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Turn an idea into a narrated, captioned video. Shape its characters, visual style and voice, then review, edit and reuse your channel’s settings for the next one. Set a schedule to keep your channel creating.

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No timeline work required. Full editing control when you want it.

01FROM THE STUDIO

Less imagining.
More “I made that.”

A story that holds a world. A Short that fits in your hand. A voice that speaks to a different audience. See real Octana test outputs.

Created through the Octana video pipelineGenerated visuals · Narration · Captions · Rendered video
THE IDEA → THE FINISHED FILM

One idea.
A complete production.

Follow the story behind our baobab demo. The pieces come together in one project, with room for your direction along the way.

01 / THE STORY DIRECTION

A village. A silent well.
A discovery beneath the baobab.

A family story brought to life in a soft 3D clay world.

Synopsis of the studio example
02 / WORDS WITH A VOICE
“You kneel at the pump house before the sun clears the baobab and the windwheel above you spins clean and easy. No catch, no grind. The pipe stays silent.”

Opening narration from the finished video. The script sets the pace; voice and timestamps carry it into scenes.

Kwame’s multi-view reference sheet from the story
03 / A CAST TO BUILD ON

Give the story a familiar face.

Character references guide the images that follow.

Rendered scene from The key beneath the baobab
04 / THE WORLD ON SCREEN

Scenes, sound and finishing touches.

Images, narration, captions and transitions become a rendered video, with thumbnails alongside the result.

05 / YOUR FINISHED VIDEO

Review it. Make an edit. Download it.
Publish when your connected account is ready.

Watch the result ↗
YOUR CHANNEL, ON AUTOPILOT

You set the direction.
The studio keeps creating.

Go beyond making one video. Give your channel a creative identity, connect your account and set a recurring schedule. From the next idea to the finished upload, build a workflow that can run without rebuilding the brief every time.

THE CHANNEL WORKFLOWSet once. Create repeatedly.
  1. 01

    Make it yours

    Save your channel’s look, narrator, captions and recurring cast.

  2. 02

    Connect & schedule

    Connect YouTube, choose your cadence and define the topics to explore.

  3. 03

    Let the agent produce

    Ideas become scripts, scenes, narration, captions and a rendered video.

  4. 04

    Review or automate

    Keep an approval step, or explicitly enable automatic uploads on your schedule.

HANDS ON AT THE FINISH

“Let me review it first.”

The studio does the production. Your approval queue gives you a place to review the result and decide what moves forward.

Explore the review workflow ↗
LET THE ROUTINE RUN

“Upload it for me.”

Give a recurring schedule explicit permission to upload automatically. Your channel settings carry into each new production.

Automatic recurring YouTube uploads are currently private. Public release remains a separate choice.

One studio. Your connected destinations. Publish to YouTube and supported social accounts. Additional social destinations depend on the configured publishing integration and each account’s permissions.

Channel defaults. Recurring production. Batch ideas. Approval controls. All in the same studio.

Build your channel workflow
ROOM FOR THE WHOLE STORY

A hook. A journey.
A real ending.

Build full-length YouTube stories as well as social shorts. A script becomes a sequence of connected scenes, brought together with narration, motion, transitions and captions.

Give characters room to develop. Let a mystery unfold. Keep the same visual world from the opening scene to the closing line.

Watch an excerpt from the finished story ↗

Request video lengths up to 30 minutes. Final runtime depends on the script and narration; the example shown here is 11 minutes, 47 seconds.

A scene from The key beneath the baobab, a completed long-form studio story
11:47Completed story
89Connected scenes
16:9YouTube format
THE KEY BENEATH THE BAOBABOne story, start to finish.
02CHARACTERS WITH CONTINUITY

New scene.
Same familiar world.

The face you recognise. The home you remember. The little detail that makes the story yours. Build a reference-guided identity for the people and places that return. Carry distinctly named characters into later episodes on the same channel when the visual style matches.

STORY BIBLECharacter reference / Soft 3D clay
Kwame's actual multi-view character reference sheet
The young adventurer

Appearance, outfit and accent details travel with the character.

