A finale is the column where every row has a scene

Planning the convergence

Start in the arc notes. Write, for each thread, what it must have delivered before the finale and what it does inside it. The pilot has to have found the ledger; the auctioneer has to have sold the painting; the night crew has to have the key. When you draft the finale braid with a writer’s note that says “this is the season finale, every thread advances and they share a location”, the planner writes three scenes that fit together: same set, overlapping cast, an order that ends on the most urgent thread.

If the threads are not ready, the draft will show it. A scene that has to explain something the audience never saw is a sign that an earlier column needs a beat. Add it, shoot it, and come back to the finale.

Shooting a finale at a higher tier

Most episodes are fine at the standard tier. A finale is the one to spend on. The take studio offers a high tier that renders up to 1080p with the same reference images, so the faces carry over and the detail steps up. The price line shows the cost before you shoot: at 1080p a twelve-second high-tier take is 360 credits, so a three-scene finale lands around a thousand credits, which is one Weave month or one Arc Pack.

A cheaper route is to shoot the finale at 720p high tier, which halves the price per second and still looks sharper than the mini renders. Mixed resolutions are fine: the weave normalises every take to the tallest frame in the episode.

• All three threads advance in a finale by default when the writer’s note asks for it
• Up to 12 scenes in one episode for a longer finale
• High tier up to 1080p; standard tier up to 720p
• The weave costs 2 credits regardless of length

The cliffhanger question

Every braid draft returns a cliffhanger line. For a mid-season episode it is the hook for next week. For a finale, decide whether the season closes or opens a new one. Say so in the writer’s note. A closed finale resolves all three threads; the planner will mark the scenes as endings and the cliffhanger as a coda. An open finale leaves one thread unresolved; mark that thread open and the others resolved, and the next season’s first braid picks up from there.

Publishing the finale

Once the takes are finished, weave the episode and set it public. Your series page lists it as the last column with the thread letters it braided. Viewers who arrive at the finale can scroll back through the earlier episodes in order, which is the whole point of having built them as a series rather than as a pile of clips.