The Five Steps to Using the Movie Machine guide you through the full journey from story to screen. You’ll learn how to upload your story, refine your characters and settings, edit your storyboard, generate video and audio with one click, and polish your final cut for export. By following this process, you’ll create professional-quality films faster, cheaper, and more creatively—giving you full power and control over your storytelling.

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Introduction to the Five Steps

Okay, now we're gonna go into the five steps to using a movie machine. Essentially, you upload and process your story first. This is often the scariest step, but it's the easiest and I'll teach you exactly how to do it 'cause it's really fun. And after you upload and process your story, we automatically generate your characters, settings, objects, and even a storyboard.

The director's note section is when you can make edits to your characters, edits to your settings, and edits to your objects, which will have a whole module on this then. The next step is storyboarding, which is where you can edit the storyboard we made for you, which is a shop by shop breakdown of your entire film, and then you can go in and turn your start and end frames when you're happy with your storyboard and the start and end frames.

Plus, the action and dialogue in your storyboard will be what's used in step four, which is video generation. This is probably the easiest step. You just click a button because your starting on frames now are done and your video generated with dialogues. Sound effects and music sink to it, which is pretty magical.

But step five is actually where the magic now really comes together. It's editing and final export. You can cut clips, re-edit clips, regenerate audio to refine your film and really get something that you're proud of and something that you think viewers will love. Let's dive into each step a little bit in more detail, and the rest of this course is gonna go to extreme detail.

Step 1: Upload and Process Your Story

So step one, upload and process your story. So you can upload your script, book or story. It's important that this is the complete story. Some people upload only one chapter, but you can't re-upload once you upload. So you really wanna make sure that this first upload is a complete story arc. Think of it.

If you gave someone a book or a script to adapt into film, if they don't have the full film, even if you only wanna film the first couple minutes, if they can't read through the full script, they're not gonna have the full context. They're not gonna be able to do as good of a job. It's the same thing with the movie machine.

Then AI reads your story to identify characters, settings, and objects, plot and scene structure. All these good things and what we do is we use this visual information that we glean from your story to then create all your characters, settings, objects, and story plan out to each shot automatically, which is really magical story processing costs.

So it's minimum $10 to ingest a project. This is just to get started 'cause we incur a lot of AI model costs. We're making thousands of prompts on your behalf and generating tons of image and audio on your behalf. Just upfront to get your characters, get their voices settled. Now, novels are $1 per 1000 words with those first 10,000 words included in the $10 project fee.

So a hundred thousand word novels can cost a hundred dollars. Scripts are more visually dense, so even, with a shorter word count, it's still, more expensive for us to process per word. So it's $1 per 200 words for a script. And. This is really like a bargain because you're saving hundreds of hours of manual work and it's getting done in minutes.

So the price for your time saved is unbelievable. And this is really, one of the really special things about the moving machine. Okay, so during this process, as you upload your film or the PDF of your story to make your film, you also wanna choose a visual style, black and white. There's photorealistic, anime, and a bunch more.

I encourage you to get your style right upfront. You can change it later, but it takes a little bit longer, and it also costs more money. It's not gonna be a huge expense. Maybe it's gonna be 15 or $20 to change it later, depending on how many characters you have, but you'll also save time and save noises by doing it upfront.

And ultimately this style applies to the characters, settings and objects in your director's notes and the final film. So it really depends do you want it to look like real life? Do you want it to look like a cartoon? It totally depends. Now.

Step 2: Director's Notes

Step two is the director zones. This is where you finalize the vision for the character, appearance and voices.

Object and set design and edit what AI generated. Or you could even fully customize it. You can generate new characters from the ground up, upload your own character images, even upload your own voices that we can clone to be your character. Voices. Cost for changes when we do a generation for you, generate a new character image or generate a new voice is one coin or 10 cents.

And it's the same thing for audio as well. And what's amazing here is you can also create multiple versions of characters, which I'll show you exactly how, which can be outfits, seasonal settings, wardrobe, and more. It's amazing.

Step 3: Storyboarding

Okay, next up is don't worry, reporting. This is really the foundation of your film structure.

You get to control the scene. Order the number of shots per scene, characters present in each shot, dialogue, actions, and camera direction. Really everything what we do is based on the story that you give us, we actually do all this for you. Automatically. We create like an amazing first draft with every shot planned out, all of your scenes in order, everything.

But what you can do is then edit it. You can change the scene, or you can change and add new shots. You can delete shots. You can change what characters are present is seen. All to ultimately refine the storyboard we make for you to be exactly the storyboard you want based on the storyboard you're gonna make start and end frames.

These start and end frames that we generate are then what really inform your video.

Step 4: Video and Audio Generation

And step four is that video and audio generation. Essentially you click a button and with the one click we generate the video, audio, music, and dialogue for you. It costs. This is the most expensive step in the process, 200 coins or $20 per minute.

A film generated uncrated with coins are essentially like our little internal currency where one coin equals 10 cents. So video regeneration is three coins per second. So it also costs when you're regenerating coins sorry, regenerating video and audio regeneration is one coin per line. So audio generation is relatively cheap.

Video regeneration is relatively expensive 'cause we incur a lot of costs in that process. And yeah, the big thing is just for you. Being able to say, okay, if I have two hours of film that I wanna make, look, you can get a great film for, two hours long. It's possible to do it for $3,000. The trick though, is not being.

Regenerating a ton of shots and getting what you want upfront. So we're gonna talk about how you can do that and use these previous steps in the process, director's notes, and the storyboard to ultimately get a really consistent and really powerful film so that you're not constantly regenerating video.

So all these previous steps can take some time. It's really all to save you time and tons of money at this step.

Step 5: Editing and Final Export

Lastly is editing. So we're gonna cut, reorder, and refine. Our clips can adjust the audio volume, pacing and timing. Replace clips with alternates if you do a regeneration. And have, multiple different versions of the same shot that you pay for.

You can choose the one you want and you can export the final film When polished, you can upload to Creative Wood Streaming Platform, which we'll talk more about, or you can upload anywhere online. You have 100% of the rights to your content. Hey, you can even display to the local movie theater or send it to Netflix if they want it, which we can.

Now you can. No promises on that. In fact, we don't make any promises on income. I recommend you only spend money in the move machine that you can afford to lose, but our goal is that. This is affordable radically so compared to traditional means of filmmaking and gives you an opportunity to share your story with the world.

And yes, there could be money you make from it. Yes, of course we'd love to help you do that. That's why we built the creative streaming platform, which I'll talk more about later. But ultimately, the only promise we do make is power and control to you, and that's why we're here.

Conclusion and Next Steps

With all that said, we're gonna move into our next session.

We're gonna do a deep dive into making a Creator account on Creator. See you all there.