Documentation

The Creative Studio brings together three engines, picked from the selector at the top of the screen. Each produces one kind of content; all of them save their results in the project Library.

Two distinct modes: Light vs Node Canvas

• Light mode (universal) — a direct input field and a few settings. Designed for all accounts (free and paid) and all devices (smartphone, tablet, computer). It gathers single-shot generation (Text/Image → Video, Motion control) as well as the Storyboard, a step-by-step linear generator of 1 to 8 chained scenes, without any graph.
• Node Canvas mode (advanced) — an infinite 2D workspace where each step is a card wired to others through typed ports (references, camera, context, prompts, voices, images, videos). Reserved for paid plans on computer and tablet (screen ≥ 1,024 px). It features a Prompt Composer bar (⌘K / ⌘J) to plan complete graphs, collaborative team comments, and direct handoff to the multi-track montage timeline.

“Computer” means a screen at least 1,024 px wide and a mouse or trackpad: wiring cards requires a precise pointer. On any other device the Studio opens in Light, with no mode selector.

These terms have a precise meaning throughout the documentation and the interface.

Duration, failure and cancellation

• An image takes a few seconds to a minute; a video, one to several minutes depending on the model, the duration and the provider's load.
• A video is only charged once delivered: a failed or canceled video costs nothing.
• A failed (or canceled) image, voice, lip-sync or paid export is refunded automatically.
• Relaunching an identical generation does not bill it twice: each launch is identified, and a double click finds the job already sent.

The tables below are the reference: formats, durations, number of reference images accepted and cost of every model offered in the Studio.

Image models

Video models

Resolution changes the price of models that offer it: ×0.5 at 360p, ×0.7 at 480p, ×1 at 720p, ×1.5 at 1080p and ×2.5 at 4K. Kling has a fixed resolution per tier (Standard 720p, Pro 1080p). Example: 5 s on Kling 3.0 Pro = 7 credits; 10 s on Seedance 2.5 = 40 credits.

Output quality (resolution)

In the Node Canvas, the Video card offers the output quality its model accepts, with the cost of each: Gemini Omni Flash 360p, 720p, 1080p or 4K; Seedance 480p or 720p. Kling has a fixed quality per tier (Standard 720p, Pro 1080p): it is shown without a choice. Unless you choose, quality is 720p, the base rate. Switching model drops a quality it does not offer.

Other costs

Available formats: 1:1 (square), 4:5 (feed portrait), 9:16 (story, reels) and 16:9 (landscape). You can attach images (product shot, portrait, logo): they act as visual references, within the chosen model's limit (chapter 1.5).

Two ways to produce several images from one brief, billed at the same price per image.

Your brand identity (defined in Brand Identity) can accompany every generation, so results stay recognizable without rewriting everything in the prompt.

What is added

• The brand's primary and secondary colors, and its fonts.
• The name, the official logo (reproduced faithfully, never reinvented) and the editorial tone.
• In the Node Canvas only: the products chosen in the Context card.

Where to enable it

• Light mode — the composer's brand option.
• Node Canvas — a Context card wired to the Context input of an Image, Reference or Video card. Without a Context card, nothing from the brand is added.

Copy these prompts directly into Creative Studio. They are engineered for high-converting visual hierarchy and clean aesthetics.

Settings rules

• The format, duration and resolution offered depend on the model: a format it cannot produce is not shown (Gemini Omni: 16:9 and 9:16 only).
• Kling and Gemini use a single image as the start image. Seedance accepts several images: with two or more, it switches to “reference” mode, where none is forced as the first frame.
• An end image requires a start image; it cannot be combined with several references.

The Storyboard turns a brief (“a 40 s video for our summer collection launch”) into a sequence of chained scenes, then into one final video. It is an integral part of Light mode: available to everyone, requires no spatial manipulation, and produces an immediately usable result.

What happens depending on the model

• Kling 3.0 — consecutive scenes are grouped into blocks (at most 6 scenes and 15 s) rendered in a single “multi-shot” call: fewer joins, better continuity. A scene carrying its own image always opens a new block.
• Gemini Omni Flash — one scene per call, each starting from the previous scene's last frame.
• Seedance — not offered for the Storyboard until frame-to-frame chaining is guaranteed with this model.

Cost

Cost = price of each rendered block (duration × model rate, chapter 1.5) + 1 credit per completed storyboard. Example: 6 scenes of 5 s on Kling 3.0 Pro form two 15 s blocks, i.e. 20 + 20 + 1 = 41 credits. The total shown before launch follows exactly this rule.

