Ways to cut down on production time/make things easier

[Nagdeoai]

I had a couple of ideas on how to make it more time effective to generate great videos without having to babysit the generation. I find myself sitting at my desk a lot just interrupting and regenerating the same few hundred frames seemingly endlessly trying to get it perfect- or even just to stop doing a thing I really don't want it to do but can't seem to make stop by adjusting the prompt.

If there were a way to do batch resume from timestring, you'd be able to set everything up and walk away/focus on something else- and then come back to find x number of different options to pick from. So say I generate up until frame 100 and then start having problems. I interrupt, set up the batch resume to start regenerating frames 101-300 and do it 10 times. Then deforum creates 10 subfolders within the main project folder labeled 101-300(1), 101-300(2), etc and resumes. Once it finishes one set of 101-300 it then generates the next fork and puts it in the next folder. I go somewhere else, come back and find 10 different forks to choose from, pick the one I like the best, merge it into the main project and delete all those subfolders. And then I set the batch resume to do 300-500 15 times and walk away again.

I don't know if this is possible, but to take that a step further- what if I could batch resume from timestring x amount of separate times,, but generate each batch with extremely low steps, just enough so that I can preview what the composition of the generation would be. So much of my interrupting and resuming is because the composition isn't good. It either starts with a character cropped out of the frame, or gradually zooms into their neck or shoulder blade or something. What if I could very quickly generate a bunch of different super low fidelity forks of the same few hundred frames just to see if that happens- and then when I see a fork where it didn't do that I could then do a second pass of it where it properly generates all of those frames at the actual step count I want, and then I merge that into my main project folder and continue onwards?