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Reelsmith
( Storyboard → finished short film )

Write. Direct. Get the film.

Write your beats, then pick the look — rendering style, world, set, light, colour, camera — for the film, each scene and every shot. Reelsmith writes the prompts, cuts scenes into clips each AI video model can make, keeps shots continuous and hands you one MP4.

Start your first film — free See the looks

No card · renders bill your own provider key at list price

Reelsmith's shot editor: a rail of rendered frames on the left; on the right the shot script with timecodes — action, dialogue, sound and camera lines — its timeline lanes, and the film and scene look as a prompt stack.
Renders through · Kling 3.0 · Veo 3.1 · Seedance 2.0 / 2.5 · Gemini Omni Flash · Runway Gen-4.5 · Higgsfield
( Direct, don't prompt )

Every choice lives where it belongs

A good clip prompt names the medium, the world, the set, the light, the colour and the camera, every single time. You choose each one once, at the level it belongs to: the film's look reaches every clip, a scene's look every shot in it, and the camera is set per shot.

Film

Rendering style · film tradition · world aesthetic · character design · genre · motion · texture. The identity that keeps 40 clips looking like one movie.

Scene

Set design · set dressing · atmosphere · colour palette · mood. Changes when the location or the feeling does.

Shot

Shot size · angle · camera movement · lens & focus · composition · speed — and its light and effects, written in the shot script. Different for every clip, like a real shot list.

Film
Pastoral anime · fairy-tale world · orchestral
Scene
Harbor at dusk · golden hour Keeper · candlelight Light returns · god rays
Shot
Wide · push-in Close-up · 85mm Insert · your frame Crane up Extreme wide
Audio
00:00:00:00 · SH 1.1 · 9s · Kling 3.0 Hand-drawn 2D anime, painted skies… World: fairy-tale harbor town. Scene: Harbor at dusk. Action: Mira walks the wet pier holding an unlit lantern. Camera: wide shot, slow push-in. Lighting: golden-hour sunlight.
( Pick a look )

Pin the look. Every clip follows it.

Recognise a style from a picture, not a prompt. Pick it for the film and every clip speaks the same visual language — some hand-drawn styles are even cut at 12 fps.

Styles & film language · set for the film

Worlds (film) & set design (scene)

See all 251 options in the Inspiration LibraryPresets describe a look rather than naming studios or artists.

( What you get )

A studio built for people who think in shots

AI Director

A director's eye on every shot, on your own Claude or OpenAI key. It reads the whole film before it answers. Included in Creator and Studio.

  • Idea to script. A paragraph becomes scenes, shots, cast, places, look and sound — ready to edit.
  • Advice on your script. Advise checks a shot against the film and the model and tells you what will come out wrong. Nothing to say means it's ready.
  • Enhancements. Enhance tightens a shot's wording with as few changes as possible, so the model has nothing left to guess.
  • Frame and generation planning. It proposes the stills each clip starts and ends on, where a shot cuts, and which references go into every clip.
  • Warnings. Model limits, continuity breaks, lines that won't fit — flagged with a fix before you spend anything.
Character reference sheet for Oskar Lind, an old fisherman in a flat cap and navy pea coat: front, both profiles and back in full body above three close-ups of his face.

Character Studio

A cast you can reuse. Each character gets a reference sheet — full-body views and close-ups — from a description or 3–5 photos. Write @handle in a script and they look the same in every clip. Add a real voice, yours or someone's who agreed, on the models that take one.

Location sheet for Dream Island, a palm-covered island at dusk on glowing blue water: a wide view, two reverse angles and close details of the shoreline, rocks and palms.

Location Studio

Places get cast too. A location sheet shows the wide view, reverse angles and details, made from words or 1–5 photos. Write #place in a scene or shot and the set stays the same from shot to shot.

Inspiration Library cards for rendering styles — living oil painting, woodblock print, motion comic, stop-motion clay, low-poly, 2000s game 3D, pixel art and photoreal — each with an example picture.

Inspiration Library

Pick the look, not the prompt. Every style, set, light, palette and camera option comes with an example, and camera moves are drawn as animations. Or Extract from a picture: its light, texture or palette written into your settings. Browse the library

( How it works )

From an idea to the cut in five steps

  1. Pick the settings

    Start from a preset or choose the film's look: rendering style, world, genre, motion. Each scene adds its set and mood.

  2. Create characters & locations

    Turn a description or a few photos into reference sheets. Write @mira or #harbor and they look the same in every shot.

  3. Write the script

    One script per shot — action, dialogue, sound and camera lines. Timecodes are worked out as you type.

  4. Let the AI Director guide you

    On Creator and Studio, it drafts from your idea, advises on each shot, tightens the wording and plans the frames every clip starts and ends on.

  5. Render the scenes

    See every prompt and the price first. Render a shot, a scene or the whole film; finished takes are reused, never re-billed.

Every step, with screens from the studio →

( The problem )

Prompt → video makes a clip. Not a film.

Video platforms give you one box: type a prompt, get a few seconds. That's a shot, not a story. Everything that turns shots into a film is left to you.

