Getting started with Story Videos

A Story Video is a short narrated video — a sequence of AI-generated scenes with a single narrator voice, burned-in captions, and music — built from the same characters, assets, and art styles you already use for comics. Think of it as a moving comic panel: same look, same cast, stitched into a clip you can share as a Reel, Short, or TikTok.

Story Videos is a web-only feature. There is no video studio in the iOS app. iOS users can view a published video by opening its share link in a browser.

Two ways to start

From scratch. Click Create story video on the dashboard. This opens a brand-new video with zero scenes.

You build the script by describing your story to Sidekick, the assistant in the video editor's right-hand column. Tell it your idea and it drafts scenes directly into the Script document; if your brief is vague it may ask about genre, setting or length first. You can also ask it to copy scenes from another video.

A blank video has the same three starting buttons as a blank comic. Write "your title" for me has Sidekick invent a short story from the video's title and write 4 scenes, with nothing else needed from you. If you typed an idea on the quick-start page, the 4 scenes are written from it as soon as the editor opens.

From a comic you've already made. Open the issue, and in the editor's Tools rail click Turn into Video — or just ask Sidekick to make a video from it. This one doesn't start blank: it adapts that issue's pages and panels into scenes for you, and carries your cast across. See turning a comic into a Story Video.

If you're starting from a screenplay, attach the PDF to Sidekick (or paste the part you're adapting) and ask it to build scenes from it — see turning a screenplay into a Story Video.

The Video Studio: Script / Storyboard / Video

Every Story Video is edited in the Video Studio. The main area is a three-way toggle:

• Script — The scene document: narration, dialogue, setting, and characters per scene. This is where Sidekick writes and where you can edit directly.
• Storyboard — Optional still frames (up to two per scene) that show the video model exactly how a scene should open and close. See Storyboards.
• Video — The timeline and preview of your rendered clips. This is where you trigger scene rendering and open Publish.

A left-hand rail holds Tools, Cast, Assets, and Locations — your characters, assets, and locations for this video, each with a reference image the studio keeps visually consistent across scenes.

None of these are gated behind an approval step — every tab and rail pane is open as soon as the video exists.

How the flow works

1. Get a script. Either create a blank video and describe your story to Sidekick — it drafts scenes into the Script document as you talk — or start from one of your comics, which adapts the issue into scenes for you.
2. Refine the script. Edit narration, dialogue, or setting directly, or keep asking Sidekick to rewrite, add, or reorder scenes.

After a script is generated, Sidekick shows a Your cast card. Its main button is Make my first scene (below). Under More options it can also generate every missing cast, asset and location image in one click (10 credits each), the same as in comics, or let you review each one first. See Generate all reference images.

3. Optionally add storyboards. On the Storyboard tab, click an empty tile to generate an opening or closing frame for a scene — this charges immediately, with no confirmation step.
4. Render your scenes. On the Video tab, every scene shows its credit estimate before you render it. Render scenes one at a time or use Generate All Scenes, which shows a credit cost confirmation before charging.
5. Publish. Open Publish to download an MP4 or put the video on a shareable link — export, download, and publish all live in that one modal.

The video stays fully editable at every stage, including after it's rendered and published — there's no read-only or locked state.

For a deeper look at each tab and the rail, see Studio workflow. Credit costs are explained in Story Video credits and costs. Exporting and publishing options are covered in Exporting your video.

Make your first scene in one step

Once your script is written, the Your cast card in the chat has a Make my first scene button, with its price on the button. It picks the first scene that has a character and does three things in order:

1. Draws only the pictures that scene needs (characters, props, the location) — 10 credits each.
2. Draws the scene's storyboard — 50 credits per frame.
3. Animates the scene.

You see the full cost once, before anything starts. When the clip is ready, the studio switches to the Video tab to show it, and Sidekick tells you the scene is ready (if you're typing in the script, the card's Watch scene 1 button takes you there instead). The button goes away as soon as any scene has a clip.

If you don't have enough credits to animate it yet, it stops after the storyboard and shows you the picture with a Bring this scene to life button. Press it, buy credits, and the scene starts animating by itself. If you're short even for the drawing, buying credits opens straight away; after you buy, the cost appears again so you can confirm the plan your new balance allows.

If you close the tab halfway, press the button again — it carries on from where it stopped and doesn't charge twice. If the content filter refuses a picture or the scene, the run stops, Sidekick tells you which part and suggests a rewording, and it never retries the same thing on its own.

You can also just ask Sidekick: "make my first scene".

Ready to try?

Click Create story video on the dashboard to get started.

Updated on: 16/10/2026