The Video Studio: Script, Storyboard, and Video

Every Story Video is edited inside the Video Studio. It has two parts:

• A centered Script / Storyboard / Video toggle that switches the main workspace.
• A left-hand rail with Tools, Cast, Assets, and Locations panes.

All three tabs and all four rail panes are open immediately — there is no approval step that unlocks them. Sidekick sits in a persistent right-hand column and can write scenes, render clips, manage cast/assets/locations, and open Publish for you, on top of anything described below.

For a quick overview of the whole flow from creation to export, see Getting started with Story Videos.

The Script / Storyboard / Video toggle

Script

The Script tab is a flowing scene document — the same kind of editor used for the comic Script view, not a grid of cards. Each scene appears as a block headed "Scene NN" with its narration, dialogue, action, setting, and characters underneath.

New videos open here with zero scenes. You build the script by describing your story to Sidekick, which drafts scenes directly into the document; you can also edit any field in place yourself. Drag-and-drop reordering is disabled in the document — to move a scene, ask Sidekick to reorder it for you.

The Script tab stays editable throughout — while a scene is rendering, after a batch finishes, and after the whole video has been published. There's no state where it locks.

See Editing the script and scenes for the full field-by-field guide.

Storyboard

The Storyboard tab holds optional still frames — up to two per scene (an opening and a closing beat) — that show the video model exactly how a scene should look, rather than leaving composition to the AI's own interpretation. Generated frames become the top-priority reference images for that scene's render, ahead of location, cast, and asset references.

Click an empty dashed tile to generate a frame. There's no confirmation dialog — it charges 50 credits immediately. Tiles are shown in the video's own aspect ratio (9:16, 1:1, or 16:9). Scenes without storyboards render normally, from the scene description plus your location/cast/asset references.

Full detail in Storyboards: guiding how a scene looks.

Video

The Video tab is the timeline: scene-by-scene previews of rendered clips, render controls, and Publish. Watch a scene's finished clip here — the Script document no longer shows an inline clip preview.

What you can do here:

• Generate All Scenes — starts a batch render of every unrendered scene. A credit-cost confirmation appears before any charges are applied.
• Re-render a single scene — each scene tile has its own Render button so you can re-do just one scene without touching the others. Each scene carries its own Model and Time selectors with a live credit estimate — see Choosing a model and scene length.
• Add music and captions — open the music library and the auto-caption workflow.
• Publish — opens the one Publish modal, which covers downloading an MP4, publishing a shareable link, and the optional 1080p upscale.

A scene tile shows its own progress while rendering (queued, rendering, uploading); there's no separate persistent render-progress strip elsewhere in the studio.

The rail: Tools / Cast / Assets / Locations

The left rail holds four panes:

• Tools — quick actions and shortcuts for the video.
• Cast — the characters in this video, carried over from your comics or added here.
• Assets — props and other visual assets.
• Locations — the settings scenes take place in. This replaced the old standalone References tab.

Cast, Assets, and Locations each show a reference image per entity so the AI keeps them visually consistent across scenes. You can regenerate any individual image, add new characters or assets, and add custom locations. If you add an entity after scenes already reference it, the studio queues image generation for the new entry.

How the full flow fits together

Create a blank video
  ↓  Describe your story to Sidekick — scenes are drafted into the Script document
  ↓  Edit scenes directly, or keep talking to Sidekick

Optional: Storyboard tab
  ↓  Click an empty tile to generate an opening/closing frame (charges immediately)

Video tab
  ↓  First scene render is free
  ↓  Render individually or with Generate All Scenes (cost confirmation shown)
  ↓  Publish — download, share link, or 1080p upscale

The video, and everything in it, stays editable at every point in this flow — including after publish.

Next steps

• Editing the script and scenes — deeper guide to scene editing and fields.
• Storyboards: guiding how a scene looks — generating and using storyboard frames.
• Rendering scenes — credit costs, partial renders, and re-rendering individual scenes.
• Exporting your video — resolution, downloading the MP4, and publishing a share link.

Updated on: 02/08/2026