The plan and Generate

Reading the plan

When the questions are answered, the plan lists each step with a price. For a video: the script, the pictures, the clips, the narration, the music and the render. For a post: the words, one picture and laying out the words on the picture. A post has no music.

A narrated video shows what the voice says as captions along the bottom, except in the Showreel, Editorial, Poster and Handmade styles, which have no captions: the big words on screen are what the voice says. A video with no narration has no captions in any style, and the words on screen carry it.

The music is composed for each video and costs nothing. Turn it off beside the plan if the video should be quiet.

The total says About, because what a step is charged depends on what it actually uses. Your credit left is shown beside it, and Generate carries the same total.

Before you press Generate

You can still change anything by saying it in the chat, such as another shape, another voice or words on screen, and the plan and its price change with it. Each message is a paid call, like the rest of the conversation.

Anything under Suggested was chosen for you. Press one to take it back for nothing, and choose it yourself.

Generate

Generate writes the script first, then makes the shots. It takes a minute or two, and you can leave and come back.

Once the script is written, the project gets a cap of about twice what its shots are expected to cost. A project that reaches its cap stops, and the list of posts says stopped at its cap.

When credit or a limit is in the way

The plan checks your credit and both your limits before Generate, so you find out before anything runs rather than half way through. The button then says at your limit, and pressing it says which one and offers to raise it — one field and one press — or to top up when it is the credit that has run out.

If a step is refused after it has started, the post stops where it is with what was made, and the pipeline says why. A post that reached its own cap has a button there that raises it so the rest can be run. Nothing is lost either way, and everything free goes on working while you decide.

Every refusal is also at the top of the call list in Credits.

Not yet

Studio: Say what you want to make in your own words; Joogoos suggests the rest, you choose the photos, and nothing is made until you press Generate.
Making it: Pipeline, Editor and Download: Watching a project being made, rerunning a shot, and taking the finished video.
Credits and what costs money: Credits are dollars, they are yours, and every call that spends them is listed.