Script nodes

Once it has generated, the body of the card is a shot sheet: one shot per row, so you can see at a glance how many shots the script has and how far along the film is.

• The line across the top shows overall progress, First frames a/n · Videos b/n: of the n shots, a have a first frame and b have a video. On the right, Edit opens the full-screen shot sheet; double-clicking the card does the same. While something is still running (generating assets, composing prompts), a progress capsule lights up on this line.
• Columns: tick box, Shot, First frame, Description, Timecode, Duration, Video. Only what the script actually has goes in them.
• First frame: the storyboard image for that shot. Once it's out, you see its thumbnail. If the node exists but has no image yet, a status word shows instead: Pending, Generating or Failed. A shot that has never been created just shows an image icon.
• Timecode: where the shot starts and ends in the finished film. Shots from a film-study script follow the cut points in the original footage; shots generated from scratch run from 0 seconds, one after another by duration.
• Video: the state of that shot's video node, or Not created until there is one. Click it and the canvas moves to that node.

Progress only counts canvas nodes that this script created itself. Key frames captured during film study don't count: they came from the rough split of the first viewing, and they don't line up with the shots once the script has been re-cut at the cut points.

Hover over a row and a small button appears at the bottom-right of its first-frame cell:

• Shot not created yet: the button is a small icon, and hovering over it shows the tip "Create the First frame and Shot description nodes for this shot". Click it and you get two things: a first frame, a storyboard image that goes into a storyboard group (running that group later is what generates it), and a shot description, a text card on the same row to the right holding that shot's description, which you can double-click to edit.
• Already created: the button turns into a locate icon. Click it to move the canvas to that first frame; it won't make a second copy.
• A shot whose description is empty and that hasn't been built yet can't be built, so it has no button.

The handle at the bottom-right corner resizes the card when you drag it, and the size sticks when you let go. The table has a row of fixed-width columns, and dragging the card too narrow would squeeze out the Description column, which is why there is a minimum size.

The top of the full-screen shot sheet has three steps, and they can be done in any order:

The prompts can be finished while the assets are still generating.

Select the script card and a toolbar floats above it. With no rows ticked, it looks like this:

Generate previz only lights up once the shots, prompts and assets are all ready. Until then it's greyed out, and hovering over it tells you what's still missing.

Tick some rows on the shot sheet and the toolbar switches to handle just that batch; the normal buttons are tucked away:

Create nodes doesn't need the Agent: click it and the nodes are made. The first frames it creates are draft nodes waiting to generate, so they cost nothing yet. To generate them, run the group as in 6.6, or run them one at a time. The ticks are temporary and aren't saved with the canvas; refreshing the page clears them.