Workspace & Assets

1. Center Canvas

The canvas shows the project as a connected visual flow. You can pan, zoom, and use the mini-map to navigate larger projects. The Edit with AI bar in the bottom-right corner opens the in-project assistant (see "Edit with AI").

The node groups, left to right:

These node groups are the History flow. A poster project uses the same canvas with its own, much shorter chain — see "The Poster Canvas". A UGC ad has its own board — see "The UGC Board".

2. Canvas Nodes

Each node on the canvas is a card for one part of the project. The entries below list what each card shows, the actions it offers, and what to watch for.

Project Info

The Project card shows the project name, Ns · N scenes with the script status icon, and the Style (long style text is clamped to three lines; hover for the full text). While the script is being written the status icon reads Writing the script…; if it fails, Script generation failed.

Actions

• View script — appears once the script is complete. Opens the read-only Script modal: Ns · N scenes, the Style, and one block per scene with its number and title, its length, its visual description, and its narration in quotes.

Narrator

The card between the cast column and the scenes is the project's narrator voice (formerly the Script card; the script text opens from the Project card's View script button). Its header shows how many scenes are narrated (N scenes) and the script status: Waiting for the script… while the script is being written, or Script generation failed.

Once the script is ready, the card shows:

• The current voice's name, with a preview button.
• The voice's description.
• Trait chips: Female / Male, and Global (a multilingual voice), the accent with its flag, or the language.
• A notice box when the service switched the voice while creating the project — for example because the voice you picked does not narrate in the script's language, so the automatic voice for that language is used instead.

When the narrator is on Automatic, the card asks the service which library voice the narration really uses for the script's language, the narrator's gender, and (for Spanish or English) the accent set in Settings > Audio Config > Automatic voice accent. It shows that voice, with a small Auto tag (Picked automatically for the language, the gender and the accent) and a working preview.

If the lookup fails (for example offline), the card falls back to Automatic with The best library voice for the script's language and accent and no preview.

Actions

• Change voice (Change the voice) — a full-width button that opens the voice picker. Disabled with Wait for the generation to finish while a run is active.

Changing the Voice

1. Click Change voice. The voice picker opens, scoped to the script's language, with an Automatic row per gender and no Clear (see "Voice").
2. Pick a different voice. The Change narrator confirmation opens, headed with the voice's name and gender. It reads The narrator will speak with <name> ( — the default <gender> voice for the language for Automatic) and says what happens to existing narration (see the messages below).
3. Click Change and re-record (or Change voice when nothing was recorded yet) to confirm, or Cancel.

Confirming saves the narrator. When narration existed, an images-and-audio run starts right away to re-record it.

Cost: Re-recording costs the audio price times the narrated scenes; the confirmation shows the total as About N credits.

Messages You May See

Scene

The scene card shows the scene number, title, and duration, plus three step chips (image, audio, video) whose tooltips read ready, generating, failed, skipped, or pending. Under them sit two strips:

• Cast — one chip per character in the scene (narrator chips are marked · narrator), ending in an Add cast / Edit cast button.
• Assets — one chip per project asset assigned to the scene, ending in an Add assets / Edit assets button. The strip appears once the project has an asset base. Assets that have no image yet show as muted chips with the tooltip <name> · pending generation.

Actions

• Add cast / Edit cast — opens the cast picker (see "Change a Scene's Cast").
• Add assets / Edit assets — opens the asset picker (see "Dress a Scene or a Character with Assets").

Description, Character Reference, and Script Nodes

These nodes show editable scene text.

Actions

• Click the node — opens the rewrite tools, when generation is not active.

Project Assets Node (Asset Base)

The Assets card sits in its own column right after the project card. It holds the project's asset base: reusable reference images — a branded product, a wardrobe item, a location, a prop — that scenes and characters reference by id. The asset base exists in History (story) projects only.

