How do you make a complete AI film on one website?

This is the step where the film is decided: who it is about, what they want and how it ends. A short film needs a clear beginning, a turn and a close, in a handful of scenes.

In FXI Studio this is the Story step of the AI Drama Builder, labelled "Write the story". Type one line or paste a script, and Bezaleel, the AI film director, turns it into scenes with a short script line for each. You edit any line before anything is rendered.

Tip: keep a first film to one place and two or three people. Fewer moving parts means fewer retakes.

Reference images are the fixed faces and costumes every later shot is built from. Without them, a character can look different in each clip.

In FXI Studio this is the Cast step, "Lock your cast". Each character gets a reference sheet you approve once, and that saved reference is attached to every shot they appear in.

Tip: approve a face you can recognise at a glance, with one distinctive piece of clothing, because that is what holds up across shots.

A storyboard is one still image per shot, in order, so you can judge framing, light and pacing before paying for motion. A shot list is the same plan in words.

In FXI Studio the Sets step, "Build the set", makes a location plate for each place in the story, and the Storyboard step, "Storyboard every shot", draws a key frame for every scene on top of your cast and sets. Stills cost far less than video, so this is the cheap place to fix mistakes.

Tip: change the storyboard until it reads as a story with the sound off, then move on.

Each approved still becomes a short video clip. Most current AI video models make one clip at a time, a few seconds long, so a film is a run of clips.

In FXI Studio this is the Video step, "Animate each shot". Each clip starts from its approved storyboard frame, and shots can be frame chained: the last frame of one clip becomes the first frame of the next, so motion flows between shots instead of jumping.

Tip: render one shot first, check it against its storyboard frame, then run the rest.

Consistency is the difference between a film and a folder of clips. The same face, the same room and the same light need to carry from shot to shot.

FXI Studio keeps this automatic. The saved cast references and set plates stay attached to every shot, the drama builder checks each clip against them, and frame chaining carries the last frame forward. If one shot drifts, you retake that shot, not the film.

Tip: retake the single shot that drifted and leave the approved ones alone.

Sound is half of what a viewer feels. A film usually needs spoken lines or a narrator, sound effects for key moments and a music bed under the whole thing.

In FXI Studio, dialogue shots can render the spoken line with the picture on audio-capable models, and Director adds music, voice-over and sound effects as separate tracks you can place and replace.

Tip: write the dialogue short enough to say in one breath per shot, and let music do the emotional work in between.

Editing is where separate clips become one piece: order, trims, pacing, captions and an ending that lands.

In FXI Studio this is the Assemble step, "Assemble and share". The shots join in order into one cut, captions can be burned in, and a Share page gives you a link to post. You can trim the cut in the editor and export it for a finishing edit elsewhere.

Tip: watch the cut once without stopping before you change anything, then fix the single weakest cut.

Not well yet, and a good tool should not pretend otherwise. Today's AI systems are better at single shots than at a whole movie from one click, so a filmmaker still has to direct the shots and assemble them.

FXI Studio is built around that fact. The AI director plans the scenes, boards them and assembles the cut, and you approve each step: the story, the cast, the sets, the storyboard and then the video. Credits go on motion only after the stills are right.

New accounts start with 65 free credits and no credit card, about 16 images or 3 free videos (the first in full quality, then fast drafts), plus 25 more credits each week until the free balance is back at 65.

Free accounts render clips and frame-chained sequences on the draft video lane and can join them into a short cut. Any credit pack or plan unlocks the premium video models and the final-cut pass.

The First Film Pack is a one-time $5 for 200 credits. Monthly plans are The Creator at $15/mo for 600 credits, The Visionary at $35/mo for 2,500 credits, The Studio at $135/mo for 10,500 credits. A video take costs 10 to 50 credits, and every action shows its cost before it runs.