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From a beat sheet to a cut you can watch

A beat sheet says what happens and in what order. The storyboard says how each beat is shot and for how long. Paste the beats, draft the cards, adjust, render, join.

Opens the storyboard with this scene, runtime and framing already filled in.

Episode 1, The lamp goes dark

6 shots

41s planned45s target
W8s

The lamp room at dusk. The lens flickers and dies.

Static

M6s

Caoimhe on the stairs: "Third time this week."

Push in

OS6s

Over Ruaridh's shoulder, she holds up the logbook.

Handheld

C5s

His face. He does not answer.

Static

W9s
pending

Pan across the gallery to the open door.

Pan

POV7s
pending

Her eyes. He walks toward the lens.

Handheld

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Beats are not shots

A beat is a unit of story: she finds the note, he denies writing it, the pager goes off. A shot is a unit of film: eight seconds, medium, static, the note on the rail. Getting from one to the other is the translation most tools skip. The draft on the Storyboard page does the translation: give it a beat or a short run of beats and it returns the cards that would cover them, with durations that add up to the runtime you asked for.

One beat often needs two or three cards, and a long beat sheet needs more than one episode. Twelve cards is the ceiling per episode, which is around ninety seconds to two minutes of screen time, so a feature-length beat sheet becomes a series.

Pasting a beat sheet

The draft box accepts up to fifteen hundred characters, which is a scene or an act of beats. Write them as plain sentences; headings and numbering are fine but not needed. Name characters exactly as they are named in the series cast so the cards pick them up as references.

The draft is charged two credits because it runs a language model. It reads the series premise, the cast list and the synopses of earlier episodes alongside your beats, which is how episode five knows what happened in episode four.

Editing the result

Cards come back editable. If the draft gave a beat one card and you want two, duplicate it and split the line. If it chose a close where you want to stay wide, change the shot size. Drag cards to reorder. The runtime meter tracks the total so an act that was meant to be sixty seconds does not creep to ninety without you noticing.

Nothing renders until you ask. The draft is text; the cost of rendering is shown per card and only charged when you confirm each one.

Render, join, continue

Render the pending cards as takes, in any order. When all are finished, join the episode into a single 9:16 MP4. Then write the next run of beats for the next episode. The series page lists the episodes in order, and public series get a page with a player for each joined episode.

A beat sheet that used to end at the outline stage can be watched the same afternoon it was written, scene by scene, with the same cast throughout.

Sample takes

Each one is a single card rendered as a take: one shot size, one camera move, one line.

8s

The lamp goes dark

Wide · Static

10s

Last row, last show

Medium · Push in

10s

Going once

Medium · Static

9s

Table nine is the critic

Medium · Handheld

Questions

How many beats fit in one episode?+

It depends on how many shots each beat needs. Twelve cards is the limit per episode, which usually covers four to eight beats. Longer beat sheets become a series of episodes.

Does the draft remember earlier episodes?+

Yes. It reads the synopses and cliffhangers of the episodes before this one in the series, along with the premise and cast.

Can I paste a whole script instead of beats?+

You can paste up to fifteen hundred characters at a time. A script works, but beats are more efficient; the draft writes the shot-level detail itself.

Who owns the episodes I make?+

You own the episodes you make here. The terms of service explain the licence we keep to host and run the service. Copyright rules depend on your country, so for anything that matters commercially, talk to a lawyer. Read the terms.

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