Guide · Task 04 · 8 min
Make your first video
Draft a script with AI, build the timeline, render a test video and download it.
The workspace has three views: Script, Edit and Render. You switch between them with the buttons in the workspace header. This walkthrough takes one piece of content through all three.
Before you start
You need a project with at least one piece of content. See Start a project.
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Open your project
Open your project and go to the Content tab. Hover over a content card and press Script. The workspace opens in the Script view.
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Draft the script with AI
The AI chat sits on the right of the Script view. It starts folded into a narrow strip labelled AI chat. Click the strip to open it. You can also open it from the View menu.
- Type what you want in the message box at the bottom of the chat. For example: "Help me brainstorm a hook for this topic".
- Press Enter. The AI writes and edits script blocks with you.
- Ask for changes in your own words, such as "Make the hook shorter".
Read each block and edit it by hand where you want to.
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Build the timeline
Press Edit in the workspace header. The video editor opens with the timeline for this content.
- Find the AI Brain panel. It holds the same chat.
- Ask for what you want, such as "Build a first cut from the script".
- The AI proposes clips. They show on the timeline as pending, and a bar at the top says how many pending changes there are.
Agents propose, you decide
Nothing an agent proposes lands until you accept it. Press Accept all in the pending changes bar to keep every change, or Reject all to drop them. Each pending clip also has its own accept and reject buttons. While an agent is still working, the bar says "Agent staging proposals…" and the buttons come back when it finishes.
You can also drag clips onto the timeline yourself from the Assets panel.
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Render a test video
Press Render in the workspace header. The render view opens.
- In the Export panel, find Quick look and tick Draft. A draft is half size with a lighter encode. It is for checking your work, not for publishing.
- Press Start Render.
The Render button in the header fills up as the render runs. The job shows in the Queue panel.
If a check finds a problem before the render starts, you see what it found. Fix it, or press Render anyway.
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Download it
When the render is done, press the download button on the finished job in the Queue panel. It has the label "Download render". The video file saves to your computer.
Open the file and play it. That is your first video.