Your first video
You'll have a clip in under a minute. Open Studio, pick a model, write a short cinematic prompt, press Generate. Everything else in this guide is optional polish.
Open Image & Video Generation
Head to Create → Image & Video from the top nav. The tool is a chat-style interface: each
message you send becomes a generation, and the AI replies with the result. Chats live in the left sidebar
and stay fully separate, so you can keep different projects organized.
Pick a model
Click the orange Model button (top of the sidebar or in the composer). A drawer slides in with every Fawna tier. Default is Fawna Cinema, which is a strong all-rounder for a first try.
If you're not sure, use the filter chips at the top to narrow by what you want: Text-to-video if you don't have an input image, Image-to-video if you do, Keyframes if you want to control start and end frames, and so on. Pick whichever card looks right.
Check the settings
Below the model name, the composer shows the settings that model supports: aspect, resolution, duration, audio, outputs, and quality tier. Each model only exposes what it actually accepts, so you can't pick an invalid combination.
For your first try, the defaults are sensible: 16:9 aspect, 720p, 6 seconds.
Write the prompt
The prompt goes in the big textarea. Keep it between 60 and 120 words, and structure it as
Subject → Action → Scene → Camera → Style. Named camera verbs like
slow dolly in beat vague descriptions every time.
Cinematic wide shot: a misty pine forest at dawn, god rays piercing through the canopy, soft ground fog drifting across moss-covered roots. A lone deer steps into frame, head lifting to scent the air. Handheld steady camera, slow dolly forward. Dappled forest light, natural green palette with warm highlights, 50mm lens, soft bloom, subtle film grain.
Hit Generate
The send button sits at the end of the reference row. Click it and watch the bot message appear with an animated placeholder tile. When generation completes, the tile fills with your clip.
Not loving the result? Click the three-dot menu on the bot's response and hit Rerun for a fresh take, or Branch from here to iterate in a new chat while preserving the original.
Where to go next
- Read Writing a great video prompt for the full playbook on camera language and style cues.
- Try keyframes to control the exact first and last frame of your clip.
- Browse Models overview to find the tier that fits your aesthetic.