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Guides, ideas and updates on making short AI videos.
How to plan a 15-second skit that actually lands
Three beats, two characters, one joke: a practical structure for very short video, and the timing mistakes that flatten most first attempts.
Steal the format, not the video: how remixing a template works
Formats travel, videos do not. How to take a working short-video structure, swap in your own cast, and end up with something that is yours.
One line in, a script out: what the idea-to-scenes generator does
What happens when you hand a one-line idea to a script generator: how scenes get built, cast and timed, and what you should always fix by hand afterwards.
9:16, 1:1 or 16:9: choosing the frame before you render
Aspect ratio decides composition, not just cropping - and in AI video it is decided before the render. A short guide to picking the right frame per platform.
Burned-in subtitles: when they earn their place in a short video
Most short-form video is watched muted, so subtitles are usually right - but not always. When to burn them in, when to skip, and how per-scene control helps.
Re-roll one clip, keep the rest: takes, the gallery and the timeline
How per-scene re-rolls work, why the take you replaced is still available, and how to swap clips on the timeline without paying to render anything twice.
What an AI video actually costs: tokens, seconds and re-rolls
How token pricing works for AI video: what is free, what is billed per second, why a still preview lowers the bill, and where the money usually leaks.
The @Name script: how to write dialogue an AI video model can act
Tagging speakers, writing voiceover, giving delivery notes and keeping lines short: a practical guide to scripting scenes for AI video generation.
Cast, Scenes, Montage, Export: the four screens behind a finished video
A walk through the whole flow: choose a cast, write scenes, generate clips, cut them on a timeline, export. What each step decides, and what it costs.
How to keep the same character in every scene of an AI video
Text-to-video models redraw your character on every prompt. Here is the workflow that keeps one face, one outfit and one name across a whole short video.