From locked mix to export — how Veyra actually works

Upload the master audio, name the project, and optionally attach reference stills: an environment plate, cast / performer references, optional pasted lyrics, and per-actor notes (look lock, personality). Nothing generative yet — you are anchoring the creative brief in files the later steps inherit.

Run the analyser on the locked mix: BPM, meter hints, segments, downbeats, and calibration tools. When you lock the beat grid, downstream steps (acts, shot timing) snap to the same musical time — so the plan cannot drift from what you hear.

An AI pass reads lyrics plus your cast references and writes a concise interpretation: themes, tone, palette hints, era tags — the shared vocabulary directors and producers use before shot language.

The system proposes an image-generation seed for the world; you edit it until it reads right. That prompt is the seed every environment candidate is generated from — the world is locked before concept work hardens.

Chat with the assistant to iterate environment candidates, upload your own plates, and pick the look the video lives in. Every later frame must respect the choice you lock here.

With the world fixed, the model writes a proper treatment: protagonist arc, narrative beats per song section, recurring motifs. This is the document-level spine your shot list will hang from.

Map narrative acts onto song sections. Each act gets prose and a downbeat-aligned start/end on the timeline so structure stays musical, not arbitrary wall-clock blocks.

Subdivide the locked world into distinct places the video cuts between — rooftop, corridor, stage, exterior, and so on. Each location carries prose plus a reference plate so every shot set there inherits the same spatial logic.

Generate the full shot list with timing, character focus, framing, angle, movement, lens class, rig, depth of field, and camera position in space — aligned to beats, without final prose prompts yet. Locations are drawn only from the locked location whitelist so geography stays coherent.

Fill or refine prompt, action, continuity anchors, and negatives per shot. Each bundle automatically includes the locked environment and actor references so regens do not silently drift from approved look.

Choose one global filming style (for example a named cinematic reference). Its text is appended to every still and video generation on top of the per-shot brief — the main lever for consistent colour, grain, and lens culture across the whole sequence.

Batch missing assets, run one-off stills or clips, attach project-wide generate notes, and use render-help chat when you are stuck. This step is the control room; the grid is intentionally paired with Gallery for deep per-shot work.

Browse renders in a grid, open any shot for full-screen preview, walk prev/next, inspect prompts, and queue regens with per-shot notes. Batch queues can stay on Generate while you polish winners here.