Video Editor 101

What are Cantina Videos

Cantina Videos allows you to turn your messages, images, and other content into AI-generated videos. You can publish your videos to the community feed, storylines, or outside of Cantina.

Where You Can Create Videos

1. In the Imagine tab:

   

   • From the Imagine tab, in the bottom middle, you can message a bot, generate a video, or generate an image.
   • By tapping the blue wand in the bottom right, you will enter the video editor to finalize your video.

2. On a bot's profile:

   

   • Open your Bot Profile.
   • Either choose Create or navigate to a bot’s Media to access the video tool.
   • Choose to create a Video —this is where you can create, upload, or assign a voice.

3. From the bot tab:

   

   • Tap Bots or the bot icon at the bottom.
   • Navigate to the Keep Creating Videos row. 
   • After selecting a bot you would like to create a clip with, tap Create Video under their profile photo.

4. From an image:

   

   • Navigate to the Media gallery on a bots profile.
   • Choose Create Photo or select a pre-existing image.
   • When selecting an image tap Create Video in the top left corner to enter the video editor. You will need to enter a text prompt of what you want to happen in the video. 
   • Describe the image you want — Start with the subject, describe the setting, action, and any descriptive details.

     • Example - “Shark sitting in a boat as it slowly drifts down a river while butterflies fly around and the green grass sways in the wind”

       To learn more about video prompting, check out our Prompting for Videos in Cantina article for an in-depth look.

        

Editing Basics

Our video editor offers numerous options to customize your video before sharing.

1. To change the background video
   • Tap Change Video at the bottom of the video preview. 
2. Edit the script
   • Tap the text or choose Edit Script in the bottom left corner. 
3. Enable and customize captions
   • Change the font - You can toggle captions off by selecting None in the font list.
   • Change the text size
   • Change the text color

Adding a Topic/Plot

You can make your videos easily by using Topic/Plot. Using this will auto-generate your scripts, images and action prompts for your videos to create a scene!

1. Once you’ve generated a video, you will be prompted to edit the Topic/Plot and script.

2. You can also edit the Topic/Plot of an existing video from Edit Video and select the Topic/Plot button in the middle.

   

3. Once your plot is set, be sure to tap the checkmark. It will generate a full script based on your instructions. You can then manually edit or re-write the script.

   

How to Create Multi-Scene Videos

You can create a multi-scene video from taking a screenshot in a room, using the Imagine tool, or adding more scenes in the Video Editor.

Taking a screenshot in rooms:

1. From inside a room, you can either:
   • Tap the blue Create Video button in the bottom right corner.

• Take a screenshot of the conversation and tap Select Messages.

2. In both cases, you'll then be prompted to select the messages you'd like to include in your video. You can select up to 4 messages from up to 4 different bots.

*You are currently only able to select messages from voice-enabled bots to include in videos. 

3. Once you've made your selections, tap Create Video to open the video editor.

From the Imagine Tool:

• After navigating to the Video tab, you can select multiple characters and describe how you want your video to look in the scenes.

From the Video Editor:

• After generating, you will enter the video editor where you can add more scenes and edit the scripts.

1. When tapping the + you can choose to Add Character or Add Image. In both cases you can add more characters, select different backgrounds to use, and write scripts.

   

2. Tap Generate to save all changes.

Discovering Other Videos

You can discover other videos in Cantina from a few other places too!

From the feed:

You can explore and discover videos made by other users by scrolling on the feed or in a bot’s media!

From Storylines:

From the home tab and profiles (bots, yours, and others), you can view videos posted to their storylines.

Video Guidelines

When creating or editing videos, don’t remove or change messages in a way that misleads, targets, or harms others. This includes manipulating conversations to misrepresent someone, creating deceptive portrayals, or using videos to harass or threaten anyone.

All videos must follow our Community Guidelines.
 

Violations may result in content removal and/or account restrictions.

Sharing Your Videos

You can share the videos you create to the feed, post it to a social media platform, save it to your camera roll, or copy the link to send to friends! If you post a Cantina video and tag us, we may repost your video and feature you on our socials @Cantina on Tiktok and @Cantina on Instagram!