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Short-Video Guide

Produce a short video in three steps: let One-Click Workflow build the full node graph from the short-video template, then complete storyboards, tiling, director review and video generation inside the Agent pipeline window — no manual node wiring required.

1. Preparation

  1. Models: Settings → Models → add and enable a provider (Volcengine Ark, Kling, MiniMax, Tongyi Qianwen, ModelScope, OpenRouter, …). Select and set defaults for the text model (storyboard / prompts / review), the image model (tiling and anchor images) and the video model (motion video).
  2. Object storage (optional): Settings → Object Storage → enable one of Volcengine TOS / Alibaba Cloud OSS / Tencent Cloud COS. Recommended when videos need public URLs or are used as reference videos; you can skip it for local preview only.
  3. Create or open a project from the home page and enter the workspace.
Make sure the provider account has enough credits — generation fails immediately when the balance runs out.

2. Step 1: Pick the short-video template

  1. With the project open, click One-Click Workflow in the top bar.
  2. In preset templates choose “Short-drama storyboard (Agent pipeline)” — the short-video template.
  3. Click Preview template to inspect the generated nodes and links; you can pick a preset first and then edit the “workflow description”.
  4. Confirm with Create workflow, then choose a save directory and name.
  5. A new host asset appears in the asset library — the short-video workflow is ready.
Choosing the short-video template in One-Click Workflow
Figure 1: One-Click Workflow → choose the short-video template

3. Step 2: Auto-generated workflow nodes

Double-click the host asset to dive into the inner graph and see the chain the template built:

  1. Script → Beat breakdown table (storyboard artist) → 9-grid storyboard table.
  2. 9-grid tiling: one node renders the whole 3×3 sheet, then splits it into 9 anchor images and upscales them.
  3. 4-grid motion storyboard table → one 2×2 sheet per group → 36 motion cells extracted and upscaled.
  4. Motion prompt table (36 entries) → motion cell select → 36 motion videos.
  5. Four director review nodes (review1~review4) are interleaved throughout (beats / 9-grid / 4-grid / motion prompts).

The graph stays fully editable: change prompts, swap models, rewire edges. In daily use you never need to run nodes one by one — jump straight to the Agent pipeline window in step 3.

The short-video node graph generated by One-Click Workflow
Figure 2: The complete auto-generated workflow nodes

4. Step 3: Finish everything in the Agent pipeline

Click “Episode Pipeline” in the top toolbar to open the Agent pipeline window — every generation and review step happens here:

  1. Beat breakdown (left column): run Regenerate to produce the beat table, then click Director review.
  2. 9-grid storyboard table (center): run Regenerate for the 9-grid text; click the grid icon at the top-right to generate the whole 3×3 sheet and split out all 9 cells in one go; then Director review.
  3. 4-grid (right column): run Regenerate; click the 2×2 grid icon to generate the current group's 2×2 sheet; Director review. Motion prompts and video outputs are shown on the right.
  4. Video: click Generate this video (or generate entries one by one) and preview playback directly inside the window.
  5. Drag the dividers between the three columns to resize them, so you can watch text and images side by side.
Recommended order: beat breakdown → 9-grid storyboard → generate 9-grid sheet → 4-grid motion storyboard → generate 4-grid sheet → motion prompts → pass director review level by level → generate videos. When a stage is regenerated, its downstream images / videos are invalidated and marked “Not generated”; clicking generate again re-runs the chain from the latest text, so new text never pairs with stale images.
Running storyboards, tiling and video inside the Agent pipeline window
Figure 3: Storyboards, tiling and video in the Agent pipeline window

5. FAQ

  • Which models are required? A text model is mandatory (storyboard / prompts / director review); the image model renders tiling and anchor images; the video model renders motion videos. Enable and set defaults for each under Settings → Models.
  • The video only shows a file path, no preview? Once generation finishes, the pipeline window loads a playable preview automatically; if it still doesn't appear, click refresh or reopen the pipeline window.
  • The director review button is greyed out? It lights up only after the matching stage's Regenerate writes results back, so you never review stale content.
  • Generation failed? Check the model key, default models and account balance first; the failure reason appears in the task queue or at the top of the window.