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Reel Lab · Desktop app · In use

Reel Lab is the production office for AI film. A generator hands you loose clips. Reel Lab keeps the film: a project holds scenes, a scene holds shots, and every shot keeps every take, with its cast, place and look pinned to it. It runs on your machine, on your own provider accounts, and everything it makes is a file you own.

Reel LabThe winter fableNOV$42 / $200On track
1 generatingQueue clearInbox 4Generate G
SC01The road north3 shots
2 takes3 takes
SH010WideGeneratingReview

A lone rider crosses the snow toward the fortress.

KThe knightNNorth road
2 takes
SH020WideReview

The rider reaches the ridge below the walls.

KThe knightNNorth road
1 take
SH030WideDone

Dusk settles over the fortress.

NNorth road
SC02The frozen field3 shots
3 takes
SH040MediumDone

The king sits among the black stumps.

The kingWWinter field
2 takes
SH050MediumReview

The king and the knight share a fire.

The kingKThe knight
No takes yet
SH060MediumTo do

The king kneels in the ash.

The kingWWinter field
SC03The great hall3 shots
2 takes
SH070WideDone

Torches burn in the empty hall.

Great hall
1 take
SH080MediumReview

A tall figure waits at the long table.

Great hall
4 takes
SH090CUDone

The king turns the iron ring in his hand.

The king
Great hall
Iron ring
The storyboard: scenes in columns, shots as cards, every take of a shot stacked, with its cast, place and props pinned. Demo data.
Type
Desktop app
Status
In use
Built with
Electron · React · Claude Code · Remotion

How it flows

You decide. Agents do.

Scroll and follow the signal. On the top lane a person makes the call. On the bottom lane the agents do the work.

You
Agents

01 / 06You

Story.

Break the film into scenes and shots.

A person makes this call.

Reel Lab · 01 / 06

Loose clips everywhere.

Every generator hands you one more file.

Loose clips with meaningless file names are scattered everywhere, one more file from every generator. The same thumbnails fly into a clear structure: a project holds scenes, a scene holds shots, and every shot keeps every take. Cast, place and prop references are pinned to the shots that use them, and stay pinned when a shot's action changes. A prompt is written from labelled blocks, and the look block is shared by every shot. Takes are reviewed with two keys, keep and kill. Finally a ledger fills up to a ceiling you set, and the kept takes land as plain, named and numbered files in a folder.

Why it exists

Every AI video tool is built to make one more clip. A film is hundreds of them, and nothing keeps track: which take, which face, which look, and what it has cost so far.

  • Without it: Loose files from five generatorsWith it: Project, scene, shot, take
  • Without it: The look typed again in every promptWith it: The look is written once
  • Without it: No idea what the film has costWith it: A ledger, and a ceiling you set

What it does

  • Four levels: a project holds scenes, a scene holds shots, and every shot keeps every take

  • Every shot carries its own cast, place and props. Change the beat and the references stay pinned

  • A prompt builder: pick the frame you want and the prompt writes itself, with the look written once

  • Review at the speed of a keyboard

  • Remotion Studio: charts, maps and titles built as code, landing on the storyboard as takes

  • You pay the provider per credit and set the ceiling. Output is plain files in a folder you own

Where the AI sits

Four layers, you on top.

  1. 01

    You

    The story, the taste and the final say on every take.

  2. 02

    Claude Code

    Does the thinking, on the subscription you already have.

  3. 03

    Providers

    Image and video models on your own accounts, under your ceiling.

  4. 04

    Files

    Plain files, named and numbered, in a folder you picked.

Inside the product

SH090CUPrompt builder
The king turns the iron ring in his hand.
Review
LookWritten once · every shot
Winter fable look
Cold light, soft haze, fine grain
Shared by 9 shots
CastPinned to shot
The kingGrey beard, fur mantle over plate
PlacePinned to shot
Great hallLong table, torches burning
ActionThis shot only
He turns a rough iron ring slowly in his hand.
Iron ring
CameraPick one per row
SizeWideMediumClose-up
MoveStaticSlow push-inPanHandheld
Assembled promptNormalSections
LookCold blue-white winter light, soft haze, drifting snow, muted palette, fine grain. CastAn older king with a grey beard, a fur mantle over dark plate armour, Placein a vast stone hall with a long wooden table and burning torches. ActionHe turns a rough iron ring slowly in his hand. CameraClose-up, static camera.Close-up, slow push-in.
Each block is saved on its own and joined in this order.Only the Camera part changed. The rest stayed as written.
Shots using this Look
Video provider
5 s · 16:9 · est. $6 a take
Generate ⌘⏎
The prompt builder: five blocks, with the look written once. Change one block and only that part moves. Demo data.
Pause Esc
SH020 take 2SH050 take 2SH080 take 1·Video providerStyle lock Winter fable look
VideoKept ✓Killed ×
KeepKKillXRe-rollRNext→
Kept23
KkeepXkill1–5rateRreroll→skipZundo
Review by keyboard: K keeps a take, X kills it, and the next one opens.
This month · The winter fable
$110$116
Ceiling$200
Ceiling $200
$90 under the ceiling you set$84 under the ceiling you set
Spend by provider
Video provider$70$76
Image provider$35
Transcription provider$5
The ceiling stops the queueA batch halts itself mid-run instead of passing the ceiling. Each cost is written to the ledger when the take finishes.
Recent takes
SH010
Video provider
take 3 · generatingtake 3 · just now
$6
SH050
Video provider
take 2 · 4 min
$6
SH090
Image provider
take 4 · 11 min
$1
SH080
Image provider
take 1 · 18 min
$1
SH070
Image provider
take 2 · 26 min
$1
SH040
Video provider
take 3 · 41 min
$6
SH020
Video provider
take 2 · 52 min
$6
SH030
Image provider
take 1 · 1 h
$1
SH060
Image provider
take 1 · 1 h
$1
The ledger: spend by provider against the ceiling you set. Demo data.

In motion

Every take of the film on one wall. Open one to see the words behind it.
Write the style once. Each shot adds only its action.
A prompt is built from blocks. Change one block, keep the rest.
One interface, any provider, on your own accounts.
You speak. Reel Lab writes the brief. Your provider makes it.

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