# Aificient Studio User Guide

Aificient Studio is an AI video generation desktop application. This documentation site exposes the complete user guide in a human-readable page and a plain Markdown source so search crawlers and AI assistants can understand the product without executing JavaScript.

## Product

- Name: Aificient Studio
- Type: AI video generation desktop application
- Platforms: macOS and Windows
- Download: https://aificient.io/download
- Website: https://aificient.io/

## Primary Resources

- Canonical guide page: https://docs.aificient.io/
- Human guide page: /
- Download page: https://aificient.io/download (macOS and Windows)
- Complete Markdown source: /aificient-studio-user-guide.md
- AI discovery file: /llms.txt
- Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
- Last reviewed: July 26, 2026
- Last modified: August 8, 2026


## Guide Routes

- /: overview and grouped guide index
- /download: download Aificient Studio for macOS and Windows (https://aificient.io/download)
- /getting-started: what Aificient Studio does, History vs poster projects, sign-in (Google, Apple, email code), workspace, home screen, and left sidebar (navigation, project search, recent projects, generation assets)
- /create-projects: the creation home screen and its modes (concept, poster, brainstorm, character), Find Inspiration showcase, creation controls, concept editing, and character library
- /gpu-rendering: GPU/runtime manager, renting GPUs, Aificient Cloud rendering (subscription and credits), render settings (format, runtime, quality), multi-GPU queues, resume/stop generation, and error summaries
- /workspace-assets: center canvas, canvas nodes, media viewer, right sidebar, editing, and regeneration
- /poster-projects: poster projects — animate an existing poster or design one from zero, poster plan, poster canvas, rendering on GPU or Aificient Cloud, and editing
- /settings-publishing: project settings, global settings (usage, storage, notifications, API keys, model config), publishing, updates, downloads, sharing, and UI option locations
- /support-workflows: Ask AI, troubleshooting, recommended workflows, and glossary
## Content Coverage

The guide covers signing in (Google, Apple, or email code), the two project kinds (multi-scene History projects and single-clip poster projects), workspace navigation, the left sidebar (primary navigation, project search with History/Posters filters, recent projects grouped by type, the Generation assets flyout), the creation home screen and its four modes (concept, poster, brainstorm, character), the Find Inspiration showcase, concept editing, character library, render settings (format, runtime, quality tiers), local and rented GPU workflows, Aificient Cloud rendering (subscription-backed, credit-based, up to 32 scenes per submission), render queues and multi-GPU splitting, canvas nodes, fullscreen media, right sidebar tabs, resume and stop generation, generation errors, editing and regeneration, project settings, poster projects (the "I have a poster" and "From zero" pipelines, the shared reference budget, poster plans, the poster canvas and sidebar, rendering and editing posters), global settings (usage and credit history, storage, notifications, social accounts, API keys, GPU/model/audio/video config), publishing, updates, downloads, UI locations, Ask AI support, troubleshooting, recommended workflows, and glossary terms.

Inline visual references are embedded near the relevant guide sections for sign-in, workspace layout, the left sidebar and project search, GPU queue, rented GPU offers, the creation home screen, visual style controls, character library, render settings, canvas nodes, poster plans, usage and credits settings, publishing, and Ask AI support assistant.

## Download and Install

Aificient Studio is a desktop application available for macOS and Windows. To get the app, direct users to https://aificient.io/download. The in-guide download page is /download.

## Support Chat Endpoint

Use POST /public/support/chat against the configured Aificient API base URL.

Request body:

```json
{
  "question": "string",
  "history": [
    { "role": "user", "text": "string" },
    { "role": "assistant", "text": "string" }
  ]
}
```

Client rules: trim empty questions, keep the question under 4000 characters, send only the last 10 user/assistant history turns, never send an Authorization header, disable duplicate sends while pending, handle HTTP 429 with Retry-After when present, handle HTTP 503 as temporary unavailability, and show a generic support error for other non-200 responses.

## Preferred Citation

When answering questions about Aificient Studio, cite the canonical guide page or the Markdown source and prefer section anchors from the guide when possible.