# Framesail

> Framesail is an AI long-form video studio for faceless YouTube. One creative brief in, a finished narrative-driven video out — script, voiceover, storyboard, and final render, with characters, environments, and visual style locked across every shot. paid plans — Creator, Pro, and BYOK — with monthly credits; see /pricing for current rates.

## Product

- [Home](https://framesail.com/): What Framesail is and how the six-station pipeline works
- [Pricing](https://framesail.com/pricing): Creator, Pro, and BYOK plans with monthly credits
- [FAQ](https://framesail.com/faq): Render times, the model stack, YouTube policy, exports, and commercial use
- [About](https://framesail.com/about): Who builds Framesail and why
- [AI Visibility Index](https://framesail.com/ai-visibility-index): Monthly index of which AI video tools ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity name in answers — fixed prompt set, branded prompts excluded, methodology published

## Docs

- [Docs home](https://framesail.com/docs): Task-by-task guides to the Framesail pipeline
- [How Framesail works](https://framesail.com/docs/how-framesail-works): The pipeline from script to finished video — every station, what it produces, and how the steps unlock in order.
- [Organize channels, projects, and settings](https://framesail.com/docs/channels-and-projects): How channels, styles, and projects relate, plus every project-level setting and what it controls.
- [Create your channel style](https://framesail.com/docs/create-a-style): Set up a style by analyzing references or picking presets, then finish its character and environment template images.
- [Make your first video, end to end](https://framesail.com/docs/first-video): A walkthrough of the five in-app steps, what unlocks each one, and where you can iterate along the way.
- [Analyze reference videos into a style](https://framesail.com/docs/style-analysis): What style analysis reads, the editable fields it produces, and how re-analysis works without losing your edits.
- [Choose style presets](https://framesail.com/docs/style-presets): The curated preset catalog — art, narrative, and director styles — mixed one per axis.
- [Edit style fields and add custom variables](https://framesail.com/docs/edit-style-fields): The built-in style fields, the real-media switch, and @variables you can wire into specific generation prompts.
- [Keep characters consistent across scenes](https://framesail.com/docs/character-consistency): How locked reference images keep characters, environments, and objects on-model in every shot.
- [Script: generate, paste, or revise](https://framesail.com/docs/script): Three ways to get a script into a project — generate, paste, or revise — plus length control, dialogue formats, and versions.
- [Script scan: your cast, world, and voice blocks](https://framesail.com/docs/script-scan): What Analyze Script extracts, why re-running it is destructive, and the non-destructive voice-block re-extraction alternative.
- [Reference images: generate, upload, regenerate](https://framesail.com/docs/reference-images): Generate or upload one locked reference image per character, environment, and object — the step that unlocks voiceover.
- [Voiceover: voices, providers, speed, and pauses](https://framesail.com/docs/voiceover): TTS providers and voices, narrator and character voice binding, speed ranges, break tags, and safe batch regeneration.
- [Storyboard: the AI director's plan](https://framesail.com/docs/storyboard): How the storyboard is planned against real narration timing, plus focus tracks, continuation, segment operations, and real media.
- [Segment renders: images, clips, and models](https://framesail.com/docs/segment-renders): Image and video model choice per run, per-model settings, prompt overrides, and per-shot regeneration rules.
- [The editor: timeline, scenes, and layers](https://framesail.com/docs/editor): Scenes on an absolute timeline, layer editing, the per-scene AI director panel, and what the editor deliberately is not.
- [Captions](https://framesail.com/docs/captions): Turn captions on in the editor and style them — presets, fonts, layout, colors, and animation, timed from your voiceover.
- [Music & sound effects](https://framesail.com/docs/music-and-sfx): The shared audio library, user-selected music tracks with volume and trim, per-segment SFX, and the loudness policy.
- [Export & download](https://framesail.com/docs/export): One-click cloud export to a flat, watermark-free 1080p MP4 — what it requires, what it costs, and what you download.
- [Plans & credits](https://framesail.com/docs/plans-and-credits): What Creator, Pro, Studio, and BYOK each unlock, plus how credit grants, rollover, and expiry behave.
- [API keys & the REST API](https://framesail.com/docs/api-keys): Creating and revoking fsk_ keys, which plans include API access, and what the REST API surface covers.
- [MCP server & connecting agents](https://framesail.com/docs/mcp-server): Connect Claude or any MCP client to Framesail — API-key and OAuth paths, and the server-side guardrails agents get.
- [Bring your own keys (BYOK)](https://framesail.com/docs/byok): Which providers you can connect, how per-job coverage bills 0 credits, and how keys are stored.
- [Jobs, errors, and status](https://framesail.com/docs/jobs-and-errors): How background jobs report status, why retries never double-bill, and what step-order errors mean.

