Visuals
Turn your story into a film
4 min read
A story you talked into being can end up on screen too. Video takes a scene's shots and renders them into short clips, in your project's visual style. The Film is where every scene comes together, in story order, as one film you can watch, scrub, and change.
Plan a scene's shots
Open a scene in the Video studio and plan it out shot by shot: what the camera sees, what happens, how long it holds. If you have already storyboarded the scene, those frames can seed the shot list, so the planning you already did carries straight through instead of starting over.
Pick a visual style
Your project has one visual style, set once and used everywhere: storyboard, comic, cover art, and video all draw from it. Set it before you render so every shot looks like it belongs to the same film.
Render your shots
Render turns a planned shot into a short clip, a few seconds long. Rendering draws on your plan's video allowance, Pro includes 10 rendered shots a month. Connect your own Kling, Veo, ByteDance, or Runway key and rendering skips the allowance entirely, so you can render as much as your own key allows.
Watch The Film
Studio has a place where the whole story plays as one film: every scene's shots, cut together in the order they appear in your outline. That is on purpose, the shape of your story is the shape of the edit. You do not have to wait for every shot to finish rendering either. Shots that are done play as video, and shots you have not rendered yet still show as a still frame, so The Film is watchable from the moment you have planned it.
Under the player is a timeline, one scrollable row with your scenes grouped and their shots as blocks. Tap anywhere on it and playback jumps straight there, so you can find a moment without watching everything before it.
Scrub to a moment and change it
Find a shot that is almost right and tap the pencil to open it in its own scrubber. Drag to the exact moment, then say or type what should change there. The shot re-renders with your note attached to that timestamp, and the take before it is not lost, it stays in that shot's history so you can go back to it.
Tip. Storyboard the scene first if you can. A shot list you have already seen as frames renders into a film with far fewer surprises.
Keep reading
See your scene as a storyboard
Storyboard turns a scene into a visual shot list, generating a frame for each key beat so you can see how it plays.
Cast Design: lock your characters' looks
Generate a portrait for a character, lock the one that looks right, and that same face carries into every storyboard frame, comic panel, and video shot.
Generate images for your book
Describe the picture you want and MakeVox generates it: an illustration for a section, or cover art for the whole book.