Help & guides

Learn AI film, the Lyra way

Short, practical walkthroughs of the core workflow — scaffolding scenes, composing storyboards, picking storage modes, and turning donations into runway.

This is a temporary landing page. Full guides land alongside the v2 editor rollout.

Getting started

Sign in, scaffold your first project, pick a storage mode. The whole core workflow is free and works offline.

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Scenes → Beats → Storyboards → Keyframes

How the narrative scaffold works. A scene holds beats, a beat holds storyboards, a storyboard arranges keyframes in a grid.

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Generate, score, branch

Pull candidates into the asset pool, promote keyframes, compose a 2×2 grid, regenerate the Seedance prompt.

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Local · Cloud · SDK-Linked

Three storage modes. Local-first (Browser FSA), SDK-Linked (`lyra` CLI), and Cloud (Cloudflare R2 — paid).

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Make a project public

Toggle Private → Public to share your beats on Explore. Requires Cloud mode so your renders are reachable.

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Creators Fund + donations

Every account gets a Creators Fund opened at signup. Donations are instant and withdrawable; left-in balance counts as Supporter Backing.

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Get funded from the Common Pool

Build Supporter Backing, then request larger grants from the community treasury for ambitious productions.

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tree.yml — your portable project file

Every project's history lives in a human-readable tree.yml next to your images. The graph survives the tool.

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Quick references

While the in-app learning centre is being written, these surfaces have the most up-to-date information.

Need something not covered here? Reach out via the contact page.