What can Backlot make?

Three things from one cast. Video: a brief becomes a planned, priced, assembled cut. Voice: clone or design a voice, have it read any script and download the audio. Images: posters, key art and product shots, including edits of your own photographs.

Do I need any video skills?

No. Write a brief in plain language, or hand over a document you already have, and Backlot plans the shots, directs the camera and assembles the cut. If you're not sure how to word something, the prompt assistant writes it in the grammar the renderer reads.

How do you keep the same character across shots?

A character isn't a prompt. It's a locked reference sheet: front, three-quarter and profile angles plus expressions, generated once and used as the visual reference for every shot afterwards.

Can I see what it costs before it renders?

Yes, and that's deliberate. The shot list arrives with a price per shot and a total, nothing is charged until you press render, and a failed render costs nothing.

Can I change a production after it's planned?

Write to it. Director notes takes plain instructions (“swap shots two and three”, “make her line shorter”) and makes the edits. Anything that spends credits or throws work away waits for your OK, with the price on the button. A note is 2 credits.

Do the videos have sound?

Yes. Every take gets sound effects made to match its picture, in sync with it, at 1 credit per 5 seconds, and the cut gets a track of music that dips whenever someone speaks. Library music is free; a track composed to your brief is 5 credits a minute.

Can I use the voices outside Backlot?

Yes. Every voiceover take downloads as a standard MP3 you can drop into any editor, podcast or phone system. You never have to make a video to use a voice.

No. Credits you buy stay on your balance until you render with them. There is no monthly reset and no renewal date that wipes them, so a quiet quarter costs you nothing.

Can I use it all commercially?

Yes. Renders are produced with third-party models under their commercial terms, and everything you make in your studio is yours to publish.

AI video generator with consistent characters and voicesWhat are we shooting?

Brief it like you would a director. Backlot plans the shots, casts your troupe and shows the price before anything renders.

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Or direct it from Claude or ChatGPTSet it up

Start from a format

Ten kinds of piece, each with a real example. Open one to read the brief that made it, then make your own.

All the examples

What's new in the studio

Listen

Sound and music

Every take sounds like its picture

Footsteps, thunder and machinery in sync with the frame, and a score under the cut that dips when someone speaks. 1 credit per 5 seconds; library music is free.

See how

Director notes

Edit a production by writing to it

Say what to change and it's done. Renders wait for your OK. 2 credits a note.

Connect

Claude and ChatGPT

Direct the studio from your assistant

Connect once, then ask for productions, renders and stills in plain words. It quotes before it spends.

Watch

Showreel

Ten productions, made in Backlot

Real renders with the briefs that made them. Open one and make your own version.

Made in Backlot

Ten productions cast from our own troupe, every frame a real render. Open one to see the brief that made it.

Everything in one studio

The same cast, looks and credits run through all of it. Prices are what the app charges.

See everything it does

Six looks, one cast

Pick a look and Backlot sets the prompts, the motion model and the pacing. The same character can be cast in any of them.

How the looks work

Ultra-realistic
Indistinguishable from footage: real skin, real light, shallow depth of field.
3D animated
Feature-animation warmth: soft global illumination and expressive, stylised characters.
Anime
Hand-drawn 2D with clean linework, cel shading and painted backgrounds.
2D vector
Flat, geometric illustration in the language of a modern corporate explainer.
Cut-out
Layered paper with visible edges and jointed limbs, moved a frame at a time.
Pixilation
Live actors photographed frame by frame: jerky, handmade and playful.

Character lock

One face. Every scene. No drift.

A character isn't a prompt. Lock one and Backlot builds a reference sheet of angles and expressions, and every later shot is rendered from that sheet. Change the wardrobe, the city, the light or the camera: the person stays the same person.

Build a character from a description, a photo, or any still you've made
Cast the same character in video and in images
Give them a voice, and every line they speak is theirs

How character lock works

Reference sheetMalya · locked

Six angles, one identity

every shot after that

Malya, on site, hi-vis and hard hat — On site, hi-vis and hard hat

Malya, presenting the quarterly review — Presenting the quarterly review

Malya, laughing on a neon street at night — Laughing on a neon street at night

Studio headshot, new wardrobe

From brief to finished cut

You stay the director. Backlot is the crew, and the meter doesn't run until you say go.

Brief it
Type it, say it, or drop in the PDF or deck you already have. Backlot reads it and drafts the story.
Approve the plan and the price
A numbered shot list with camera notes, dialogue and continuity, and exactly what it costs. Nothing is charged until you say go.
Render, review, assemble
Keep every take, redo only the shot that missed, and stitch the approved ones into one finished MP4.

$0.12a credit, at every pack size

Credits never expire

$20.16

A 30-second explainer

drafted twice, then finished once, with sound on every take and library music, 168 credits

$0.48

A minute of voiceover

about 900 characters, downloaded as MP3, 4 credits

$0.36

A poster or product still

at 2K, with the headline spelled right, 3 credits

See every price

Questions people ask first

Something we haven't answered? Talk to us.

What can Backlot make?: Three things from one cast. Video: a brief becomes a planned, priced, assembled cut. Voice: clone or design a voice, have it read any script and download the audio. Images: posters, key art and product shots, including edits of your own photographs.
Do I need any video skills?: No. Write a brief in plain language, or hand over a document you already have, and Backlot plans the shots, directs the camera and assembles the cut. If you're not sure how to word something, the prompt assistant writes it in the grammar the renderer reads.
How do you keep the same character across shots?: A character isn't a prompt. It's a locked reference sheet: front, three-quarter and profile angles plus expressions, generated once and used as the visual reference for every shot afterwards.
Can I see what it costs before it renders?: Yes, and that's deliberate. The shot list arrives with a price per shot and a total, nothing is charged until you press render, and a failed render costs nothing.
Can I change a production after it's planned?: Write to it. Director notes takes plain instructions (“swap shots two and three”, “make her line shorter”) and makes the edits. Anything that spends credits or throws work away waits for your OK, with the price on the button. A note is 2 credits.
Do the videos have sound?: Yes. Every take gets sound effects made to match its picture, in sync with it, at 1 credit per 5 seconds, and the cut gets a track of music that dips whenever someone speaks. Library music is free; a track composed to your brief is 5 credits a minute.
Can I use the voices outside Backlot?: Yes. Every voiceover take downloads as a standard MP3 you can drop into any editor, podcast or phone system. You never have to make a video to use a voice.
Do credits expire?: No. Credits you buy stay on your balance until you render with them. There is no monthly reset and no renewal date that wipes them, so a quiet quarter costs you nothing.
Can I use it all commercially?: Yes. Renders are produced with third-party models under their commercial terms, and everything you make in your studio is yours to publish.

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