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The Film Pipeline on Your Board

Inside GreenLight Dash, a GreenLight Motion film is built as a pipeline on the current board. The agent creates it in free space to the right of everything else on the board, right after it reads the brief, and moves it along step by step. Each step’s status light shows where the work is, approval gates stop the agent where your decision matters, and a review lane under the steps shows every card at full size.

You never have to build or wire this pipeline yourself: the agent creates it, fills it and keeps it up to date. You read the cards, give your approval in the agent’s chat, and edit the preview.

The steps

The steps run left to right, wired in order:

Step	What happens there	Waits for you?
Brief	The starting point: the brief’s text and the pictures you handed over (“From the brief”).	No
Capture the site	The app opens your website and takes desktop and phone screenshots, and reads the page’s copy, colours and logo. Only there when the brief names a website.	No
Scenario	The film’s story in words: a logline and the beats. For a brand-new film, also the art direction.	Yes (step by step only)
Storyboard	Two or three directions for the film, a still of every shot with all of its words. Only there when the brief doesn’t skip the storyboard.	Yes
Preview	The finished film in a player where you edit anything.	Yes
Render & export	After your approval, the agent renders the film and makes the exports you asked for, then lists them here.	No
Final film	The rendered film lands here (“The final film lands here.” until it does).	No

Each step (except Brief and Final film) has Instructions, Assets and Results panes and a status light: Waiting, In Progress, Finished or Error. The agent marks a step In Progress before it starts working on it.

Approval gates

Scenario, Storyboard and Preview are approval gates. When the agent shows a step’s card, the step turns Finished and gets a Requires Approval badge, the pipeline’s note says which step is waiting (for example “Waiting for your approval: Scenario”), and the agent stops and tells you the card is ready.

To approve, say so in the agent’s chat. When the agent moves on to the next step, every earlier gate turns Approved.
To change something, tell the agent what to change (a beat, the order, the message, a word). It edits the step and shows the card again; the card updates in place and the gate stays open until you approve.
A step that never ran, such as a storyboard the brief skipped, is marked Finished with the note “Skipped”, so it never holds the pipeline up.

The agent never runs a later step while a gate is still open, and nothing is rendered before you approve the preview.

The review lane

Under the steps is the review lane: one frame for each card step (Site capture, Scenario, Storyboard and Preview), wired from its step. Each card sits in its lane at its full size, so you can read it on the canvas without opening anything, and the lane grows or shrinks to fit its card. The step’s own Results pane points down to it (“The story: in the review lane below ↓”).

Until its card arrives, an empty lane shows a large note saying what will appear there, so you don’t mistake it for empty space:

Site capture — “The site’s screenshots and its copy appear here.”
Scenario — “The scenario appears here: the film’s story, in words. Read it first. Nothing is built until you approve it.”
Storyboard — “The storyboard appears here: two or three directions, every shot with its words. You pick one.”
Preview — “The film’s preview appears here. You edit it, then approve it before the render.”

The card replaces the note when it arrives.

The scenario card

The scenario card is the story, in words, before anything is designed. It is 1,200 px wide and as tall as its content, so there is nothing to scroll:

the film’s name and its logline: one sentence saying who the film is for and what they get;
a row of facts from the brief: the goal and length, the format, the language, the call to action, and the theme with its motion preset;
a note, Read the story first., that tells you nothing is built until you approve it, and what comes next (the storyboard, or straight to the preview);
the beats in order (usually 3–8), laid out as cards three to a row and grouped into acts when the story has halves or turns. Each beat has a number, a title and one sentence of what happens and why it matters.

For a brand-new film, the card also shows the Direction under the story: the concept in a sentence, then Look (with the film’s palette as colour swatches), Type, Motion, Signature (the one move the film is remembered by) and References. You approve the concept together with the story.

Ask for changes in the chat: another beat, a different order, a sharper message, another concept.

The storyboard card

After you approve the scenario, the agent turns every beat into a shot and shows two or three genuinely different directions for the film: another concept and signature move for brand-new scenes, or other scene picks, structure and pacing for library films.

Each direction is a row, marked A, B or C, with its name, a short note on its approach, and chips for its motion preset, its length and its number of shots.
Every shot has a still, taken by the app at the shot’s settled moment, with the shot’s title and length under it, every line of its copy, and its part of the voice-over. This is where you read and approve the words.
Under the rows, Library scenes lists the ready-made scenes the directions use and alternatives for each shot. Ask the agent to swap one in.

Tell the agent in the chat which direction you want, or mix them: “B”, or “B, but shot 3 from A”. Correct any words at the same time. Your pick becomes the film, and the Storyboard gate is approved. The other directions stay on the card for reference. If you mixed directions or changed words, ask the agent to show the storyboard again to see the result before the preview.

With Skip it in the brief, there is no Storyboard step: the film goes from the approved scenario straight to the preview, which shows every scene with its copy and voice-over for you to approve there.

The preview card

The preview card (1,600 × 1,000 px) is the finished film in a player, with a timeline and a side panel of Scenes, Elements and Design. Double-click it on the canvas to play it and change anything in it. On a board it has no Render or Export buttons: its top bar says “Approve it in the chat, and the agent renders and exports it”.

See Editing the Film Preview.

Render & export and Final film

When you approve the preview (after the voice-over and sound effects, if the film has them), the agent marks Render & export In Progress, renders the film with the app, and makes the exports the brief asked for. The Results pane lists every render and export, the rendered film is placed in Final film, and the pipeline finishes. See Rendering and Exports.

Straight to the preview: the shorter pipeline

When you work Straight to the preview, the pipeline is shorter:

there is no Storyboard step;
the scenario card is the agent’s plan (it reads “The agent’s plan.” instead of “Read the story first.”) and doesn’t wait for approval;
the Preview card is the one approval.

Where the files are

Everything a film needs is saved in folders on the board:

Folder	What is in it
greenlight-motion-briefs	The briefs saved by AI Motion Design.
greenlight-motion- followed by the film’s name	The film itself: its scene pages, the scenario, pictures, voice-over clips, sound effects, the mixed renders and the After Effects package.
greenlight-motion- followed by the film’s name and -pipeline	Copies of the pictures shown in the pipeline.

Pictures in the pipeline are copies, so deleting a card from the pipeline never touches the film’s own files. When the agent works on the same film again, it updates the same cards and the same pipeline instead of adding new ones.