Picsart

film-finishing

Finish a film after picture lock - the draft takes finished to full quality, colour matched and graded from the scene tools' looks, the soundtrack (the takes' own voices, an ambience or music bed), QC, masters, the archive and the AI disclosure. Use when a film's cut is final and it needs finishing, delivery files or its archive.

film-shot-generation

Shoot a film's shots as runs - narrowing the video models a film can use, packing shot cards into multi-shot generations, drafting key frames before footage is bought, compiling and verifying every prompt on the server, following the jobs, and routing notes to an edit, an extend or a re-roll. Use when a film's video models are narrowed, or its shots are planned into runs, pictured, generated, checked or repaired. A film the user makes step by step here is carried on by its own use case, which loads this skill when a step needs it.

film-story-writing

Write a short film's story and break it down - pre-setting the look from the idea, the ten-line story and every scene as what the viewer sees and hears, dialogue that performs action, one light per scene with its dark side and a colour kept back, and the shot cards and asset tags that come out of it. Use when a film needs its look suggested, its story written or rewritten, or its story turned into shots and assets.

footage-analysis

Watch the user's own talking footage and turn it into facts you can build on - its moments worth keeping, who is on screen, and a transcript whose sentences set every cut - read every source at once and follow the job receipts. Use when a use case needs to know what happens in an interview, podcast, vlog, talk or any footage of people speaking, and when. A screen recording's pictures are read by the screen-recording-analysis skill; only its spoken narration is transcribed here.

footage-reframing

Put the user's own footage in a frame of another shape - landscape to a vertical reel, say - with the camera following the person, measured once per source, and cut it into a reel of clips back to back with scripts/reel_cut.py, so any re-cut is free. Covers which clips follow the subject and which show the whole frame, photos held as beats, a camera that swings between two people, and hard cuts. Use when a reel or short is cut from the user's own videos and photos, when a landscape video is reposted as a vertical one, or when a vertical crop loses the subject.

generate-media

Make an image, a video, a voice line, a sound or a song from a prompt, or edit a picture - remove or replace its background, enhance or upscale it, or turn it into a vector - with a model that fits, its settings checked and its price quoted before anything is charged. Also answers questions about models, prices, credits and Drive. Use when the user asks to generate, make or create an image, a video or audio, to edit a picture, to browse the models, or about a price, their credits or their Drive files. Load it first, before any tool, when they say not to ask, to work unattended, or set a spend limit. Load it before calling any Picsart model, generation or image tool.

get-started

Get started with Picsart Video - check that your Picsart account is connected and how many credits you have, open Picsart beside the conversation where the host can, and see what you can make and edit. Use when the user has just installed Picsart or Picsart Video, asks to set it up, asks what it can do, or asks how to get started.

large-scene-assembly

Build large editable scenes by decomposing a timeline into bounded scenes and reusable components, defining timing and asset contracts, then assembling and safely consolidating them. Use when authoring long videos, many scenes or layers, scene-by-scene designs, oversized JSON, fragile whole-document edits, reusable modules, or an editable handoff.

linked-element-motion

Keep related scene elements aligned and moving together, including container resizing, shared fades, content reveals and sibling reflow. Use when labels detach, companions fade separately, panels fail to grow, content overflows, or an outside object must join a template at a particular time and remain attached.

make-screen-videos

Turn a screen recording of an app or website into finished videos - several standalone how-to shorts for Reels, TikTok or Shorts that each teach one easy thing, a feature explainer, a promo with each request typed over its result, a timelapse of a long session, or a step-by-step 16:9 tutorial with chapters - in a style the user picks by eye, with a voice-over and captions if they want them. Use when the user has a screen recording and wants a tutorial, a how-to, a reel, a short, a promo, a walkthrough or a demo video from it, or carries on with videos already planned from one, including adding a generated shot to them.

make-short-drama

Make a vertical drama series, pilot or episode with a recurring cast. Use for a short drama, a story reel, microdrama, web series or its next episode. Not for a one-off film (movie-producer).

motion-design-craft

The craft of adding motion to any scene, whatever the video — an ad or reel, a promo, a tutorial or walkthrough, an explainer, an intro, outro or title card, or one beat inside a longer edit — motion chosen per element by its role, smart-animate and morphs between frames, transitions, strokes and mask reveals, reviewed by eye in the scene editor pair by pair. Use whenever motion is added to or changed in a scene — elements animating in or out, a transition that looks wrong, a morph, a mask, an animated callout, highlight or zoom, a logo reveal, kinetic text — including inside another use case or a tutorial, not only in the `animate-design` skill's pipeline, where it is stage 3.

motion-intent

Choose and diagnose scene motion from communication intent before selecting presets or keyframes. Use when a user says “make this motion feel…”, asks to choreograph a scene, choose timing/easing/stagger, establish motion hierarchy, or explain why an animation feels flat, noisy, robotic, sluggish, or unfinished.

