How the story engines are read
For each tool, the maker's own page for its script writer, story generator or story-to-video feature was read on one day. Each statement bearing on the six fields was kept with a few words of the page's own text, and sorted into one reading from a closed list per field. As of 2026-09-25.
1Which tools are on the register
A tool is listed when its maker publishes a page describing AI help with writing a script, a story or a story plan that leads toward video. Tools that only turn a finished script into video, without writing or developing it, were left off; so were general writing assistants with no path toward video.
2Readings
Each field has a closed list of readings. A tool's reading on a field is the first quoted statement on its page for that field; where a page says more, the other statements are kept as further entries. Where the page says nothing, the field reads as not stated.
3Languages
Languages are recorded only as the page states them. Some pages name languages for voiceover or narration rather than for the writing; those are marked as voice languages so they are not read as writing languages.
4Readings in use
| Field | Reading | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| What the writing starts from | An idea or premise | 15 |
| What the writing starts from | A topic or brief | 5 |
| What the writing starts from | Links, files or media | 1 |
| What the writing starts from | Answers to its questions | 1 |
| What the writing starts from | A draft, a story or an idea | 3 |
| What the writing starts from | You write, it assists | 2 |
| What the AI writes | Scenes with dialogue | 7 |
| What the AI writes | Episode plans | 5 |
| What the AI writes | Hook, narration, call to action | 7 |
| What the AI writes | A prose story | 1 |
| What the AI writes | A premise worked out | 1 |
| What the AI writes | A scene or shot breakdown | 3 |
| What the AI writes | A scenario with cast and scenes | 1 |
| What the AI writes | A screenplay editor | 1 |
| What the AI writes | A two-column script | 1 |
| Genre, tone and templates | Genres listed to pick | 5 |
| Genre, tone and templates | Tone or genre on request | 10 |
| Genre, tone and templates | Templates to start from | 3 |
| Genre, tone and templates | Sample ideas by genre | 1 |
| Genre, tone and templates | Script formats listed | 1 |
| Genre, tone and templates | Not stated on the page | 7 |
| How length is set | A target set first | 13 |
| How length is set | A stated maximum | 2 |
| How length is set | Changed in revision | 3 |
| How length is set | Not stated on the page | 9 |
| Languages named | A count of languages | 5 |
| Languages named | Languages listed | 2 |
| Languages named | Voice languages only | 1 |
| Languages named | A language setting | 1 |
| Languages named | Not stated on the page | 18 |
| Where the draft goes next | Straight into video | 15 |
| Where the draft goes next | A storyboard or shot list | 10 |
| Where the draft goes next | Copied or exported | 2 |
Inclusion rule. Readings actually given on the register. Order. Fields in register order.
The full register is on the data page.
5How far one pipeline writes
Writing help like “How engines are read” continues into shots in SceneMixer; its guides say:
SceneMixer turns a novel into a watchable short-drama series in one pipeline: upload the novel (Chinese or English) → AI extracts characters, scenes, and an episode-by-episode structure → generates consistent character and scene art → writes storyboard scripts → renders video segment by segment (16:9 by default, 9:16 in one setting) → composites full episodes.
SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI (read 2026-10-13)
SceneMixer writes dialogue into the script analysis, assigns each line to a shot with a speaker and a short delivery note, and the video model performs it — picture and audio generated together, so the mouth forms that sentence in the language you chose.
SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator (read 2026-10-13)
How the register is kept. The tables, counts and rankings on this site are computed by script from the register, and every figure links to the page it was read from, with the words quoted. No maker pays to be listed or to change a place, and each ranking states its rule, written before the places were computed. Entries are not edited at a maker's request: a figure that is out of date is fixed on the maker's own page and picked up when the pages are next read, at least every three months.