Your first film

A chapter, start to finish, in the order the stages are meant to run — with the two or three settings on each step that change the result.

1 · Source

1. Import the chapter. Check the pages are in reading order.
2. Understand Pages — reads every page: the text, the scene, the gutters. Costs a few credits, no GPU. Everything after this can talk about your comic from these notes.
3. Split into Panels — run it on the original pages, before bubbles are removed: it looks for panel borders, and erased bubbles leave rectangles it can mistake for them. Open a panel and use Crop if it took too much.
4. Find Speech Bubbles — knocks every balloon out to transparency, per panel. Use Paint on any it missed.

2 · Art

1. Plan Art — reads each panel and writes its notes, including whether it is a frame at all. A dropped panel is one click to overrule in the file's insights.
2. Clean Up Panels — paints art back into the holes. Run it before styling: styling repaints the whole panel and closes the holes.
3. Apply Anime Style — pick one style for the whole chapter and do not vary it between panels. A panel styled unlike its neighbours becomes a keyframe, and the video model will animate the style change. Try a Style on one panel first.
4. Fit to Frame — last, on the styled plates. It extends the edges to the video frame and composites your plate back over the result.

3 · Story

1. Plan Story — on the imported pages, not the panels. It records every line and describes who says it.
2. Write Script — one .srt, narration or dialogue. Open it, read it, fix a line, then mark it as the video script. The Video stage plans against the marked one.

You can skip Story. Video then works from the artwork alone and makes a film with nobody talking over it.

4 · Video

1. Plan Video — on the Fit to Frame folder, in reading order. It writes the storyboard: which panels become shots, which group into one, how each moves, and how long each runs when a line is spoken over it. Read the storyboard; edit any shot's direction before generating.
2. Generate Video — one clip per shot. This is where most of a chapter's credits go, so try three shots first: run it on a sample, watch them, then run the rest.

A shot that came out wrong: open the clip, say what is wrong, and Fix this shot. The new take replaces the old in place.

5 · Sound

1. Plan Sound — free. Casts a voice per character, fits each line to its clip, flags the lines that do not fit (lengthen the shot rather than rush the line), cues a mood per scene.
2. Generate Voice-over — one file per line. Re-say any single line from its editor.
3. Generate SFX — ambience and impacts under each clip, prompted by the scene's mood.
4. Clean Sound — the mastering pass over everything.

6 · Deliver

1. Cut — the clips in order with their transitions. Heads and tails are trimmed for you.
2. Mixdown — voices at their cues, effects under their shots, loudness-normalised. Play it against the picture.
3. Render & Export — the film, with subtitles from the script if you want them and upscaling if you want it. Export the film alone or the whole project.

Last updated 2026-09-17. Credit figures are from the studio's own reference runs; the estimate on the run button is what you are charged.