Compare the family’s facial features and silhouettes across the reference sheet and story frames.

Actual scene 1 from The key beneath the baobabSTORY FRAME / 01
Actual scene 2 from The key beneath the baobabSTORY FRAME / 02
Actual scene 3 from The key beneath the baobabSTORY FRAME / 03
Actual scene 4 from The key beneath the baobabSTORY FRAME / 04
Actual scene 5 from The key beneath the baobabSTORY FRAME / 05
Actual scene 6 from The key beneath the baobabSTORY FRAME / 06
Reference sheets and frames from the same studio story test. Model-guided continuity, with visual checks.

A cast, not random faces

Six-view reference sheets anchor recurring characters across scenes, with style-matched references reusable in later channel videos.

Details that belong together

Carry outfits, locations, recurring props and visual identity through the story.

A second look at every scene

Visual checks help catch mismatches, with bounded regeneration when a frame needs another pass.

03YOUR VISUAL LANGUAGE

One engine.
A whole spectrum of stories.

Painterly worlds. Playful clay. Ink, pixels and cinematic depth. Explore 13 visual directions, then make one part of your channel’s identity.

Soft 3D Clay Characters visual style example
VISUAL IDENTITY / 06

Soft 3D Clay Characters

Style-library artwork
Choose a direction. Keep it across your scenes.Build your channel’s look ↗
04SMALL DETAILS. YOUR SIGNATURE.

Make it feel
unmistakably yours.

Your words need the right voice, rhythm and presence. Explore 22 caption treatments, different narration languages and scene transitions. Save your preferences for the next video.

CAPTION STUDIO

Actual caption render on style-library artwork. Silent sample: “Every story starts somewhere. Make this one yours.” Only treatments supported in this format appear.

HEAR THE DIFFERENCE

More than one way
to tell your story.

Read the excerpt transcript

You kneel at the pump house before the sun clears the baobab and the windwheel above you spins clean and easy. No catch, no grind. The pipe stays silent. Three mornings now. No water has reached the courtyard well since Tuesday. By sunrise…

Actual narration from our studio examples. Voice and language availability varies by provider.

First story scene
Make the next scene an entrance.

Actual rendered transition. Press play to compare. Scene movement is a separate creative choice.

Set it once. Create in your own rhythm.

Independent caption defaults for 9:16 and 16:9. Placement, colours, animation, voice and transitions stay in your control.

Your channel settings ↗
05AUTOMATION MEETS AUTHORSHIP

Let the engine work.
Keep the final say.

Start with a generated video or upload your own. Arrange scenes, adjust text and captions, work with audio, and shape the edit in a dedicated timeline.

The key beneath the baobabInteractive workspace illustration
YOUR MEDIA
Editor canvas, scene 1
SCENE 01 · 16:9
CANVAS
One story.
Different screens.Open editor ↗
TIMELINE
Narration
Captions Every story starts somewhere.
Multi-track timeline Text & captions Undo & autosave Multiple formats
06THINK BEYOND THE NEXT UPLOAD

From a good idea
to a repeatable process.

Give your channel a visual identity, voice and caption style. Bring a CSV of ideas, create separate video jobs, and decide where you want to review before moving forward.

The Story StudioExample channel · your settings, carried forward
S
Soft 3D clayEnglish narrationCinematic captions9:16 Shorts
ONE BRIEF. MORE POSSIBILITIES.
MON
The missing keyPlanned idea
TUE
A map with no roadsPlanned idea
WED
The midnight visitorPlanned idea
THU
The little inventorPlanned idea
FRI
A promise to keepPlanned idea

Workflow illustration, not a live queue. Each imported row becomes its own job. Publishing needs a connected account and permission.

01

Build your channel

Save the creative choices that make your videos feel connected.

02

Bring your ideas

Start one project or import a batch. Each video has its own progress.

03

Review your next move

Download, edit, or publish through a supported connected account.

07THE REST OF YOUR CREATIVE WORKFLOW

Not another tab.
Your whole studio.

