Script to Video

Script to video means starting from words you have already written, such as a short film scene, an ad, a sketch or a series episode, and getting video that follows them: the same characters, the same order of events, the lines you wrote. It is a different job from prompting one clip, because the script decides what happens, not the model.

On Mage the tool for it is Story Studio. You give it a story prompt of up to 1,000 characters, a cast of one to three saved characters, and the number of scenes, from 5 to 20. Write Script turns that into one video script per scene, each with a scene paragraph (setting, sound, camera movement and tone), labeled shots, dialogue from your cast and a closing style line. You can edit every scene, or replace it with your own text, before you press Generate Scenes.

Story Studio then films the scenes in order, one video per scene, on the video model you pick. For a script you would rather direct shot by shot, write each shot on Cherry 2 Pro in the prompt bar and join up to six clips into one MP4 in Storyboard.

Story Studio reads a story prompt, not a screenplay file, and the prompt stops at 1,000 characters. So the first step is to condense: one sentence per scene, in order, naming who is in it and what changes. A ten-page short usually compresses into ten lines. Keep the exact dialogue to one side; you paste it into the scenes in the next step.

Set the number of videos to the number of scenes in your script, anywhere from 5 to 20. Each scene becomes one video of the length you choose, so the clip length is also your scene length: 4 to 15 seconds on Cherry, and up to 30 seconds on Cherry 2 Pro and Lemon. Choose it before you write, because the scene scripts are written to fit it.

Then press Write Script. Writing is billed per scene in Gems, and the button shows the price before you start. Read what comes back the way a director reads a writer’s first draft: the structure is usually there, and the specifics are yours to fix.

• One line per scene in the story prompt, in order.
• Set the scene count to match your script.
• Pick the clip length before you write the scenes.
• Name the ending in the story prompt, so the last scene lands on it.

Each scene Story Studio writes starts with the cast tags of who appears, then one cinematic paragraph with the setting, ambience, sound, camera movement and emotional tone, then labeled shots (Shot 1, Shot 2 and so on), and a Style line at the end. The number of shots and the amount of dialogue follow the clip length: clips of 5 seconds or less get two shots and at most one short spoken line, clips up to 9 seconds get three shots and one or two short lines, and longer clips get four shots with natural dialogue.

Edit with that budget in mind. Speech takes real time: at a natural pace people say two to three words a second, so a 10-second scene holds roughly 20 to 30 words of dialogue once you leave room for the action. If your script has a longer speech, split it across two scenes or choose a 15- or 30-second clip.

Every scene is filmed by a video model that sees only that scene. Write each one so it stands alone: restate the place, the light and what people wear every time, and never write "same room as before". Each scene must also keep at least one cast @handle, or Story Studio will not start filming.

• Put spoken lines in quotation marks and say who speaks them.
• Keep one main action per shot.
• Restate the setting and wardrobe in every scene.
• Keep at least one cast @handle in each scene.
• Keep the Style line identical across scenes.

Story Studio is fastest when you want the whole script filmed in order. When one moment has to be exact, such as a product reveal or a punchline that depends on timing, write it yourself on Cherry 2 Pro in the prompt bar. It renders 4 to 30 seconds at up to 1080p with sound, and a prompt written as a timeline (0–3 s: wide shot, 3–6 s: close-up) gives you several cuts in one clip.

Two characters in one exchange? Scene Builder takes one image of each and a scene, and its Custom option expands a one-line idea into a full prompt you can edit. For a line that must be spoken exactly as recorded, make the audio first and use Lipsync, which syncs a face to up to 15 seconds of audio.

Need many takes of one shot? Autocreate, started from the prompt bar, runs a batch of at least 10 video generations from one prompt on Gems and varies it the way your custom instructions say, for example only the camera angle. Gather the keepers in Storyboard, which joins up to six clips, in 9:16 or 16:9, into one MP4. You can run one Autocreate or Story Studio campaign at a time.

Explainers, listicles and documentary-style shorts are scripts where a voice carries the story and the pictures illustrate it. For those, make the narration first: Eleven Speech reads up to 5,000 characters in one request and returns an MP3 exactly as long as the reading. Then generate a clip per paragraph to sit under it. The faceless video generator guide covers that workflow, and AI text to speech covers the voices.

Story Studio suits scripts with characters on screen who act and speak. If your script is a voice over pictures with no recurring cast, it is the wrong tool, because every scene it films must star a member of your cast.