Shots

A shot is the most granular unit of production -- a single image or video clip with a specific camera angle, characters, dialogue lines, and generated media.

Shots live within scenes, and all of an episode's scenes and shots form a single table of contents. You reach a specific shot from the episode's shot views: open a shot from the Storyboard, Brief, or Pacing view, or step between shots with the prev/next control in the page header. See Navigation.

The top of the shot page shows a media preview -- the primary media item selected for this shot. A green border indicates this is the frame that will be exported. You can change the fit mode (cover, contain, etc.) and output resolution from controls above the preview.

The shot has four views, switched from the view dropdown in the page header:

Media -- all images and video generated for this shot, and where you run recipes to make more.

Organize -- a workspace for arranging and curating this shot's media.

Properties -- everything that defines the shot, in one place.

Timeline -- a single-shot preview with playback and render controls.

The Media view is the shot's Media Gallery -- all images and video generated for this shot. Star an item to make it the primary. This is also where you run Recipes: select a recipe, configure inputs for each step, and run. Results land back in the gallery.

The Organize view is a dedicated workspace for arranging and curating this shot's media -- reviewing the gallery and tidying what you've generated.

The Properties view gathers everything that defines the shot, in two parts.

Assignments

What is in the shot. These save immediately as you change them, and they inform the AI Assistant and feed recipe inputs automatically.

• Location -- where the shot takes place. Inheritable from the parent scene. The location's starred image becomes an input to recipe steps that generate the shot's background.
• Characters -- which characters appear. For each character, pick the look to use and set their performance for this shot: mood, facial expression, body language, and gesture.
• Props -- which props are present.
• Dialogue sequence -- the dialogue lines spoken in this shot, in order. See Audio & Voice Pipeline.

Attributes

The shot's descriptive fields, grouped to match the pipeline phases:

• Core -- the shot's name.
• Directions -- camera angle, blocking, and visual notes used for storyboard and generation.
• Synopsis, Appearance, Performance, Audio, Editorial -- structured metadata for each phase.

Text fields save when you click Save on each row.

Note: Some shot edits may be lost if the scene is regenerated from the screenplay. Fill in details after the shot structure is stable.

The Shot Timeline is a single-shot preview with playback controls, output resolution selector, and fit mode. Use this to review a shot's media and audio before rendering.

The Render button (orange = needs render, green = up to date) produces a video clip using server-side rendering.

Action	What it does
Render Shot	Renders this shot to a video clip
Render Scene	Renders all shots in the scene and concatenates them
Render Episode	Renders all scenes in the episode
Play Rendered Video	Opens the last rendered clip
Download	Downloads the rendered clip
Delete	Removes the rendered clip

During a render: still images loop for the shot duration; video clips are trimmed from a configurable start offset; if a video is shorter than the shot duration the last frame is held; per-character audio tracks are mixed together.