You don’t need to rewrite or reformat your story to use the Movie Machine—just upload it. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to prepare your existing story for production (spoiler: you don’t have to). Whether it’s a book, script, or short story—even a rough draft—the Movie Machine can process it automatically. Just make sure to upload the full story for better continuity and character arcs. Visual details like appearances or settings can help, but perfection isn’t required. Upload your story as it is, and let the Movie Machine do the heavy lifting.

Below is the transcript of the session with chapters. Please note that the transcription was done by AI so some inconsistencies may occur.

Introduction: Key Takeaway

If you have any big takeaway here, it's one thing. You don't actually need to prepare your story for the moving machine. You just have to upload it.

Uploading Your Story: No Special Preparation Needed

Now, I'll teach you exactly what you need to upload, but you don't need to do anything special or write a book specifically for the moving machine or write a script specifically for the moving machine.

You can, but instead I'm gonna share with you how you can turn your existing stories and it's something amazing for the machine. Again, it's kind of a trick question. You don't need to prep your story with the mood machine. You don't need to rewrite, you don't need to preformat it. There's no polishing required.

It doesn't need to be perfect grammar. Instead, just upload the raw PDF of your story, whether it's a script, whether it's a novel or a short story, and even if it's a first draft, grammar doesn't matter, but your story does.

Importance of Full Story Context

Ultimately, we want you to upload the full story, even if you're looking to just create a trailer for the first couple minutes of your film, when you upload your complete story arc, not a partial file.

We get the full context of your story and without the full context, we can't build correct character arcs into your story. We can't understand world continuity. We can't understand how your characters change over time, what they should really look like, and also maintain consistent plot. So full story means better film accuracy and coherence, even if it's just for the beginning of the film.

'cause the full thing will help us make the beginning better and again. More emphasis on why full context matters. We want you to deliver high quality scenes. And also this is really important.

Character and Object Consistency Across Projects

You can't re-upload more files into the movie machine. You can import characters from one, one project to another.

So let's say you are working on a show. You have season one script, you upload, and now you're on season two. You can import characters from one season to another, and I'll show you how. That's really cool. So you can have consistent characters, consistent objects, and consistent settings. But if you're working within one season or one movie.

A new, if you add something to it, you're going have to reprocess the story, which is just a lot of time, a lot of work for no reason.

Reprocessing Stories: Challenges and Future Possibilities

We might be allowing you to reprocess stories in the future, but we have to really do it probably from the ground up. It's a pretty hard problem for us to solve. 'cause it's almost like rewriting a book, right?

It's rewriting the story now based on our understanding of it. So it's good to just give us, you know, the full story that you have and not try and chunk it up in different files because. You're gonna have to ultimately create new projects for that, and it's going to add time and complexity.

Helpful Tips for Better Results

Now, here are things that actually can help, okay, I won't lie.

There's some things that can help. If you include physical descriptions for character's, objects, and settings, basically visual descriptions of these, the move machine's gonna pick up on that and use that to make a more accurate director's notes to your visions. You can also clarify ages, appearances, styles, accents, and more if relevant.

You can fill in more details. And a lot of times books have these details already. Sometimes scripts could use a bit of a story bible up front, but in a production bible. But regardless, these things can help, but they're not needed because if there's some gaps, the moving machine fills in the gaps and you might like the gaps it fills in.

Conclusion: Let the Machine Do the Work

And if you don't, you can always edit it so the summary here is upload your story as it is. Un polished is fine. A full story is better than a perfect story. More details, especially visual ones help, but they're not required. And let the move machine do the heavy lifting for you and refine later inside of the director's notes.