. The edit can't fix a face. Where Vidu would redraw it, like a turn toward the camera, I made the turn away and reversed it. And my wife picked the faces.

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@1mv_ai Both, in layers: one face drawn from a photo, then one lineup per world made from that face. Every still attaches its world's lineup. A costume used in more than one shot (the fox, the Snow Queen) gets its own baseline from its first good still, or its marks drift.

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@sarasara_aiart これ凄いですね・・・。こういう戦闘シーンを作ってみたい。

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10/ Recap:
⚖️ Google: £34M handed back
⚠️ Pogust Goodhead sues over BHP
🔍 Burford affiliate: $109M claim
🌏 CBA A$249M, Augusta funded
⚠️ Woodville: £390M through it
📉 Fenchurch SPVs in administration
📈 Manolete forward book growing
🏛️ Still no PACCAR date

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1/ 🧵 Litigation Finance News of the Week (Sep 5–11, 2026)

Google's funders and lawyers hand back £34M, Pogust Goodhead sues to keep the BHP case, and a Burford affiliate chases a firm for $109M. Here's what moved 👇

#LitigationFunding #LitigationFinance

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9/ 🏛️ UK justice minister Lord Lemos told the Lords there is still no timetable for the PACCAR fix—the MoJ is "working urgently to identify a new legislative vehicle." A Lords amendment would force the Treasury to assess FCA regulation. (Sep 3–10)

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8/ 📈 Manolete told its AGM that FY27 revenues are ahead of last year and its forward book keeps growing—more cases signed, and bigger ones. The listed insolvency-claims funder is expanding while unregulated retail lenders around it fail. (Sep 8)

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7/ 📉 Several Fenchurch Legal SPVs have entered administration, leaving investors and secured creditors competing over the same disputed £16M loan book—9,500 claims the administrator still can't value. Second UK retail-funded lender unwinding. (Sep 7)

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6/ ⚠️ About £390M passed through Woodville Consultants, the collapsed UK funder. The FCA now wants to close the self-certification loophole that let retail investors declare themselves "sophisticated" and buy its unregulated loan notes. (Sep 8)