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This guide is a complete walkthrough of the Shorts Generator in Origami AI. You’ll enter a topic, configure your short, review an AI-generated scene-by-scene script, produce visuals and voiceovers in parallel, pick a caption style, and render a finished video — all from one workflow.
1

Navigate to Shorts

Click Shorts in the Origami AI navigation menu. This opens the Shorts composer, separate from the main PDF-to-video workflow.
2

Set up your short

Fill in the configuration panel before generating a script:Take a moment to set these carefully — they shape every downstream step.
3

Review the script

Origami AI generates a scene-by-scene script with two parts for each scene:
  • Voiceover text — what the narrator says
  • Visual prompt — the description sent to the image/video generator
Read through every scene before proceeding. Click any scene card to edit the voiceover text or visual prompt. Getting this right now saves you from regenerating individual scenes later.
4

Generate assets

Click Generate to kick off parallel asset production for all scenes:
  • Visuals — images or short video clips are produced via Pollinations using your visual prompts
  • Voiceover — Kokoro TTS synthesizes speech audio for each scene’s voiceover text locally in your browser
Progress cards show the status of each scene. You can watch scenes populate in the storyboard as they complete — no need to wait for all of them.
Visual generation requires an active internet connection. Pollinations is an external service, so image and video clip production happens in the cloud, not on your device.
5

Choose captions

Select a caption style that fits your brand and platform:After choosing a style, adjust the font size and vertical position to suit your aspect ratio.
6

Add music (optional)

Open the Music panel to select a background track. Set the volume so it sits comfortably under the voiceover — a level around 20–30% works well for most tones. Leave music off for a cleaner, voice-focused short.
7

Export

Click Render to compose the final video on your device. Origami AI stitches together your visuals, voiceover audio, captions, and music using client-side encoding — no files leave your machine during rendering. The finished MP4 downloads automatically when complete.

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Connecting Pollinations

Visual generation in Shorts is powered by Pollinations. By default, Origami AI routes requests through the free tier, which works without an account but has lower rate limits and may be slower. To get higher limits and access to additional models:
  1. Open ⚙️ Settings → API.
  2. Scroll to Pollinations Account and click Connect with Pollinations.
  3. Sign in and grant token access. Your credentials are saved locally in your browser — never on Origami AI’s servers.
  4. If your token expires, click Reconnect to refresh it.
If you don’t have a Pollinations account or prefer not to connect one, select the Free (slow model) option in the model dropdown within the Shorts composer. It’s slower but always available. Available visual models include:
flux, zimage, nanobanana, krea, and more — check the model dropdown for the current list.

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Regenerating Scenes

You don’t have to rebuild the entire project if one scene doesn’t turn out right. Click the regenerate icon on any individual scene card in the storyboard to re-generate just that scene’s visual, voiceover, or both — all other scenes stay untouched. This is the fastest way to iterate on problem scenes without losing work you’re happy with.