Soul Cinema model: what renders your frame
The honest answer to “what model does it use”, the family naming map, and why the console keeps the model menu off your desk.
The model behind the frames
The honest answer to “what model does Soul Cinema use”: frames are rendered by the current generation of the Soul Cinema model - the cinematic stills branch of the Soul family, run on the provider side and served to the console as its render engine.
It is a stills model. One frame at a time, at the resolution tier you pick. There is no timeline in this console and no frame rate to manage; a sequence is a run of frames, which is what the six-frame discipline and Soul ID exist for.
Everything else on this site describes what you do around the model - the brief, the locks, the sequence. This page is what sits underneath all of it.
Why there is no model menu
General image platforms hand you a menu of models with different behaviours, then leave the choosing - and the drift between versions - on your plate. This console takes the opposite bet: the model is pinned to the current generation, and upgrade management stays on our side of the table.
What stays on your side is the decision surface that actually changes the frame:
- The five-line brief - subject, light, lens, palette, stock.
- The resolution tier - 2K, 4K or 8K, charged 1, 2 or 4 credits a frame.
- The locks - Soul ID for the face, palette lock for the colour, grain for the texture.
- The sequence discipline - one variable per frame across a six-frame run.
- Nothing else. No version strings, no per-model prompt dialects, no re-tuning because a checkpoint changed overnight.
The family, untangled
The Soul naming is genuinely confusing, so here is the family as this site treats it - with the page that owns each name:
- Soul Cinema Preview - the cinematic stills branch; the current generation of it is what renders your frames.
- Soul 2.0 - the general stills generation number, a sibling to the Cinema branch rather than a version of it.
- Soul v2 & Cinema - the two-part label: the motion branch (v2) and the stills branch (Cinema) shipped as a pair.
- Cinema Studio - the video arm on the provider side, generations 2.0 through 4.0; not part of what renders here.
- Soul v2 vs Soul Cinema - the comparison, for choosing between motion and the frame.
What surrounds the model
Most of what this site documents is not the model - it is the system the model sits in. Worth separating, because the system is what makes frames repeatable:
- Soul ID - the identity lock that keeps one face and wardrobe across a sequence of up to six frames.
- Palette lock - one pinned hex value surviving across renders and re-renders.
- Film grain - the texture half of the film look, applied as part of the render, not as a filter after it.
- The six-frame check - the verification habit that proves a cast holds before a sequence is committed.
- Automatic refunds - failed frames refunded without a support thread; the render ledger stays honest.
- A model generation can turn over without any of them changing - that separation is the point.
What a generation change does to your work
When the model generation improves - a new preview cut, a tuning pass - the console absorbs it. Frames rendered after the change come from the newer model; the brief, the locks and the sequence discipline are untouched.
Two honest caveats. First, a new generation can shift texture slightly; keep one reference frame of an established look so a comparison is always one render away. Second, the export contract does not change with the model: native render at 4K, 8K as an AI upscale, both sizes recorded in the metadata so you can tell what the model produced from what was enlarged.
The economics live on the pricing page; the branch itself, with its strengths and sample frames, is on the Soul Cinema Preview page; and the full index of everything else is in the guides archive.
Frequently asked
What model does Soul Cinema use?
Frames render through the current generation of the Soul Cinema stills model - the cinematic branch of the Soul family, running on the provider side. The console keeps the generation current, so the name you need is simply “the current generation”.
Is the Soul Cinema model the same as Soul 2.0?
No. Soul 2.0 is the general stills generation; the Cinema branch is the one tuned for cinematic frames, and it is what this console renders through. The family map on this page links each name to its own page.
Can I pick which model renders my frame?
There is no model menu, deliberately. You pick the look, the brief and the resolution tier; which engine renders is managed on our side. When engines really need comparing, the comparison pages do it before anything is rendered.
Does the model do video?
No - it renders stills, one frame at a time. The video arm of the family lives on the provider side (Cinema Studio), and the handoff - the winning still as a start frame - is described on the video pages.
How often does the model change?
Generation changes ship on the provider’s schedule and are absorbed silently here; your workflow stays put. Keep one reference frame per established look and a generation change costs no more than a comparison render.
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