NightShift Director Studio
EVERY STAGE
OF A FILM,
FROM SCRIPT TO edit,
IN ONE canvas.
Director Studio is an AI production studio for anyone making a film. Write the brief, build the scene in 3D, set the camera and the light, and take it all the way to a finished, delivered film. Direct the scene, not the prompt.
Prompts don't take direction
Type a shot into a text box and you get a guess at it. Ask again and the lens changes, the light moves, and the fix is another paragraph of adjectives. On a set, the camera has a position, the key light has a direction, and the frame is a decision somebody took. Director Studio puts those decisions back where they belong: in a scene you can see and move.
Build the set in 3D. No Blender.
/01There's no separate 3D package to learn or install. You control the camera, the light and the composition yourself, and those decisions become the input for the frames and shots you make from it.
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Objects
Add 3D objects to the set, then place, rotate and scale them where the shot needs them.
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Camera
Place the camera, aim it, choose the lens and set the frame.
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Light
Place point, spot, softbox and sun lights, set their direction, intensity and colour temperature, and solo a light to see what it does.
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Moves
Record a camera path by flying the camera or setting keyframes, give it a duration and a speed, watch it play, then record it.
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Talk to the scene
Describe a change in plain words and the scene updates. Undo and redo work the way you'd expect.
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Versions of a move
Save up to twelve camera moves for a scene and switch between them before you render.
35 camera presets, from a micro drift to an FPV flight
- Orbit left
- Orbit right
- Track in
- Track out
- Truck left
- Truck right
- Pedestal up
- Pedestal down
- Pan left
- Pan right
- Tilt up
- Tilt down
- Zoom in
- Zoom out
- Crash zoom
- Whip pan
- Snap tilt
- Dolly zoom
- Parallax reveal
- Micro drift
- Static hold
- Static · unmarked
- Roll clockwise
- Roll counterclockwise
- Follow · lead
- Follow · tail
- Follow · side
- Follow · aerial
- Pan track
- Tilt track
- Crane rise
- Crane descend
- FPV flight
- Through barrier
- Nested scale rush
Two ways to work · /02
Direct it yourself, or hand it the brief.
Full manual control
For directors, DPs and agency art directors who know exactly what they want. Every camera, lens, light and object decision is yours, shot by shot.
Brief to finished film
For people with an idea and no set experience. The studio takes the brief through every stage, from the screenplay to the cut, and waits for you at each key decision.
Step in any time. Step in at any approval gate, or rework a shot by hand. Manual work and autonomous production live in the same project.
Where its decisions come from
Its decisions come from fifteen years of set experience and a dataset we built ourselves.
Autonomous mode works in the app now, and applies them to the kind of film you're making and the scene in front of you.
Every key decision waits for you.
/03- 01 Start
The brief
Write it on the canvas or upload your script. Add your brand's logo and product shots, and the screenplay, shot list and frames are planned around them.
- 02 You choose
Three options for each creative choice
Lighting, camera, lens, wardrobe, art direction and atmosphere: three distinct options for each, every one with what it changes, why it fits your brief and what it trades away. You pick one of each. No camera or lens is applied as a one-size-fits-all default.
- 03 Approve
The screenplay
Written from the options you chose. Read it, revise it, then approve it.
- 04 Approve
The shot list
The approved screenplay becomes shots, each with its size, lens, move and length. Approve that too.
- 05 See the cost
Quality and formats
Choose the image and video quality and one or more aspect ratios, and see the estimated cost before anything is made.
- 06 Review all
Assets and frames
Characters, locations and props are made once and used as references in every shot that needs them. The studio renders every frame, then stops: review them together, revise any of them, or swap in an image you've already saved.
- 07 Approve frames
Shots and the cut
Approve the frames, and each shot is generated with its approved frame as the reference. The shots are then cut together into a film in every format you chose.
- 08 Your mix
Music and sound
Add music and sound design as a separate version of the film. The original stays, and you choose whether its audio is kept, lowered or replaced.
From frame to shot on one canvas.
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Frames
Render frames from your scene and edit them inside the project.
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Shots
Turn approved frames into video shots.
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Prompts, written for you
The studio writes and refines the prompt from your scene and your choices. You can still read it and change it.
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Storyboards
Lay the film out as boards, in line, sketch, marker or cinematic style, before you spend on video.
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VFX on your footage
Bring in your own footage and change or add elements with AI video editing.
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Everything stays in the project
Every reference, asset, frame, shot and sound you make is kept with it.
Cut it, score it, deliver it.
/05- 01A timelineShot order · trims · transitions · audio levels
- 02Every aspect ratioEach format quoted before it's made
- 03H.264 or ProResRendered from the cut, ready to deliver
- 04FCPXMLThe timeline, for your editing software
- 05Music on its own versionChange the music without touching the cut
You see the price before the button.
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A quote first
Every image, video and sound job shows its estimated cost before it runs, and none of them start until you confirm. Writing steps such as the screenplay ask before they run, too.
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A queue you can watch
Every job sits in a persistent queue with live status.
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Pick up where it stopped
If the app closes mid-job, it reconnects to the job already running instead of paying for it twice, and a restarted batch skips everything that's already finished.
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No heavy hardware
Generation runs in the cloud, so you don't need a render workstation or AI models on your machine.
Project memory · /07
It remembers how you work.
Director Studio keeps your preferences, your creative decisions and your conversations. Start a new project and you can search the camera, light, look and shot decisions from past jobs. Your director preferences carry over, and the assistant draws on what it finds. Inside a project, the assets you built are used again.
Projects save as you work, with revision control, so an interrupted session doesn't corrupt your work.
Access
Direct your next film.
Director Studio runs today as a macOS app that we test in-house. It isn't publicly available yet.
A web version is coming, so you'll be able to use it from anywhere without setting up a workstation. It starts as a closed beta. Join the list and we'll write to you when your seat is ready.
Director Studio is a separate product from First AD, our film scheduling app.