Scene tools: retake, edit, rewrite, upload
Every scene of the storyboard can be retaken, edited in place, rewritten or given your own picture, before or after the film. What each tool does, Fast or Pro, what it costs, and how takes are kept.
#Four tools, one rule
Under every scene card sit Retake image, Edit image, Rewrite and Upload image. They share a rule: nothing is thrown away. Each one becomes a new take, the earlier ones stay in the scene's history, and you choose which take the film uses. The tools need an active Music Video plan (free previews are for looking), and each shows its price on the button before you press it.
| Tool | What it does | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Retake image | A fresh frame for the same story. Optional note: "closer to the reference", "wider framing", "colder light". | 4 Fast · 15 Pro |
| Edit image | The frame you have with one thing changed, in place. "Add a red umbrella. Remove the sign. Keep the same framing." | 4 Fast · 12 Pro |
| Rewrite | The scene's story rewritten, from your note or from a fresh idea if you leave it empty, with the whole treatment as context, then a new image for it. | 15 |
| Upload image | Your own picture, as the scene's frame or as a reference its retakes and edits follow. | 0 |
| Save story | Your own edit of the story text. The card then asks for a retake so the image matches. | 0 |
| Retake video / Create video | On the Your film step: a new motion take for a scene, at the motion price of the film's quality. | per 5 s |
#Fast or Pro
Retake image and Edit image both open with a choice above their button: Fast (Recommended) · 4 credits or Pro, 15 credits for a retake and 12 for an edit. Fast is right most of the time. Pro is a stronger model: it follows a detailed note more closely and, when editing, it leaves more of what you did not mention as it was. Reach for it when a Fast edit keeps redrawing the parts you wanted left alone, or when a face or a hand has to be just right. The choice goes back to Fast every time the panel opens.
#Retake image
Use it when the frame is the wrong frame: a light source that leaked in, a stranger in what should be an empty room, a composition you do not like. The story stays as written; only the image is rolled again, with your note added to the scene's own direction. Talk about the picture (framing, light, colour, what is in the shot); camera movement and pacing belong to Retake video once the film exists. The card shows Creating a new image take… over the frame while it works, and the new take is selected when it lands.
A note that only asks to fix something in the frame you already have ("remove the lamp", "keep this exact scene, just close his mouth") is carried out as an edit of that frame instead of a new one, at the same price, so the parts you liked survive.
#Edit image
Use it when the frame is right and one thing is wrong. The edit works on the selected image at full resolution, so framing, light and the rest of the scene survive. Type what to add, remove or change.
#Pointing at the right face
- Other scenes. Name them in the note of a retake or an edit, "like scene 12", "match takes 32 and 33", and their frames are used as the reference, up to three, shown as thumbnails under the field. That is how a character drifts back to their best frame.
- Your character's photos. When the scene shows a main character, their photos sit in a strip in the panel: Tap a photo of your character to make the image follow it. Saying "photo 2" or "reference photo 1" in the note picks it too. A bare "image 1" means scene 1.
- Earlier takes. Previous takes in the same panel lists what the scene has had, newest first; tap one to bring it back.
#Rewrite
Use it when the scene itself is wrong: the story goes somewhere you do not want, or you want a different beat at this point of the song. The rewrite reads your note, the treatment and the full sequence of the other scenes, and changes only this scene's role; timing, order and the world stay put, so the result still fits between its neighbours. A new image follows. No idea what it should be instead? Leave the note empty: the director proposes a genuinely different idea for the moment, and pressing again gives another.
#Upload image
| Choice | What happens |
|---|---|
| Use it as this scene's image | Your picture replaces the storyboard frame, cropped to 16:9; create the video from it as usual. It needs to be at least 640 × 360 once cropped. |
| Use it as a reference | Retakes and edits of this scene follow it; say in the note what to take from it. Up to three per scene, any size. The Retake panel opens with it already selected. |
#Editing the story yourself
The story text on every card is a text field. Change a word, press Save story, and the small indicator next to the title confirms the save. The card then says Story changed. Retake the image to bring it up to date. The film will not use a frame that no longer matches its story; Make the film repairs such frames first, or you retake them yourself.
#Takes and history
A scene with more than one take shows Take 2 ▾ next to its title. Open it and every take is there as a thumbnail; click one to make it the selected take. Selection is saved to the project and used by the film. On the Your film step the same menu lists video takes, each shown with the frame it was shot from: pick an older video take and its frame comes back with it. Nothing is ever deleted, so trying a retake is never a risk.
#Several scenes at once
Several scenes can be refined at the same time, each showing its own progress on its own card. When a scene has to wait (its image builds on another scene that is being updated), its card says so. For the same change on many scenes, say it once in the chat.
#After the film exists
All the tools stay available on the Your film step, plus Retake video (with its own Lip sync checkbox on scenes that sing). Change a scene, then Regenerate film with changes: scenes you did not touch reuse their clips at no charge, and only the new motion and the render are quoted. Your film has the details.
Some scenes are joined by a camera move that travels through them, a fly-through or one continuous take. A line under them says so, Retake video on any of them reshoots the whole move, and Separate splits them back into ordinary scenes (it says first whether that is free or what it costs).
Fast or Pro: which should I use?
Start with Fast. Switch to Pro for an edit that must leave the rest of the frame untouched, a long or precise note, or a face that Fast keeps getting slightly wrong.
The scene shows "Reference review passed" or a list of problems
That is Auto QC reporting on the frame. Problems it found and could not fix in its one retake are listed so you can decide.
Retake image is greyed out
Either the story has unsaved changes (save or revert them), the scene is busy or waiting for another scene, or the account has no active plan. Hovering the button tells you which.
Is there an undo?
Better: the take history. Open Take N ▾ and pick the earlier take. For story text, edit it back and save.
A scene says the image could not be made because of a policy
The frame was declined by a content check. Retake it with a gentler note, or rewrite the scene; when the scene text itself is the cause, the message says a retake of the same text will be declined again.