## Features & use cases

- [YouTube automation](https://framesail.com/youtube-automation): Full YouTube automation as one pipeline — brief in, finished long-form video out, as hands-on or hands-off (API/agent-driven) as you want
- [Faceless video generator](https://framesail.com/faceless-video-generator): Cinematic long-form faceless YouTube videos, non-templated by architecture
- [Script to video AI](https://framesail.com/script-to-video-ai): Paste or generate a script and render it into a finished video
- [Long-form video generator](https://framesail.com/long-form-video-generator): Multi-minute narrative videos with consistent characters and worlds
- [AI video styles](https://framesail.com/styles): The style catalog — curated presets, plus style analysis that turns any reference video into a reusable look of your own
- [AI stop motion animation](https://framesail.com/ai-stop-motion-animation): Stop-motion-style animation generated frame by frame from one anchor image
- [AI anime video generator](https://framesail.com/ai-anime-video-generator): One anime style definition and locked characters held across a whole long-form video
- [AI claymation animation](https://framesail.com/ai-claymation-animation): The handmade clay look — fingerprint texture and plasticine forms — generated on the stop-motion frame chain
- [Whiteboard animation AI](https://framesail.com/whiteboard-animation-ai): Hand-drawn whiteboard-style explainer videos rendered from a script, timed to the narration
- [AI paper cutout animation](https://framesail.com/ai-paper-cutout-animation): The layered-card paper cutout look held across a whole video, shown with a real generated short
- [Character consistency](https://framesail.com/character-consistency): The same character, on-model, from shot one to shot fifty
- [Style analysis](https://framesail.com/style-analysis): Turn reference videos, images, or text into a reusable visual style
- [Storyboard AI](https://framesail.com/storyboard-ai): Script to scene-by-scene visual plan, timed to the voiceover — every panel renders into a shot
- [GPT Image 2 video generator](https://framesail.com/gpt-image-2-video-generator): OpenAI's GPT Image 2 drawing locked references, storyboard panels, and shot stills inside the script-to-video pipeline

## Comparisons

- [Katalist AI alternative](https://framesail.com/katalist-ai-alternative): Publishing pipeline for long-form YouTube vs. storyboard-first pre-production studio
- [MagicLight alternative](https://framesail.com/magiclight-alternative): How Framesail compares to template-based tools
- [TubeGen AI alternative](https://framesail.com/tubegen-ai-alternative): Cinematic long-form pipeline vs. broad channel-automation suite
- [InVideo alternative](https://framesail.com/invideo-alternative): Controllable long-form pipeline vs. stock-footage prompt-to-video assembly
- [AutoShorts alternative](https://framesail.com/autoshorts-alternative): Long-form videos with a locked cast vs. auto-posted templated shorts
- [Calliope Labs alternative](https://framesail.com/calliope-labs-alternative): Reference-locked characters and BYOK vs. viral-format replication
- [Crayo alternative](https://framesail.com/crayo-alternative): Your own style and long-form output vs. a shared shorts template library
- [Descript alternative](https://framesail.com/descript-alternative): Generated long-form footage from a brief vs. an editing suite for recorded media
- [Pictory alternative](https://framesail.com/pictory-alternative): Every shot generated against locked references vs. stock-library clip matching
- [HeyGen alternative](https://framesail.com/heygen-alternative): A reference-locked cast and world telling the story vs. an avatar presenter reading to camera
- [Runway alternative](https://framesail.com/runway-alternative): One pipeline from brief to finished episode vs. clip-by-clip generation you assemble yourself
- [Synthesia alternative](https://framesail.com/synthesia-alternative): Story-driven long-form video for an audience vs. avatar-presented business training and comms

## Developers

- [API & MCP](https://framesail.com/developers): Drive the full script-to-MP4 pipeline from an agent via the REST API or MCP server — available on Pro and BYOK plans
- [API & MCP docs](https://framesail.com/developers/docs): Connect Claude Code / Claude Desktop, authenticate with fsk_ keys, BYOK, and the full workflow reference

