An AI storyboard generator that prices every shot
Say what the video is for. Get the shots, the timing and the cost.
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Shot one, to cameraYour Digital Twin.
Shot two, the problemA slow push in.
Shot three, the productMacro, low angle.
Shot six, the askClose, to camera.
An AI storyboard generator that prices every shot
Say what the video is for and Kae lays the shots out in order: the script, who is on camera, the framing, how long it runs, and what each one costs to make. Change anything on the board. Nothing runs until you approve it.
Every shot is settled, and priced, before a single one is made.
The board lives in your Studio. There are no drawn panels and no PDF to download.
Part of Kae.
How do I get a storyboard for a video I have not shot yet?
Tell Kae what the video is for and she lays out the shots: the order, the script, who is on camera, how each one is framed, how long it runs and what it costs. Planning spends no credits, just one of your monthly sessions. Change any shot, then approve. It does not draw panels or export a PDF.
Who it is for
Anyone who wants the shots settled before the shoot day or the first render. One person, or a small team that has to agree on the board first.
What you need
An email and a sentence about the video. A photo and a short recording only if you want your own face and voice in the presenter shots.
What it costs
The board itself costs no credits. It spends one planning session, and Free includes 5 a month, Plus 20, Pro 60, with no monthly count on Max and Ultra. Credits go on the shots you approve: a presenter shot runs at 152 credits a second on the default paid setting, and no single render bills less than 120 credits. A shot taken from the stock library costs nothing, and a still starts at 20 credits.
What it does not do
It does not draw panels, print a board or hand you a PDF, and nothing renders until you press approve.
The rows run on the tools you already have: talking-head video for a presenter shot, Freeform for a footage shot and AI images for a still.
How you get one.
- 1
Say what the video is for.
One sentence is enough. "A two minute explainer for a new service, in my voice, with a few product shots." Add a script, a photo or footage you already have if you want the board built around them.
- 2
Read the board.
Kae asks one question first if something would waste a shot, then lays the board out. Every row has its framing, its length and its cost, and the total is at the foot.
- 3
Change it, then approve.
Rewrite a line, swap the presenter, drop shot four, change the framing on shot two, reorder the lot. The cost follows every change. When it reads right, you approve the board and the shots run, one at a time.
See the frame before you pay for the clip.
Still first, then motion.
Set the board to start from stills and every footage shot is made as one picture first. You look at it, retake it if it is wrong, and only then turn it into motion. It is the cheapest way to find out that shot three was never going to work. The frames you keep stay on the board, and the shots that come back from them land in the same order the board put them in.
The old way was a doc and a guess.
A doc and a guess
- You write the script in a document and count the shots in your head.
- You guess the runtime, then guess the budget.
- You find out what it really costs one render at a time, after the money has gone.
- Someone changes their mind in week two and the whole sum starts again.
A board with a price on every line
- You read one board: the line that gets said, the person in frame, the framing.
- The seconds and the credits sit on the row they belong to.
- The total sits at the bottom, before anything has run.
- Change a row and the total changes with it, before you have spent anything.
What the board gives you, shot by shot.
Every row is a real shot, not a sketch. Here is what one row carries.
The shot and what it is for.
A short name and the one thing that shot has to land.
What we see.
The scene in a sentence, written so a person could film it.
The line.
The script for a presenter shot, word for word, in your tone.
Who is in it.
Your Digital Twin, an Avatar, or nobody at all on a footage shot or a still.
The framing or the camera move.
A close-up, a low angle, a slow push in. Pick it from the studio's own catalog, or change the one Kae picked.
How long it runs.
Whole seconds, up to 120 seconds a shot, and the board totals the runtime for you.
Cutaways.
On a presenter shot, a few suggestions for what to cut away to while the line keeps playing.
What it costs.
The credits for that row, worked out by the Studio, next to the row it belongs to.
A six-shot board, as it comes back.
A board holds one to twelve shots and picks one shape for all of them: wide, tall or square. Shots come in three kinds: someone talking to camera, a piece of footage, or a still.
This is an example, not a customer's board. It is the shape one comes back in.
- Open, to camera. Your Digital Twin, medium close, 12s. Presenter.
- The problem, on the bench. Nobody, slow push in, 6s. Footage.
- The product, close. Nobody, macro, low angle, 4s. Still.
- The answer, to camera. Your Digital Twin, medium close, 14s. Presenter.
- Hands, using it. Nobody, over the shoulder, 5s. Footage.
- The ask, to camera. Your Digital Twin, close, 8s. Presenter.
Total runtime, 49s. The cost of all six sits under the list before you approve any of them.
What each shot costs.
The board shows the real number before you approve it. These are the rules behind that number.
- Someone talking to camera. 152 credits a second on the default paid setting, and no single render bills less than 120 credits. Every plan, and a free render runs up to one minute.
- A footage shot the Studio makes. Priced per second on the quality you pick, and the number sits on the row. Plus and up.
- A footage shot from the stock library. Nothing. It creates no render at all, on every plan.
- A still. From 20 credits an image. The Premium quality rung is Plus and up.
Free starts you with 8,400 credits, once, and they never expire. Planning costs none of them: a board spends one of your monthly sessions, and Free includes 5 a month, Plus 20, Pro 60, with no monthly count on Max and Ultra.
Read it with the people who have to agree.
Share the room with your Workspace, or name the two people who actually sign off, and copy the link into the thread where the work is being discussed. It is not a public link: the people you name are in your Workspace, and someone let in cannot invite anyone else.
They leave a note on any single shot, and replies stay under that shot rather than in a mail chain. You see an unread mark on the rows that have something waiting. Team seats start on Pro.
Made with consent.
A real person's Digital Twin needs a current consent record before it can render anything. An Avatar is a character we made, with no real person behind it, so it needs none.
Machine-verifiable disclosure and provenance are being rolled out and are not yet guaranteed on every output.
What this board is not.
Three things, said plainly, because finding out in week three is worse.
It does not draw panels.
There are no sketched frames and no illustrator. What you get is the plan in words and, if you ask for stills first, the real frames.
There is no PDF.
The board lives in the Studio. You share it with a link, not as a file, so if your process ends in a printed board for a crew, this is not that tool yet.
Kae plans, then steps back.
She works on the board. Once the shots have run, the editor is a manual room: you cut, layer, caption and export it yourself.
Questions people ask before they plan.
- Do I get drawn panels?
- No. A board is the shots in words, with the framing, the length and the cost on each row. If you want to see a picture of a shot before you commit to it, set the board to start from stills and the Studio makes the real frame for a few credits, which is closer to the finished thing than a sketch would be.
- Does making a storyboard cost credits?
- No. Planning is free. A board spends one of your monthly planning sessions, and Free includes 5 a month, Plus 20, Pro 60, with no monthly count on Max and Ultra. Credits only move when you approve the board and the shots run.
- Can I use it to brief a human crew?
- You can read it and share the link with anyone in your Workspace, and the shots carry framing, runtime and intent, which is most of what a crew needs. There is no PDF or print sheet today, so if your crew works from paper you would be copying it out.
- How big can a board be?
- One to twelve shots, and up to 120 seconds on any single shot. That covers an explainer, an ad or a lesson. It is not built for a thirty minute course in one board, though you can plan that as more than one.
- What if I change my mind halfway?
- Change any row and the board updates, including the total. You can lock the shots you are happy with so they survive the next pass, reorder the rest, and approve when it reads right. Nothing you change costs anything until you approve.
- Can my team comment on it?
- Yes. Share the room with your Workspace or name specific people, and anyone with access can leave a note on one shot. Replies sit under that shot. Team seats start on Pro.
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