Scenes

#Choose your visual tracks

Select image, video or both. This decides which prompts each scene gets. You can change it before generating the breakdown.

Copy all, each scene's Copy prompt and the copy-for-a-tool export add one line under every prompt naming the file: Save this image as scene_01.png (file name only — no text in the image), or scene_01.mp4 for video prompts. Save your generated images under those names and Assets → Import media puts each one in its scene automatically. Each scene stays one paragraph, so batch tools still read one prompt per scene.

#Visual beats

Open a scene to see its Visual beats: each moment of the narration, the kind of visual it needs and why. There are eight kinds: cinematic image, object + label, B-roll + label, text graphic, data graphic, diagram, process visual and video clip.

• Objects and named subjects get a label under the subject, taken from the narration. Edit the text, add a subtitle or switch it off; the label is drawn by the editor, so changing it never regenerates the image. In the NLE download it is a transparent picture on video track 2, so you can move or hide it in your editor.
• Diagrams and processes get a key: the parts the narration names (consists of a piston, a cylinder and a crankshaft) as a numbered key, or the steps (first … then … finally …) joined by arrows, along the bottom of the frame. Edit the list or switch it off.
• Real photo (object and B-roll beats) finds a rights-safe photo of the subject in the media libraries Visual source uses (Wikimedia Commons, NASA, the Met, Internet Archive, and Pexels/Pixabay with a key). Only photos whose own title names the subject are used, never charts or maps; the credit and licence are shown on the beat and kept with the file.
• Text and data graphics are drawn by the app with the exact words and figures from the narration. A figure that is not in the narration is never shown.
• Video is only chosen for real movement, and only when a video model is set up; otherwise the beat is planned as a still image. A beat longer than the model's longest clip is made as several clips that play back to back (up to six); Retry remakes only the clips that are missing.
• Change the kind with the menu on each beat, then Generate. The status (Ready, Needs review, Generating, Generated, Failed) comes from the saved files and jobs, and Retry keeps the provider's error visible.

#Generate the scene breakdown

Generate Scene Breakdown splits the narration into scenes, one per action. Flow's automated Visual Beat Pacing calculates the optimal beat cadence and target scene count directly from the approved script's runtime and word count (or you can open Customize pacing & scene density to set a custom cadence, density profile or target scene count). Each scene gets its narration, duration, image prompt and/or video prompt and a negative prompt. Generation runs in the background; open the Creative Bible from the stage bar or from the notice on this page.

#Review and edit scenes

• Filter scenes by status (Draft, Ready, Approved, Failed) or search scenes by title, narration, prompt or characters.
• Edit a scene's narration, prompts or duration and Save scene.
• Mark Ready or Approve scenes; Mark all Ready / Approve Ready do it in one step.
• Auto-Fix Failed automatically repairs and regenerates any failed or incomplete scenes.
• Reopen for editing unlocks an approved scene.
• In Pipeline there is no review step: once scene generation has finished, every complete scene is approved automatically; only failed or incomplete scenes wait for you.
• Refresh visual direction rebuilds a scene's prompts after Creative Bible changes (shown as Bible changed).

#One scene per action

Each scene is one action from the narration (about 2–4 seconds), with its own image prompt, so every action gets its own image. Scene images use the Creative Bible sheets (characters, location, props) the scene refers to as reference images, so no separate storyboard step is needed. Each scene lasts as long as its narration, and the scenes add up to the recorded narration.