What It Holds

When a scene image or a character image is rendered, the assigned assets are attached to the image model as visual references, so the same bottle, jacket, or storefront appears the same way in every shot. Typical uses:

• Product placement for a brand video: upload the packshot, let the script place it, then keep it in every scene where it matters.
• A character's signature wardrobe: a jacket or uniform assigned as their outfit, so it survives every regeneration.
• A real location or set (a shop front, a kitchen, a stage) that several scenes share.
• A prop that must look identical each time it appears.

Each asset is a tile with a thumbnail and its name (hover for the description):

• A dashed tile with an atom glyph is an asset that has no image yet (pending) — typically one the script planned. It is rendered at the start of the next generation run, before characters and scenes.
• A small AI corner badge marks assets the script planned on its own.
• A spinner covers a tile while that asset is being generated or updated.

The empty state reads Products, wardrobe, locations… / Upload an image or create one with AI. Finished project assets also appear in the right sidebar's Assets tab under Project asset.

Adding Assets

The header shows the asset count and two buttons:

• Upload an image (tooltip Upload an image — it's named and described from the picture) — a file picker for PNG/JPG images, several at a time (they upload one after another). The service looks at each picture and writes the asset's name, kind, and description itself, so the file name never names an asset.
• Create from a prompt (atom icon) — opens New asset from a prompt (The image model renders it in the project's artistic style), with Name, a Kind chip row (Product, Wardrobe, Location, Prop), and What it looks like (A complete visual brief: shape, colors, materials, branding…). Create & generate creates the entry and renders its image right away.

Uploaded assets are ground truth: they are never regenerated, so what you upload is exactly what the image model is shown. Asset changes are blocked while a task runs.

Cost: Describing an uploaded picture is one small, charged AI call per image.

The Asset Detail Modal

Click a tile to open its detail modal, titled with the asset's name and subtitled Planned by the script or Your asset. It holds:

• The image (click it, or View full screen, to open the viewer) and tags: AI planned / User, the kind, and pending or uploaded.
• Used in — for example Scenes 2, 4 · worn by Maya, or Nowhere yet — pick it from a scene card, or place it with AI below.
• Generate image / Regenerate image — for generated assets only; uploaded assets have no regenerate button.
• Details — name, kind, and description (What the models read about this asset. Editing these regenerates nothing.). A Save button appears once something changed.
• Place with AI — describe where the asset belongs (e.g. "show it wherever the chemist is drinking"); the model picks the scenes (and the character, for wardrobe) and those scenes regenerate. When something changed, the generation run starts automatically.
• Delete from project — asks first, with Keep it / Delete asset. An unassigned asset is simply removed.

If the name or description were filled in while the modal was open, the Details fields update unless you had already edited them.

Warning: Deleting an assigned asset also deletes the generated image and video of every scene that uses it, and everything featuring any character that wears it (including that character's image). Narration and caption timings are kept; the confirmation spells out what goes.

If scenes had the asset assigned to them directly, the app then offers to rewrite their text without it (see "Rewrite Scenes After a Delete").

Limits

All caps are fixed by the service and are not project settings.

Messages You May See

Upload and creation errors are plain sentences in the app's error toast. Running out of credits opens the out-of-credits card.

Character Node

Each cast card shows the character's reference image, its name, badges — narrator, global for a library character, and the type (person / animal / object) — and its description. Click the image to open the full-screen viewer, subtitled Character reference.

A card whose reference image is being generated shows an active state; a new character with no image yet shows the card without artwork until its first generation run.

For project characters, an Outfit strip sits under the description: one chip per project asset the character wears, ending in an Add outfit / Edit outfit button. It appears once the project has an asset base.

Actions

• Add outfit / Edit outfit — changes which project assets the character wears (see "Dress a Scene or a Character with Assets").
• Edit — opens the character editor (see "Edit Character").
• Library — saves a copy, image included, to your character library, and reads Saved briefly afterwards. Disabled until the character has an image (Generate the character image first).
• Delete — removes the character from the project after a confirmation (Remove character). The confirmation names the affected scenes.
• Project variant — shown on a global (library) character instead of Edit, Library, and Delete: Give this project its own editable copy of the character. The library entry stays as it is. (see "Project Variant of a Library Character").

The action row is hidden while the project is generating.

