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ProcessFive stations

How a video is made in Cinetana

One video passes five stations in order. The models do the slow work at each one; a person decides whether it moves on.

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Idea

Every video starts on the Ideas board as a question a viewer would type, with one line that says why they would watch. Ideas that need a real face, real news footage or a real person's voice are turned away at this stage.

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Script

The Writer's Room drafts the script with Claude models from Anthropic, then rewrites each line to be spoken aloud. A person checks every fact, removes anything unsourced and cuts the title down to one clear promise.

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Pictures

Each line of the script becomes a shot note, and each shot note becomes a still made with Google's Gemini image model. We review the stills like a contact sheet and remake the weak ones before anything moves.

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Motion

The strongest stills go to Kling, a third-party video model, with a short motion prompt: one camera move, one thing that moves. Every clip is scrubbed for warped hands and drifting faces, and sent back if anything slips.

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Cut and upload

The Editor lays the voice, shots, captions and sound on one timeline, and the Shorts tab cuts vertical moments from the long video. A person watches the full render, writes the chapters, and marks AI content in YouTube's upload settings.

What it runs on

Cinetana is a web studio. It ties together models made by other companies; we did not build any of them.

  • Writing: Claude models by Anthropic.
  • Pictures: Google's Gemini image models.
  • Motion: Kling video models.
  • Publishing to YouTube: an automation step that uploads the finished video with its title, description and chapters.

The studio keeps a cost meter for every model call, so we know what each video costs to make. When a guide quotes a cost, it comes from that meter, with the date.

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Each stage has its own topic, with guides shown on our own work.