Short drama
Up to 70% lower model cost
A 60 second episode in 6 to 12 shots, vertical or 16:9. The script, characters that stay the same from shot to shot, voices and the final cut.
- brief.yaml
- shots.yaml
- characters/
- final.mp4
Your video studio, run by your agent.
A local AI video studio that starts on your laptop with one command.
One studio on your laptop. Five tools inside.
The rig is the studio app and four tools, one for each step a video takes. Each step writes plain files, so you can read, change and render any step again.
AI studio
The local app: a web interface, a job queue, a cost ledger and a budget, with a node-graph engine for open models. Your coding agent drives the same app through MCP and a local HTTP API.
- Web interface
- Job queue
- Ledger and budget
- Node-graph engine for open models
- MCP and HTTP API
Step 1: Script writer
Turns an idea into a brief, then a per-second shot list: camera, action, dialogue, model and cost for each shot.
shots.yamlStep 2: Character creation
Character sheets with a portrait, a 4-view turnaround and an outfit and trait card. Every shot uses them as references.
characters/kai/Step 3: 3D motion layout
A grey-box 3D animatic from the shot list: blocking, cameras and timing. You approve the motion before any paid video.
animatic.mp4Step 4: Final video
Image-to-video for each shot from the approved layout frames and character sheets. Then the cut, with captions, voice and music.
final.mp4Video as code
For people who already work with agents. Your agent calls the rig’s tools, writes files you can read and diff, and asks before it spends money on a render.
rig up
studio started, web interface open
engine started, workflows loaded
mcp ready for your agent
api ready on localhost
~/films/neon-chaseagent session
- Make a 30 second neon chase short, two characters.
- rig.script.create(length: 30 s, characters: 2)
- Script ready: 6 shots, 2 characters, 1 location.
- rig.cost.estimate(shots.yaml)
- Estimate per shot written. Nothing renders before you say so.
- Plan saved. Say "render" to start shot 1.
~/films/neon-chase/shots.yaml
shots: - at: 0-5 shot: wide aerial, city at night, rain camera: slow push in - at: 5-10 shot: KAI at the wheel, black coupe camera: dolly alongside - at: 10-15 shot: MIRA in the passenger seat # 3 more shots estimate: per shot, in your currency
From one sentence to a finished cut.
The agent writes the script, makes the characters, lays out the motion in 3D and renders the final shots. Under a minute, no sound.
Why videorig.io
The rig on your laptop calls each model directly. No middleman, no markup.
Model cost for a 60 s short drama
| Closed AI studio | videorig.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Credits that expire | Provider price per second |
| Models | One vendor | Seedance, Kling, MiniMax H3 and more |
| Files | Their cloud | Your disk |
| Control | Web UI only | Agent and web UI |
| Updates | Monthly | Daily on Pro |
Model names, not middlemen
- Seedance
- Kling
- MiniMax H3
- Seedream
- Midjourney-style images
Updates every day
New models and better prompts, in a release each day on Pro.
Skills tuned for video
Tested for high-end video at a low cost per second.
What you can make
Promo video
Up to 80% lower model cost
A 15 to 30 second product spot from one brief. Change a line in the brief and render the cut again.
- brief.yaml
- shots.yaml
- promo-16x9.mp4
- promo-9x16.mp4
Audio and voice
In the same run
Dialogue with several voices, narration, a music bed and sound effects, made in the same run and timed to the cut.
- voices/
- music.wav
- mix.wav
Model cost only, for one project, against the top model of a credit-based studio plan, with the rig on a cheaper model tier. The plan fee is not in the sum. How we count
Made with videorig.io
Ten short clips, each from one brief. Square, vertical and wide.
First Light
Morning Hollow
Skyline Lanes
Afterglow
Walk and Talk
Rain Court
Storm Plain
Liquid Gold
Two Moons
Neon Pulse
Clip 1 of 10: First Light
One price a month. Model costs go to your provider.
Every tier runs on your machine and connects to the providers you choose. Cancel from your library at any time.
Rig
The local studio and the core skills.
$9.99 a month
- The local studio
- Core skills and prompts
- All connectors
- Weekly updates
Pro
RecommendedEvery workflow, updated every day.
$19.99 a month
- Everything in Rig
- Every workflow and template (short drama, promo, audio, characters, 3D motion layout)
- Daily updates
Studio
For teams that ship video every week.
$29.99 a month
- Everything in Pro
- Priority support (reply within 1 business day)
- Early access to new models and workflows
- Recipes for rented cloud GPUs
Questions
The whole studio. rig up starts the studio app, a node-graph engine for open models, a 3D motion layout worker, the MCP server and the local HTTP API in Docker. Your keys, scripts and media stay on your machine. The paid video models run at the hosted model APIs you connect, or on a GPU you own or rent.