Turning a screenplay into a Story Video

Yes, you can make a Story Video from a screenplay. You do it through Sidekick in the video editor: give it the script and tell it what you want, and it writes the scenes.

Attaching your screenplay

Open a video, find the Sidekick panel, and use the paperclip button to attach your screenplay as a PDF. Sidekick reads the file directly, so you can then say things like:

• "Build scenes from the opening sequence of this script."
• "Turn pages 1 to 8 into a video — keep the dialogue as written."
• "Use this screenplay's cast and setting, and adapt the diner scene."

Pasting works just as well for a section of script. If you only want one sequence, pasting it into the chat is often quicker than attaching the whole file.

Size limits

A paperclip attachment can be a PDF up to 20 MB, which comfortably covers a feature screenplay. Anything larger, or a scanned script that is really a stack of page images rather than real text, won't be readable — Sidekick needs selectable text, not pictures of text.

Attaching a book is a different button and a different flow, with a larger 50 MB limit, because a book gets split into a comic series. See converting a book into a comic series.

Work in sections, not all at once

There is currently no one-click flow that takes a whole screenplay and automatically splits it into a multi-episode series with the cast and locations extracted for you. That capability exists in ComicInk's code but has no button in the app today.

In practice this means you drive the adaptation yourself, which is usually what you want anyway:

1. Start a new video and attach or paste the part of the script you're adapting.
2. Ask Sidekick to write scenes from it. Review what it wrote in the Script view.
3. Ask it to fix pacing — scenes have a spoken-word budget, so a long monologue usually needs splitting across two scenes. See editing the script and scenes.
4. Set up the cast and locations you need in the Tools rail, or ask Sidekick to create them.
5. For a second episode, make another video and repeat with the next section of the script. Sidekick can copy the cast and locations across so characters stay consistent between episodes.

Keeping characters consistent across episodes

This is the part worth doing deliberately. Define each recurring character once, then when you start the next episode ask Sidekick to copy that cast over rather than describing them again. Copying brings the existing reference art with it and costs nothing, so the same character looks the same in every episode.

What it costs

Adapting a screenplay through Sidekick costs nothing by itself — chatting is free while Sidekick is in beta, and writing scenes is just text. You pay when you render scenes into video. Ask Sidekick "how much will this cost to render?" for an exact figure before you commit, or see Story Video credits and costs.

Updated on: 02/08/2026