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Turn your pictures into moving shots. Plan the shots first, make the clips, improve their motion, then bring back the detail. This is the most expensive stage, so the plan matters.

Plan Video a few credits

Run it on the whole Fit to Frame folder at once, in reading order. This is the only step that sees all your pictures together, and that is what lets it:

  • Choose which panels are worth a shot, and drop the rest with a reason you can read.
  • Join panels that show one moment into a single shot. A jump and the landing become one clip, not two clips of the same pose.
  • Fix the light, the colours and the look of each character once, for the whole film. This is what stops a jacket changing colour from shot to shot.
  • Make each shot as long as the line spoken over it, if you wrote a script, and mark the shots where someone is talking.

It also plans the scene as theatre before it writes a single beat: what the scene is trying to do, what stands in the way, what changes by the end and the last image that lands it. Each beat is then directed with its own staging (where the bodies are in frame), performance (what the body does), physics (weight, contact, follow-through), coverage (shot size and camera height) and light. Those are planning fields — the video prompt keeps only what the camera can see.

Everything it decides lands on the Storyboard tab. Read it. Change any shot there before you make the clips.

Generate Video by the minute

Makes one draft clip for each beat in the storyboard. A board is a scene; its beats are the generations that carry its motion, and the Generate tab draws them side by side so you can watch the scene as a scene.

It generates at a 480px short edge by default, so the motion is cheap to judge. Your picture is the first beat's first frame; later beats continue the previous take and are guided toward their own panel, so the drawings reach the model rather than only the words. The words in the storyboard say what happens, including the action the comic never drew.

Try three beats first. Run a board, watch it, and only then run the rest. Most of the cost of a chapter is in this step.

Improve Video by the minute

Re-renders the beats you kept with more movement. It uses the clip you already have as the reference — not the panel — so the character, wardrobe, setting, style and screen direction stay put while the action gets bigger and follows through. The clip's own audio sets the timing.

This is a refinement, not a second generation. Each result replaces the clip as a new version, so the board keeps its beat and the first-pass take stays in the file history. Run it after Generate Video and before Upscale Video. Boards the plan says have no action are skipped with a reason; you can force or skip any board, and improve a single beat on its own (that starts a new chain and may leave a seam).

It works from what is there. A clip with no motion to work from cannot be improved. If a shot came back static, re-run the board first.

Upscale Video by the minute

The last step in the chain, after Improve Video — not an optional extra. Generate Video deliberately makes the canvas small; this enlarges every take — frame by frame, 2x by default — without changing its motion, its timing or its sound. The result replaces that take as a new version, so the board keeps its beat and Ctrl+Z in the editor brings the draft back.

Run it from the Upscale Video step, or use the Upscale button on a single beat. This is a learned per-frame pass, not a second generation: it cannot fix a pose or add action that is not there. Re-chain a beat you are still changing first, then upscale the takes that survive.

Two things to know

A shot is one continuous take. It cannot cut to somewhere else. If a shot asks for a new place or a new time, you get a strange morph instead of a cut. Split it into two shots on the storyboard.

Give the action time. About 5 seconds for a held moment, about 10 when something has to travel across the shot.

Fix a shot

Open the clip, watch it, say what is wrong, and click Fix this shot. You get a new clip in the same place, so the cut stays in order and you can always go back one step. You can also trim the start and the end of a clip by hand.

Just make one clip

You do not need a plan or a script. Open Generate Video, give it a prompt, a picture, or both, and it makes you a clip. Good for a test or for one shot you need quickly.

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