Talk to your film
The chat beside the editor turns a wish into a priced plan of ordinary steps: a faster cut, a new look, a scene retaken, the story revised, a camera move, a title card. What you can ask, how plans and prices work, and what comes back.
#What it is
A chat that sits next to your storyboard or your finished film and understands both. Say what you want changed the way you would say it to an editor ("the choruses should cut faster", "scene 12 in black and white", "end on a fade to black", "the drummer should look older") and it answers with a plan: the steps it would take, which scenes they touch and what they cost. You approve the plan, or add to it, or ignore it. The steps are the same ones the scene tools and the film use, so nothing it does is out of your reach by hand; it just does them in one go.
#Where it lives
- Before a film exists: the Talk to your storyboard button at the top of the storyboard.
- Once a film exists: Edit · Chat or change any scene, the first button beside the player on the Your film step. It opens the chat and brings the scene strip into view, so you can do either.
- On a wide screen the chat is a column on the right and the page stays usable next to it; on a phone it is a sheet that folds down to a bar whenever you jump to a scene.
- It remembers. Close the tab or refresh, and the conversation and any unsent text are where you left them.
#What you can ask for
| Kind of change | Examples |
|---|---|
| The edit | Faster or calmer cutting in a section, longer holds, fewer flashes, no dissolves, a transition you name, less of the visual overlay, a fade in or out, a shorter cut for social media. |
| The look | Black and white, a warmer or colder grade, one scene sped up, slowed down, reframed or flipped. |
| Text on screen | A title, credits, captions, lyric subtitles, a logo or an end card. Only when you ask: the film never gets words on its own. |
| Scenes | A new image (Fast or Pro), your own picture as a scene, a new video with a note, lip sync on or off where it is allowed, a rewrite, an earlier take back. One scene or twenty at once. |
| The story | Revise what happens across many scenes, or change the structure: add, remove, split, merge, move or swap scenes. Everything stays on the bars of your song. |
| Camera moves | On one scene: a push-in, a circle to the face, a spin, a reveal, a swoop, a dancing camera, beat snaps. Across several: a fly-through, a morph, one continuous take. Available on films made at 768p Cinematic. |
| Characters | A new look for a cast member, applied to the scenes they appear in. |
When a wish can be met two ways, the plan says so. "Make scene 4 brighter" comes back as Plan A, a colour change in the film, and Plan B, an edited frame and a new clip, each with its price. A bare "redo scene 9" asks whether you mean the video or the picture too.
#The plan
- Read itOne line per step, with small thumbnails of the scenes it touches. When more than one step costs something, each line carries its own price.
- Add more, or approveAdd more keeps the plan open and lets you type the next wish into it. The approve button says what will happen and what it costs: Render · 93 for a plan that makes a new film take, Apply · 23 for scene work on its own.
- Check the wordsA plan that puts lyrics on screen lists every line before you render. Correct a word, or hide a line you do not want shown; lines the transcription was unsure of are marked.
- Watch it runAfter approval the card becomes a progress line, with Stop until the final render. You can leave the page; the status line at the top of the editor keeps track and offers Open chat when the plan needs your answer.
If something changed since the plan was made (you retook one of its scenes by hand, the price moved, the balance is short), the button is replaced by the way forward: Ask again, Price it again, or Get credits. A plan never spends more than it showed without asking first.
#What comes back
- A new film take. A plan that renders adds a take under the player, named after the change ("Take 4 · No dissolves", "Take 5 · Chorus cut · 0:34") with a Watch link that starts just before the first scene that changed. The earlier takes stay.
- Changed scenes. Scene work reports back in a line ("Scene 4 updated.") and the cards show the new takes, exactly as if you had used the tools yourself. Every earlier take is still in the history.
- A short cut. A cut-down for social media is a take of its own and never replaces your film.
Under the player, Continue from this take chooses which take your next change starts from. It is free and changes nothing on its own; it is how you go back to Take 2 after deciding Take 4 went too far.
#What it costs
| Credits | |
|---|---|
| A message the chat answers | 3. A message it could not answer costs nothing. |
| Scene work in a plan | The usual price of each tool: 3 for a Fast image, 15 for Pro or a rewrite, the motion price for a new clip. |
| A plan that makes a new film take | The render (70) plus any new clips. |
| Story revisions across scenes | 15 for up to three written scenes, then 3 per scene. |
The chat is part of a Music Video plan. Without one you can open it and type; Send opens the plans, and your text is still there when you come back.
Which language should I write in?
Any. It answers in the language you wrote in. Scene numbers ("scene 12", "escena 12") become links that slide the strip to that scene; "Take 3" always means a film take, never a scene.
Can I point at a scene instead of typing its number?
Yes. With the chat open on a wide screen, the number badge on any scene card puts "scene N" into your message.
I approved a plan and do not like the result
Your previous take is still there. Press it under the player, then Continue from this take, and ask for something else from there. Scene changes can be undone from each scene's take history.
Does the chat change my film while I am not looking?
No. It only proposes. Nothing is generated, charged or rendered until you press the button on a plan.
The chat said it will remember something
Rules you give it ("never use flashes in this film") are kept for the project and shown with an Undo.