A removed character leaves the script and the cast of every scene it was in. The narrator cannot be removed this way, and a library character leaves only this project. When the character was cast in any scene, the app then offers to rewrite those scenes' text without them (see "Rewrite Scenes After a Delete").

Warning: Removing a character deletes its reference image and the generated image and video of every scene it was in, because they were drawn with it. Narration and caption timings are kept.

Under the last card of the cast column hangs a dashed Add character button (Add a character to the script); when the script has no characters yet it is a card of its own. It is disabled while a task runs (Wait for the running task to finish). See "Add a Character to a Project".

Image Node

Shows the generated scene image.

Actions

• Preview fullscreen — opens the image in the fullscreen viewer.
• Retry loading — loads the image again.
• Delete image — Deletes the scene image, raw clip, and final video. Use Resume Generation when you want to rebuild them.

Warning: Deleting a scene image means the dependent video assets must be regenerated.

Audio Node

Shows the scene's available audio tracks.

Actions

• Play/pause — plays or pauses the track.
• Seek — jumps to a point in the track.
• Retry loading — loads the audio again.
• Delete narration / Delete audio — Deletes narration, generated audio, raw clip, and final video. The scene image is kept. Use Resume Generation when you want to rebuild them.

Regenerating audio can affect later video stages, because video timing depends on audio. For cloud-rendered scenes the rule is forgiving:

• If the new narration (plus the voice delay and tail) still fits inside the rendered clip, the clip is kept. The scene plays longer or shorter at the next stitch, with no re-render.
• Only when the new narration outgrows the clip is the clip deleted, with a warning, so the scene can be re-rendered at the right length.
• Captions' word timings and the final video are always refreshed after an audio change.

Video Node

Shows a generated scene video clip. When captions are on, each scene has two video boxes: raw clip and captioned clip.

Actions

• Play/pause — plays or pauses the clip.
• Seek — jumps to a point in the clip.
• Fullscreen preview — opens the clip in the fullscreen viewer.
• Narration mute toggle (Narration on — click to mute / Narration off — click to unmute) — lets you hear the clip's own soundtrack alone.
• Delete video (raw clips only) — Deletes scene video clips and final video. Asks first (see below).
• Cancel — shown on a captioned clip while its caption burn is running.
• Remove from queue — shown while the clip is queued (see below).
• Thumbs up / thumbs down — rates the clip. A dislike can include an optional preset reason or custom comment; select the active rating again to clear it.

Queued Clips

While a clip is waiting in a local, rented, or Aificient Cloud render queue, the node shows a colored Queued badge with a small queue icon instead of its normal status icon. Once rendering starts, it switches to the normal active/progress state.

A queued clip carries a Remove from queue button (Removing... while it works). Its tooltip depends on the queue:

• GPU queue: Takes this scene's clip out of the GPU's render queue. The other scenes keep rendering.
• Aificient Cloud: Takes this scene's clip out of the Aificient Cloud render queue, refunding it. The other scenes keep rendering.

The button is not offered once the clip is rendering. A removed scene is rendered again by Resume Generation, which can run beside the live queue (see "Resume Generation").

Deleting a Clip

Delete video asks first: Delete this video? (subtitle Scene N) — The video is deleted. The next Resume Generation renders it again, and the old one can't be brought back. and Rendering it again costs credits again. — with Cancel / Delete video.

Warning: Deleting a scene video means the final video must be regenerated.

Previewing a Cloud-Rendered Scene

For cloud-rendered scenes, pressing play previews the clip and its narration together: the voice enters after the configured voice delay, the clip's own soundtrack plays underneath at the project's SFX volume, and playback stops where the final video will cut the scene. What you hear, and where it ends, is what the stitched video keeps.

Stitch Node

Shows the final video stitching status. The stitch runs locally in the desktop app (no GPU needed) as soon as every scene clip is ready; on the web it runs on Aificient Cloud instead.

Actions

• Stitch Final Video — the action at the bottom of the right sidebar when every required scene clip is ready but the final video is missing. Starts the local stitch without choosing a GPU.

