🎬 Turn a story into a short film
Quick Video Story takes your story through five stages: Script, References, Plan & Generate, Review & Select and Final Movie. This example is a 42-second, 6-clip episode made with Seedance 2.0 Mini at 720p; its story is in Portuguese.
Making a series? See “Keep the same characters in every episode” to reuse your characters.
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Open Make a movie
From the left menu choose Make a movie. The five stages are shown at the top: Script, References, Plan & Generate, Review & Select and Final Movie. Stay on Quick Video Story (story → references → shot plans → videos → final movie, no book required). Your project saves as you go.
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Paste your story and pick the look
Paste your story or script into “Story, script, or action request”. Copy the text from your document instead of uploading a Word or PDF file. Then choose the Video model, Clip length, Resolution, Aspect, Video language and Style. This example uses 10 s clips and Portuguese; with Clip length on AUTO, each clip is as long as its part of the story needs.
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Story settings
Open Story settings to say what you are making (Complete story, Series episode or Story excerpt) and, if you want, a Target length in minutes. Leave the length empty to let the story set its own pace. Keep my writing keeps your plot and words; the story types apply when you choose Develop my story.
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Develop the script
Choose Keep my writing to film your text as written, or Develop my story to have it written into full scenes. Click Run stage 1: Develop Script and read the script before you go on. Made these characters before? Pick them under “Matched from your previous designs” first.
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Prepare the reference pictures
In References, click Run stage 2: Generate References. The system prepares one card for each character, place and key object, and shows the Reference image model with its price per picture. The total is on the Generate References button before anything is charged; press it to draw the pictures.
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Check every picture
Each card turns Ready with its picture. Click a thumbnail to look at it or edit it. Review the character designs and outfits you want to use for the clips, then click Continue to Plan & Generate.
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Choose how the clips connect
Generate gives every clip one look and one world, the steadiest result. It can be picked once the script has been cut into clips; while it is being cut it shows as unavailable.
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Check the clips and generate
Every clip card shows its duration, the reference pictures it uses and its price. Change a clip's Duration if it needs more time. The total for all clips is on the Generate Videos button before anything is charged; press it to generate.
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Review & Select
Watch each clip. Download video saves one clip; Remove from Final Movie leaves a clip out. When you are happy, click Assemble selected videos.
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Your final movie
Final Movie plays the whole film. Download it, or click Further edit in Video Editor to trim clips, change their order, add music and export.