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Direct the AI.

Text-to-video is good now. What is still hard is making more than one clip that belongs together. The character's hair changes. The line of dialogue takes nine seconds and the clip is five. The prompt asks for a walk, a turn and a smile, and the model does none of them well.

Shotlist is a storyboard that knows these failure modes.

WHAT IT DOES

  • Film-strip storyboard: add, duplicate, reorder and delete shots, with running time
  • Cast and look: describe a character or place once; type @Name in any shot and the full description is written into that prompt, so they match across clips
  • Film vocabulary in drop-downs: shot size, angle, 12 camera moves, lenses, 9 lighting set-ups, mood
  • Sound per shot: who speaks, the line, effects, ambience, music
  • Three export formats: natural paragraph (Veo, Sora), compact one-liner (Kling, Runway), JSON prompt
  • Live warnings: no subject, no action, two actions in one shot, dialogue too long for the clip, undefined @Name, clip over 10 seconds, compact prompt too long
  • Whole-video style, colour palette and aspect ratio applied to every shot
  • "No subtitles or on-screen text" added automatically
  • Several videos, copy one shot or all, download as .txt, backup and restore

Who it's for

Small businesses making ads, creators making shorts, anyone who has burned credits on clips that did not cut together.

What you get

  • Shotlist (one .html file, runs in your browser, offline)
  • A 2-page quick-start guide

Shotlist writes prompts. You generate the video in the AI video tool of your choice.

Good to know

  • Works with the AI you already use: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest. There is no AI inside the app, so no API key, no credits and no monthly fee.
  • One file. No install, no account, no subscription, no internet needed after download.
  • Your data stays on your computer. Export a backup any time; import it on another machine.
  • Built for a computer screen: Windows or Mac, in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox.
  • Instant download.

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Shotlist

AI video prompt builder: storyboard your shots, keep characters consistent, export prompts for Veo, Sora, Kling and Runway

AI video falls apart between clips: the character changes, the dialogue overruns, the prompt tries to do three things. Shotlist is a storyboard where you describe each character once and tag them into shots with @Name, pick camera, lens, light and sound from film vocabulary, and export each shot as a natural prompt, a compact prompt or a JSON prompt. It warns you before you waste a generation.

Pay with card, Apple Pay and more. Download right after.

One-time price in US dollars, checkout by Stripe. After paying you land on a page with your download link. Each link works for 15 minutes, and reopening that page makes fresh ones.

  • Shotlist-AI-Video-Prompts.zip