What the Stitch Does

• Downloads the clips and, for cloud-rendered scenes, their narration tracks.
• Mixes each narration over its clip's own soundtrack; the model's ambience dips under the voice, scaled by the project's SFX volume.
• Trims each narrated scene to end a beat after its voice finishes. The rendered clip is an oversized canvas; the narration decides the scene's real length.
• Joins the scenes with the transition you set for each cut, or the project's crossfade where you set none (see "Scene Transitions").
• Writes the provenance watermark and uploads the final video to your project.

Steps Shown While It Runs

1. Downloading scene videos (Downloading scene video N/M) and, for cloud-rendered scenes, their narration (Downloading narration N/M).
2. Analyzing scene videos.
3. Stitching scene videos, with live progress.
4. Joining scene videos.
5. Writing the provenance watermark.
6. Uploading the final video, with real upload progress.

Scenes are normalised two at a time into segments and the crossfades are encoded separately, so a long project needs about 2.8 GB of memory at the peak for thirty 1080p scenes. The final file goes straight to storage; the upload cap is 1 GB.

States

The Local Queue

Only one local job runs at a time; stitches and caption burns share the queue. If several projects finish rendering around the same time, their stitches queue up and run one after another. Cancelling a generation also removes its stitch from the queue.

Local stitching needs a working internet connection to download the clips and upload the result, plus temporary free disk space. Temporary files are cleaned up after the stitch finishes.

Cost: On the web the stitch runs on Aificient Cloud (Stitching on Aificient Cloud · <elapsed>) at 0.1 credits per stitch. The server applies its own limit on scenes per stitch and shows its own message if a project exceeds it.

Transition Node

With two or more scenes, a column of join nodes sits between the last video column and the Stitch node, one per cut. Each shows Transition with N-1 → N, the transition's icon and name, and Hard cut or <Name> · <length>s (for example Crossfade · 0.4s).

Actions

• Change transition (How scene N comes in after scene N-1) — opens the transition picker. Locked while a generation is running (Wait for the generation to finish to change the transition).

Note: Changing a transition deletes only the final video — see "Scene Transitions".

Output Node

Shows the final video when available. When the project has no poster image (the first scene image was deleted, or a UGC ad, which has none), the node previews the video's first frame instead.

Actions

• Play — plays the final video.
• Seek — jumps to a point in the video.
• Fullscreen — opens the video in the fullscreen viewer.
• Download — saves the final video.
• Thumbs up / thumbs down — rates the final video, optionally adding a reason when you dislike it.

3. Fullscreen Media Viewer

Images and videos can open in fullscreen, from the canvas nodes, from a character card's reference image, and from the asset detail modal.

One bar at the top-left holds the icon, the title and subtitle, and the actions; it stays on screen while the viewer is open:

• Download.
• Share.
• Close.

Note: If sharing is not available on your system, the app falls back to copying or opening the media link.

4. Right Scene Sidebar

The right sidebar appears when a project is selected. For a History project it has three tabs: Schema, Assets, and Settings.

A poster project uses the same column with a Plan tab in place of Schema and a much smaller Settings form — see "The Poster Sidebar". A UGC ad has Scenes, Assets, and Settings tabs of its own — see "The UGC Sidebar".

Schema Tab

The Schema tab is a project outline. It shows:

• Project, characters, scenes, and the final video. Clicking an item focuses the related node on the canvas.
• Scene rows: duration, asset readiness, generation status, and missing or completed stages.
• A scene whose clip is queued on Aificient Cloud is drawn as waiting, with a dashed, pulsing border.
• A scene whose clip is rendering on Aificient Cloud gets the same sky-blue glow as a scene this computer is generating.

Assets Tab

The Assets tab groups generated files. Common groups:

• Scene images.
• Character images.
• Narration.
• Sound effects.
• Generated audio.
• Raw clips.
• Final video.
• Project assets (each labelled Project asset).
• Metadata.

From each entry you can focus the related node or download the asset.

Settings Tab

The Settings tab controls project-specific video settings, in four sections: Format, Model, Audio, and Captions.

