Renderers
A renderer is how one scene becomes moving pictures. The Direction agent assigns one per scene; you can change it at the Direction gate.
One script scene rendered as AI Video, Stock, Ken Burns, Remotion and Narrator, side by side, with the cost of each.
What you can choose
- AI Video
- Cinematic motion generated from a still image (image-to-video). The default, and the most expensive.
- Narrator
- A talking-head presenter, lip-synced from a character face plus the narration audio.
- Stock Footage
- Real stock video or photos matched to the scene. Billed from your stock-minutes pool.
- Remotion
- Motion graphics — animated text, charts and data-driven compositions. Billed from your Remotion-minutes pool.
- Wikimedia Reference
- A real reference photo of a named person, place, event or object, shown as a showcase or with Ken Burns motion.
- Ken Burns
- An AI-generated still with a slow pan and zoom. Cheaper than AI Video and often steadier for a talking passage.
- Composite
- Several shots in sequence within one scene — see Composite scenes.
Changing a renderer
At the Direction gate each scene has a renderer selector. Options that are currently unavailable (a renderer whose service is down) are greyed out with the reason, and options your remaining budget cannot cover are marked as such. Switching back and forth keeps whatever you had already picked for the other renderer — a stock clip you chose is still chosen if you switch away and back.
Not available yet
Split Screen, Picture in Picture and Overlay appear in the selector marked “Soon”. They are two-input compositing modes that are not rendered yet, so they cannot be selected.