Text History: Restore an Earlier Storyboard Text, or the Original

Quick answer: Press History on a segment’s storyboard card. The Original text is always there, together with the text from before each of your last five changes, each labelled Before an AI edit, Before a manual edit or Before a restore and showing how many places differ from the current text. View shows the difference; Restore puts that text back, and the current one goes into the history, so a restore can be undone too. It is free.

Still from “The Glass Floor”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (5 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “The Glass Floor” — Realistic HD, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

Try an AI edit you are unsure about: save it, then open History and restore the text before it if you change your mind.

What is kept

The original — the text the storyboard was generated with, recorded the first time the segment is changed and never overwritten. The last five changes — each time you save a change, the text it replaced is stored. A sixth save pushes the oldest of the five out; the original stays.

Every save of the text counts: a hand edit, a saved AI edit and a restore. Saving without changing anything does not add an entry. Until the segment has been changed, the panel says This segment hasn’t been changed yet.

Restoring

Press History in the row of buttons under the storyboard card.
Find the version by its label and the note on how many places differ; press View to see the first difference and the text around it.
Press Restore, and confirm: Restoring replaces the current text. The current text is kept in history.

An entry marked Same as the current text would change nothing. Restoring changes the text only; regenerate the segment to see it on video.

What history does not keep

Regenerating the episode’s storyboard rebuilds its segments from scratch, so their text histories go with them. Deleting a segment removes its history. History covers the storyboard text, not the videos — clips have their own Version History. Re-parse an episode: what you lose and Segment versions.

Translated storyboards

If your storyboard is shown translated into your interface language, History shows the history of the text on your screen, the same text AI edit and hand edits change. AI edit the storyboard text.

Label	What it is
Original	The generated text, kept for good
Before an AI edit	The text an AI edit replaced
Before a manual edit	The text a hand edit replaced
Before a restore	The text a restore replaced
Same as the current text	Restoring it would change nothing

FAQ

How far back does it go?

The original plus the texts before your last five changes.

Does restoring cost credits?

No. It is a text save.

Can I restore after regenerating the storyboard?

No. Regenerating rebuilds the segments and their histories. Copy anything you want to keep before regenerating.

Does restoring bring back the old video too?

No. Videos are in Version History; switch there if you want the clip made from the old text.

Change freely, restore anytime

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Updated September 30, 2026