Everything you need to ship long-form video on CueTheScene.
Workflow walkthroughs, editor reference, prompting strategy, and answers to the questions creators ask most. Written by Carl, who builds the thing.
Get started
Sign in, ship your first video, find your way around the dashboard.
- Quick startSign in, write a one-line brief, watch the pipeline assemble a publish-ready video in about twenty minutes.
- Account and sign-inSign-up, sign-in, settings, where account stuff lives, and how to delete your account if you ever need to.
- DashboardA walkthrough of every surface on the dashboard, from the top rail and banners through the projects list.
- Auto vs Manual modeWhen to let the pipeline run end-to-end and when to step in at the brief, the outline, the footage, or the publish surface.
Creating videos
Briefs, formats, niches, voice picks, custom scripts, custom voiceover, themes, thumbnails.
- Your first videoA guided run through the eight choices that shape a video, from format to voice to thumbnail style.
- Brief writing strategyThe practitioner guide to writing briefs that produce videos worth publishing, with worked examples per niche.
- Format and lengthDocumentary or Listicle, 8 / 12 / 20 / 30 minutes, when each combination suits which kind of video and what each costs.
- Niche selectionHow the 31 niches differ behind the scenes, what each is good for, and how to pick the closest match when nothing fits exactly.
- Custom scriptWhen to write the script yourself instead of using the brief path, how to format it, and what runs differently.
- Custom voiceoverUploading your own narration, the alignment indicator, ElevenLabs voice-clone import, and how the pipeline runs differently.
Video editor
The post-generation surface: timeline, footage swap, voice tweaks, rendering, troubleshooting.
- Editor overviewHow the post-generation editor is laid out, what each panel does, and where to start when a scene looks off.
- Editing your videoThe working manual: scene-by-scene script edits, finding resolution, per-stage regenerate, search-more, captions, music, save and Magic Reset.
- Rendering and troubleshootingJob statuses, paused-for-review gates, what to do when a job fails or stalls, cancellation refunds, and YouTube publish errors.
Guides
Long-form playbooks: prompting strategy, niche selection, building a profitable channel.
- The ultimate guideA single sequential walkthrough from sign-in to first published video, the long-form companion to Quick start.
- Prompting in depthAdvanced brief-writing: structural patterns, tone references, constraint patterns, and the anti-patterns to avoid by niche.
- Building profitable channelsUsing CueTheScene as a business: niche selection for monetisation, cadence economics, multi-channel operations, CTR levers.
- Niche examplesSix worked examples showing brief and outline shape and key script moments and footage choices for different niches.
Resources
FAQ, cadence guidance, what to do when YouTube changes the rules.
Pricing and billing
Plans, credits, pay-as-you-go, refunds, the founding-member offer.
- Plans and pricingHow the plans work, what a credit buys, when to consider pay-as-you-go, and the founding-member offer.
- Pay as you goThe metered rate, the monthly cap, the deliberate friction points, and when PAYG is or is not the right shape.
- Credits explainedWhat one credit is, the per-video cost formula, the ledger reasons, and how rollover and expiry behave.
- Refund policyWhen refunds apply, how to claim them, the 14-day UK Consumer Rights Act cooling-off, and founding-member implications.