Add, move, and remove shots and cards

Your video is a row of cards, and each card holds shots. You can add, move, and remove both in the editor. Your saved video changes only when you render it again.

Find your way

• Shots, Card, and Timeline at the top of the editor change the view. This guide uses Shots.
• In Timeline, select This card to see one card, or Whole video to see all your cards in a row. You can make the same changes in both. Scroll sideways to see the rest of a long video. A card with no shots shows only in This card.
• The card list is at the left. If it is closed, select the button with the tooltip Open card navigator. On a small screen, tap the card name at the top.
• To rename a card, select its title, type the name, and press Enter.
• To change the timing and the sound of one card (Holds, the volume of a line, the start of a clip), see Change timing and sound on the Card timeline.

Add a shot

1. Move the pointer between two shots and select Shot. To add at the end of a card, move the pointer over its bottom edge and select Add shot.
2. Write what happens in the shot. Type @ to add a character, location, or object. Buttons under the box set the location, animation, and length.
3. If a character speaks in the shot, write the line in this box too, before you select Write script: @Mira: "I found it." See Lip sync on a shot you add below.
4. Select Write script. You can change the words of the Shot script it writes.
5. Select Generate media. The cost shows on the button. If the dialogue is longer than one clip can hold, the editor says how many shots it needs, and the button reads Generate N shots with the cost of all of them.

Lip sync on a shot you add

The mouth moves with a line only when the line was in the first box when you selected Write script.

• Write the line as @Name: "words", with the handle of a character in the video. A line with no handle is not a spoken line.
• A line that you add to the Shot script after Write script plays, but the mouth does not move. To get lip sync, add the shot again with the line in the first box, then archive the first one.
• Put the line of one character in the shot. On Mini and Fast, a shot with the lines of two characters has no lip sync.
• On a video made from storyboards, the new shot has no storyboard. It shows Re-animate, not Edit video.

See Lip sync: when mouths move with the words.

Add a card

1. Move the pointer over the bottom edge of a card and select Add card, or select New at the top of the card list. The card goes after the selected one.
2. Write what the card is about. Set a Length or leave it on Auto. For an empty card, select Start blank instead.
3. Select Write. Check the card script, then select Create card · updates your script.
4. Choose a preset (Mini, Fast, Pro, or Ultra), then Storyboard only or Storyboard + clips. A video made on Super Pro also shows Super Pro.
5. Select Accept coverage. The cost shows on the button.

Move shots and cards

• Move the pointer over a shot and drag the handle at its left edge (tooltip Drag to reorder). On a touch screen, use the arrows at the shot's top right.
• In the card list, drag a card or a shot thumbnail to its new place.
• In the Timeline, Cmd-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) or Shift-click shots to pick several, then drag one of them: they move together. A shot's lines and sound move with it.
• In Whole video, drag a shot onto another card to move it there.

Remove a shot or a card

• Shot: move the pointer over it, select Archive at its top right, and confirm.
• Card: in the card list, move the pointer over it and select its circle. Select Delete card in the bar that opens, and again to confirm.

Both go to Archived. To get one back, open Archived at the bottom of the card list and select the button with the tooltip Restore card or Restore shot to its card.

See what changed and undo it

Each card keeps a list of the changes made to it.

1. In the Shots view, select History in the card's header. History of this Card opens. For one shot, select the shot's image to open the shot viewer. History of this shot is at the bottom of its side panel.
2. Find the change. Each row says what changed, for example Trimmed, New take or Re-animated, and who made it: by you, by LongStories support or by the LongStories Agent. On a change by support or the Agent, select the row to see why they made it.
3. Select Undo on the row. When the change was made in one step with others, the button says Undo 2 changes (or more), and they are undone together.

• Undo is free. It does not give back the credits of a new image or video. It puts the earlier take back in the shot.
• You can undo an older row too. Then Undo also undoes every later change to the same shots and lines, and it does not ask first. The message after Undo says how many changes were undone, for example 3 changes undone. To keep the later changes, do not undo the older row. Change that part again by hand, or pick another take of the shot.
• The editor has no Redo. The undo shows in the list as a new row, Undid a change, which you can undo too.
• If a generation changed the shot after the change, Undo is not possible. Use the shot's takes instead. See Fix one shot.

Put the changes in your video

Select Export, then Render video. See Download and export your video. To change one shot's image or motion, see Fix one shot.