How to finish an AI film made in ScreenWeaver: takes, upscale, downloads, sound and the edit

Every Image node keeps its takes in the strip under the preview, and every Video node keeps a "Generation history". Nothing you generate is overwritten, so you can always go back to the second take of yesterday if today's run is worse.

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1. 1References. The entity sheets and art style wired into the node (@characters, @places, @art_direction). Wire a reference in, then cite it in the prompt by its @handle.
2. 2Image preview. The current image of the node. Its output can feed a video node as a start frame or a reference.
3. 3Takes. Every image this node has generated. Browse them with the arrows and save one with the download icon; running again does not erase earlier takes.
4. 4Show what the model receives. "Show what the model receives" switches to the final prompt sent to the model; "Back to editable prompt" returns to your text. Check it when a result ignores an instruction.
5. 5Prompt. Your instruction, with @references to the wired sheets. Spend the words on framing, action and light; the look comes from the art style reference.
6. 6Model. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (default), Nano Banana 2.1, Seedream 5.0 Pro, GPT Image 2.5 Flare or Grok Imagine Image.
7. 7Quality. Low, Medium, High, Extra high or Max. Explore at a lower quality, render the chosen frame higher, and check the cost in the Generate tooltip.
8. 8Generate. Runs the node. The credit cost shows on the button and in its tooltip, and the job appears in Generations.
9. 9Images per generation. 1, 4 or 8 images per run. Generate several to choose a composition, one once you know what you want.

A shot does not need to be perfect. It needs to work in the cut, for the time it is on screen. Watch it at full speed with the shots around it before you decide. If the audience will not notice the flaw and the emotion lands, keep it and spend your time on the shots that carry the story.

Click AI in the header. The "Generations" column lists everything you launched, from every tab, with its status: "Running", "Done", "Failed", "Error" or "Canceled".

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1. 1Generations. The list itself. Empty, it reads "No generations yet. Start one from the storyboard, production canvas, or entity panels."
2. 2Generation. One job: its name, type and model. "Preview generated media" shows its "Model", "Prompt", "Parameters", "Credits" and "Created"; "Download" saves it and "Go to node" jumps to the node that made it.
3. 3Done. Finished and ready. The other statuses are "Running", "Failed", "Error" and "Canceled"; "Remove from list" tidies the column.
4. 4Running. Still generating. "Cancel generation" stops it.
5. 5Progress. How far the job has gone. Videos take longer than images: keep working, the list updates on its own.
6. 6Failed, refunded. A run that fails is refunded, so you do not pay for it. "Retry generation" runs it again; if it fails twice, check the prompt and the inputs first.

• "Cancel generation" stops a run you no longer need, and "Retry generation" relaunches one.
• "Preview generated media" shows the result with its "Model", "Prompt", "Parameters", "Credits" and "Created" date.
• "Download" saves the file, and "Go to node" takes you to the node that made it.
• "Remove from list" tidies the column. Failed generations are refunded.

If you drafted with Seedance 2.5 at "480p · Draft", use "Finish seedance draft" on the take you keep to get it at 1080p. Drafts can be finished for 7 days, so finish your selects the same week.

For more resolution, click "Video tools" in the toolbar and place an Upscale node. Wire your finished video into it and pick a model: "Topaz Starlight Precise 2.6", "Topaz Starlight Fast 2", or "Seedance 2.5 Draft finish" for a Seedance draft. The targets are 1080p and 4k.

• "Download image" and "Download video" save a single result to your computer.
• The Bundle tile adds a Media bundler: wire your chosen takes into it and click "Download ZIP" to get them all in one archive.
• In the AI Center, "Download" on any generation.
• The script leaves from Import / Export in the Script tab: PDF, FDX (Final Draft) or a ScreenWeaver backup. See import, export and version history.

ScreenWeaver produces your pictures and scene clips, not voices or music, and it has no lip sync tool. You have three routes for spoken lines.

1. 1Native dialogue: with "Audio on", some video models generate the voice, the lip movement and the ambience in the same take. Put the words in quotes in the prompt with the language and the delivery, keep it to one or two sentences, and keep the speaker clearly in frame.
2. 2A separate voice: generate it first with a text-to-speech service, so you control the performance and the timing. In ScreenWeaver, "Add voice" on a character's Story element node creates an audio node where you upload the file, and that audio can be sent as a reference to the video models that accept audio.
3. 3Voice-over: an inner monologue, a narrator, a letter read over images. No lips to sync, and often the most cinematic choice.

ScreenWeaver has no timeline and no film export. The cut is where the film is actually made, in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, CapCut or the editor you prefer.

1. 1Assemble the shots in script order and watch the whole thing once.
2. 2Cut for rhythm: cut on motion, not on clip length. Trim the warped or frozen first and last fractions of a second. Join the best halves of two takes with a cut on a natural movement.
3. 3Use J cuts and L cuts, letting sound start before its picture or carry over the cut, so separate AI shots play as one scene.
4. 4Build the sound in four layers: an ambience bed, the effects the action needs, the dialogue clean and in front, then music last and lower than you think. Always fade out at the end of a scene, never stop dead.
5. 5Grade the shots into one world: match skin tones first, then the overall look.
6. 6Export a full-quality master, then make every delivery from it. For online platforms, a 1080p or 4K H.264 file with loudness around minus 14 to minus 16 LUFS. For festivals, read each one's technical specs.

Grading is what turns takes from different runs, and sometimes different models, into one film. When the first episode of Lost Garden, the AI anime series Frank Houbre made alone in ScreenWeaver, was graded in DaVinci Resolve, pulling every shot into the same cold blue is what made it feel like a single film.