User guide

This guide explains what to do in the app: where things are, what to tap or click, and roughly what order to follow when you plan a song into shots and renders.

Where things live (top navigation)

After you open a project, you usually work in Project Plan until you jump to Timeline or Docs.

Screenshot — Projects

Full page

Click for full-page zoom/pan — same lightbox as other screenshots in this guide.

While you’re in the User guide (this section), use Search guide in the left sidebar to find a page by keyword.

Illustrations: This guide includes screenshots of the real app. Click a picture to open a larger view of the full page. Scroll (or use a trackpad) to zoom in, then drag to move around; you can also use +, −, and reset in the bar at the bottom of the lightbox.

Detailed walkthrough with the same screenshots: Projects covers the launcher list you see after tapping Projects in the top bar.

Recommended path

1. Projects — create or reopen the upload you intend to ship; the studio header must show the mix you mean before trusting later steps.
2. Read Project Plan overview for the phased map — then work Project Plan top to bottom (greyed steps mean “finish the one above first”).
3. Get Audio Analysis feeling right early — timing and lyrics prop up everything after it.
4. Use Gallery when you’re picking winning stills and clips shot by shot.
5. Finish on Timeline — review the editorial, then Export (including MP4 + .en.srt (ZIP) when you want a sidecar file).

Planner steps (Project Plan)

Same names and order as the left-hand list in the app. Each line links to its chapter; the — text is a quick why this step exists before you open the page.

1. Inputs — Lock the song file, cast references, mood boards, and timeline basis (full mix vs fixed seconds vs estimate from narrative)—the fixed truth the later steps inherit.

2. Audio Analysis — Run analysis on your mix, line up beats, sections, and lyrics, then lock. Acts and scaffold timing clamp to this grid, so structural work waits until timing feels trustworthy.

3. Song Read — Capture how the lyrics and cast read—tone, motifs, palette cues—so world-building and concept steps start from one shared interpretation.

4. Environment Prompt — Shape a single editable world brief; every candidate environment springs from this seed.

5. Environment Chat — Iterate visually: generate or upload environment images and pick the look your video commits to before story structure locks in further.

6. Concept — With the world settled, articulate arc, motifs, and section-by-section intent before carving the song into acts and shots.

7. Acts — Divide the track into chapters on the beat grid so everyone knows which emotional movement owns which slice of song time.

8. Locations — Name the roster of approved places shots may inhabit, each tethered to the locked environment so geography cannot drift halfway through.

9. Shot Scaffold — Land the timed shot order and durations—the spine editors rely on—even before finer direction prose is nailed.

10. Shot Direction — Per-shot generation briefs (what happens in-frame); camera structure stays on Shot scaffold.

11. Filming Style — Choose a primary look and optional secondary blend — merged into every still and clip prompt.

12. Generate — Run batches of stills and clips, skim status, and rerun individual lanes when needed.

13. Gallery — Review outputs shot by shot, inspect previews and prompts, choose keepers slated for Timeline.

14. Accessibility — Optional narration or descriptive audio copy per shot; Timeline references this step when synthesizing narration for preview and caption-friendly exports later.

Overview: Project Plan plus Projects whenever you swap songs mid-session.

Beyond the planner

• Timeline — Preview and export; burned Subtitles and/or ZIP with .en.srt; see that chapter for MP4 + .en.srt (ZIP).