Seconds, not scenes

Every model stops somewhere between 8 and 30 seconds per clip. A scene runs longer, so you split it by hand, prompt each piece and hope the joins hold.

Faces and sets drift

Each prompt starts from nothing. Your lead looks different in the second clip, and the room changes between cuts.

No memory of the story

The model doesn't know what happened a shot ago: who walked out, what was put down, what time of day it is.

Every model, different rules

First frame, last frame, reference pictures, voices, clip lengths and prices all differ. You learn each one by paying for re-rolls.

A folder of clips, not a cut

Download, grab last frames, re-upload, then glue it all together in an editor. For every scene.

Reelsmith gives the work a structure — film → scenes → shots, one script per shot — and plans every clip around what your model can do. You stay on the story.

( Bring your own keys )

You pay providers directly. No markup.

Reelsmith never resells generation. Your video key is billed by the provider at its own price, so you see the estimate before every render and you keep your provider's credits and discounts. One video key is enough to start.

A 3-minute film on Kling 3.0 through fal is about $30 of generation per pass (180 s × $0.168/s). The same film on Veo 3.1 is about $72.

Supported video providers and their models
Your keyModels · price
fal.ai
  • Kling 3.0 Pro $0.168 per second
  • Kling O3 Pro $0.224 per second
  • Seedance 2.0 $0.302 per second
  • Veo 3.1 $0.400 per second
Runware
  • Kling 4.0 ≈$0.157 per second
  • Seedance 2.0 ≈$0.240 per second
  • Veo 3.1 ≈$0.400 per second
WaveSpeed AI
  • Kling 4.0 $0.157 per second
  • Seedance 2.0 $0.240 per second
Higgsfield
  • Kling O3 $0.112 per second
  • Seedance 2.5 $0.074 per second
Google Gemini API
  • Gemini Omni Flash $0.100 per second
Runway
  • Gen-4.5 ≈$0.120 per second
  • Gen-4 Turbo $0.050 per second
Claude / OpenAIUsed only for the AI Director (Creator and Studio) and Extract from picture (every plan). Video providers never need an LLM key from you.

Prices at each model's default quality; ≈ marks an estimate — your provider's bill is the final word.

( Pricing )

Pay for the studio, not the pixels

Launch pricing, in euros. We're not a VAT payer, so no VAT is added. Video generation is billed separately by your provider, on your key, at their list price in US dollars.

Free

€0 forever

No card needed

  • Extract from — read a look from a picture, on your Claude or OpenAI key
  • 2 films, 5 scenes each
  • 50 renders a month
  • 1 GB storage
Start free

Creator

€29 / month

or €278 a year — save 20%

  • AI Director
  • Unlimited films & scenes
  • 500 renders a month
  • 10 GB storage
Start free, upgrade any time

Studio

€59 / month

or €566 a year — save 20%

  • AI Director
  • Advanced features (Act it yourself, Lip‑sync)
  • Reelsmith API — films and renders from your own code, paid in usage credits
  • Unlimited films & scenes
  • Unlimited renders
  • 100 GB storage
Start free, upgrade any time

Every plan includes Extract from. We're not a VAT payer, so no VAT is added. Cancel any time; your films stay downloadable for 30 days.

Questions before you start

What does a film actually cost?

Your plan (free to €59/month) plus generation on your own provider key. Rough guide for 3 finished minutes: Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield ≈ $13, Kling 3.0 on fal ≈ $30, Veo 3.1 ≈ $72. Expect to re-render some clips, so budget 2–3× that. Reelsmith shows the estimate before every render and blocks any render above your per-render spending limit. Check the look first with stills — one picture per frame on your image key, about $0.10–0.15 each, before you spend on video.

Do I need to know how to write prompts?

No. You pick the look — rendering style, world, set design, colour, mood — for the film and each scene, write camera and light as plain lines in the shot script, and Reelsmith composes the prompt for every clip. You can read the finished prompt for any shot and add your own notes at each level.

Do I need Claude or OpenAI keys?

No. Video platforms take our prompts directly, so a single video key is enough. Claude or OpenAI keys only power the optional AI Director (Creator and Studio), which drafts a film from your idea, advises on and tightens each shot and plans its frames, and Extract from picture, which reads a look (lighting, set design, rendering…) from a reference image.

What if a render fails halfway?

Finished clips are kept. Fix the scene or switch models and start again — Reelsmith continues where it stopped and doesn't regenerate clips it already has.

Can I make it look like a specific studio or artist?

Presets describe a look — painted skies, 12 fps cel, halftone panels — instead of naming studios or artists. You can write anything you like in your scene and shot scripts, within your video provider's content policy and other people's rights.

Who owns the films?

You do, subject to your video provider's terms. We claim no rights over your scripts, images or renders and never use them to train models.

What happens after I sign up?

We email a confirmation link. Click it, choose a password and you're in your studio. Add a video key in Settings when you're ready to render.

Your first scene is one paragraph away

Free to start. No card. Renders bill your own provider key.

Start your first film — free