motion-pattern-library

Worked scene motion patterns for entrances, exits, stagger, directional nudges, emphasis, ambient life, springs, arcs, layered beats, parenting, parallax, focus, wipes, and drawn strokes. Use when the motion intent is known and you need supported scene properties and keyframe structures to adapt; values are starting points, not universal timing rules.

motion-scene-continuity

Plan and diagnose continuity across scene beats and scene boundaries—semantic handoffs, dominant direction, shared visual carriers, causal action/reaction, intentional resets, and seam verification. Use when consecutive scenes feel like separate slides, a transition breaks momentum, a shared element must persist, or a multi-scene sequence needs a continuity review.

motion-tracking-from-video

Measure what objects visibly do in a video - where each one moves, turns and grows, frame by frame - with picsart_media_track_motion, and turn the measurement into scene keyframes; then measure your own render the same way and compare the two with picsart_media_track_motion_diff. Covers choosing targets and estimators, tolerances, reading the result honestly, and placing tracked motion on a layer. Use when a scene must reproduce motion seen in a reference video, or when a render's motion must be checked against one.

movie-producer

Make a short narrative film from a story - several scenes, recurring characters, one locked look - staged and approved step by step. Use when the user wants a short film, a movie or a multi-scene story ("I have a script"), or carries on a film already under way here (its shot list, a change to one shot, or the next step). Load it first for any work on such a film; it brings in the film skills each step needs. Not for a drama series or its episodes (make-short-drama), a single clip, or footage the user already has.

open-picsart-app

Open Picsart beside the conversation - the user's recent files, their Picsart Drive, the AI tools, and where to start a film or a motion design video - on a yes to one closed question. Use when a use case offers to open Picsart, such as during setup.

photo-slideshow

Build a photo promo or slideshow in a scene — probe the photos, sequence them as a track of clips with transitions, fill off-aspect photos with a blurred copy, add an animated title that stays readable over any photo, choose a font, and verify with a sweep of full-resolution frames. Use when asked for a photo slideshow, photo montage, photo reel, promo video from photos, Reels/Shorts/TikTok from pictures, or a titled sequence of images.

picsart-video-rules

The rules every Picsart Video use case follows - how to talk to the user and ask, the five interactions (ASK, REVIEW, SHOW, SPEND, DELIVER), credit consent, asset URLs, when to preview and when to export, and the evaluation budget. Read it first, before any step of a use case.

plugin-version

Use when asked which Picsart plugin version or build is installed.

quality-review

Check work before the user sees it - a scene validated, linted and looked at in contact-sheet frames, then fixed and checked again; a short's script, hook and draft reviewed by a simulated viewer panel and critics; the brief graded; an export checked against its scene. Use after a script is written and before it is built or paid for, after building or changing a scene, before REVIEW or an export, before handing over an export, and at each decision a use case names.

quick-merge-and-export

The shortest path from media URLs to a rendered file - merge or concatenate several videos into one with the montage template, sample frames from a scene into a contact sheet, and export any valid scene to a file. Use when asked to merge, join or concatenate clips, to preview a scene as frames, or to render a scene, and no other skill covers the job.

realistic-color-grade

Make a video's colours look more realistic and natural with the ai_realism look — take the over-processed, plastic, AI-generated look off footage with a gentle grade, a shine correction on skin and light colour grain, and choose its values per video. Use when asked to make video colors more realistic, natural or camera-like, to make AI-generated footage look real, to take the glossy or plastic look off skin, or to add subtle grain for realism.

recreate-video

Rebuild a reference video as an editable animated scene that moves and looks like it - the same layout, the same timing, the same motion - measured from the video rather than eyeballed, with the user's own photos and text in place of the original's. Use when the user brings a video and wants one like it ("make a video like this one", "recreate this ad", "copy this animation", "rebuild this promo with my product"). Not for editing or trimming the user's own footage, and not for a new video from a description alone.

reel-structure

Copy a reference reel's structure, never its content - read its beats, shots, caption pattern, pace and sound bed into a structure sheet (or parse a written beat-by-beat breakdown for free), fit the user's own script to those beats, and report each beat as matched, changed, dropped or added, with the content rules checked. Use when a short should be built the way a reference reel is built, or when a script must be checked against a reference's beats.

reference-fragment-matching

Rebuild a reference video as a scene one fragment at a time - split the reference into spans where one arrangement holds, take a census of each, measure every beat, build it, then check it against the reference on motion and on appearance until it matches - and join the fragments without tearing their seams. Use when a scene must reproduce a reference clip, or when one part of a recreation does not match its reference.

remix-reel-structure

Remix a reference reel, a talking head or a skit included - copy the reel's structure (beats and timing, shots, caption pattern, pace, sound bed) onto the user's own script or topic, never its words, faces, frames, audio or music; build it as slides, voice and video, and report what matched and what changed. Use for "copy this reel's structure" or "remix this reel with my script", from the video or a written breakdown. Not for rebuilding a reference's animation with the user's photos (recreate-video).

