Getting Started

Navigate to Video Series in the left rail. The landing screen presents a clear question: “What are we creating today?” with two mode cards at the top and a prompt area below. Beneath the prompt area, a horizontal carousel of template cards gives you a third, shortcut-based starting point.

Video Series home screen showing 'What are we creating today?' heading, I have an idea and Scene by scene mode cards, prompt area with sample text about a thylacine, starter chips, configuration options, and template carousel below

The Video Series landing page. The two mode cards (I have an idea and Scene by scene) sit at the top. Below the prompt box, quick-start chips offer curated story ideas. Configuration pills (model, orientation, duration) and the Generate scenes button line the bottom. Scroll down to find the template gallery.

Three Starting Modes

The two mode cards at the top toggle between AI-planned and manual creation:

• I have an idea (selected by default): “We plan every scene for you.” Type your concept into the prompt box and hit Generate scenes. Qolaba's AI breaks your idea into individual scenes with detailed prompts, camera directions, voiceover scripts, and audio cues.

• Scene by scene: “Blank scenes, you fill them in.” Clicking this takes you straight to a blank scene editor where you write each scene's prompt manually and upload reference images for consistency.

• Below the main creation area, a Start from a template carousel offers pre-built series. Each template card shows a preview thumbnail, a clip count badge (e.g., “2 clips” or “1 clip”), and a label like “Product review UGC” or “Cinematic Beverage Commercial.”

Configuration Options

Before generating, you can configure the series using the pills below the prompt:

Setting	Options
Model	Omni video model: Qolaba's default video generation model (Gemini Omni Flash)
Orientation	Portrait or Landscape: sets the aspect ratio for all clips in the series
Duration	10s per clip (configurable via dropdown)

You can also use the quick-start chips, Under the Sea, Whale Fall, Buried History, Storm Season, Last of its Kind, to pre-fill the prompt with a curated story idea and jump straight in.

3. The Three-Step Pipeline

Regardless of how you start, every Video Series follows the same three-step pipeline. A progress stepper at the top of the workspace tracks where you are:

1. Scenes → 2. Clips → 3. Assemble

Step	What happens
1. Scenes	Define the story. Each scene gets a detailed text prompt describing the environment, action, camera work, voiceover, and audio. You can add reference images that carry through every scene for character and product consistency.
2. Clips	Generate the video. Each scene is rendered into an individual video clip. Clips generate one at a time, and you can regenerate any clip independently without affecting the others. A progress badge (e.g., “4/4 done”) tracks completion.
3. Assemble	Combine into final video. Arrange your clips on a timeline, choose transitions between them (Hard Cut, Dissolve, Fade, Wipe, Slide), preview the result, and combine into a single downloadable MP4.

You can move backward at any point, the Edit scenes and Back to clips buttons let you revise earlier stages without losing work. Green checkmarks on completed steps confirm your progress.