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Create With AI

Turn an idea, script, or finished voiceover into a draft video inside Video Creator. Create With AI uses presets, skills, narration, and sourced media to build the first pass for you, then gives you a timeline you can refine before export.

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Best fit for creators who are not starting with a finished folder of clips and want Fractal to help with sourcing, pacing, narration, and first-draft assembly.

What It Solves

Why Creators Use It

This is the workflow for moving from concept to editable draft when you need more than clip shuffling alone.

Start without footage

Begin from a topic, saved story, pasted script, or voiceover instead of waiting until every asset is prepared first.

Turn writing into an edit

Create With AI builds pages, clip rules, and a timeline draft inside Video Creator so you are refining a plan instead of assembling from zero.

Keep control after generation

Refresh weak sections, lock the parts you like, adjust timings, and export only after the draft feels usable.

Quick Workflow

How Create With AI Works

The docs describe Create With AI as a guided flow: story source first, workflow behavior second, project settings last. Platinum unlocks the workflow overall, and Diamond unlocks the preset mixing layer for Diamond-only AI presets.

Choose the story source

Start from a saved story, pasted script, popular niche generation, or a voiceover-led workflow.

Pick a preset

Select the style framework that tells the AI editors how the final video should feel, pace, and source media.

Set narration and length

Choose a voice or saved narrator, or skip generated narration if your own voiceover should control pacing.

Choose the skills

Turn on the behaviors you want for sourcing, text, subtitles, music, motion, and polish. On Diamond presets, Step 3 now lets you mix AI Video, A-Roll, B-Roll, sourced footage, and motion graphics instead of staying locked to one mode.

Create the draft

Fractal generates the plan, gathers sources as needed, and opens the result inside Video Creator for review.

Refine and export

Refresh clips, lock the good sections, keep editing in Video Creator, and export when the draft is ready.

Mental Model

Preset, Skills, Then Settings

video shufflr docs keep coming back to this three-part setup because it explains how the workflow behaves.

Preset first

Pick the format that matches your niche or editing style so the first draft starts closer to your real goal.

Narration and length second

Lock in the voice, narrator, skip-voiceover choice, and target runtime because those choices shape pacing before the final behavior layer.

Skills last

Use skills after that to decide how aggressively the run sources footage, adds captions, handles music, or generates visuals. For Diamond-only presets, that also means shaping how much of the final script stays presenter-led versus switching into sourced B-Roll or motion graphics.

Story Input

Four Ways To Start

Step 1 in the docs is all about telling the workflow what story it is editing before you move on to later controls.

Popular niche

Use this when you want Fractal to help generate the story path instead of bringing a finished script.

Saved story

Reuse a script already saved in the app and move straight from writing into the edit workflow.

Paste your script

Best when your message and structure are already decided and you want the AI focused on editing and sourcing.

Voiceover-first

Bring your finished audio and let it become the timing backbone while the preset still controls pacing and visuals.

Skills & Media

What You Can Shape Before The Run

These are the controls the docs emphasize most because they change the quality, speed, and style of the output.

Unlimited sources

Pull from a wider footage pool for better matches and more visual variety, with the tradeoff of longer runs.

Include images

Mix stills into the plan for explainers, stats, concepts, and tutorial-style visuals that do not rely on video alone.

Images-only mode

Useful for slideshow-style workflows where the voiceover or music drives pacing more than the footage does.

Use Library Assets

Search your saved media first so each good project becomes faster to build the next time.

Text, subtitles, and music

Add overlays, captions, background music, and sound support so the draft feels more complete before manual cleanup.

Analyze source videos

Add a slower but higher-quality review pass that filters weak or off-topic source clips before assembly.

Diamond preset mixing

Diamond-only presets still start in AI Video, but Diamond users can now switch to A-Roll or B-Roll and then layer in video sourcing, motion graphics, chapter cards, and support clips. That means one run can stay mostly talking-head while still cutting to proof footage or graphic explainers exactly where the script needs them.

Diamond Mixing

Mix A-Roll, B-Roll, And Generative Visuals

Diamond presets no longer force a single visual execution path once you reach the skills step.

AI Video stays the default

Diamond presets still open with AI Video selected first so the preset keeps its intended visual identity, but you are no longer locked there.

A-Roll can now source support footage

Choose A-Roll, then enable source videos to get scripts that stay mostly presenter-led while still making room for supporting B-Roll on proof beats, examples, and scene-setting moments.

A-Roll can also add motion graphics

Turn on motion graphics instead of footage, or combine both, so key definitions, comparisons, and emphasis moments break out into graphics without losing the talking-head backbone.

This mix-and-match behavior is Diamond-only for Diamond presets. Platinum still gets Create With AI, but Platinum does not unlock Diamond preset editing or the Diamond generative preset library.

Narration

Narration Often Controls Pacing

The docs position narration as one of the biggest pacing controls in the whole workflow.

Choose a voice or narrator

Use a simple voice for speed, or a saved narrator if you want the same sound and writing style across projects.

Match total length to the VO

If you already have a voiceover, set total length to match it so the visual plan follows your actual spoken runtime.

Skip narration when needed

Keep your own script and outside voice work intact by skipping generated narration and building visuals around your original audio.

After Generation

Review Inside Video Creator

Refresh weak parts

Replace clips or sections that miss the brief without throwing away the whole draft.

Lock the good sections

Protect the moments you like while you continue iterating on weaker areas.

Keep editing or export

Use Video Creator for manual refinement, then export once the plan is strong enough to publish.

Plan Context

What Access Includes

Platinum workflow

Create With AI is part of the Platinum tier and is positioned in the docs as one of the core AI creation workflows.

AI + TTS included

Pricing and docs both position Platinum as managed AI access, so creators do not need to bring an OpenAI API key just to use the workflow.

Built for repeatable production

The docs consistently frame this feature around faceless channels, repeatable formats, and faster first drafts for volume creators.

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