Opening a campaign shows its timeline: one card per post, in date order, with a summary at the top. Each post is called a slot. A slot holds a date, a platform, a plan for the video, and eventually the video itself.
Read the summary
The top card shows the campaign’s dates, how many slots it has, how many are completed and how many are awaiting approval, with a progress bar counting completed slots. Above it, badges show the campaign’s status and type.
If Auto-create is on, a card reading Auto-create is on sits above the timeline. See Auto-create and credit limits.
What each status means
Each slot carries one of these badges:
- Planned: nothing has been made yet.
- Producing: the video is being made, or a project for it is open in the studio.
- Running: the slot’s work is under way.
- Awaiting Approval: a video is ready and someone needs to decide. The card gets a highlighted ring.
- Completed: the video is approved, or approval was not required. It can now be posted.
- Failed: making the video didn’t work. See below.
A slot that is waiting on a spending decision also shows Waiting for approval with the estimated credits. That line links to the request in your Inbox. A Failed slot doesn’t show this line, so check your Inbox if one seems stuck. See Auto-create and credit limits.
Use the arrow on the right of a slot to expand it. The buttons described here live in the expanded view.
Fill a slot
An open slot, one that is Planned or Failed, offers two ways to fill it.
Auto-create makes the video for you. When the price is known the button shows it next to the name. Choosing it opens a dialog with the estimate, and nothing starts until you choose Spend credits. If the price is zero, it starts straight away with no dialog. If the price can’t be worked out, you’ll see a message saying nothing was started, so try again in a moment. The button only shows if your role may spend credits and work on videos.
Pick from Media fills the slot with a video you already have. It opens your video library, and picking one uses no credits. The slot then shows a From Media badge. With approval required it moves to Awaiting Approval, and otherwise to Completed.
A short made from a recipe keeps being made after you leave the page, so you can go elsewhere. You’ll get a notification when the post is ready or has failed. Clip generation and assembly can take several minutes.
Slots from a campaign template
A slot from a campaign template that isn’t a short doesn’t generate clips. Choosing Auto-create on it opens a video project linked to the slot, at no cost, and the slot moves to Producing. Use Open Studio to work on it there. See Start a music video project.
Do several at once
When at least one slot is Planned, a bar under the timeline shows how many and offers Auto-create all due, with a total price. Stay on the page while it runs: leaving stops the ones not started yet.
It starts every slot that is Planned or Failed, including slots dated in the future. Read the total in the confirmation dialog before choosing Spend credits.
The slots start one after another. They keep starting if you move to another page in the app. They stop if you close or reload the tab, or if a slot fails, and you pay only for those that ran.
Edit one post
Choose Production plan in an expanded slot. The sheet shows:
- Total duration, worked out from the parts below, plus the 3-second SongPilot end card. A short on a song shorter than this ends with the song.
- Scheduled date and Platform. A post goes to one platform, so select one of Instagram, TikTok or YouTube.
- Creative brief / prompt, which describes how the short should feel.
- Caption, which is used when the video is made with Auto-create. Changing it afterwards has no effect unless you make the video again. Pick from Media ignores this field and posts a caption built from the song, artist and through-line.
- Clip ideas / segments, with a prompt and a maximum length for each clip, and the wording and length of the end card.
- Style (like Music Video style bible), with fields for look, world, cast and through-line.
Choose Save to keep your changes, or Cancel to drop them. Apart from Generate ideas, nothing is saved until you choose Save.
If a slot has no clip ideas when you open the sheet, simple ones appear, built from your lyrics, at no cost. The Generate ideas button has them written by AI instead and saves them on the slot. The button shows its price, and pressing it spends the credits without a further question. If the workspace has some credits but not enough, simple ideas are saved and you aren’t charged. With none left, you get an error.
The ideas draw on the song’s lyrics and structure, your artist profile, your members and the campaign’s style. The song is the one on the plan or slot, then the campaign’s first song, then the song pool, then any song in the workspace.
The timeline page has no buttons for adding or deleting slots. Ask your agents in chat to do that. See Talk to your agents.
What it costs
Each slot’s price comes from its plan. A clip the plan generates costs credits for its length, plus an image, and a run with generated clips also pays for writing the ideas. Clips pinned to a video in your library cost nothing to generate. Current prices are on the buttons. For how the balance works, see Understand how credits work. Bring-your-own-key workspaces see lower numbers, because work on their own key isn’t charged in credits.
When a slot fails
The slot shows Failed, and you get a Campaign content failed notification. Its Auto-create and Pick from Media buttons come back.
- Try again: choose Auto-create again. If the earlier clips finished and the plan and song haven’t changed, only the video is rendered again and that costs no credits. Otherwise any generated clips are made and charged again, so the button’s price tells you which you’re getting.
- Automatic retries: a campaign with Auto-create on tries a failed slot again at its next check, unless the slot failed because it ran out of time. A post that hasn’t finished an hour after it started is marked failed, and that slot waits for you.
- “This slot is already being produced”: the slot is still being made. Wait for it to finish.
- “No songs in workspace”: add a song, then try again.
- “This post’s song has no audio yet”: a short that uses generated clips or artwork needs a song with audio, so nothing is charged. Add audio to the song. Choose Auto-create again, or, with Auto-create on, the slot goes ahead at its next check. If the song was chosen from a pool, any song in the pool with audio will do.
- “No songs with both cover artwork and audio in the pool”: an Artwork + song recipe needs a song that has both. Add what’s missing or widen the pool. See Generate artwork for a song.
- Your role doesn’t include this: ask a workspace owner to change your role, or ask someone whose role can spend credits.
- Out of credits: add credits under Settings, then Billing.
What to do next
Once a video exists, watch it and decide. See Review, approve and post.
