One topic in, a narrated film out
A prompt gets you five seconds of footage. A film is a different problem: it needs an argument, a running order, a voice, faces that stay the same face, and a budget you do not spend on the first draft. Film Studio plans all of that in stages — and the rule holding it together is approve the cheap things before paying for the expensive ones.
One topic is the whole brief
Pick what you are making — documentary, advertisement, narrative, explainer or a beat-locked rhythm cut, each with its own act structure — then the topic, the length and the delivery shape (16:9, 9:16, 4:5). The studio drafts the research, the script, the cast and the scene timeline from there.
Approve stills before paying for motion
The keyframes stage renders one still per shot, grouped by scene with its role, size and duration. You approve, tweak or re-roll each frame, and only approved stills go on to clip rendering — which is where the real credits go. Changing your mind is cheapest one stage early, so that is exactly where the studio stops.
A cast that survives fifty shots
Characters get reference sheets — turnarounds and pose sheets — that every shot involving them is locked to. Sheets are versioned: re-describing the cast regenerates them and marks the dependent shots stale, instead of letting a face quietly drift halfway through the film.
As hands-on as you want to be
Every stage has an auto checkbox. Tick them all and the studio is a one-click film factory; leave keyframes manual and you stay in the loop where it matters. Banners keep the arithmetic honest — “this runs 2:00 short of your target” — and Fill the gap pitches new scenes, each with an angle, draft narration and the time it adds.
The final cut, and what happens after it
Assembly renders the film with narration, score and optionally burned-in subtitles. Download the mp4, take the clean master and the .srt separately, mint a watch link for people outside your workspace, or export the whole thing as a portable .film bundle. Then open it in Video Edit, where it arrives as a rough cut you can reshape.
Make your first film, or read the Film Studio walkthrough first.
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