Project Plan

Project Plan is the guided path inside the app from your finished song to shots, looks, and renders you can drop onto the Timeline. In the top navigation it carries the Project Plan label—open it to see the numbered list on the left that walks you through the work.

Start from Projects whenever you’re unsure which upload every step belongs to—that choice appears in the studio header.

You don’t need to understand how anything works under the hood. Work from top to bottom; later steps light up when you’ve finished (and locked) the ones above.

Checklists: Each step page ends with interactive ticks — they save on the song / project you’ve picked in the studio header. Change projects and you’ll see that project’s checklist.

Why order matters

The app builds each stage on the last one — timing, story, world, shot list, then pictures and motion. If you skip ahead, you’ll see steps greyed out or a short message telling you what’s missing. That’s normal.

Lock (or approve) a step when you’re happy with it. Unlock only if you really need to change something earlier — then you may need to revisit later steps so everything still matches.

Work in one browser tab per project when you can, so your progress stays tidy.

Tip: On each screen, open How this works for a quick summary, or Full guide — this step to jump to the matching page below.

Your journey in one glance

Every step — what it’s for

Open each numbered step below to read its chapter. Each page includes a Screenshot of Step N (same numbering as here); click the image for full-page zoom/pan.

1. Inputs — Song file (upload or Suno URL), cast references, optional lyrics/world stills, and how long the video is (full mix, fixed seconds, or length from narrative).

2. Audio Analysis — Beats, sections, and lyrics lined up to your mix.

3. Song Read — A readable take on the lyrics and cast, plus choices that seed the world and story.

4. Environment Prompt — One clear written brief for the world your video lives in.

5. Environment Chat — Back-and-forth until you’ve picked the look for that world.

6. Concept — The creative spine — tone, arc, motifs — before you carve up the song.

7. Acts — How the song divides into dramatic chapters on the beat grid.

8. Locations — The places (or stages) shots are allowed to use — your approved list.

9. Shot Scaffold — Timed shot list (structure): beats, locations, camera class, scaffold camera-action tags — Edit per row.

10. Shot Direction — Generation brief per shot (Edit brief); scaffold shown as read-only reference on each row.

11. Filming Style — One primary look, optional secondary blend — merged onto every shot.

12. Generate — Batch Generate stills and clips across the project.

13. Gallery — Browse shots, compare takes, polish one shot at a time.

14. Accessibility — Narration or audio-description style tracks if your delivery needs them.

The sidebar uses the same names and order as this list.

Resources (not numbered steps)

These sit under Resources in the Project Plan sidebar — they don’t block or unlock the 14 steps above.

• Shot library — Per-shot still and clip history, project reference plates, and promoting archived takes to hero (what Timeline and video use). Different from Gallery, which is the director’s shot grid (step 13).

Also helpful

• Use the Search guide field at the top of this sidebar to jump to a topic by keyword (titles and page text).
• Projects — start or swap the song row every other screen follows.
• Timeline — once you have shots and media, preview the full cut and Export MP4 (optional MP4 + .en.srt (ZIP) for a timed sidecar).
• Audio Analysis — good timing here makes everything downstream easier.