If the stored font cannot write the language, the picker shows the font that will really be used and notes <Font> has no <Language> characters, so captions use <Font>. (see "Caption Fonts" under "Global Settings").

The sticky footer has Discard changes and a primary button that reads No changes to apply, Apply changes, Applying, then Applied.

Note: Apply settings before rendering video. While there are unsaved changes the Resume Generation menu shows Generation changes pending to be saved! and its render action is blocked.

5. Editing and Regeneration

Aificient Studio lets you change individual parts of a project without starting from scratch. Some edits are manual, some are AI-assisted, and some trigger regeneration because later assets depend on the edited part. This section covers editing from the canvas after generation.

To edit the concept before generation (title, characters, scenes, scripts), continue from the creation chat to render settings and use the Edit button in the right-side Script panel (see "Reviewing and Editing the Generated Concept").

Three words come up throughout:

• Manual edit — you type the replacement yourself.
• AI edit — you describe the change you want and the app rewrites that component.
• Regeneration — the app recreates missing or invalidated assets and keeps completed assets that are still valid.

Rewrite Scene Text

Use it when: a scene's text needs different wording. Editable fields are Description, Character reference, and Script; each can be rewritten manually or with AI.

Steps

1. Click the scene text node on the canvas.
2. Choose manual edit or AI rewrite.
3. Enter the replacement text or the rewrite instruction.
4. Confirm the change.
5. Regenerate the affected assets when prompted.

What regenerates: rewriting a field removes the generated assets that depend on it, so the project stays consistent.

• Description — usually a new image and video.
• Script — usually new narration and video.
• Character reference — usually new visuals.

Add a Character to a Project

Use it when: the story needs someone who was not there at the start — a rival who appears halfway through, a mascot, a narrator's sidekick. You can add a character at any point after the project exists.

Steps

1. Click Add character under the last cast card (or the Add character card when the script has no cast yet). A modal titled Add character with the project name opens.
2. Pick one of the three tabs and fill it in (see the table below).
3. Click the tab's button. A summary card confirms the addition, with Close and Regenerate images + audio.
4. To see the character before placing them, click Regenerate images + audio there, or later use Resume Generation > Images + Audio only. The sidebar button stays active for an uncast character with no image even when the project's final video is already done, and the card shows the generation progress.
5. Cast them from the Cast strip of the scenes they belong in (see "Change a Scene's Cast").

What regenerates: nothing now. The character is in no scene until you cast them; their reference image renders on the next run, and each recast scene regenerates its image and video on the next run.

Note: There is no voice field here. Voice is only editable later, and only for the narrator.

Note: Reference photos you attach are uploaded to the project asset base first and become the character's outfit references (They join the project's assets and the character is drawn from them.).

Messages You May See

Change a Scene's Cast

Use it when: a scene should show a different set of characters.

Steps

1. On the scene card, click Add cast or Edit cast in the Cast strip. The Scene N cast picker opens: a checklist of Characters in this project (N in scene) with avatar, name, and narrator / library character labels. There is no per-scene limit.
2. Tick or untick characters. As soon as the selection changes, the picker warns This scene regenerates with the new cast.
3. If your pick adds someone the scene did not have, or takes out someone it had, decide whether the AI should also rewrite the scene's text (see "Write Changes into the Scene"). The button then reads Save and write in or Save and rewrite.
4. Click Save cast (or the write-in button).

What regenerates: the scene's image and videos; narration and caption timings are kept. The scene's Character Reference text is kept in step with the new cast.

Messages You May See

Dress a Scene or a Character with Assets

Use it when: a scene image should include specific project assets, or a character should wear them (see "Project Assets Node (Asset Base)").

Both use the same picker: a checklist headed Assets in this project (n/max selected) with thumbnails and each asset's description or kind, or Pending generation for one with no image yet. Entries are disabled once the cap is reached. Buttons: Cancel / Save assets.

