Put a generated presenter on screen and keep them honest - lip-sync (the face on screen says the audio that plays), one take on the whole step narration, the head bubble and the head-and-screen split, the inputs for the avatar take (the voice is the voice-over-generation skill's), and the presenter's portrait - how to write it and how to check it before a take. Use when a video needs an on-camera presenter made from a portrait photo and a voice.

Build a phone or web UI in a scene with scrolling, carousels, button feedback, cursor paths and clicks, context menus, drag-and-drop, synchronized controls, bottom sheets and frosted-glass panels. Use when animating an app mockup, UI walkthrough, slider or onboarding flow, frosted glass or glassmorphism cards, or when a mock renders correctly but reads as a picture rather than an app somebody is using.

Draft, generate and lay an instrumental music bed under a finished video's speech - a five-slot brief read off the video, one generation on a music model from the catalog, and the bed mixed with scripts/music_bed.py so it dips under every spoken line and returns between them, with how to move its levels. Use when a final cut gets music under it, when a brief is redrafted for a steer, or when a laid bed sits too loud or too soft.

Field names are the `path` item's (`picsart_scene_capabilities` with `sections: ["schema:ShapeContent"]`); the outline mechanics are in [references/outline-mechanics.md](references/outline-mechanics.md).

`ai_realism` is the look for "make the colours more realistic". It runs the three passes an editor does by hand on footage that looks too clean, too saturated or too glossy — typically AI-generated video:

Write a drama series' bible, season arc and episode cliffhangers, from templates or the user's idea.

Make videos from the user's own footage, or copy a reel's structure onto their script - a vertical reel, podcast clips, a highlight reel, a montage, a photo slideshow, a lesson filmed to camera, split-screen podcast shorts, B-roll under a voice-over, an interview with B-roll, or a remix of a reference reel (a talking head or a skit included) - cut on the words, checked, choices shown as A/Bs. Use for "edit my footage", "edit my video", "make a reel from this", "remix this reel with my script". Not for a screen recording, a short film from a script or idea with no reference reel (movie-producer), or rebuilding a reference's animation with the user's photos (recreate-video).

Edit footage on the user's own computer - proxies uploaded instead of the originals, a project folder, and a full-resolution conform with ffmpeg. Use only when the footage is a folder on this machine and you can run commands.

Draft a film or drama episode as a voiced storyboard animatic before any video is bought - a still per shot, app screens built as scenes, every line voiced at its shot's time, cut with captions and watched until the user says yes. Use when a film's story and shots are worked on stills and sound first.

Cut a film's accepted takes into one scene - every generation one clip as generated, never split or trimmed, the montage bootstrap with hard cuts, separate dialogue and ambience, cleanup of named glitches, and diagnosing a bad join before choosing the smallest repair. Use when a film's takes are assembled into a cut, a cut is changed or fixed from notes ("fix my film"), or a join between two shots is repaired.

Write a short film's story and break it down - pre-setting the look from the idea, the ten-line story and every scene as what the viewer sees and hears, dialogue that performs action, one light per scene with its dark side and a colour kept back, and the shot cards and asset tags that come out of it. Use when a film needs its look suggested, its story written or rewritten, or its story turned into shots and assets.

Check work before the user sees it - a scene validated, linted and looked at in contact-sheet frames, then fixed and checked again; a draft watched cold by model viewers against its viewer track, then reviewed by critics; the brief graded; an export checked against its scene. Use after a script is written and before it is built or paid for, after building or changing a scene, before REVIEW or an export, before handing over an export, and at each decision a use case names.

The shortest path from media URLs to a rendered file - merge or concatenate several videos into one with the montage template, sample frames from a scene into a contact sheet, and export any valid scene to a file. Use when asked to merge, join or concatenate clips, to preview a scene as frames, or to render a scene, and no other skill covers the job.

Put the user's own characters, people or things into a video of theirs with Recast - each picture replaces one person or thing in the video, and the motion, the place and the sound stay as filmed - on a board that checks the video, offers each video model with its price and makes the video itself. A character swap for an AI influencer, a mascot or a product placed into real footage. Use when the user has a video and wants someone or something in it replaced by their character, a photo or a product ("put my character in this clip", "replace the cup with my product", "swap me into this video"). Not for a new video from a prompt or a picture (generate-media), cutting their footage (edit-footage), or an animated ad rebuilt with new photos and text (recreate-video).

Rebuild a reference video as a scene one fragment at a time - split the reference into spans where one arrangement holds, take a census of each, measure every beat, build it, then check it against the reference on motion and on appearance until it matches - and join the fragments without tearing their seams. Use when a scene must reproduce a reference clip, or when one part of a recreation does not match its reference. A whole recreation starts in recreate-video.

Keep every element whole or gone whenever motion stops - when an animation finishes, when an element appears without moving, and on the last frame, each photo, card or title sits fully inside its frame or fully outside it, never cut by the edge. How to build entrances, exits, scrolls and zooms so they land clean, and how to check a scene with the layout tool. Use when animating photos, cards, screenshots or text in a scene, and before a scene with motion goes to REVIEW.

The decision — what a beat is for, how long, which register — is `picsart_scene_recipe motion-intent`. This is the other half: how the format says it, and the places where the obvious spelling is the wrong one. For the relationship across beats or the choice of seam mechanism, decide first with

Use only for a Seedance 2.0 model (model ids seedance-2.0*): optimizes user prompts for Seedance 2.0 multi-modal video generation. Not for any other video model, such as Kling, Veo, Wan or Seedance 2.5.

Use only for a Seedance 2.5 model (model ids seedance-2.5*): optimizes text, stories, or optional multimodal references for Seedance 2.5 text-to-video, multi-reference generation, keyframes, storyboards, blockouts, video editing, audio editing, or extension. Not for any other video model, such as Kling, Veo, Wan or Seedance 2.0.

Write, improve or repair prompts for AI video generation - commercial, live action and animation - and trace defects in generated clips (extra limbs, warping, drift, unwanted text) to the clause that was missing. Use when the user wants a video prompt written or reviewed, a clip to match a style guide, or a generated video fixed.