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AI filmmaking resources

How a production is actually built in cutipAI — the order the work happens in, the vocabulary the workspace uses, and where to read more about each part of it.

The order the work happens in

Generated filmmaking rewards the same sequence a live production does, and most of the expensive mistakes come from taking it out of order — generating first and deciding what the film is afterwards. What follows is the order the workspace is built around.

Five steps, and what each one is for

1. Cast and dress the production

Build the characters, spaces and objects the piece keeps returning to. This is the step that makes every later shot cheaper, because a shot can then say who and where instead of re-describing everything.

2. Write and board it

Break the piece into scenes and shots with the dialogue in place. Structural problems are free to fix here and expensive to fix after twenty shots have been generated.

3. Generate the frames

Turn shots into pictures, one shot at a time, against the references the project already holds. Each generation shows an estimated cost before it runs.

4. Generate the video

Move from frames to moving shots, choosing the generation approach that suits each one, and add the voice and lipsync the written dialogue drives.

5. Cut and deliver

Assemble the shots with your own footage in the timeline, add music, captions and titles, and export — with upscaling and reframing where a delivery needs them.

The cutipAI storyboard, showing a scene broken into shots with generated frames
Steps two and three happen on the same board: the scenes and shots, and the frames generated from them.

Read more about each part

Character consistency covers step one — why a reference behaves differently from a description, and what it actually carries.

AI storyboard for filmmaking covers step two, and the argument for planning before the generation budget is committed.

Multi-model AI filmmaking covers the decision that runs through steps three and four: keeping one production while the generation approach changes shot by shot.

For the shape of a whole piece, the two use-case pages follow the sequence end to end — AI commercial creation over a short brief with a product and a presenter in it, and AI short-film production over several scenes and a recurring cast.

The words this workspace uses

Character, space, object

The three kinds of reusable reference a project holds — a person, a place, a thing. Each is built once and attached to the shots that need it.

Scene and shot

A scene is a continuous piece of action in one place; a shot is one camera setup inside it. The storyboard is organised as scenes containing shots.

First and last frame

The still images that describe where a shot starts and ends. A shot with both has the ends of its movement described, which is what video generation works between.

Estimated cost

The figure shown before a generation runs. It is a quote against the model and the settings; the final charge is the actual cost and can be higher or lower.

Timeline

The edit. Generated shots and your own footage sit on it together with audio, captions and titles, and the finished video is exported from it.

Credit

Prepaid balance in US Dollars, spent on generation as you produce. There is no subscription, and unused credit remains available while your account is active.

Start with the first step

Open a project, build the cast and locations your piece needs, and board a scene before you generate a frame of it.