Two distinct features: Storyboard vs Node Canvas

The table below summarizes the fundamental differences in access, interface and usage between these two tools:

The Node Canvas is an infinite workspace where a video production is described as a graph: each step is a card, and links tell which card feeds which. A character defined once in a Reference card can appear, identical, in ten shots; changing a prompt only affects the shots that depend on it.

Screen anatomy

• Palette (right) — creates a card: Reference, Camera, Context, Prompt +, Prompt −, Voice, Image, Video, Note; and “New graph”.
• Bottom bar — My compositions, JSON import and export, video download, send to montage, undo / redo, recenter, zoom.
• Selection bar (top) — appears as soon as two cards are selected: Group, Ungroup, Delete.

Saving

Everything is saved automatically, less than a second after each change, in the open composition. A local copy protects your work if the connection drops: it is recovered on reopening; closing the tab also sends the latest state to the server. If a teammate edits the same composition or montage at the same time, their changes and yours are merged automatically, card by card and clip by clip. A message asks you to choose between your version and the online one only if you both changed the same setting of the same item.

Each node receives data through its inputs and produces one through its output. The table gives, for each, what can be plugged into it.

Port colors

A port's color tells the type of data flowing through it. Two pairs share a color: Prompt + and Text (green), Image and Reference (cyan).

• To connect, drag from a card's output (right edge) onto another card's input. A green ring announces an accepted link; a red ring a refused one, and a message says why.
• An input takes one link: plugging another replaces the first. Exception: Reference, which opens one more slot per connection, up to the chosen model's capacity.
• When a card has many inputs, the dots follow its outline (left, bottom, right, top edges) instead of overflowing.
• Loops are impossible: a card cannot depend on itself.
• To disconnect: hover a link and click its red cross, click a connected input, or use the cross in the card's “what it receives” summary.
• To move a link without disconnecting it: press and hold the connected input (the dot on the receiving card) and drag it onto another input. Released elsewhere, the link stays where it was.
• Plugging a Prompt + into a card where you had already written: your text is not lost, it moves into the Prompt + card (after what it already holds), with its @name mentions. Same for a Voice's script and style.
• Duplicating a card keeps its inputs (to try a variant: another model, another duration), not its outputs.

What actually goes to the model

• Text — the connected Prompt +'s, otherwise the one written in the card.
• @name mentions — each @name is replaced by the matching Reference's image (Seedance receives it as @Image1, @Image2…). A reference without an image blocks the launch, before any charge. Picking a reference with @ also wires it into the card's Reference input (or the cards a Prompt + feeds), up to the model's maximum: beyond it the mention is not added and a message says so. The two stay in step: erasing the mention removes the wire it placed, and cutting the wire turns the mention back into a plain word (a wire you drew by hand is never removed by the text).
• Start — an image becomes the shot's first frame; a video is EXTENDED, its last frame opening the follow-up. A Video card's “Extend” button creates the next card and the link.
• Camera — the type and movement are appended to the text (“Camera: Type …, Movement …”).
• Prompt − — added as an exclusion instruction (“Elements to exclude: …”); it is not a native model setting.
• End image — requires a start and cannot be combined with several references; otherwise it is refused in the card, before any charge.
• Voice — as voice-over, sending to the montage mutes the clip and places the voice on the Voice track; for lip-sync, run the sync with the current voice before sending.

Card states

Importing media into a card

Reference (image), Voice (audio) and Video (video, empty card with no input) accept a file. The type is checked before upload; progress and a Cancel button show in the card. Files can be up to 500 MB.

Trimming a shot, listening to a voice

In a finished Video card, “Trim” shows two handles (start, end): each handle shows the exact frame at that moment, which is also how you pick the last frame a follow-up will start from. The cut is made on our servers, with no credits, by any member with access to the project's content; the original shot stays in the library. A Voice card shows the waveform of the produced voice: clicking the wave moves playback there.

• Note — the card with the T icon holds free text (“Scene 1: redo in 16:9”). It grows with its text, collapses and can be renamed, and never enters a generation.
• Selection — a click selects a card; Shift or Ctrl + click adds or removes one; a rectangle drawn while holding the right button (or Shift + drag on the background) selects everything it touches. Dragging a selected card by its header moves the whole selection.
• Group — Ctrl+G surrounds the selection with a frame. Its title (double-click to write it) annotates the part: “Scene 1: the beach”. Dragging the title moves the group; Ctrl+Shift+G or the title's cross removes it without touching the cards. A card belongs to one group; an emptied group disappears.