Steps

1. Open the picker from the scene card or the character card.
2. Tick the assets you want.
3. On a scene, decide whether newly added assets should be written into the scene's text and removed ones written out of it (Save and write in / Save and rewrite, see "Write Changes into the Scene"). A character's outfit picker does not offer this.
4. Click Save assets.
5. Rebuild the affected images with Resume Generation (or Images + Audio only).

What regenerates: for a scene, its image and videos (narration and caption timings are kept); for a character, their image and the media of every scene they appear in (narration is kept).

Note: Library (global) characters cannot wear project assets. Make a Project variant first (see "Project Variant of a Library Character").

Tip: Open an asset's detail modal from the Assets card and use Place with AI to let the model decide which scenes (and which character, for wardrobe) should carry it.

Messages You May See

Write Changes into the Scene

Use it when: attaching or detaching a character or asset should also change what the scene's text says. Attaching only hands the image model a reference, and detaching only takes it away: the text may still describe it, so the next image would draw it from the words.

When your draft changes who or what the scene holds, the cast and scene-asset pickers show a card: a New in this scene row with a chip per addition, a Leaving this scene row with a struck-through chip per removal, and a switch, on by default, whose wording follows the change:

Steps

1. Change the cast or the assets in the picker. The card appears as soon as your draft adds or removes something.
2. Leave the switch on. Optionally add a two-line note under How the scene changes (up to 600 characters). Its placeholder reads Optional — e.g. she walks in from the left and waves, Optional — e.g. it sits on the table and she picks it up, or, for a swap, Optional — e.g. he walks in where the other one stood.
3. Click Save and write in (additions only) or Save and rewrite (anything removed), both with the atom icon. With the switch off the button stays Save cast / Save assets.
4. Wait for the rewrite. The cast or asset list is saved first (Cast saved / Assets saved), then the modal shows Writing into the scene — Rewriting the scene description and the character reference… — and cannot be closed until it finishes. The pick is already saved at that point, so a failure never loses it.
5. Read the result. On success the new Scene description and Character reference are shown read-only, with <name> · described from its image for any asset the service named from its picture. Footer: Close / Regenerate images + audio.

What regenerates: only the scene's description and character reference are rewritten; its image and clips regenerate on the next run. No scene is added and numbering does not change.

Cost: The rewrite is a charged scene rewrite (no price is shown in the picker). Nothing is charged twice if you save again while an earlier rewrite is still running.

Messages You May See

A full sentence sent by the service is shown as it comes.

Rewrite Scenes After a Delete

Use it when: you have just deleted a project character (Remove character) or a project asset (Delete asset). The delete removes its images, but the text of the scenes it was in may still describe it, and the next scene image would draw it again from the words.

The offer appears right after the delete when the character was cast in at least one scene, or the asset was assigned directly to at least one scene (scenes that only had it through a character's outfit do not count).

Steps

1. Delete the character or asset. The modal Rewrite without <name> opens, subtitled Scene 2 or Scenes 2, 4, with a Deleted caption over the item's struck-through chip.
2. Optionally add a note under How the scenes change (up to 600 characters). The placeholder is Optional — e.g. she finishes the call alone at the counter for a character, Optional — e.g. her hands are empty now; she just waves for an asset.
3. Click Rewrite N scenes (atom icon), or Leave as it is to skip. While it works the button reads Rewriting… with Rewriting N scenes…, and the modal cannot be closed.
4. Review the result. On success the title becomes Taken out of the scenes and each scene's new description is shown read-only. Footer: Close / Regenerate images + audio (an images-and-audio-only run).

What regenerates: descriptions and character references are rewritten; narration is kept. The scenes' images and videos regenerate from the new text.

Cost: Each scene is a small AI edit, charged on its own.

Note: If you choose Leave as it is, you can still clean a scene up later from its cast or asset picker, or by rewriting its text.

Messages You May See

The failure reasons are the same as for a write-in (see "Write Changes into the Scene").

Project Variant of a Library Character

Use it when: you need to edit, delete, or dress a library character inside one project. A library character on the canvas is global: it cannot be edited, deleted, or dressed inside the project, so every project using it stays consistent. Its card offers Project variant instead.

