Getting started

Fifteen minutes from empty workspace to your first rendered shot. We assume you're signed in and have created a workspace.

1. Create a project

From the workspace home, click New Project. Give it a name and short description. A project holds sequences (which hold shots) plus its own Canon Bible — characters, locations, props, and style rules specific to this production.

2. Seed the Canon Bible

Open Canon Bible from the project toolbar. The three Library buttons (Add Character, Add Location, Add Prop) open the same three-pane flow:

Catalog — pick a pre-made starter archetype or describe your own.
Candidates — we render 4 thumbnails; pick the closest match to your vision.
Refine — edit canon fields (hair color, voice, palette notes, etc.) and save.

Each canon entity gets a SHA-256 fingerprintover its fields, versioned. Every render that touches this entity stamps the fingerprint into its provenance manifest — that's how we prove later "this shot was rendered against canon state X."

3. Plan a scene

Open Planner. Paste a scene description in prose. The planner reads your Canon Bible and returns a canon-aware shot list with camera types, emotional beats, and character/location/prop IDs resolved. Review, deselect any you don't want, then Create shots.

Tick Render draft thumbnailsbefore creating and we'll queue a DRAFT Framing render for every shot — you land on a visual storyboard, not a text list.

4. Direct a shot in Studio Mode

Click any shot → Studio Mode. Framing mode generates still frames; pick the best one; switch to Directing to animate it with motion + dialogue. The composer includes:

@-mentions that auto-tag canon characters and locations as chips.
Continuity Lint that flags drift against previous shots before you render.
Palette locker that samples a reference frame and enforces the grade across subsequent renders.
Shot Lightbox for dailies-style compare + fork + version-tree review.

5. Review, approve, release