One short video per stage of the studio, in the order a film is
made. Each step highlights the control it talks about; the transcript
under the video says the same thing in text, and every block links to
the matching section of the field guide.
VIDEO TUTORIAL
01 · Projects
Where every film starts.
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Steps
Your projects, and the credit balance on the left — Everything in Tarkovsky starts from Your projects. The balance on the left is what every generation is priced in. Click New project to begin.
Credits: every generation shows its price first — Every image, take and voice shows its cost before it runs, and settles down to what the provider actually charged.
Upload a script, start writing, or talk it through — The Story tab offers three ways in: upload a Fountain or Final Draft script, start writing on the page, or talk it through with the chat. For The Lamplighter we uploaded the screenplay.
Every scene is tagged with its location and characters — Tarkovsky reads the screenplay and tags every scene with its location and the characters in it. Tags become asset sheets when you lock.
Check script: blocking, continuity, spelling — Check script looks for blocking problems, continuity slips between scenes and spelling in names, and offers one-click fixes. This draft read clean.
Lock script: 25 scenes, 4 characters, 10 locations — Locking freezes the draft that every other tab reads, and creates a sheet for every tagged character and location. To keep writing, duplicate the draft; production keeps reading the locked one until you lock again.
Characters, Locations, Elements, References — Every tag from the locked script is now a sheet. Nothing has an image yet. The rail groups them: characters, locations, elements and references.
A character sheet: description and five identity slots — A character sheet holds a description and five identity slots: front, three-quarter, profile, full body front and back. Write who the person is, then click the Front slot.
Imagine composes the prompt; Estimate shows the price — Imagine composes a neutral identity prompt from the description. Estimate shows the credits, about fifteen for a quality image, and Generate runs it. Quality keeps faces consistent from references; Speed is for cheap drafts.
Locations have plates instead of identity images — A location has plates instead of identity images. The loved plate goes with every shot there; liked plates are alternates.
Generate the plate with the project look attached — Generate the plate sends the project's look along with the description. The first plate is loved for you; Same place, same camera makes a variation, and Reverse angle turns the camera around.
The Lamp Room plate, loved — Here is the lamp room plate: a Fresnel lens in a glass room above the sea. Every shot in that location will carry it as a reference.
One row per scene; Propose coverage or Add shot — The Shot List reads the locked script. Each scene knows how many dialogue lines it carries, so the shots that need voices are obvious. Propose coverage asks a model to draft the shots.
Direction, funding, model, and the estimate — Write the direction, pick credits or your own key, estimate, then draft. The ceiling is reserved and unused credits are released.
Proposals arrive as cards: Accept or Dismiss — The model proposes; you decide. Nothing joins the shot list until you accept a card, and the charge settles to what the model actually used. Here three shots for the opening scene.
Spec tags, dialogue from the scene, voice slots — Each shot row carries its size, move and sound, the dialogue lines pulled from the locked scene, and up to three voice slots for who speaks.
Give each shot a picture and the sequence its rhythm.
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Steps
Scene chips, then Board and Still per shot — The Storyboard is where each shot gets a picture and the sequence gets its rhythm. Filter by scene, then Board a shot or give it a Still.
Attached: the plate and the characters' identity images — A still is the shot's first image. The scene's loved plate and the tagged characters' identity images are attached as references, so faces and places hold from here on.
The board: order, duration and rhythm notes — The board is the order and the rhythm. A shot can appear more than once; the duration here is what the animatic plays and what Dailies asks the video model for.
Play animatic, then Lock board — Play animatic runs the loved stills in order with the first dialogue line as a subtitle. Lock the board when the order is right. Video takes need a locked board that contains the shot.
Pick a shot on the locked board — Dailies is where takes are made and chosen. Every take belongs to a shot on the locked board.
Next take · sent exactly as shown — What you see is exactly what the model gets: the look, the shot description, the start frame, and chips that say which references this model can use. Veo 3.1 Lite takes the loved still as its first frame.
Reserve, generate, settle — Estimate shows the ceiling; Reserve credits and generate runs the take, and Generate 3 makes three in a row. You never pay more than the ceiling you saw. A take lands in two to three minutes, named by scene, shot and take.
AI Voice Studio: Kokoro on credits or your own key — Edit opens with the AI Voice Studio. Type the narration, estimate, generate; the voice is priced per character and settles to the provider's receipt like everything else.
The assembly cut: one clip per take, in board order — Click the loved takes in the bin to append them. Clips keep the take's name. The inspector trims in and out, moves a clip, swaps a select in without changing the length, or sends you back to Dailies.
V2 titles, A1 voice, A2 music, A3 sound — V2 holds titles and supers that are burnt into the render. A1 carries production sound and voice, A2 music, A3 sound. The render mixes every lane and limits the peaks.
Render your film; take your work with you — Renders are local and never cost credits. Include finishing adds the delivery rate, the look and a LUT to the EDL and FCPXML, and the What-you-get tree lists every file.
Frame rate, retime, closing title, normalize, Render — Choose the delivery frame rate and retime, a closing title, and normalization for online playback. The summary shows clips, cut length and delivered length. Render film uses the saved snapshot, so you can keep editing.
Cutdowns: one render per cell — Cutdowns take the first seconds of the cut and centre-crop to the new frame, one render per cell: thirty, fifteen or six seconds, in sixteen by nine, nine by sixteen or square.