Most cinematic AI videos don’t fall apart because the tools are bad. They fall apart because of something a lot of creators don’t notice until it’s too late: drift. I learned this the hard way on one of my own story driven AI projects. On the surface, everything looked fine. Each image looked good. Each clip worked on its own. But as the project grew, something started to feel off. The character didn’t feel consistent. The scenes didn’t quite connect emotionally. The visual language started to b