A Complete Timeline Editor For LTX 2.3. This is the sucessor of my previous nodes, and has loads of features in it. It was originally based off of Kijai's Prompt Relay node and my LTX Sequencer/Multi Image Loader nodes.
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Director CS Node is a Modded version from "WhatdreamsCost"
- Navigate to your
/ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ folder - Run
git clone -b main_cs https://github.com/CGlide/WhatDreamsCost-CSGlide.git
New dropdown in the settings menu. 17 / 25 / 33 / 41 / 49 / 57 / 65, default is 41.
This is the length of the reference runway — the little slideshow of your reference images that runs before the actual video, so the model has time to look at them and lock the identity. Longer runway, stronger lock.
And to be clear because I got this wrong myself at first: this has nothing to do with how many references you use. You still get 3 @ref slots, always. It's a bigger stage, not a bigger cast.
Careful: 49 and up only work with Licon MSR V2. V1 was not trained on those lengths. And the longer you go, the more memory it eats — if you're already close to OOM on a long generation, don't push this to 65 and expect miracles.
The Prompt Relay toggle now actually changes the whole UI, not just the backend.
Relay ON — what you had before. One prompt per segment, each one lands on its own moment in the timeline. Best when you want fine control over what happens and when.
Relay OFF (guide mode) — the segment prompt box disappears completely and the Global Prompt box grows to fill the space. Now you write one prompt for the whole thing and your images do the driving. The label even changes to Global Prompt (IC-LoRA) so you know where you are.
Honestly I use OFF more than I expected. It's more predictable graphically — you're not fighting three prompts pulling the shot in different directions. Some people will tell you it's faster too, and technically yes, but the sampler is basically all of your generation time so don't switch for that. Switch because the result is cleaner.
Your global prompt box height is remembered, by the way. Toggle back to ON and it goes back to how you had it.
Ok so originally an image and a prompt were welded together. One image, one prompt, both starting at the same moment — that was the deal. But under the hood those were always two separate systems, they just came as a pair.
Anchors unweld them. Right-click an image segment → Convert to Image Anchor, and now that image can sit anywhere on the timeline and it just borrows whatever prompt is already running at that point. The prompt box for it goes grey and locked and tells you why: Image Anchor — no prompt (inherits the previous segment). Guide Strength still works, so you can dial how hard the image pushes on the shot.
And here's the bit that confuses people — the length of an anchor means nothing. It's a single pinned keyframe at its start position, that's it. The width you see on screen is just a grab handle so you can pick it up and drag it around. Stretch it wide, squash it small, changes nothing.
Turn on Prompt Zones and you can actually see how it works. Anchors — the ones with the little yellow anchor icon — sit inside a zone instead of cutting it in half. So you can drop three anchors inside one prompt zone and they all ride the same prompt. That's the whole point of them.
Right-click again to turn it back into a normal image segment. And the yellow marking only shows with relay ON — with relay OFF every image is guide-only anyway, so the node doesn't bother drawing it.
Turn on Prompt Zones and you get the coloured ribbon on the timeline showing where each prompt applies.
New in this one: little coloured dots right after the SEGMENT PROMPT label, one per zone, same colours as the ribbon. Click a dot and it jumps to that segment and loads its prompt. The selected one gets a white outline so you can see where you are.
Small thing. I use it constantly now. Only shows up when Prompt Zones is ON and relay is ON, because otherwise there are no zones to point at.
Right-click an image segment → Convert to Text Segment. It drops the image but keeps your prompt.
Before this I was deleting the segment and retyping the prompt like an idiot. Sits right under Convert to Image Anchor in the menu.
The tags used to be @char1 / @char2 / @char3 and the describer assumed everything was a person. So if you loaded a car it would try to tell you about its hair.
Now it's @ref1 / @ref2 / @ref3 and the analyze prompt figures out on its own whether it's looking at a character or an object — vehicle, prop, creature, whatever — and describes it the right way. Reference sheets of a jeep work exactly like reference sheets of a person.
Old @char1 and @character1 still work. I didn't break your old timelines.
50 fps is in the frame rate presets now. And when MSR is on and you're not at 50, a small orange ⚠ MSR 50 recommended appears next to the frame rate. Click it and it sets 50 for you.
Licon MSR is trained at 50. I tried 48 thinking it's close enough — the motion goes doubled and jittery. It's not close enough. Use 50.
- Aspect ratio lock between width and height. Change one, the other follows.
- Middle mouse to drag the timeline around, and to zoom.
- New resolution presets.
Click the gear on the node.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Save / Save As / Load Timeline | Timelines are files. Save the good ones. |
| Hide / Show Widgets | Collapses the raw node widgets when you're working from the timeline UI. |
| Prompt Relay | ON = one prompt per segment. OFF = global prompt only, images act as guides. |
| MSR Prefix | Reference runway length. 17–65 frames, default 41. 49+ needs MSR V2. |
| Display Mode | Frames or Seconds on the ruler. |
| Show Filenames | Filename overlay on image segments. |
| Prompt Zones | The coloured prompt ribbon and the zone dots. |
| Epsilon | How sharply a prompt is confined to its segment. Lower = tighter. Leave it alone unless you know why you're touching it. |
| Divisible By | Rounds your resolution so the model doesn't complain. |
| Img Compression | Compression on the images you load in. |
| Workspace Folder | Opens the folder where timelines and assets live. |
| Provider / Base URL / Model | The backend that writes your reference descriptions when you hit Analyze. |
ComfyUI Manager "Update All" does a hard reset. If you edited any file in this folder, it's gone. No warning. Happened to me. Commit or back up first.
Don't press "Sync fork" on GitHub if you forked this. It pulls the original repo over the top of yours. I did that once and it deleted a pull request I had open. 🤦
MSR is not the everyday tool. Ghost Mask is what I reach for most of the time — the motion is more natural. MSR is the specialist: when you need the face or the object to match your reference image exactly, that's when you switch. Don't leave it on for everything.