Make the video follow your script exactly

When you start from an idea, the app writes a new script from your text. To make the video use your own words, start from a script. This guide shows how to keep your words and what the app still decides.

Why the story changed

On the Video Story page, check which input is selected.

• From an idea: the app writes a new script from the text in the prompt box. A long story or a full script that you paste there is still an idea. The app can change it, shorten it, or put it in a different order.
• From a script: the app does not write a new script. It makes the video from the script that you add.
• From audio: the app uses your recording, with your voice and your timing.

See Start from an idea, script, or audio.

Keep your words

1. Select From a script, then Add your script.
2. Paste your text, select Upload a file, or pick a saved script.
3. Write each line that must be heard as a spoken line: the @name of the speaker, a colon, and the words in quotes, all on one line. For a poem or a narration, use the narrator: @Narrator: "The night was still."
4. Write what the viewer sees as plain text without quotes. Plain text is never read aloud.
5. Look at Script checks. When it says Your script is ready to turn into a video., the line below counts your scenes, shots, and spoken lines. Compare the number of spoken lines with your text.
6. Select Done.

The Voiceover step then shows Speakers from your script. To hear the narrator only at the start and at the end, write @Narrator lines only there.

The script guide shows the full format.

When the app asks to change your script

If Script checks says Your script needs a few adjustments, you cannot make the video yet:

• Fix the listed points yourself. Your words stay as you wrote them. See how to fix script errors.
• Select Adapt script under AI tools. The app puts your text in the script format and shows you the Adapted script. Your text does not change until you select Use adapted script.

Before you select Use adapted script:

• Read every spoken line and check its speaker.
• Read the lists These lines will not be read aloud and These parts were left out of the script, if they show.
• Select Keep editing to go back to your own version.

What the app still decides

• Shots. A scene with no shot headings gets its shots from the app. The app also decides what the camera shows where your script does not say it. To set the shots yourself, write #### Shot headings.
• Shot headings on Ultra. Ultra can join your #### Shot headings into longer shots. When your script has shot headings, Keep my shot boundaries shows under the preset. Switch it on to keep every heading as its own shot.
• A sentence across two shots. To keep it as one spoken sentence, end the first part with ... and start the second part with ..., with the same speaker.
• Characters. Under Your elements in this script, pick your saved character, location, or object for each @name, or select Let AI create a new one. A new name in your script becomes a new character, with its own look and voice. See Make sure your saved characters appear in the video.