DESIGN

The right picture for the scene — fetched, judged, or generated.

Scenes that need imagery get it automatically. A vision pass reranks stock candidates against the scene’s intent and rejects wrong-subject results; AI images and short clips fill in where stock falls short, inside a per-video budget.

PexelsUnsplashAI imagesAI clipsVision rerank

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What it does

The detail that makes it work.

Reranked, not first-hit

Eight candidates per query, judged as thumbnails before anything downloads. A wrong subject is rejected, not shipped.

Image-first video

AI video clips animate a still you have already approved, so motion never changes the picture.

Budgeted by design

Paid media runs inside a per-video cap and degrades gracefully: AI clip → stock clip → AI image → stock photo.

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Styling a scene
Tutorial 20 · Storyboard

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Pairs well with these.

Add any scene, mid-lectureBetween any two beats, insert an image, a self-drawing sketch, a paper-cutout collage, a stickman panel, an X-Ray scene, a cinematic clip, animated math, or bespoke motion graphics.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.

Build a course with stock + ai imagery.

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

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