Converting a screenplay into a video series

If you have a screenplay or script in PDF form, you can hand it to ComicInk and have it lay out a complete video series — a collection of episodes, where each episode is its own Story Video with a chosen number of scenes. The conversion analyzes the whole script to set up the series (characters, locations, episode split, per-episode previews), and it splits the actual script pages so each episode's scenes are later generated by adapting that episode's pages — preserving the original action, dialogue, and slug-line locations — rather than inventing something new from a short summary.

You still open each episode and generate its scenes afterward, and you still need to attest that you own the rights to the script before converting.

Story Videos is a web-only feature — there's no video studio in the iOS app.

How it works

1. On the dashboard, click New Video, then choose Convert from screenplay.
2. Choose a PDF (up to 50 MB).
3. ComicInk reads the PDF and shows you a preview: script length, estimated cost in credits, and a suggested split (for example, 3 videos × 8 scenes each).
4. Adjust the split if you want — anywhere from 1 video × 1 scene up to 12 videos × 16 scenes each.
5. Pick the aspect ratio for the series (9:16 vertical for Reels/Shorts/TikTok, 1:1 square, or 16:9 widescreen) and the art style. The series language is auto-detected from the script's dialogue and action (a French screenplay produces French episodes by default) — you can change it later in the series settings.
6. Confirm the copyright attestation (you wrote it, you own the rights, or it's in the public domain).
7. Click Convert to confirm. Credits are charged at this point.
8. Wait 1–3 minutes while ComicInk:
9. • Analyzes the screenplay with AI and locks in precise page boundaries for each episode
   • Detects the script's primary language
   • Captures the script's setting — era, location, and visual texture — so character and scene art come out appropriate to the story's world
   • Creates the video series
   • Adds the main and supporting characters from the script's cast
   • Adds the recurring locations from the script's INT./EXT. scene headings, so the same place looks consistent across episodes
   • For each episode, writes a synopsis preview and saves the actual script pages that episode will cover
9. When it's done, you're taken to the new series page where every episode sits in draft status. Open an episode to generate its script, then its scenes.

How episode scenes are generated (the important part)

When you open a converted episode and generate its script, ComicInk reads the screenplay pages assigned to that episode and turns them into video scenes — preserving the original action, dialogue, and the script's locations. The synopsis you see is a preview of what the episode covers; you don't need to do anything to it.

From there the flow is the same as any Story Video: review and approve the script, let the reference images generate, approve them, then render the scenes. See Getting started with Story Videos and The Video Studio: tabs and approvals for the full walkthrough.

What gets created

• Video series — a series container with the title you chose and a description summarizing the script.
• Characters — up to 50 series-level characters derived from the script's cast, with names, descriptions, and personalities filled in automatically.
• Locations — the recurring locations from the script's scene headings, shared across the series so each place stays visually consistent.
• Episodes — one Story Video per slot in your chosen split. Each episode has a title, a synopsis preview, its target scene count, and the slice of the actual script pages it covers (used when you generate its scenes).

Character and location reference images are not generated during the conversion — they're created later, when you work through each episode in the studio.

What does it cost?

The conversion cost scales with the length of your screenplay and is shown before any credits are charged. It covers the analysis pass plus drafting every episode. It's a small, one-time fee — for example, a 30-page short script runs roughly 150 credits, and a feature-length (~120-page) screenplay roughly 250 credits.

Rendering each episode's scenes into video is charged separately, per scene, when you click Generate in the studio — this is the main cost of a Story Video and is explained in Story Video credits and costs. Generating an episode's script (before rendering) is free.

If the conversion itself fails, your credits are refunded automatically.

Limits

• PDF size: up to 50 MB
• Script length: up to ~1.5 million characters of extracted text. Longer scripts need to be split into multiple PDFs.
• Per-episode chunk: up to ~800,000 characters. If one episode covers too many script pages, you'll get an error asking you to re-run with more videos.
• Videos (episodes) per series: 1 to 12
• Scenes per video: 1 to 16
• Characters per series: up to 50 (we keep the most important ones if the script has more)
• Locations per series: up to 20

When it doesn't work well

• Scanned/image-only PDFs — if your PDF is scans with no embedded text, ComicInk can't read the script. Run OCR on the PDF first (most PDF readers can do this), or use a text-based PDF. The conversion fails upfront with a clear error.
• Password-protected PDFs — remove the password before uploading.
• Scripts in mixed languages — ComicInk picks the dominant language. To generate the episodes in a different language, change the language field on the series after conversion.

After the conversion

Open any episode in the new series and generate its script. Review it, approve it, let the reference images generate and approve them, then render the scenes. From there, exporting and sharing work like any other Story Video — see Exporting and sharing Story Videos.

Updated on: 09/07/2026