🎬 What's the best way to build a long-form video without wasting credits?

For anything long- a multi-minute story, a full episode, a long music video- build your storyboard as still images first, check every scene before committing to motion, then generate motion and lip-sync in one bulk step once everything's right. It starts the same as any guided workflow, with one different choice at the end.

Start the same way

1. Run through your workflow as usual, How do I use Script to Video? or How do I make a Music Video with Atlabs?, depending on your input. Upload your script or audio, set your style, and finalize your cast exactly as normal.

Choose Storyboard at the Finalize step

2. At Finalize Video, you will see three options: Storyboard, Video Preview and Full Video. Select Storyboard.

Atlabs generates a still image for every scene, no motion or lip sync yet.

Check every scene before spending more credits

3. Go through the storyboard scene by scene. Check consistency, check locations, edit anything that's off using the Visual tab before moving on. This is the point to catch problems, fixing a still image is far cheaper than re-generating motion or lip sync after the fact.

Generate motion for everything at once

4. Once every scene looks right, find Select scenes to generate motion below the video preview.
5. Click it, then select all scenes.
6. Choose a motion model, or leave it on the default.
7. Click Generate.

Atlabs generates motion, and lip sync for any scene where you've tagged a speaking character, across every selected scene in one pass.

💡 Why this works for long videos: your storyboard images are locked in as correct before you spend credits on motion, nothing needs re-generating because a visual changed after the fact, it's more credit-efficient than the Full Video path, and you keep full control scene by scene before committing.

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Updated on: 09/07/2026