How it works
SeriousPixel Studio is one suite organized the way a production runs: pre-production, production and post-production. Each workspace is approved before the next builds on it, and any workspace can send work back.
Same layout everywhere
Every workspace opens the same way: what you’re building from on the left, the work in the middle, versions and approvals on the right, and the job queue along the bottom. Dense dark panels, keyboard-first.
From a one-line idea to a locked script, a Story Bible and a full set of boards. Paid plans
Type a Spark or drop in a book, story or brief. Compare treatments and pick one. For a book, SP Studio reads chapter by chapter and keeps a running memory of characters, places and timeline — adapt it faithfully, condensed, as a modern retelling, or as a series that maps chapters to episodes.
Build beats, scenes and the screenplay — guided beats-first, a full first draft, or import your own script. Every revision is a version, approved scenes can be locked, and the breakdown lists cast, locations, props and wardrobe per scene. Optional table read with cast voices.
Choose a Look Pack and build the style bible: palette, lens and lighting rules, texture, references and a “never do this” list. Lock cast, locations and props on sheets with several angles and variants, and give each character a cast voice.
Review the shot list generated from the script, create a board frame for every shot, and play the animatic with temp audio to check timing before a single take is shot.
Shots, takes and dailies — directed like a shoot. Paid plans
Each shot carries its description, camera, lens look, duration, first and last frame from the boards, cast references, dialogue and audio notes. Shoot takes in batches, review them as dailies, circle the best one, and reshoot a region when only part of a take needs work. Connected shots can be shot together where the engine supports it, holding identity, lighting and voice across the cut. Continuity checks flag wardrobe, prop and identity drift.
Six workspaces on one native Media Engine, so a clip plays and scrubs the same everywhere. Free
Ingest and organize takes, imported footage, stills and audio into bins and smart bins, with metadata and proxies.
Assemble circled takes quickly in a single-track view and get to a first watch-down fast.
Full multi-track editing: insert, overwrite, ripple, roll, slip and slide, markers, transitions, titles and lower thirds, keyframes, speed changes and captions. Clips are live — swap a take right from the timeline, or add handles on a paid plan.
Match shots, apply LUTs and grades, and read scopes on a color-managed viewer built on OpenColorIO. Grading can run alongside the mix.
Dialogue, effects, ambience and music on four lanes. Place your own music against a cue sheet, duck under dialogue automatically, and mix to platform loudness targets.
Export masters, captions and packages from delivery presets, run license and labeling checks against every track and asset, and hand off to Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut.
How work moves
Each workspace ends at a gate — treatment approved, script approved, bible locked, shot circled, picture lock. The next workspace builds on the approved version, never on a draft.
Any workspace can send work upstream. Approved changes mark dependent work stale instead of silently breaking it, and only the affected scenes, frames and shots are redone.
Editors can ignore generation entirely. Start a project from imported footage and the post-production workspaces behave exactly the same — and they’re free.
Simple mode gives each stage one primary action and one Approve button. Pro mode exposes seeds, LoRAs, raw direction, reference weights and routing rules.
A docked assistant takes plain requests — “tighten scene 4”, “make Mara’s coat red everywhere” — and always shows a diff or a job list first. Nothing runs until you approve. Collapsed by default.
Autosave, undo and redo mapped to versions, a command palette, keyboard shortcuts for take review, and background jobs with notifications.
Book a walkthrough with your own script, footage or brief, or apply for the partner beta.