Pipeline steps

Storyboard: the AI director's plan

The storyboard is the AI director's shot-by-shot plan for your video. It is generated from the finished script and the rendered voiceover — voiceover completeness is a hard prerequisite — so every scene carries real narration timing, not guesses. Each scene gets its slice of narration, an image prompt, transitions, focus animation, and tags naming exactly which characters, environments, and objects are in shot.

Pacing comes from the director style

There is no scene-length dial. How densely the video cuts — long held shots vs. rapid inserts — is decided by your style's director field, which is the pacing authority. To change pacing, edit the director style or pick a different director preset.

Focus tracks

Image scenes can carry a focus track: a series of keyframes that re-frames the same still — pans, snaps, and zooms between focal points — in sync with specific narration words. Focus tracks are authored by the storyboard itself; there is no keyframe editor in the UI. To turn one off, open the scene in the editor and change Focus under Motion & Effects — pick Focus Track again to bring it back.

Continuation between scenes

A scene can be marked as continuing from an earlier one, in which case the earlier scene's rendered image becomes this shot's primary reference — how the storyboard holds one moment across consecutive shots. The storyboard authors these chains itself. To set or clear one, open the scene image's prompt editor (the sliders icon beside the image) and use the Continues from dropdown at the top: pick an earlier scene, or No continuation to remove it, then regenerate the image.

Per-scene operations

Each scene card's menu offers:

• ·Split Scene — cut one scene into two at a point you choose.
• ·Combine with Adjacent — merge with an adjacent scene.
• ·Change Shot Type — switch between Image, Real Photo, and B-Roll. Going from a clip back to Image can keep the current image.
• ·Rewrite Content — give free-text creative direction and the scene regenerates around it.

Real photos and b-roll

When your director style carries the @real-media tag (see style fields), the storyboard can source real imagery alongside generated shots: entity images via Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and OpenLibrary, and stock photos and b-roll via Pexels. A vision model verifies each pick, and on a miss the scene falls back to a generated image — no beat is ever left broken.

Sound effect planning

The storyboard populates per-scene sound effects according to the project's SFX level setting (none, minimal, or frequent), and you can add or remove SFX on any scene from the audio library — see music & sound effects.

Models

The storyboard model is picked per run — current options include Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and GPT-5.4 (and Mini). Gemini 3.1 Pro is the fidelity upgrade when a director style demands dense, hyper-kinetic cutting.

A fresh storyboard plans image scenes, plus real photos and b-roll when the director style carries @real-media. Each scene is rendered in the scene renders step, where chosen images can be animated into clips. For the product overview, see the Storyboard AI page.