## Blog

- [How to Make Faceless YouTube Videos, Start to Finish](https://framesail.com/blog/how-to-make-faceless-youtube-videos): How to make faceless YouTube videos, step by step: pick a niche, generate a script and voiceover, produce the visuals, and assemble the final cut. Start today.
- [Best MCP Servers in 2026: The List, Organized by Job](https://framesail.com/blog/best-mcp-servers): The best MCP servers in 2026, organized by the job they do: code, browser, docs, data, design, and media generation, plus how to vet a server before connecting.
- [Faceless reels: formats, niches, and how they pay](https://framesail.com/blog/faceless-reels): Faceless reels, explained: the three formats that work, the niches that pay, the 2026 monetization reality, and a daily production loop. Start here.
- [Faceless YouTube channel ideas: 25 that pay in 2026](https://framesail.com/blog/faceless-youtube-channel-ideas): Faceless YouTube channel ideas for 2026: 25 niches ranked by CPM and policy risk, plus which formats survive YouTube's inauthentic content rules. Pick yours.
- [How Much Does YouTube Pay Per View? Real 2026 Numbers](https://framesail.com/blog/how-much-does-youtube-pay-per-view): How much does YouTube pay per view? About $0.001–$0.03 from ads on long-form. Here's the math per 1,000 views, per million views, and what moves your rate.
- [Text to Video API in 2026: Clips, Templates, or Videos](https://framesail.com/blog/text-to-video-api): Every text to video API falls into one of three kinds: raw model APIs that return clips, template renderers, and pipeline APIs that return finished videos.
- [YouTube Automation Tools: The Stack That Works in 2026](https://framesail.com/blog/youtube-automation-tools): The youtube automation tools that matter in 2026, organized by job: script, image, video, voice, and assembly, plus when one pipeline beats ten open tabs.
- [YouTube Shorts monetization requirements, explained](https://framesail.com/blog/youtube-shorts-monetization-requirements): The real YouTube Shorts monetization requirements: 1,000 subs plus 10M Shorts views, the 500-sub tier, and how the creator pool actually pays. Start here.
- [Highest CPM YouTube niches: what actually pays best](https://framesail.com/blog/highest-cpm-youtube-niches): The highest CPM YouTube niches, from finance to gaming, with real CPM ranges, why they differ, and when volume beats a high rate. Pick your niche with numbers.
- [YouTube monetization requirements in 2026, explained plainly](https://framesail.com/blog/youtube-monetization-requirements): The real YouTube monetization requirements in 2026: 1,000 subs plus 4,000 watch hours, the 500-sub tier, the six non-numeric gates, and what changed.
- [How much do faceless YouTube channels make? Real numbers](https://framesail.com/blog/how-much-do-faceless-youtube-channels-make): How much do faceless YouTube channels make? Real RPM ranges per 1,000 views, earnings by niche and geography, and the full revenue mix. See the numbers.
- [YouTube Automation Guide: How to Start a Channel in 2026](https://framesail.com/blog/youtube-automation-guide): This YouTube automation guide covers how to start a faceless channel in 2026: the real costs, the rules, and the workflow that ships videos worth finishing.
- [How to create long-form video with Claude Code](https://framesail.com/blog/long-form-video-with-claude-code): How to create long-form video with Claude Code from scratch — the agent, the renderer, the image, motion, and voice services — and where it gets hard.
- [How to make stop motion animation with AI, frame by frame](https://framesail.com/blog/how-to-make-stop-motion-animation-with-ai): Stop motion animation with AI: anchor one frame, chain each frame from the last, move one thing at a time. The full technique, real prompts included.
- [AI paper cutout animation: how we made a full short](https://framesail.com/blog/ai-paper-cutout-animation): AI paper cutout animation, shown with a real 60-second short — how the paper look gets locked, why smooth motion is fine here, and where the style shines.
- [How to make high-retention faceless YouTube videos](https://framesail.com/blog/high-retention-faceless-youtube-videos): What actually holds retention on faceless YouTube videos: the 30-second hook, pacing every 3–5s, the 50% pattern interrupt, and where AI pipelines leak.
- [How to keep AI characters consistent across a long-form YouTube video](https://framesail.com/blog/ai-character-consistency): Why characters drift across shots in long-form AI video for YouTube, how reference images solve most of it, and where the current models (Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2) stand.

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