Steps

1. Click Project variant on the character card. The modal explains: This project gets its own copy of <name>: same look, same scenes, but editable here and able to wear project assets. and Your library character stays untouched, and so does every other project using it. Nothing regenerates now — the scenes keep their images until you change something about the variant.
2. Click Create variant. The library reference is swapped for a project character that starts from the library image.

What regenerates: nothing now; the scenes keep their images until you change something about the variant. If the library entry had no image, the next run renders one.

Edit Character

Use it when: an editable project character should change — their identity, their look, or (for the narrator) their voice. Edit on the card opens the Edit character editor with two tabs:

On the Manual tab, changing the outfit is saved on its own and regenerates the character and the scenes they appear in.

The Voice section (This character narrates. A new voice re-records the narration and re-renders the videos; artwork stays.) uses the voice picker described under "Voice"; its button shows the voice's name, or Select a voice. A voice change is saved through the narrator, exactly like Change voice on the Narrator card.

Steps

1. Click Edit on the character card.
2. On Manual, change the fields you want; on AI, write the Instruction and decide whether to keep Keep the current look as reference on.
3. Read the editor's warning box: it says what will be invalidated before you confirm (see the table below).
4. Click Rewrite character, then Confirm rewrite on the Confirm the rewrite panel (The affected visuals are deleted now and rebuilt on the next generation run.).
5. On success the editor reads Character updated and offers Regenerate images + audio.

What regenerates: it depends on what you change.

Note: After a voice change a clip is re-rendered later only if its new narration no longer fits inside it; the final video is stitched again.

Tip: Use Manual for exact name, type, description, or voice changes. Use AI to keep the character idea but change the style, personality, appearance, or level of detail.

The footer also has a Regenerate image button for when the character is right but the picture is not. It changes nothing about the character: it deletes the reference image and the visuals of the scenes the character appears in, starts an images-and-audio-only run, and closes the editor.

The card shows the progress and the new image lands when the run finishes.

Messages You May See

Delete Assets

Use it when: one generated piece is wrong and you want only that piece rebuilt. Some nodes let you delete specific assets; after deletion, use Resume Generation to regenerate what is missing.

Regenerate vs Resume Generation

Use it when: you want the app to rebuild what an edit or a delete invalidated. The app does not intentionally regenerate everything: it keeps valid completed assets and focuses on the missing or affected stages.

You can also ask for any of these in plain words with Edit with AI (see "Edit with AI").

6. Scene Transitions

Every cut between two scenes can have its own transition — how the next scene comes in. Transitions exist in stories and UGC ads (a poster has only one clip), on the desktop, the web, and the iPhone app.

Setting a Transition

• On the canvas — the Transition join node between two scenes (N-1 → N) shows the current one (Hard cut, or for example Crossfade · 0.4s). Click Change transition (How scene N comes in after scene N-1).
• In a UGC scene's editor — the Comes in with box in the Scene tab, from scene 2 on. This changes the draft and is saved with the scene (Saved. No clip needed to change; finish the video to see the new transition.).
• With Edit with AI — "suggest a transition into scene 4", or "use a dip to black before the last scene".

The picker (Transition, Scene N-1 → Scene N) is a grid of fourteen tiles; each plays a sample when you hover it.

Below the grid:

• Length slider — 0.2–1.5 seconds, from Snappy to Smooth, with a link back to the default.
• Comes in direction — for Slide and Wipe only: From right (default), From left, From below, or From above.
• With Cut selected the picker reads Straight to the next shot, no overlap. Hover a transition to see it.
• Footer: Only the final video is rebuilt — no scene renders again. — Cancel / Apply.

What Changes

Applying a transition saves it at once and deletes only the final video: no clip, captioned cut, or storyboard is touched, and nothing is charged beyond the stitch. Rebuild the final video with Stitch Final Video at the bottom of the sidebar, or ask Edit with AI to stitch. A transition has to be shorter than both scenes it joins.

Note: Transitions cannot be changed while a generation is running (Wait for the generation to finish to change the transition).

Defaults

Once you apply a transition to a cut, that cut keeps its own and stops following the setting.