Catalogue method: how a board tool is read

Each tool's official English pages were read on one day: product pages, feature pages, FAQs, guides and plan notes. Every statement about the storyboard step was copied with its page, the date and a short quote, and then given one reading per field from a closed list. As of 2026-09-25.

1What gets a tool onto the catalogue

A tool is listed when its own pages describe a storyboard, a board of panels or a written shot plan, made from a script, brief or idea as a step before video or before a finished board, and say something about at least three of the six fields. Clip generators without a board step are left off, however the clips look.

Six more tools were read and left off: Cinemagiq, Flick, Intangible, Krock, Morphic and Saga. On the day of reading, their public pages did not say enough about a board step to answer three of the six fields.

2One reading per field

Where a vendor describes more than one way of doing something, the reading follows the way its main storyboard page puts first. A tool that sets the camera on the panel and also reads it from the script is read as set on the panel if that is the control the page shows; where the page also describes the other way, the note on the tool's sheet mentions it.

3Readings in use

Inclusion rule. Readings actually given on the register; readings nobody carries are not listed. Order. Fields in register order.

4None given

When a vendor's pages are read for a field and never touch it, the field is marked silent. The mark describes the pages, not the product; a vendor may well offer something its public pages leave out.

The full register is on the data page.

5From board to moving shots

Between the script and the video in “Catalogue method”, SceneMixer hands back the following, in its own words:

Paste a scene or a short script and SceneMixer gives you a storyboard — numbered shots with framing and seconds — and then a moving version of each segment, which you can join into a rough cut of the scene.

SceneMixer, Using SceneMixer for Previs and Animatics Before a Live-Action Shoot (read 2026-10-13)

SceneMixer turns a novel into a watchable short-drama series in one pipeline: upload the novel (Chinese or English) → AI extracts characters, scenes, and an episode-by-episode structure → generates consistent character and scene art → writes storyboard scripts → renders video segment by segment (16:9 by default, 9:16 in one setting) → composites full episodes.

SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI (read 2026-10-13)