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Movie Maker

Movie Maker is the flagship app inside CreatorStudio. It’s the authoring surface where a story goes from a single-line idea to a finished, published video. Every other app layer either feeds into Movie Maker or takes its output downstream.

If you only use one part of CreatorStudio, this is the one.

You bring a brief — a logline, an outline, a reference video, or a full script. Movie Maker turns it into a structured story: chapters, scenes, shot list, pacing, cast, script. Ra drafts; you direct.

When you’re ready to render, Movie Maker orchestrates the fifteen-model stack (keyframes, motion, dialogue, audio, effects, captions) into a single coherent video, then hands it off to Publishing.

CapabilityWhat it does
Story generatorLogline in, structured narrative out. Chapters, scenes, beats, pacing. You direct; Ra drafts.
Chapter and scene structureAuto-generated narrative arc with shot tags and pacing. Edit anything. The whole story on one page.
Character managerPersistent characters with profiles. Visual consistency across every scene, every story, forever. Characters reusable across projects.
Scene editorPer-scene controls: Camera, Lighting, Dialogue, Visual, Effects, Audio, Place, Keyframes. DP-grade, exposed when wanted, hidden when not.
Generation pipelineKeyframe → Video → Dialogue → Audio → Effects → Render. Visible. Controllable. Re-runnable at any step. Ra picks the right model per step.
Multi-model routingInvisible by default. Switchable on demand — “render this scene with Veo instead of Kling” when you want.
Re-render and branchingAny scene re-renderable without rebuilding the whole story. Branch variants side-by-side.

When you want DP-grade control, the scene editor exposes it:

  • Camera — framing, lens, movement
  • Lighting — direction, temperature, mood
  • Dialogue — script, voice selection, pacing
  • Visual — style, palette, references
  • Effects — transitions, post-processing
  • Audio — score, ambient, SFX
  • Place — location, environment
  • Keyframes — the anchor frames Ra uses to generate motion

Every other app layer is either an input to Movie Maker or an output from it:

  • Inputs — Director Brief feeds Movie Maker its structure. Assets feeds it media. Memory feeds it your voice, cast, and brand.
  • Outputs — Publishing takes Movie Maker’s renders to every platform. Subtitle Studio dubs them. Live Studio wraps them into 24×7 programming. Backup vaults every version.

One Studio. One flagship app. Every other layer orbits it.

We regenerated The Big Short end-to-end inside Movie Maker — non-linear, 4 primary characters, complex financial plot. If Movie Maker can ship that, it ships a 10-minute faceless-history video in its sleep.

See The storyteller workflow for the end-to-end flow from brief to render.