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Beyond layered motion graphics, the Design Studio can produce full marketing videos from a brief. Tell the AI what you want (“a 30-second promo for our spring sale”), and it plans a storyboard — an ordered set of scenes mixing AI-generated clips, still images, and canvas layouts — then generates, voices, scores, and stitches it into an MP4. Nothing renders and nothing is charged until you approve the storyboard.

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Where You’ll See It

  • The Video tab — in the design editor, the right panel has Style, Layers, and Video tabs. The Video tab holds the whole flow: the approval card, live per-scene progress, and the finished video.
  • Design pages — while the AI is working on a video for a design, a live status banner appears on that design and updates as scenes complete. No refreshing needed.
  • The Videos library — click Videos on the Design Studio home page (/dashboard/marketing/design/) to see every video board in your account, including boards the AI created that aren’t linked to an open design yet.

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The Approval Card

When the AI finishes planning, the storyboard lands as an approval card. It exists to make one number impossible to miss: what approving will spend.
  • Every scene, itemized — each scene shows its type: AI clip (billed per generated clip), Image, or Canvas. Only AI clips cost money.
  • One total — the approve button states the price outright: Approve & generate — $4.80.
  • Blocking issues shown up front — if the storyboard has a problem that would waste the spend (a scene with no content, a missing voice), the card lists it and the approve button stays disabled until it’s fixed.
  • Request changes — sends you back to editing the storyboard instead of approving it.
Approval is always a human action. The AI can plan, draft, and revise storyboards, but it can never approve spend on your behalf.

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Watching It Generate

After approval, the Video tab shows per-scene progress live — which scenes are queued, generating, or done. When the final render completes, the finished video appears in place with a handoff to add it to your design.

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When It Finishes

You do not have to keep the tab open. When a storyboard’s final render completes, an item lands in your Ops Inbox at /dashboard/commerce/inbox: Video ready for “Design title”, with a link back to the design. If the run fails, the item is filed as urgent instead, Video generation failed for “Design title”, with the reason it stopped. Each run files exactly one item, so a retry that also fails does not bury you in duplicates. Comments work the same way. When a teammate pins a comment on a design in the editor, the inbox gets New comment on design “Design title” with the opening of the comment and a link to open the design. One item per comment thread: replies on the same thread do not file a new item until you have handled the one that is already there.

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Revising a Scene

You don’t have to regenerate a whole video because one scene missed the mark:
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Hover the scene

In the Video tab, hover the scene tile you want to change and click Revise.
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Describe the change

Edit the scene’s description — “make it dusk instead of midday,” “focus on the product, not the hands.”
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Confirm the cost

Revising an AI clip generates a new one, and the price is shown before anything is spent. The revised scene is seeded from the current frame, so it stays visually continuous with its neighbors.
Only that scene regenerates; the rest of the video is untouched.

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Your Brand, Done Properly

Video boards pull from your brand guide automatically:
  • Colors and type come from your brand kit.
  • Your logo is drawn as a crisp overlay at its true aspect ratio — never stretched, never re-generated.
  • All text and logos are rendered as canvas layers, not baked into AI footage. AI image models produce garbled text; Hiveku never asks them to. Headlines, captions, and CTAs are composited on top, pixel-sharp.
  • Prompts are steered to photographic subjects, so generated footage looks like footage, not like a poster with melted lettering.
Images get subtle Ken Burns motion, layers animate in and out, and captions can highlight word-by-word in time with the voiceover.

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Voiceovers Are a Brand Asset

Narrator voices work like colors and fonts: auditioned once, approved once, reused everywhere.
  • Go to Marketing → Branding → Voiceovers to browse the voice catalog, play samples, and approve the voices your brand may speak in.
  • Mark one voice as the default narrator — new video boards use it without being asked.
  • Videos can only use voices your account has approved, so an agent can never ship a video in a voice you’ve never heard.
The Video tab’s audio controls also cover music and voiceover volume for the board.

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Asking for a Clip of a Set Length

Single AI clips (one clip from the chat or the API, rather than a whole storyboard) take a length from 2 to 10 seconds, and the price scales with the seconds. Not every model renders arbitrary lengths: the default lane renders 5 or 10 seconds only (anything over 7 becomes 10), the fast Veo lanes render 4, 6 or 8, and only the Omni lane honors any length from 1 to 10. You are billed for the length that was rendered, never the length you asked for, and the result reports both, with a note whenever they differ. A 9-second request on the default lane is a 10-second clip and a 10-second bill.

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What’s Next?

Motion Graphics

Layered, per-layer-editable animation — the other half of the video story

Brand Guide

Set up the brand kit that videos draw from

Exporting

How MP4 and PNG export work

Design Studio Overview

The layered canvas everything else builds on