Animate
Screenplay to playable animatic in one click.
The unified animatic app. Approved frames plus camera-arrow metadata become a motion-timed animatic with 27 camera presets, 9 transitions, easing curves, onion skinning, auto-tweening, and a proper timeline you can edit like a rough cut. Aspect-ratio templates with safe-zone overlays for 16:9, 21:9 anamorphic, 9:16 social, and 1:1 square. Multiple stacked audio tracks for dialogue, music, SFX, and ambient bed - upload your own scratch tracks today. Export MP4 or MOV with timecode burn-in - or send the whole package to editorial via the Wrap to Editorial handoff (Premiere XMEML, DaVinci EDL, OpenTimelineIO).
Replaces: Storyboard Pro animatic mode + Premiere rough cut
The numbers
Animate by the figures.
Every figure below is live in the product today — counted from the running code, not the marketing deck.
The pipeline
Where Animate sits in the production flow.
The final pre-production deliverable. Animate sits between the storyboard editor (where you compose frames) and the shoot day (where you execute the plan). Every frame, every camera move, every cut decision lands here as a timed animatic ready for PPM, financiers, and the crew read-through.
Feeds downstream into
Inside the app
Every shipped feature, fully wired.
Each block below maps a real shipped capability to the workflow it powers. No vapourware, no coming-soon.
DollyAi in this app
9 AI commands wired into Animate.
Every command shows its credit cost before you commit. Every response is anchored in your real project — not a generic prompt.
Draft annotations
4 crVision-grounded camera / mood / motivation / continuity drafts for the active frame, preserving any user-typed notes.
Continuity sentinel
3 crSweeps every adjacent frame pair, flags prop / costume / hair / lighting / sightline drift with severity ranking.
Pacing critique
3 crReads the active frame's hold duration against dialogue word count at 150 wpm and tells you if the cut lands too tight or too slack.
Transition motivation
3 crSuggests which of the 9 transitions reads true for the emotional beat you're trying to land.
Match-cut ideas
3 crPattern-matches adjacent frames for compositional / motion / colour echoes that read as deliberate cuts.
Camera motivation
3 crPicks from the 27-preset library and tells you why the push / pull / tilt earns its move on this beat.
Sound design
3 crPer-frame Foley + ambient suggestions read from the scene's diary entry + character continuity.
Runtime estimate
3 crPredicts the final cut's runtime from the timeline's current state + scene complexity from the breakdown.
Character read-through
1 crPer-frame TTS in any of 9 professional voices — dialogue read at performance pace, not synthesised dictation.
Talks to every app
Animate reads + writes to the same project file.
No re-entry, no copy-paste, no out-of-sync versions. Every connection below is a live data path in the running product.
Editor
One-click Send to Animate from the Storyboard Editor — frames + camera arrows + scene linkage all flow in.
AI Artist
Every gallery generation carries a Send to Animate chip — the frame lands on the timeline with full scene context.
Draw
Export from Canvas Draw lands as an animatic frame; transforms / pan / zoom persist.
Files
Send to Animate chip on every image asset in the Files page.
Diary
Diary BTS photos surface as a third import source alongside Storyboard + AI Artist.
Breakdown
Per-scene element counts feed the budget-impact pill on every filmstrip card.
Script
Script timing infers default per-frame hold durations from dialogue word count at 150 wpm.
Shares one project file
Animate reads and writes to the same synchronized project as every other app in the suite. Change one thing upstream and every dependent surface picks it up automatically.
Powered by DollyAi™
Dolly reads everything Animate needs to know about your project before you even ask. She suggests, you approve — never the other way around.
Never-lose-saves
Every change is autosaved, versioned, and restorable. Roll back Animate to any point without losing downstream work.
Frequently asked
Common questions about Animate.
Can I export the animatic to Premiere or DaVinci Resolve?
Yes. Animate ships XMEML (Premiere + DaVinci), FCPXML 1.10 (Final Cut Pro X), EDL (legacy), OTIO (cross-tool), and SRT (captions) — eight first-class editorial handoff formats. Every export carries audio, transitions, and camera-move metadata.
Does the MP4 export include audio?
Yes. Every MP4 and WebM that leaves the engine mixes down every audio track on the timeline — dialogue, music, SFX, ambient — with per-track fade in / fade out, volume, stereo pan, and delay envelopes. Clamped to the video length so a long music bed never runs past the final frame.
Can I share the animatic with reviewers who don't have an account?
Yes. Mint a read-only review URL in one click — token-protected, expirable, revocable. The recipient gets a phone-friendly viewer that plays the animatic with audio, supports frame comments, and never reveals the underlying project. Every share is logged.
Does it run in my browser?
Yes. Animate runs entirely client-side in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. FFmpeg WASM does the audio mux and MP4 / WebM encode in-browser. No download, no plugins, no desktop install.
Can I roll back to an earlier version of the animatic?
Yes. Every autosave snapshots the full timeline — frames, audio tracks, settings, transitions, camera moves — into the cloud. Open the Versions panel, scroll through the labelled history, restore any prior version with one click. The restore itself takes a snapshot first, so even the restore is recoverable.
Does the AI cost extra per generation?
Every DollyAi action shows its credit cost before you commit — annotations drafts 4 credits, continuity sentinel 3 credits per frame pair, pacing critiques 3 credits, character TTS read-through 1 credit per dialogue block. Credits roll up to your monthly plan.
The Promise
Animate is on every tier.
From Solo to Broadcaster. No locked features, no Pro-only exports, no surprise paywalls. Every capability you see on this page ships on every plan — Solo gets exactly the same Animate as Broadcaster.
More in the suite
Works with every app around it.
Every app talks to every other app through one synchronised project file — synced live across all seats, powered by DollyAi™.
Breakdown
AI tags every prop, costume, and SFX in seconds. No more hand-tagging.
Budget
Top sheet to bottom line. Six templates. Variance in real time.
Cast
Roster, deal memos, availability, character bibles. The cast book, automated.
Locations
Scouting, permits, logistics. Every shoot location, mapped and ready.
Props
Inventory plus costume continuity, in one searchable library.
Vehicles
Picture cars and unit vehicles. Insurance, plates, drivers, scene refs.
Calendar
Stripboard scheduling. Eight views. The one tool your AD will not fight you on.
Call Sheet
Auto-generated from your schedule. SMS dispatch. Weather built in.
Shoot
Crew plus equipment manifest. The on-set source of truth.
Diary
Production diary, DPRs, BTS gallery. The crew log that organises itself.
Script
The screenplay editor that writes the breakdown for you.
Shotlist
AI-built from your script. Lens, framing, every shot mapped.
Editor
Storyboard frame editor. Ship boards your director will sign.
Draw
Procreate-class brushes. GPU canvas. Apple Pencil Pro. In your browser.
AI Artist
Style-locked image generation. Your custom artist, every frame.
Dashboard
The launchpad. Every project at a glance.
Files
Every asset, every version, every project. Searchable, shareable, never lost.
Team Chat
Channels for every shoot. No more lost messages.
Cloud Library
Cloud-synced across every device. Reusable across every project.