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Thirteen kinds of scene. Drop any of them anywhere.

A lecture is not one kind of visual. CourseSmith lets you insert any scene type between any two beats — or replace a scene with another kind — and AI writes each new scene to fit the lecture around it, so it reads as though it was always there.

13 scene typesX-Ray scenesAI-written to fitBackground renderingReusable
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What it does

The detail that makes it work.

Thirteen scene types, one click

Regular, Paste text or images, Image, Chalkboard Sketch, Paper Cutout, Stickman, X-Ray Scene, PictureMotion Scene, Cinematic Video, MathMotion, MotionCraft, Add from Captures and Reuse a Scene — each with its own renderer.

X-Ray and PictureMotion in any lecture

The method behind X-Ray and PictureMotion Reels, on one scene of a regular lecture: the real thing drawn from reference photos, opened up and moving on its words, every render reviewed. Premium scenes on Pro; the frontier model is on Studio.

Written from the surrounding lecture

Describe the scene, or say nothing at all — AI reads the beats on either side and writes narration and visuals that fit the flow.

Let AI pick the device

A Regular scene can become an animated map for a place, a timeline for dates, a document zoom for a quoted source, a chat thread for a conversation or a knowledge check — chosen from what the scene says.

Rendered in the background

Sketch, paper-cutout, X-Ray, MathMotion and MotionCraft scenes render while you keep working — leave the page and come back to a finished scene.

Reuse anything you have made

Pull a finished scene from any other lesson — the rendered animation and imagery come with it, so nothing is generated twice.

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Pairs well with these.

Storyboard editorDesign every scene visually — component, background, animation, and narration, side by side.Component libraryA rich library of accurate scene templates — Socratic, Tutorial, and PowerPoint families.AI video agentDescribe a scene in chat and the agent builds it — layout-aware and catalog-aware.Character StudioDescribe a character and CourseSmith draws its reference sheet — stickman, paper cutout, whiteboard or cinematic — then keeps it the same in every video.Your workspaceThe Projects page keeps courses, shorts, storyboards in progress, Studio edits, videos, product videos, Cutaway captures and sources apart — and links every source to what was made from it.Scene styleColours, fonts and text size for a single scene or the whole deck, with no per-template code.Styles for every lecture typeEvery lecture type’s looks and “scenes to include”, each shown as a real frame — searchable, recommended per lesson, remembered per type.Stock + AI imageryPexels and Unsplash photos and clips, AI images, and short AI video — with a vision model picking the best match.

Build a course with add any scene, mid-lecture.

It’s one part of a tool that carries your source all the way to a polished, finished video.

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