Twenty shots in a storyboard group means clicking generate twenty times. DOTV's Run group queues up everything in the group that has not been made yet and runs it in one go — each node uses the prompt, model and reference images it holds itself, not one line applied to all of them. This section covers running a group, what happens on screen once it's running, and why special nodes like Smart edit, 3D previz and Frame study have to be run by hand.
Each node in the group needs its own prompt and reference wires ready first. Run group will not think up the content for you — a node with an empty prompt comes back with whatever the model can guess from the reference images alone.
Select the group and click Run group on the toolbar:
It asks first: how many in the group are waiting, and roughly how many credits they will cost. Confirm and the whole group goes off at once — not one after another.
What gets run:
The button turns into a red Stop with "done / total" after it. The count is read off the nodes' own states, so:
Click Stop: anything not yet sent is not sent, anything already running is cancelled one by one and its node goes back to waiting. Whatever was already generated stays.
Nodes in this round carry a small "Running" tag on their title — rerun one on its own and the tag comes off (it is no longer part of this round).
The last line of the confirmation says "Only generator nodes run — special nodes have to be run by hand." That is exactly what it means: open Smart edit nodes (Chapter 7), 3D previz nodes (Chapter 8) and Frame study nodes and run them yourself. What they want is not a prompt but clips laid out on a timeline, a camera set up in a 3D scene, or a set of ticked-off study angles — firing them off in a batch would mean nothing. Which is why they are not counted as "waiting to generate" either: that number and the credit estimate only ever cover the nodes that can run.