Getting Started

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Making AI cinematic video is a lot to take in at the start: the tools change constantly, and most of what is written about them assumes you already know the vocabulary. This section exists to cut through that and give you the short version of what you actually need.

Nothing here needs an account to read. You only need one to publish a film, endorse or comment, follow a creator, or save anything. If you are only here to watch, the next section is all you need.

Find your way around

The header carries the main areas — Explore, Categories, Creators, Community Vault and Help — and each opens a menu of the views underneath it. On a phone the same menu lives behind the button in the top left, with the same sections inside it.

• Explore — the front page. What is trending, what has just landed, and a spotlight on one film worth your time.
• Videos — every film on the site, with feeds for trending, newest, most liked and staff picks, and a filter rail for universes, genres, tools and tags.
• Categories — the taxonomy itself — browse by universe, by genre, or by popular AI tools a film was built with.
• Creators — the directory of members who publish here. Each profile carries their films, their social media links and a follow button.
• Community Vault — the forums. Technical help, showcases, challenges and guides, browsable by category or tag.
• Suggestion board — anything about the site itself — a missing tool, a bug, an idea. This is the fastest way to reach us.
• My Cinematic Vault — your collections. These contain shortcuts to your favorite films. Every account starts with Watch Later and Favorites, and you can add as many named collections as you like.
• Search — films, creators and discussions in one place. Press / anywhere outside a text field to jump straight to the search box.

How filtering works

On Videos, every filter, sort and page you choose is written into the address bar. That means a view you like is a link: copy the URL and it opens for someone else exactly as you left it. Choosing several options inside one filter widens the results; choosing across different filters narrows them.

A film page

Each film sits on its own page with the embedded player, the creator's credits, the categories, genres and AI tools it was tagged with, its licence, and the comments. Below that is the Prompt Breakdown — the prompts, audio pipeline and technical stack the creator chose to share. You can endorse a film, share it, or save it to a collection from the same row of buttons.

Set up your account

Sign up with an email address and a password. If you already have an account, sign in instead.

• Profile — under Settings, set your display name (what is shown to others), bio, country and any social media links you would like to share, and even add your own custom avatar image and banner. This is the page other members land on when they follow you.
• Preferences — choose the feed Videos opens on, and decide what you see of films marked mature: they can be left out entirely, or shown with their thumbnails covered until you reveal them.
• Notifications — pick what you want to hear about, including replies to your films and posts.

Publish your first film

We do not currently host videos. Your film stays with YouTube, Vimeo, X or Facebook and we embed their player — so the first step is to create your Video on your favorite Social Network.

1. Upload your film to a supported host first. On YouTube, set its visibility to public and leave embedding turned on, or the player will not load on your film page.
2. Select the Submit Film button and paste the link. It has to be a secure https link from one of the accepted sources; anything else is refused rather than embedded.

   Examples

   • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
   • YouTube Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dQw4w9WgXcQ
   • Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/123456789
   • Facebook video: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1234567890
   • Facebook Reel: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1122334455
   • X post: https://x.com/creator/status/1234567890123456789
3. Let autofill do the work for you! Leave the autofill box ticked and click or tap out of the URL field — the title, description, runtime, thumbnail and tags are fetched from the source. It only fills what you have left blank, so nothing you wrote gets overwritten, and you can edit all of it afterwards or untick the box and type everything yourself.
4. Write the title and description. The description is where you say what the film is and which world it draws on. A thumbnail helps too — a wide 16:9 image, either pasted as a link or uploaded.
5. Tag it. Up to 2 universes, 3 genres and 8 AI tools. Keyword tags name the source material — a game, a film, a show — and are how most people find anything here. The caps are deliberate: a film tagged with everything is findable by nothing.
6. Say how it may be used, and mark it if it is mature. Graphic violence, strong language and suggestive themes all count. Marking accurately is what makes other people's filters work.
7. Tick the confirmation. You are confirming the work is yours or genuinely transformative fan use, and that you have read the Terms of Service and Creator Guidelines. Submission is blocked until you do, and this is the one box worth reading properly.
8. Fill in Prompt & Workflow. Optional, and the part other creators read first. Your visual prompts, audio pipeline and technical stack appear on the film page as the Prompt Breakdown, and they are a large part of why people come here at all.
9. Publish, or save a draft. Publishing makes the film available to everyone straight away. A draft is kept privately on your profile, where you can finish it and publish later.
10. Change anything later. Use the Edit button on your own film page. Everything is editable, including the video link and the workflow panel, and renaming a film does not change its address — links people have already shared keep working.

Get better at it

Learn to Create covers the craft: which tools are worth your time, how creators chain them together, and how a film gets from a concept to a finished cut. Pick one workflow and finish something with it before you go near the rest.

After that, the fastest way to improve is other people's work. Open the Prompt Breakdown on films you admire, and read the community guides & tutorials — the forum's own section for walkthroughs and stack breakdowns, marked with a Guide badge wherever they appear. Asking a direct question in the Community Forums tends to get a better answer than any guide.

Still stuck?

The FAQ answers the specific things people ask most — supported sources, tagging limits, collections, mature content, account settings and takedowns. If it doesn't answer your question, put it on the suggestion board, where the answer ends up helping the next person too.