Instead of exporting your shots and assembling them in another editing application, you can now continue directly from your storyboard and turn your project into a more complete animatic or video sequence inside Storyboarder.ai.

This tutorial walks you through the main parts of the Edit Suite and how to get started.
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Open one of your projects and select Edit Suite from the left-hand project navigation.

Your existing storyboard shots are automatically available inside the editor, so you can continue working with the material you've already created.

The Edit Suite is divided into four main areas:

This gives you a familiar editing workflow while keeping everything connected to your Storyboarder.ai project.
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Select Shots in the left-hand toolbar to see the shots from your storyboard.

Shots are organized by scene, making it easy to work through longer projects without losing track of where you are.
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If Storyboarder.ai detects storyboard shots that haven't yet been added to your edit, you'll see an option such as:
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Add 3 Missing Shots

This lets you quickly bring newly created storyboard material into your edit.

You may also see an option such as:

Update 1 Take from Storyboard

Use this when a take in your storyboard has changed and you want the Edit Suite to reflect the newer version.

This means you can continue improving your storyboard without having to rebuild your entire edit every time something changes.

The large window in the center is your Preview.

Use the playback controls underneath the preview to:

You can also control playback volume and adjust the preview size.

The preview updates as you work on the timeline, allowing you to immediately review your changes.

At the bottom of the Edit Suite you'll find the main timeline.

Your shots appear as individual clips arranged from left to right.

For example, you might see:

Scene 1 Shot 1 → Scene 1 Shot 2 → Scene 1 Shot 3 → Scene 1 Shot 4

The timeline contains separate tracks for different types of content, including video and audio.

In the example above there are:

Video 2
​Video 1
​Audio 1

You can use multiple tracks to build more complex edits instead of being limited to one simple sequence.

Use Add Track if you need additional layers.

Click a clip on the timeline to select it.

The settings panel on the right becomes available when a clip is selected.

From here you can work on properties such as:

Select Media from the toolbar to work with additional media inside your edit.

This allows you to combine your Storyboarder.ai material with other elements needed for your sequence.

For example, you may want to add additional video or visual material alongside the shots generated for your storyboard.

This makes the Edit Suite useful not only for traditional animatics but also for pitch videos, previs sequences, commercials, and early film edits.

Select Text to add text elements to your sequence.

Text can be useful for:

For pitch or presentation videos, text can help turn a basic animatic into something that is easier to share with clients or collaborators.

The Backgrounds section lets you add background elements to your edit.

This can be particularly helpful when combining different visual elements or creating presentation-style sequences where an image or video does not necessarily need to fill the complete frame.

Open Effects to add visual treatments to your edit.

Effects can be used to refine the presentation of individual clips or create a particular visual treatment for your sequence.
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A good rule is to build the timing of your edit first and add effects afterward. This keeps you focused on storytelling before polishing the presentation.

Select Transitions when you want to control how one clip moves into another.

For traditional storyboards and animatics, simple cuts will often be enough. But transitions can be useful when you want to indicate a specific editorial idea such as a softer change between scenes.
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Select the relevant clip in your timeline and use the clip settings to adjust the transition.
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The Edit Suite also includes AI Music Generation, allowing you to create a soundtrack that fits the mood, pacing, and length of your edit.

Select Music from the left-hand toolbar to open the music controls.

You can generate music in two different ways:
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Choose Selected clips if you only want to create music for a specific part of your edit.
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This is useful when different sequences need different musical moods. For example, you might want:

Select the relevant clips on your timeline and then open the Music section to generate a score specifically for that part of the edit.
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This allows you to build the soundtrack of your project sequence by sequence instead of treating the entire film as one musical piece.
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Select Entire timeline when you want Storyboarder.ai to create a score for your complete edit.
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The system automatically uses the current length of your timeline when creating the soundtrack. For example, if your finished edit is 1 minute and 48 seconds, the generated score will be created to fit that duration.
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This makes it particularly useful when you've already finished your basic edit and want to quickly turn it into a more complete animatic, pitch video, or presentation.
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You can give the AI additional direction using the Describe the score field.

For example:
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You don't have to write a complicated music prompt. A short description of the progression, instrumentation, or overall feeling is usually enough.
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You can combine your description with predefined Genre and Mood options.

Available genres can include styles such as:
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Electronic, Cinematic, Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Classical, Ambient, Lo-Fi, Corporate, Upbeat, and Dramatic.
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You can also define the emotional direction using moods such as:

Happy, Sad, Energetic, Calm, Tense, Romantic, Inspiring, Mysterious, Playful, Dark, Bright, or Nostalgic.
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Combining these options helps the AI understand both the musical style and the emotional purpose of the scene.

For example:

Genre: Cinematic
​Mood: Tense + Dark
​Prompt: Slow atmospheric build, increasingly intense toward the end

or:

​Genre: Ambient
​Mood: Calm + Nostalgic
​Prompt: Gentle piano and strings, emotional but understated

When you're happy with your settings, click Finalize with soundtrack.

For an entire-timeline generation, Storyboarder.ai creates a new finalized version of your video with the generated score.
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Importantly, this does not permanently alter your existing timeline.
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Your visual edit stays intact, and you can continue making changes afterward.

When finalizing with AI music, the newly generated score replaces other music in that finalized version, while voices and dialogue are preserved. This allows you to experiment with a complete AI-generated score without having to manually restructure your edit.
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You can then preview the finalized result and decide whether the soundtrack works for your project.
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This makes it easy to try different musical directions without committing to them immediately.
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If your timeline becomes too complicated, or you've made major changes to your storyboard, you don't have to manually remove every clip.

Simply click Reset in the left-hand toolbar.
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Reset clears the information currently placed on the Edit Suite timeline, allowing you to start the edit again from scratch.
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Your actual storyboard is not deleted.
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After resetting the Edit Suite, simply return to Shots and import your storyboard into the timeline again.
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This is particularly useful if you've made major changes to:

Instead of trying to synchronize a heavily modified timeline manually, you can simply:

Reset → Import from Storyboard → Start editing again
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Think of the Edit Suite timeline as your editable assembly, while the Storyboard remains your source material.
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For your first Edit Suite project, we recommend this workflow:

The key idea is that nothing has to be perfect on the first try. The Edit Suite is designed for iteration: storyboard, edit, review, change, re-import, and refine.
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The Edit Suite is designed to close the gap between creating individual storyboard shots and seeing the complete sequence play as one piece.
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You can now develop your idea, create your shots, generate video, build your edit, and add audio and finishing elements within the same Storyboarder.ai project.
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That makes it much easier to test pacing, communicate an editorial idea, create an animatic for production, or turn a storyboard into a presentation-ready sequence before moving into final production.