[Blog] For creators
A month of reels in one afternoon, in one look
Pick one style, write the month's prompts from one template and queue them. On the Creator plan, 6,000 credits buy twelve 15-second reels.
Pick one style, write the month's prompts from a single template, and queue them. On the Creator plan, 6,000 credits buy twelve 15-second reels, which is three a week. A reel every day, as in the video above, takes the Studio plan.
What a month costs in credits
A reel of up to 10 seconds costs 350 credits on the Standard tier. One of 11 to 20 seconds costs 500.
| Plan | Credits a month | 15 s reels | 8 s reels | Videos at a time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, $19 | 2,000 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Creator, $49 | 6,000 | 12 | 17 | 2 |
| Studio, $129 | 18,000 | 36 | 51 | 4 |
Thirty 15-second reels are 15,000 credits, which fits in Studio's 18,000 with six reels to spare.
Plan credits reset at each renewal and do not roll over, so batch in the month you will post. Subscribers can add packs (2,000 credits for $22, 10,000 for $95), and pack credits stay as long as the subscription does. All plans are in the pricing section.
How long the afternoon is
The rendering is the short part. The ten videos on this blog were made on the live service two at a time, which is how Creator runs them. The eight 15-second ones took between 1 min 48 s and 4 min 16 s each, with a median of about 3 minutes. The one above took 4 min 12 s.
Twelve 15-second reels on Creator are six rounds of two. At those times that is 11 to 26 minutes of rendering, about 18 at the median. Studio runs four at a time, so thirty reels are eight rounds: 14 to 34 minutes if four at once is as quick as two, which we have not measured. You do not have to watch. Each job shows its phase, from planning to rendering to done.
All ten of those videos were in 2D styles. Styles that build a 3D scene, such as Claymation and Low Poly, take longer, and we have not timed one since our last rendering change.
The rest of the afternoon goes to writing the prompts and watching the results.
One look: what to hold constant
The style. It fixes palette, type and motion, so episode ten looks like episode one. This is most of the work, and it is a single choice. How to pick a style helps with the choice.
Length and aspect ratio. The same number of seconds and 9:16 every time.
The shape of the prompt. Same sentence structure, same kind of last line.
The words for anything that recurs. Each job is a fresh start. The agent has no memory of your last video, so a recurring character has to be described in the same words every time: "a small round robot with one antenna". Even then each video is a new scene, so the character will not be identical.
A template and six prompts
For a how-to series in Mid-century Toon, the template is one line:
How to <one task> in four held poses. End on the words "<two or three word tip>."Six prompts from it:
- How to make the perfect omelette in four held poses. End on the words "Low heat."
- How to sharpen a kitchen knife in four held poses. End on the words "Same angle."
- How to brew pour-over coffee in four held poses. End on the words "Slow circles."
- How to fold a fitted sheet in four held poses. End on the words "Corners first."
- How to repot a houseplant in four held poses. End on the words "One size up."
- How to pack a carry-on in four held poses. End on the words "Shoes at the bottom."
Other styles suit other series: Pictogram for mindset shorts with a counter, Comic Book for three-panel gags, Pixel Art for mood loops.
A worked plan on Creator
- Test the look first. Make one reel and watch it on your phone. That is 500 of the 6,000 credits.
- Write the other prompts in one document. Check every quoted word. Text is rendered with the spelling you typed, typos included (some styles set it in capitals).
- Queue two at a time. Creator allows two running jobs and 15 submissions an hour.
- Hold two reels back. A failed job returns its credits. A finished video you do not like is still charged. Planning ten reels and keeping 1,000 credits for redos is more realistic than planning twelve.
- Download everything. Creator keeps finished videos for 90 days.
What you still do yourself
Voice. Sound in the file is synthesised: tones, percussion, whooshes, timed to the beats. There is no voice-over and no licensed music. If your format is you talking, record that and lay it over.
Posting. You get an mp4. Uploading, scheduling, titles and hashtags are yours.
Ideas. The agent draws the brief you give it. It does not know your audience.
The last check. Watch each reel once before it goes out. The agent can misread a prompt.
Where this does not fit
- Face-to-camera content. Nothing here is filmed, and real people are not drawn.
- Reacting in the moment. A reel takes minutes to make, and a redo takes minutes more.
- A character that must be identical in every episode. Each video is a new scene.
- Long reels. Starter stops at 20 seconds, the other plans at 40.
The page for creators has more example briefs, and the gallery shows real outputs with their prompts.
Questions
How many reels can I make a month on each plan?
At 500 credits for a 15-second Standard reel: 4 on Starter, 12 on Creator and 36 on Studio. Reels of up to 10 seconds cost 350 credits.
Do unused credits roll over?
Plan credits do not. They reset at each renewal. Credits from packs stay for as long as you have an active subscription.
Will every video in a series look the same?
They share the style's palette, type and motion rules. The scenes themselves are written new each time, so a recurring character will not be identical from one video to the next.
Do the videos come with sound and captions?
Yes, when you turn them on. Sound is synthesised effects and tones, with no voice-over, and captions can be set to a language.
