The storyboard, timeline, sketch, and script editors are where you make one thing and judge it. A workflow graph is where you make the same thing again — for the next brief, the next SKU, the next language, the next aspect ratio.
This cookbook covers the second half: creative work that repeats often enough to be worth wiring up.
Surface or graph
| What you are doing | Where it belongs |
|---|---|
| One film, judged shot by shot | Storyboard |
| The same film for forty briefs | Pattern 1 |
| Trimming, mixing, captioning one cut | Timeline editor |
| Every delivery format of that cut | Pattern 7 |
| Painting a mask, composing a frame | Sketch editor |
| That composition in twelve styles | Pattern 5 |
| Writing and hearing back a line | Script editor |
| Re-voicing a script after every copy edit | Pattern 4 |
| One hero image | Chat, or a single image node |
| Thirty on-brand assets with one cast | Pattern 3 |
Sections
- Core Concepts — typed edges, documents as values, fan-out versus chain, and how to check a graph before it spends.
- Creative Patterns — eight patterns, each with its graph, its nodes, and the shipped template closest to it.
- Templates Gallery — every shipped workflow, runnable from the Examples page.
Choose a pattern
| I want to… | Pattern | Key nodes |
|---|---|---|
| Turn a brief into a rendered film, unattended | 1 · Brief to cut | Director, ShotBatch, ShotChain, RenderTimeline |
| Gate each shot on a cheap still first | 2 · Shot fan-out | ScreenplayShots, TextToImage, ImageToVideo |
| Hold one cast and look across a batch | 3 · Entities | ApplyEntities, ListGenerator, TextToImage |
| Voice a script and caption the cut | 4 · Script to voiced cut | VoiceScript, ScriptToTimeline, ScriptToSubtitles |
| Drive generation from a drawn composition | 5 · Sketch as control | RenderSketch, SketchLayers, ImageToImage |
| Get a gallery of variants from one brief | 6 · Variant fan-out | Agent, ListGenerator, TextToImage, Collect |
| Ship one cut in every required shape | 7 · Derivatives | Transcript, RenderTimeline, Resize, AddSubtitles |
| Handle naming, packaging, subtitle math | 8 · Code node | Code |
Start from a template
Every pattern names shipped workflows that already implement it. Open the Examples page in the app menu, load one, and edit it — templates are never modified in place.
- Direct a Short Film — brief in, cut film out, no surface interaction.
- Directed Film to Timeline — the same trip with a still per shot.
- Concept Art Iteration Board — one brief, a gallery of directions.
- Podcast Repurposing Studio — one recording, a whole content pack.
Building a graph
- Press Space to open the node menu.
- Drag from an output handle to an input handle to connect.
- Press Ctrl/⌘ + Enter to run, and add
Previewnodes to watch values. - Run
nodetool validatebefore an expensive run;nodetool debugafter a failed one.