Write your first script

From a one-line idea to a draft in the editor, step by step, and what it costs.

Open Scripts

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Your first script takes a few minutes of your attention, spread over four steps. You describe the video, answer a few questions, pick your sources and approve an outline. Then Neveshte writes the draft in your voice and hands it to the editor.

Before you start

It works best once your channel is set up, so the script starts from your profile, voice and templates. You can write without them, but the draft will sound more generic.

Walk through it

  1. Describe the video. Open Scripts and choose Generate script. Under What are we writing today?, describe your idea and what viewers should walk away with, or start from an idea you saved. Check the channel, profile, voice and template, choose long-form or short-form, and press the arrow button (Generate script). See Start a new script.
  2. Answer the brief. Up to three rounds of quick questions, then a brief you can edit. Press Approve brief and continue. See Answer the brief.
  3. Pick your research. Choose Quick, Standard or Deep and press Run research, then keep the sources you trust and build the outline from them. Or skip research with Continue without research. See Research and sources.
  4. Shape the outline. Reorder, merge or cut sections, and press Approve outline and write. See Shape the outline.
  5. Let it write. Nine passes, from choosing the hook to finalizing. When Your draft is ready appears, press Open in editor. See The Write step.

The bar across the top of compose shows the four steps, ticks off the ones you’ve finished and names the one you’re on.

The top of compose for Lena’s script: Brief and Research done, Outline waiting on her with 6 sections, and Write still to come.

You can close the tab at any point. Compose keeps going on our side and waits for you at the next step.

What it costs

A script with research costs about 17 credits: 1 for the brief, 2 for research, 2 for the outline, then 8 for writing and 4 for polishing. Without research it’s about 15. The draft only starts when the workspace has at least 12 credits. The trial’s 100 credits cover several scripts, and if an AI step fails, its credits come back. See How credits work.

Next: read the draft in the editor and ask the assistant for changes.

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