What an AI Microdrama Season Costs on the Two Best AI Video Agents (Every Minute Counted)

Every re-attach is an unbilled minute, and a season multiplies it by sixteen. So I found out what an AI microdrama season costs on the two best AI video agents, invideo agent and Runway's agent, and I timed both, step by step, with every minute counted. One show bible, one opening scene of episode one, built twice. The rule for the test: invideo agent writes its own detailed brief from a short direction, so every brief it wrote went into Runway with the same references attached. The extra pasting was on my clock, not theirs, and I say so. Each step is costed. Step one, level on reading, apart on order. Step two, a resolution fixed in seconds inside the approval window against a setting that needs a restart. Step three, the brief, which is where the re-runs get decided, and a re-run is never just the generation, it is me diagnosing a frame. Step four, one side re-read the locks and the other I did not test. Step five, variations in parallel against four sequential passes on one room. Step six, a face caught by the sheet against restarts I had to notice. Then two finished scenes, and step seven, the invoice for the rest of the season, paid once against paid per episode. invideo agent compares each generation against the sheets loaded in the project and re-runs a mismatch before I see it, which is the regeneration I never had to diagnose. Runway's agent stopped before spending my money and showed me the brief, the model and the cost, and that is a credit worth real money. The answer is stated the way a freelancer states it: the step I stopped doing by hand is the whole difference, and it is the step nobody ever quotes for. https://invideo.io/ 0:00 What a microdrama season costs, the method 1:33 Step one, the bible in 3:02 Step two, casting the lead 4:23 Step three, the brief each wrote 5:58 Step four, the plan against the locks 6:35 Step five, the drawing room 8:07 Step six, shooting the scene 9:48 Two scenes, same documents 10:45 Step seven, the invoice for the season 11:55 Every step costed, one line each 13:24 The answer 13:53 Episode one #invideoagent #aimicrodrama #freelancevideo