Straight answer
What are Candy AI videos, and how do they differ from Shorts?
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What are Candy AI videos?
Candy AI videos are short clips you generate yourself from a prompt or a character. Candy Shorts are written, serialised episodes made by the platform. Both spend the same tokens, but one is a thing you make and the other is a thing you watch.
Two different things that share a token balance, which is why they get confused.
Candy Shorts
Written, cast and produced by the platform. Five episodes on 155 of the 167 series, about a minute each, portrait, with a cliffhanger per episode and a token price per unlock. You watch them in order. How the format works →
Candy AI videos
Generated on demand. You pick a character or write a prompt and the platform returns a short clip. There is no story, no continuity and no episode order — it is a thing you make, not a thing that was written.
Which one you want
If you came here from a series title, you want Shorts, and the useful question is which series is worth its token total. The catalogue →
If you want something specific that no series contains, generation is the part of the platform for that — with the caveat that a generated clip costs tokens per attempt, and attempts are where budgets disappear. A series total is at least a number you can see in advance.
Questions people ask
Are Candy AI videos the same as Candy Shorts?
No. Shorts are scripted episodes in a series, written and produced by the platform. Videos are clips generated on demand from your own prompt.
Which costs more tokens?
Generating costs per clip; a Shorts episode costs 12 tokens on almost every series. A series you finish is a predictable total, which generation is not.
Can you generate a video of a Shorts character?
Characters that have a chat profile can usually be prompted. What comes out is a clip, not an episode of the series.
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