The Prompt Composer bar

Located at the center of the bottom dock and accessible via the edit button or shortcuts ⌘K / ⌘J (macOS) or Ctrl+K / Ctrl+J (Windows/Linux), the prompt composer lets you express a complete idea in natural language. Unlike the linear Storyboard which directly renders a fixed sequence, the Prompt Composer analyzes your text, identifies intentions (duration, aspect ratio, camera moves, mood, characters via @name) and automatically plans a complete graph of interconnected cards on the canvas (Reference, Camera, Context, Prompt + and Video cards). Each laid-out card remains fully editable, movable, replaceable, or regenerable individually.

Canvas keyboard shortcuts

The canvas provides shortcuts to create cards on the fly, navigate, zoom, and copy-paste without leaving the keyboard (disabled while typing in a text field):

Cards without inputs (Prompt +, Prompt −, Context, Camera, Note) collapse into a pill with their round button, to free up space.

• New graph — saves the open composition, checks it is listed in “My compositions”, then opens an empty canvas. The montage timeline is untouched.
• My compositions — open, rename or delete a composition (the open one cannot be deleted).
• JSON export — free and unlimited: the composition only (cards, links, notes, groups, media). Re-imported, it opens as a new composition without touching the montage.
• Send to montage — “Add to montage” on a Video or Voice card, or “Send all” from the bottom bar: shots go in canvas order (left to right, a follow-up after its source); a refused shot is named with the reason.

Working with others on a project

Invited members with the “Content” permission work in the same project, each on their own composition: opening or creating a composition only changes your tab, never a colleague's. The montage stays shared by the whole project. When several of you are on the same composition, everyone's pointer appears with their name and colour (the same as in the Team panel), yours reads “You”, and the Canvas shows who is online. This is not simultaneous co-editing of the same card: if you both change the same composition, the Canvas picks up the other version on its own when you have nothing unsaved and warns you at once — with the option to export your version — if your changes diverge. The Comments button opens the composition's threads: a comment targets the composition, a card or a result, gets replies and can be resolved (“resolved” means handled, not approved); it never launches a generation.

The Voice card produces a voice-over from text (its own, or a connected Prompt +'s), or takes an imported audio file. ElevenLabs voices (v3, Multilingual v2, Turbo v2.5) and MiniMax voices (Speech 2.8 HD and Turbo) all go through the same provider; if it does not respond, ElevenLabs is called directly as a fallback.

• Cost: 1 credit per 1,000 characters, shown on the button. Listening to voices is free.
• A voice wired to a Video card serves as voice-over (placed on the Voice track in the montage) or lip-sync (1 credit per second).
• An @name mention in the text is read as the character's name; it needs no image.

Voice creation & speech methods

In “My voices”, “Rename” only changes the name: its sonic identity, generated audios, and video links remain identical. Importing an audio file directly uses that recording for the current shot; it does not create a reusable clone capable of reading other scripts.

Voice and video: how they fit together

A voice wired to a Video card replaces the shot's native sound. Kling and Seedance then produce a silent picture. Gemini Omni cannot turn its sound off: it stays in the card, but sending to the montage sets it to zero and places your voice on the Voice track.

• Externally produced voice (ElevenLabs, MiniMax…): import the audio into the Voice card and wire it to the shot. No cloning or voice cost: only the video is charged (plus 1 credit/s for lip-sync).
• Duration management: if the voice outlasts the shot, the Video card warns immediately and suggests the duration to pick to prevent the voice end from being clipped in the montage.

Listen to the voices

Every catalog voice, with its sample: play, pause, resume. A missing sample is prepared on first listen (a few seconds).

• From the Node Canvas — “Add to montage” (one card) or “Send all” (every ready shot, in canvas order). The same shot is never added twice.
• From a file — “Import video” first opens a preview, then you choose automatic or manual editing (table below). Track buttons import straight onto the chosen track.

Import rules

• Files up to 500 MB (MP4, MOV, M4V for video). Size is checked before upload: a refusal never makes you wait for the upload to finish.
• Actual progress (optional compression, then upload percentage) shows on the preview.
• The first video of an empty montage sets its format (16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, the closest): it fills the frame instead of sitting between black bars. The format remains editable.

The seven tracks

Working with clips

What clips show

Audio clips show their waveform; video shots, thumbnails of their picture; images, the image itself. The right panel sets the selected clip's position, duration, text and volume; typed values follow the same rules as dragging.

• Rendering happens in the background and resumes tracking on reload. Only active clips count: a disabled clip stays on its track but is neither played nor exported.
• Maximum length of an exported montage: 10 minutes. A video in another format than the montage is fitted without cropping (black bars).
• Exports included per plan, then 1 credit per 5-minute block, refunded if the export fails (chapter 1.5).
• “My montages” keeps every montage and its exports: reopening one restores it with its tracks; “New montage” starts from an empty timeline without touching the canvas.