Draft on the Preview
Why the simulated Preview is the right place to plan a video, and how to work with it before anything else.
The Previews are where a video starts. Here is how to use them.
The Preview runs in your browser#
The simulated Preview paints clips in your browser at no extra cost, so you can try an order, a length or a wording as often as you like. The composer names the model and the seconds before anything is made, so you always know what is about to run.
A way to work#
Build the video on the Preview first. Settle the order, the lengths and the words with simulated clips, which are quick and repeatable. The timeline remakes just the clips that changed, so a small edit stays small.
Be honest with yourself#
Today the default makers are simulated. The quick way to learn how a chain behaves is also the honest way to use it. A Preview clip is a real video file, and it is not a video model: it does not shoot what you described.
Where the plans come in#
Making videos is in every plan, and a bigger plan holds more a month. Your own AI works on every plan too, and it can start videos and edit clips through the connector.
What to look at while you draft#
Watch the seams first. A clip starts on the last frame of the one before, so a jump in colour or a pose that does not carry over shows up at the join. Fix the prompt of the clip after the join, not the clip before it. Then look at the lengths: a chain of short clips feels busy, a chain of long ones feels slow, and the Preview makes it cheap to find the balance.
A small example#
Suppose you plan a thirty-second video of six clips. Draft all six on the Preview, listen to the pacing, move a cut so a change in clip four does not touch clip five, and only then decide what deserves more attention. Because each clip names its model, you can always tell later which version you were looking at.
Failed clips#
A clip that fails leaves no finished file behind, and you can make it again. The timeline keeps what you did not touch.
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