Director
A Director channel has no footage. The picture is generated shot by shot while people watch it together, and any one of them can step in and direct what happens next. You own the channel, you set the fee, and when the clips are cut into a film everybody in it keeps earning.
Free to start a channel. You only pay when a shot is rendered.
01 Why "AI filmmaking" mostly is not filmmaking
- A prompt box produces one clip in isolation, so nothing you make ever adds up to a scene, let alone a story.
- Every generator starts from nothing, so the character and the room change between shots and continuity is your problem.
- You are the only person there. Nobody is watching, nobody is arguing about the next shot, and there is no reason for anyone to come back.
- And when you do make something good, there is no route from a folder of clips to a film with credits on it.
02 How it works
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Start a channel
Give it a premise and a look. That style is inherited by every shot afterwards, so the channel keeps its own visual identity without you restating it.
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It generates, shot by shot
Shots are rendered five to ten seconds at a time and each one opens on the last frame of the one before, which is what makes a channel feel continuous rather than like a playlist. Rendering is queued, so a shot arrives shortly after it is asked for rather than instantly.
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Anyone watching can direct the next one
They describe the shot, pick a resolution, see the price, and pay. It renders, it airs, and everyone in the room is watching the same frame at the same moment.
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Shots have numbers, and shots have takes
Every clip gets a number people can say out loud — #3, and #3b for another take of that same shot. An alternate opens on the same frame the original did, so it can genuinely stand in for it. Viewers vote to rank the takes; you decide which one airs.
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Give it a spine when it earns one
Productions, episodes and the acts you want hit; a universe bible of characters, locations, props and lore that the prompts are written from. A channel stops being a rolling feed the moment it has one.
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Cut it into a film
Merge the clips into one video with a generated, clickable end-credits roll — and publish it to OpenFlix as a real title. Everyone whose shot made the cut earns on it from then on.
03 What it costs, and what it pays
- 480P30credits / 6sFine for a rough pass, a gag, a test of a look.
- 768P48credits / 6sThe default — deliberately not the sharpest, because 1080P doubles the price of every shot.
- 1080P96credits / 6sTwice 768P. Opted into per shot, with the live quote in view.
- A viewer directs a shot$0.48six seconds at 768P, paid by whoever asked for itResolution is per shot, not per channel: whoever pays picks, and sees the quote before they do.
- You take a fee on every viewer shot70%of the director fee YOU set, on top of the render priceSettled to payout credits only once the clip is actually ready — never on a render that failed.
- You run it yourself, on auto$20.00/daythe default budget cap, which you setAuto mode keeps the channel on air when nobody is directing. You pay the render price and no fee to yourself.
- Someone merges the clips into a film$0.25/minof finished runtime, minimum $0.50The cut gets a generated, clickable end-credits roll naming everyone in it.
- Your clip is in somebody's cut50%of that merge fee opens a royalty pool, split by seconds on screenFrozen at merge time and paid straight to payout credits. Every later monetisation event on that cut opens another pool.
A royalty pool only opens when a cut earns. Clips that are never merged into anything, and cuts nobody pays for, pay their contributors nothing — the pool is a share of real money, not a promise attached to every shot you make.
04 What a channel looks like
A running order, not a folder.
Every shot is numbered, attributed and re-playable. The takes that lost are still there to watch; the one that airs is the one you promoted.
#7 — the long walk back to the car
#6 — reverse, rain on the windscreen
#5 — the phone call
#4 — establishing, the depot at dusk
A shot that fails to render refunds the person who paid for it, and the owner is never paid a fee on it.
05 The shape of it
A shot
Six seconds
Chained from the previous last frame, so the picture carries.
Who picks the quality
Whoever pays
Per shot, not per channel. The channel setting is a default, never a ceiling.
Your fee
70%
Of the director fee you set, on every viewer-directed shot.
Royalties
By seconds on screen
Split among a cut's contributors, frozen at merge time.
06 Questions
Is this generating live, as I watch?
No, and it is worth being exact about that. Shots are rendered in a queue, five to ten seconds at a time, and the channel plays them in order — so a shot you ask for arrives shortly afterwards rather than instantly. What IS live is the watching: everyone in the room is on the same frame at the same moment, and the chat and votes are live with it.
Who decides which take airs?
You do, as the owner. Viewers vote, and the votes rank the takes for you — but promotion is a person's decision, deliberately. If the score promoted automatically, a brigade could unpublish a shot somebody paid for and swap the picture out from under a room mid-story.
What do I actually earn?
You set a director fee on top of the render price, and you keep 70% of that fee on every shot a viewer directs — settled once the clip is ready, never on a render that failed. If clips from your channel are cut into a film, the people whose shots are in it also earn a share of the merge fee by seconds on screen.
What does it cost me to keep it on air?
Nothing, if viewers are directing. If you want it running when nobody is, auto mode generates shots against a daily budget you set — $20.00 a day by default. You pay the render price and no fee to yourself.
Do I own what comes out of it?
The clips are yours to keep, merge and publish, and a merged cut can be published to OpenFlix as a real title. Every clip is kept — including the takes that never aired.
Can I do this privately, with a few people?
Yes. A channel can be a room: public, unlisted, signed-in-only or private, and people get in by open link, a link plus a passcode, or by invitation only. You can hand trusted people real powers — cohost, director — and host the whole thing inside a community.
Go
Point it at something and press go.
A premise, a look, and a room. The first shot costs less than a dollar. You will be asked to make an account first.