resting-frame-rules

Keep every element whole or gone whenever motion stops - when an animation finishes, when an element appears without moving, and on the last frame, each photo, card or title sits fully inside its frame or fully outside it, never cut by the edge. How to build entrances, exits, scrolls and zooms so they land clean, and how to check a scene with the layout tool. Use when animating photos, cards, screenshots or text in a scene, and before a scene with motion goes to REVIEW.

retention-hooks

Keep a short video watched to the end with open loops - a hook that opens a question in the first seconds, an intensifier, a rehook at the middle and a payoff that closes them, whether the lines come from the user's footage or are written for a voice or the screen. Use when ordering the moments of a short cut from talking footage, or writing the lines a short puts on screen or in a voice.

scene-animation-reference

How a scene expresses motion — preset catalogs, layer animations and transform stacks, easing and spatial tangents, Lua expressions, shared path phase, text on a curved or closed path, depth and the composition camera, motion blur, and transition firing. Use when motion needs authoring or validation, objects need editable path offsets, text must follow a baseline, a scene validates but renders wrong, or a preset is rejected for the content kind.

scene-building-basics

Build and edit a scene with the scene tools - declaring media, audio and fonts as assets, layer trims, audio layers and transitions, reading the schema once before patching. Use whenever a use case composes or changes a scene document.

scene-template-remix

Select, reuse and customize scene catalog items. Use when remixing scene templates, looks, motion presets, text animations, transitions, effects or caption decorations, replacing placeholder content with media, or joining an outside object to a template.

screen-recording-analysis

Read a screen recording from its pixels - its shape, cuts and sound, when and where the screen changes, how long the waits are, the steps with their results, every action of a click-through with scripts/actions.py, the stages of a long working session, the shots of an already edited video - then look only at small still sheets of the moments that matter, and find private data in the text read from them with scripts/private_text.py. Use when a use case needs to know what happens in a screen recording, and when, without a model watching the video.

screen-recording-layouts

Lay a screen recording out in a 1080x1920 vertical frame or a 1920x1080 landscape one - the layout catalog (full frame, prompt over result, head and screen, screen with head bubble, results grid), recording panels, whether a moment's UI will read in its panel, and each destination's safe zone. Use when composing a vertical or a 16:9 video from screen footage, landscape, portrait or square.

screen-recording-zoom

The house zoom for screen footage in a panel - its scale, ramp and timing as scene keyframes, focus clamping, the readability rule, and a planner that decides which clicks of a long recording get a push. Use when timing and keyframing zooms on a screen recording shown in a panel.

screen-ui-redesign

Recreate the screens of a recording as designed motion UI - the app's own screens, layout, colours and words, redrawn larger and cleaner for 9:16 and built only from what the recording shows. Use when screen footage will not read at the destination, or when the UI is only the means and a designed version tells the step better.

sd2-pe

Use only for a Seedance 2.0 model (model ids seedance-2.0*): optimizes user prompts for Seedance 2.0 multi-modal video generation. Not for any other video model, such as Kling, Veo, Wan or Seedance 2.5.

sd25-pe

Use only for a Seedance 2.5 model (model ids seedance-2.5*): optimizes text, stories, or optional multimodal references for Seedance 2.5 text-to-video, multi-reference generation, keyframes, storyboards, blockouts, video editing, audio editing, or extension. Not for any other video model, such as Kling, Veo, Wan or Seedance 2.0.

speech-aware-cutting

Choose the moments of talking footage worth keeping and cut them so no one is clipped mid-sentence - the transcript sets every in and out, the watch picks what is worth it - then read the cut as the viewer will hear it with scripts/review_cuts.py, which flags chopped words, filler and seams that open on "but" or "she", with the time to move each edge to. Use when cutting a short, a reel or highlights from an interview, podcast, vlog, talk or any footage where people speak, and when a finished cut sounds choppy.

spoken-captions

Put spoken words on screen from the transcript - word-timed captions on a generated voice-over or on the user's own talking footage, and on a cut reel, captions per clip and a few highlight phrases timed to the words they call out, placed with scripts/reel_text.py. Use when a video is watched muted and its speech must be read, or when a short's key lines should land on screen.

visual-style

A video's style, chosen by eye and kept - eight named styles as colour roles and text entrances, a brand's colours mapped onto one, the defaults that make a video look machine-made, and a check that a built scene keeps to its style. Use when choosing or applying the look of a built video (screen videos, promos, tutorials), or checking that one does not look generic.

voice-over-generation

Generate a voice-over from written lines - one voice line per script line in one voice, as one batch, the words alone with pace and energy in the model's own fields, names spelled as they sound, and every line's real length probed before anything is timed to it. Use when a video needs a generated voice, with a presenter on screen or with no face at all.