Each scene on your storyboard needs a clip. Generated clips are the biggest spend in a video, so SongPilot asks first, normally with the price, and only starts once you agree. If it can’t load a price, the dialog says it uses credits with no number, so cancel and try again.
Generate one clip
On Auto teaser and Full AI fill, open the scene, adjust What happens, Look & style, Shot type and the cast if you want to, then choose Generate. On the board, each scene card has a “Generate” button too.
On Guided phone MV, go to Record with the scene selected and use “Generate with AI”, or “Generate” if the scene already has a take. Once a scene has a take, “Refine AI clip (prompt, style)” lets you add your own prompt first. A shot with your members in it follows the scene’s direction instead of a typed prompt, because their look comes only from their photos.
You see Generate AI clips? with the number of clips and the credits. Choose Continue to start, Cancel to spend nothing.
The scene shows Generating… You can leave. The page catches up when you return, and you get a Clips are ready notification. A finished clip becomes the scene’s clip for the render.
Re-generate makes a new clip and bills again. If a re-generate fails, your earlier clip stays.
Generate all the missing clips
In Auto teaser and Full AI fill, the Scenes view has one main button, such as “Fill 8 clips”. It prices only the scenes with no usable clip and shows one confirmation for all of them. Scenes generate in the background, and a scene that fails doesn’t stop the others.
What it costs
The confirmation is the number to trust, because it’s priced for your exact scenes. It’s worked out like this, and these prices can change:
- Video: 45 credits per second generated, with a 3-second minimum.
- Length: the scene’s length rounded up to a whole second. Most clips quote one extra second, because the generator runs slightly past the scene; a clip built from your cast’s photos doesn’t need it. The charge never goes over the quote.
- Keyframe: when members with likeness photos are in the shot, an opening image is made first, for 15 credits. It’s added to the quote.
So a 5-second scene with no cast quotes 6 seconds, or 270 credits. With a member and photos, that scene quotes 285 at most. A 10-second scene is 495 before any keyframe. A full song with dozens of scenes adds up quickly, so check the total and your balance in the top bar first.
On Auto teaser, Make this teaser? gives one total for the storyboard, keyframes and clips. On a workspace using its own key for video, clips cost no credits, and the price dialogs reflect that.
See understand how credits work for allowances and packs. Who may spend is set by role: without the right, you see Your role doesn’t include this. Ask a workspace owner for access.
Before you spend
- Check your members’ photos, since each person’s look in a clip comes from them. See why images don’t look like us.
- Set the cast on each scene. Choosing B-roll · no cast on the scene page keeps people out of the shot.
- Mind the length. A clip covers at most the first 15 seconds of a scene, and whatever is left over stays black in the render. The studio flags scenes over 10 seconds with “Over 10s”. Up to 15 seconds, only lip-sync is cut short. Split those at a natural point.
Singers: Performance mode
Performance mode (singing close-up) generates the singer’s clip from the song’s vocal, so lips, face and head move in time with it. It has no separate lip-sync charge. The director turns it on for suitable shots, and you can change it on the scene page or under “Refine AI clip”. See lip-sync.
Pick the best part of a clip
If a clip runs longer than its slot in the song, the scene page shows Use from clip. Slide to choose which part plays. This is free. The preview plays the song under the clip. Mute song and Hear clip audio change what you hear in the preview.
If a clip fails
The scene shows a failure, and the studio’s top strip counts them with Retry failed. That retries all of them under one confirmation.
The clip itself is charged after generation succeeds, so a clip that never came back isn’t charged. If the shot has members with photos, its opening image is made first and charged once it’s stored, so a failed clip can still cost that image, and a retry can make a new one. If you can’t tell what you were charged, email [email protected]. Common failures are in fix video problems.
If you press generate while a scene is already working, you see This scene is still rendering: nothing new starts and no credits are used. Wait for it to finish, then ask again to use what you changed.
What to do next
Once every scene is ready, assemble the video.
