Sora makes it easy to generate videos with just a single prompt. But the Storyboard feature gives you a timeline and lets you specify what happens at a specific time in the video. That gives you more control over the video. Here’s how the Storyboard feature on Sora works and how to use it to generate videos.
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What Is the Storyboard Feature?
To keep it simple, the Storyboard feature in Sora allows you to break your video into a timeline and control exactly what happens at specific times. Instead of creating an entire video based on a single prompt, you can use multiple prompts to specify actions at particular points.
For example, imagine you’re creating a sports video. At the beginning of the video, you can prompt Sora to show a player dribbling a basketball. Then, at the 10-second mark, you can specify that the player makes a slam dunk. This way, the final video smoothly transitions from dribbling to the dunk, exactly as you planned down to the second.
This feature works particularly well when timing is crucial, such as showing a bird flying off at an exact moment or creating a video with a series of different actions. For example, you can start the video with a wide-angle view of a city street, cut to a close-up of a person walking on the street, and then make it rain suddenly at the specified time.
How to Use the Storyboard Feature
Here’s a step-by-step guide to using the Storyboard feature in Sora:
- Open the Sora website. Click on the Storyboard option in the textbox at the bottom. You can also press Command + Enter on Mac or Windows + Enter on Windows.
- You will see the timeline view. For every second of video, you can add up to 2 prompts. That means you can provide up to 10 prompts in a 5-second video.
- Hover over the timeline and click on the specific time when you want to add a prompt.
- Input a prompt describing the first scene (e.g., “a cat sitting by the window”). Instead of a prompt, you can also add an image or video from the Sora library, which Sora will use as a starting point.
- Adjust the aspect ratio, quality, time, number of variations, preset, and other parameters as needed.
- Hover over the Help button to get an estimate of how many credits your generation will consume. Since Storyboard is a complex feature that uses multiple prompts to generate videos, it consumes more credits than generating a video with a single prompt.
- Once everything is set, click on the Create option to start generating your video.
- After the video is generated, it will appear in your Library. You can also download the generated video.
How to Use the Storyboard Feature on Existing Videos
If you like a video from your Library or the Explore page but want to change a few details or timing, you can use the Re-cut feature.
- Open the Sora website and navigate to the video you want to edit in the Library or the Explore section.
- Click on the Re-cut option at the bottom of the video.
- This will open the video in the timeline view.
- Make your desired edits, such as trimming, splitting, adding prompts, or increasing the length.
- Once done, click on Create to generate the video with the changes.
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Our Experience Using Sora’s Storyboard Feature
The Storyboard feature in Sora is designed to give you complete control over your videos. This tool allows you to customize every detail whether you’re creating a video from scratch or editing an existing one,
However, during testing, we found that the generated output might not include all the details initially. You may need to generate the video a few times to achieve the desired output or results. Sora is still in its beta phase so expect occasional mistakes or less than satisfactory outputs sometimes.
