Text2Movie

The film language each AI video model's docs let you write

Directing note: reading a prompt guide

A prompt guide shows what a maker expects a user to write. The examples are the most useful part, because they show which words the maker trusts. As of 2026-09-25.

Reading a prompt guideThe note in 4 steps: Guide, Examples, API and Settings.GuideThe decisionat this point.thenExamplesWhat the docsoffer here.thenAPIWhat the docsoffer here.thenSettingsThe decisionat this point.
Fig. 1 Left to right, in the order the note takes.

An API reference shows what can be set outside the prompt: frames, negative prompts, motion.

Reading both is the fastest way to learn a new model.

1From the docs

Select from the available camera Motion options to guide the camera's movement within the generated video

Adobe, Firefly help: generate videos using text prompts

Pan (left/right) : the camera rotates horizontally left or right from a fixed position.

Google Cloud, Veo video prompt guide

Make the water crash down and slowly pan out the camera

xAI, Grok Imagine documentation

2A shot list from a script

Where “Reading a prompt guide” has to be written by hand, SceneMixer's pipeline writes the shots; its guides explain:

A line lives inside the shot where it is spoken, in four parts: the speaker chip, the delivery note in round brackets, the words after the colon, and the voice chip after the words.

SceneMixer, Dialogue in the Storyboard: How to Write a Line, and What Save Tidies Up (read 2026-10-13)

SceneMixer generates each character once as a full-body reference sheet — 9:16, plain background, directional key light, identity features written before any technical instruction — and then attaches crops of that sheet to every shot the character appears in.

SceneMixer, AI Character Sheet Generator (read 2026-10-13)

3Other notes

Examples are quoted from the models' docs; no model was run.