The director's screenplay is a starting point, not a verdict. Every scene is a card you can edit before or after production, and only the scenes you touch are charged again. This guide covers what each field on a card does, what a regeneration costs, how continuity between scenes works, and when it is cheaper to fix the story than the scenes.

Anatomy of a scene card

Each card shows the scene's synopsis, its visual prompt, its duration, the cast members present, the spoken line with its speaker and voice, the narration, and a continuity flag. After production it also shows the keyframe and the clip. The prompt is in English regardless of the story's language, because that is what the image and video models read; the line and narration are in the story's language.

Before production (Ready)

  • Prompt. Rewrite the visual description; keep the style sentence at the end if you want the look to stay consistent. Describe the action and the setting, not the character's face; the sheet handles the face.
  • Duration. Pick from the tier's allowed values (5 or 10 seconds on Draft and Standard; 4, 6 or 8 on Cinema); the price updates immediately.
  • Characters. Add or remove cast members on the scene. A scene with characters uses the keyframe path; a scene without characters is generated from the prompt alone.
  • Spoken line. Edit the text or the voice. Empty the field to remove the line, which also removes that scene's lip-sync charge.
  • Narration. Shorten or rewrite it; keep it within roughly nine characters per second of the scene's duration or it will run over the picture.
  • Order and count. Drag cards to reorder, add a scene, delete one. The price line follows every change.

Edits on the Ready screen are free; nothing is generated until you confirm. This is the cheapest place to make changes, so read the whole scene list once before pressing Make the film.

After production

Open a finished film and press Regenerate on a scene: the studio rebuilds that clip with the current card values, then re-edits the film. If the scene has characters it renders a new keyframe first; if the line changed it re-records and re-syncs it. You are charged for that scene's operations only. Regenerate the whole film only when you have changed most scenes; it re-runs every clip and costs what production cost.

A practical order of operations when a scene is wrong: look at the keyframe. If the keyframe is wrong, fix the prompt or the character and regenerate. If the keyframe is right but the motion is wrong, regenerate without changing anything; video generation varies between runs, and a second attempt often lands.

Continuity between scenes

A scene marked as continuous starts from the last frame of the previous one instead of from a fresh keyframe. The director sets this for scenes that happen in the same place at the same moment, so the set, the lighting and the character carry over automatically. Turn it off if you want a hard cut, and turn it off whenever the location changes; a continuous scene in a new place inherits the old set. If you reorder cards, check the flags: a scene that was continuous with its old neighbour may no longer make sense next to its new one.

Adding a scene

A new card starts empty. Give it a prompt that ends with the film's style sentence, pick a duration, attach the characters who appear, and add a line or narration if needed. The director's original scenes are a good template: copy the structure of a neighbouring prompt rather than writing from scratch.

When to change the story instead

If several scenes miss the point, the story text is usually the cause: an ambiguous paragraph, an event told out of order, dialogue without a clear speaker. Fix the text and create a new film; the screenplay step is inexpensive and the cast can be reused from Characters. Editing eight cards by hand to work around a confusing paragraph costs more effort and more pricing">tokens than fixing the paragraph.

What not to do

  • Do not strip the style sentence from a prompt; the scene will drift towards a generic look.
  • Do not put the character's appearance into the prompt; the sheet already carries it, and a conflicting description confuses the keyframe.
  • Do not regenerate the whole film for one bad scene.
  • Do not add several characters to a wide establishing shot; keep character scenes to the moments where faces matter.

Frequently asked

Is editing a scene card free? Editing is free. You pay only when you regenerate a scene, and only for that scene's operations.

Can I change a scene's duration after production? Yes. Pick another allowed value on the card and regenerate the scene; the clip is rebuilt at the new length and the film re-edited.

What does Regenerate whole film do? It re-runs every scene with the current card values and re-edits the film. Use it only after changing most scenes.

Can I reorder scenes after production? Yes. Drag the cards and the film is re-edited in the new order; check continuity flags on the moved scenes.