This episode pairs a fast news rundown with the planning tutorial that anchors Act Three: how to storyboard multi-shot AI video scenes before you generate anything. **News (late June 2026)** - Runway shipped four things in one week per its [release notes](https://releasebot.io/updates/runwayai): June 24 brought 4K support for Seedance 2.0 (six new ratios, 150 credits/second); June 25 brought [Agent 2.0](https://runwayml.com/news/introducing-agent-2), a marketer-focused campaign builder; June 26 brought Seedance 2.0 Mini (16 credits/second, 480p/720p drafts); and June 29-30 added Seed Audio 1.0, a TTS + SFX + music model (up to 120s, 0.25 credits/second). Seed Audio and Seedance are ByteDance-lineage tech hosted on Runway's platform. - [Seedance 2.5](https://the-decoder.com/bytedances-seedance-2-5-breaks-the-30-second-barrier-for-ai-video-generation/) was announced June 23 at Volcano Engine 2026 ([AIbase](https://news.aibase.com/news/29094)): reportedly single-pass 30-second clips and up to 50 reference assets. Public launch targeted early July. Treat the "best model in the world" [claim](https://x.com/deedydas/status/2070869860314476977) as launch hype. - Leaderboard snapshot from the [Artificial Analysis Video Arena](https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video): Alibaba's HappyHorse leads no-audio, ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 leads with-audio, Kling holds multiple slots, Lightricks' LTX-2 leads open-weights. **Tutorial: Storyboarding Multi-Shot Scenes** Generative video is stateless, so continuity has to be decided on paper. Covers the [shot list](https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-shot-list-example/) and its columns ([Boords template](https://boords.com/shot-list-template)), the [storyboard and animatic](https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-an-animatic-definition/), the brief-to-assemble workflow, continuity rules ([180-degree rule](https://www.filmmakersacademy.com/glossary/180-degree-rule/), eyeline match, [coverage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_coverage)), and why frameworks like [MultiShotMaster](https://studio.aifilms.ai/blog/multishotmaster-multi-shot-video-generation) and [CoAgent](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.22536) exist. Scene-builder tools compared: [LTX Studio](https://ltx.io/studio/pricing), [Runway Workflows](https://runwayml.com/workflows), [Google Flow](https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/google-flow-pricing-credits-tiers-explained), [Kling 3.0](https://www.atlascloud.ai/blog/guides/kling-3.0-review-features-pricing-ai-alternatives), [Higgsfield](https://higgsfield.ai/storyboard-generator), [Invideo](https://invideo.io/make/storyboard/), [Krea](https://www.krea.ai/pricing), plus non-generative [StudioBinder](https://www.studiobinder.com/shot-list-storyboard/) and [Boords](https://boords.com/pricing). Note: [Sora was discontinued](https://www.glbgpt.com/hub/sora-discontinued/) around April 2026.