What a whole film will cost, before you buy credits
Paste a script and the Script stage tells you what the complete film will cost: the script fixes you ask for, the design pictures and the descriptions they are made from, the writing, every shot, retakes, a dub into each language you want, and the sound. The price is in credits and in dollars, and nothing is charged until you press Generate on a picture or a shot.
Paste the script
Open Movie Engine, press New project, choose Movie and press Create → Script. Paste your screenplay into the script box. When the checks have read it, press Estimated budget at the foot of the script box, beside Clear. The budget opens in a window of its own.
- 1The budget. It is worked out from the script as it is when you press the button —
- 2Design — the face pictures, outfit sheets, places and props the film needs. Before a design exists, each speaker is given a face and two outfits, and each place one picture.
- 3Video — how long the film runs, how many shots that is, and the price of one take of each.
- 4Dubbing — one line per language, with the original voices kept.
- 5The whole film, in credits and dollars, with one take of every shot —
- 6With retakes — the same film if half the shots are made again.
- 7Type how many other languages you want the film dubbed into —
- 8See the checks — the Length row quotes the same total.
The runtime comes from the dialogue. Every line is given the time it takes to say, so a dialogue-heavy script runs close to one minute a page.
Read the rows
- Script is the places only you can decide that Fix them one at a time would send to the writer, at the price that button shows. The free fixes cost nothing and are not listed.
- Design reads the script for its people, places and scenes, then writes a description for each picture. Both are writing, a few credits to a few dozen on a long script. The pictures are small too: one costs about 8 to 12 credits. Four characters with two outfits each, and a dozen places, come to a few hundred credits.
- Writing is a fraction of a credit per scene.
- Video is where the credits go. It is priced per second of film, and the rate depends on the resolution you choose on the film's settings and the video model.
- Retakes are not measured. The budget assumes half the shots are made a second time. Your own count may be lower or higher.
- Dubbing is priced per minute per language. Captions in another language are free.
- Sound appears when the sound desk is open to you: a score, room sound and effects, together.
Find it from Buy credits
- 1What will a whole film cost? The notice sits under the packs —
- 2Price a script — opens New project, where you paste the script.
Home's Create a Film card leads to the same place.