AI Shot List Generator

A shot list you can render, not a document you then have to shoot

Most AI shot-list tools hand back a table. You still have to go and make every shot in it, in some other tool, and hope the result matches what the table said. Here the shot list is the input: each segment is generated from its own text, against the reference art for the characters and places that text names. Change a line in the list and only that segment is re-rendered. That one difference decides everything else on this page — the list has to be precise enough to be executed, not just readable.

What a segment carries

The unit is a segment of 4–15 seconds, which is also one generation. Inside it sit the individual shots. Every segment opens with a header that fixes the facts a camera would need before rolling:

What a shot carries

• A number and a duration in seconds. The shot durations of a segment sum to the segment's length; there is no slack to hide in.
• A shot size. Wide, medium, close, over-the-shoulder, insert — chosen for what the moment needs, and biased towards framings AI video models actually render well.
• Who is in frame. Explicitly, per shot. This is the list that decides whose reference art gets attached, so it is treated as the authority rather than as prose.
• The action. Written as cause rather than result: what the light source is and where it is, not where the highlight lands.
• The dialogue. Each line with its speaker and a short delivery note. The length of a dialogue shot is derived from the line — English is timed at three words per second — so a shot is never too short for the sentence inside it.
• Ambient sound. What the scene sounds like, which the video model generates along with the picture.

Three rules that exist because of how video models fail

These are not style preferences. Each was added after watching generated footage break in the same way twice.

• Nobody off screen gets named. If a character is only being looked at, spoken to or reached for and is not in the frame, the shot says “towards the left of frame”, never their name. Naming an absent character is the single most reliable way to make a model paste their face into a shot that is supposed to have one person in it.
• Single-person shots say so. A shot with one character in it carries an explicit “only this person in frame” note, and characters who are present but not speaking are marked as such, so the model does not animate a mouth that should be closed.
• Depth words are camera decisions. Writing that someone is “in the background, out of focus” behind the speaker has already chosen a camera position — one that often does not exist for a normal two-person mid shot. The list is written so those phrasings only appear where the framing supports them.

After the model writes a list, a pass of deterministic corrections runs over it before it is saved: shot durations reconciled against the segment, the opening shot size matched to shot one, mouths closed on non-speakers, weapon and contact language made specific, leftover drafting notes removed. A second pass asks the same model to rewrite only the specific lines that failed a check, never the whole list.

How long the lists are, in practice

Across projects on this platform the median episode is seven segments, and the median segment is fourteen seconds — so a typical episode's shot list is about a hundred seconds of screen time, carrying however many individual shots those seven segments need. Generating one episode's list takes about 1 minute 54 seconds at the median, measured over every list that generated successfully on scenemixer.com in the thirty days to 20 September 2026.

Editing is free; regenerating is not

Every line of the list is editable text, and editing costs nothing — the only billed events are model calls. That asymmetry is deliberate, because it changes how you work: fixing a shot by hand and re-rendering just that segment is cheap, while asking the model for a fresh list of the whole episode costs exactly what the first one did and throws away any hand edits in that episode. For small corrections, edit. For a genuinely different approach to the episode, regenerate.

What it costs

Shot lists are billed per episode, by the length of the script that episode covers: 1 credit per 333 characters of English text, at the same rate for a first pass and a re-run. Script analysis, which produces the cast and the episode breakdown the list is written against, is 4 credits per 3,333 characters and runs once for the whole upload. On a first project the shot list for episode 1 is free, and every account starts with 50 credits. Rendering the shots is separate, from 10 credits per second of output. Full table on the pricing page.

One shot list, fifteen dialogue languages

Dialogue timing is computed per language, so a shot is long enough for the line it holds whichever language that line is in. The dialogue language is chosen before analysis and performed natively rather than dubbed on afterwards; each series below was produced that way.

Frequently asked questions

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