Write the script. Find the voice. Build the thumbnail. Repurpose the result. A connected set of tools for everything around your next video.

Find the story before you find the words.

From a first idea to a structured episode, build the foundation of your next production.

Explore writing tools
  • Script Writer
  • Content Cloner
  • Rewriter
  • Product Builder
  • Blog Outline
  • Campaign Planner

Some tools require supported providers or connected accounts. Channel analytics use your published-video data.

FOR BUILDERSThe same studio. Your workflow.

Connect your tools through the public API. ↗

FOR AGENT WORKFLOWSPut the studio within reach.

Explore the MCP integration. ↗

CREATE WITH CLARITY

Understand the cost.
Stay in control.

Your creative choices shape the production. See the estimate, follow each stage and decide what happens next.

BEFORE YOU START

A quote for your idea.

Length, models, scene count and processing choices feed the estimate. Actual usage determines the final credit spend.

See plans and credits ↗
WHILE IT’S WORKING

Progress you can follow.

Script, voice, scenes and render each have their own status. Cloud jobs keep running when you close the tab. Production time varies with the work involved.

BEFORE THE NEXT STEP

Your review matters.

Inspect the result and review quality flags before moving on. Retry and refund treatment follows the applicable billing policy; direct vendor charges remain with your provider.

Read the terms ↗
YOUR MODELS. YOUR CHOICE.

A studio that fits the way you create.

Choose from the providers available in your workspace. Use platform credits or your own supported provider keys. Availability depends on the tool, model and your connections.

BEFORE YOUR FIRST VIDEO

A little clarity.
A lot of possibility.

Get to know the studio before you press create.

Explore plans & credits ↗
Can my channel run on autopilot?

Yes. Save your channel defaults and set a recurring production schedule. The agent can take new topics through the video pipeline. Keep review enabled, or give the schedule explicit consent to upload automatically to connected YouTube. Recurring automatic uploads are currently private; public release is a separate choice. Runs require available credits, working connections and configured providers.

Can I make long-form videos?

Yes. The brief accepts requested lengths up to 30 minutes. The finished long-form example on this page is 11 minutes, 47 seconds, with 89 scenes. The studio builds a narrated, scene-based story with motion, transitions and captions; final runtime depends on the script and narration.

What do I get at the end?

A rendered video with your generated scenes, narration and chosen captions, plus the project’s available script, audio, image and thumbnail artifacts. You can review the result, download it or continue working in the editor.

Can I keep the same characters across a story?

Enable character and world consistency to build reusable references for your cast and recurring details. Distinctly named characters can reuse channel references in later videos when the visual style matches. Relevant scenes use those references and are checked for mismatches. This improves continuity, while still working within the selected model’s capabilities.

Can I choose my own look and caption style?

Yes. Choose a visual preset, narrator, caption treatment, transitions and format. Save defaults per channel, including independent caption settings for Shorts and landscape videos, then adjust individual projects when needed.

Can I edit a video or upload my own?

Yes. The video editor supports uploaded media and generated videos, with a timeline, text and captions, splitting, undo, autosave and export. Automated creation and hands-on editing can be part of the same workflow.

How do batches, schedules and publishing work?

Import ideas by CSV to create separate video jobs, or set up recurring production. Review controls let you decide where to stay involved. Publishing requires a supported, connected account and the appropriate permissions; creating a video does not automatically make it public.

How do credits and provider keys work?

You see an estimate before generation. Actual usage depends on the selected models, length, scene count and processing choices. Supported providers can use your own API keys; those providers may charge you directly. See the pricing page for current plans and credit details.

Which formats and languages can I use?

Create portrait Shorts or landscape stories. The editor also offers square, other preset canvases and custom dimensions. Choose a supported narration language when creating your video. You can also use Auto Dubbing to adapt a finished studio project. Voice availability and language support depend on the selected provider and model.

YOUR NEXT STORY STARTS HERE

You bring the idea.
Octana brings it together.

Build a world. Find its voice. Make something worth watching.

Start your first video Watch real examples ↗