Make one strange shot or build an entire series. Genlock keeps the story, prompts, generations, decisions, media, and cut connected—from your first experiment to a studio pipeline.
Windows + macOS · No card · One complete project
Choose the active production, see what is connected, and launch the focused workspace the next decision needs.
Tour every cockpit →The Hub is the active-project selector, setup entry point, and cockpit launcher. It keeps recent productions, detected-tool shortcuts, and the right next window within reach without pretending every job belongs on one screen.
Turn an idea or screenplay into chapters, scenes, and shots without trapping it in an app.
Design repeatable shots, assemble prompts, review takes, and keep every choice attached to the story.
See which providers, local tools, agents, and BONEs are ready before a generation starts.
See progress, gaps, decisions, costs, approvals, and export readiness without a status-meeting maze.
Install and author generator contracts, camera language, recipes, and reusable production ingredients.
Carry characters, Soul IDs, voices, locations, references, and series continuity into the next project.
Browse references, generations, audio, and finished media without losing where anything belongs.
Grade full-resolution frames, lock the look into pixels, and send finished references back into production.
Pick the thing that sounds confusing. Get the plain-English answer first, then go as deep into the system as you want.
Because version-controlled stories survive generator churn.
Get the answer →A swappable adapter between your shot and whatever model is useful today.
Get the answer →Reusable production behavior with guardrails—not a plugin loose inside your story.
Get the answer →No. Providers are routes into the production, never the owner of it.
Get the answer →Follow one idea through structure, generation, review, continuity, audio, and timeline.
Get the answer →Yes. One complete project, the full editing pipeline, and no card.
Get the answer →Most tools in this space are subscriptions wrapped around someone else's cloud. Genlock is built the other way: open formats, local files, one price.
Your story lives in the open .SKEL spec, and BONE contracts translate it to any provider. When the next model drops, you swap a BONE — the production stays standing. Nothing proprietary holds your work hostage.
Genlock never uploads your workspace to a Genlock server. Only the prompts and references you intentionally send reach the provider you choose. License checks verify offline.
~/Productions/the-signal/story.skel ~/Productions/the-signal/renders/ Pay one time and the app is yours indefinitely. Minor updates are included; major upgrades are optional. No recurring seat fee or cloud markup between you and your renders.
Shape the shot, generate wherever you want, choose the take, and move it into the cut. Every workspace sees the same production context.
You do not have to become a studio before you get to play. Genlock meets the idea where it is—and gives it somewhere to grow.
Open the included sample, remix a shot, add one provider key—or start with the free and offline routes already built in.
One idea · one shot · zero ceremonyTurn promising frames into scenes, reusable characters, deliberate shots, reviewable takes, and a cut you can keep improving.
Story · continuity · repeatable generationShare open production files, reuse worlds and BONEs, track decisions and costs, and change providers without rebuilding the show.
Many projects · shared language · owned filesUse as much of the system as the idea deserves. Your work stays portable at every step.
Open the complete sample production, write directly, or import a Fountain screenplay.
Turn the idea into chapters, scenes, shots, characters, camera language, and references in open SKEL files.
Add your Higgsfield, OpenArt, or fal key, use a local route, or hand the production to the LLM app you prefer.
Approve the right takes, preserve the prompt and decisions behind them, then move the work into the timeline.
Experiment freely. Keep what works. Build forward without starting over.
Models change. Providers change. Your production does not. SKEL holds the story, BONE translates the work, and MUSCLE adds safe, portable behavior.
Story Keyframe Extensible Layout
Your complete production as open, relational story data: acts, scenes, shots, cast, continuity, media, and decisions.
story.skel Keep the movie → 
Base Object Narrative Export
Portable prompt and provider contracts. Swap Higgsfield, OpenArt, fal, or tomorrow's model without rebuilding a shot.
*.bone.json Swap the generator → 
Modular User-Scripted Companion Logic Extension
Reusable behavior manifests for validation, routing, house style, continuity, post-processing, and export.
*.muscle.json Make it move → You never start from a blank shell. Every fresh install seeds a real, inspectable 12-shot production so you can see exactly how Genlock works — structure, prompts, BONEs, media maps, gap reports, and agent instructions — before writing a word of your own.
Safe to experiment with: updates never overwrite your changes.
Explore the showcase project →AI production fails quietly: a model silently swapped, a bill silently grown, a render nobody can explain. Genlock writes it all down — what ran, what it cost, why it was chosen — and lets you resume any run where it stopped.
One preflight probes your providers and runtimes and answers "can I ship today?" — Healthy / Degraded / Blocked, with honest per-capability badges and structured quick-setup steps. Never a half-armed capability called "ready".
Every generation contract declares what it requires. Boneyard and the Brain show armed / needs-setup / unavailable per BONE, so you know which shots can actually generate before you press send.
An append-only audit of every consequential choice — provider, model, runtime, quality gate — with options considered, rationale, and approval. Revisit a decision and the original stays on the record, visibly superseded.
Estimate → reserve → reconcile on every generation, with observe / warn / cap modes and per-action approval thresholds. No fabricated figures, no surprise bills — protection built for the pay-once user.
Models rank across seven visible dimensions — task-fit, quality, control, reliability, cost, latency, continuity — with rejected alternatives shown. Manual override always wins, and fallbacks degrade gracefully, never silently.
Resumable runs with stages, required-artifact gaps, human-approval gates, and spend tracking. An interrupted stage is never silently marked complete.
Everything lives as auditable files under projects/<slug>/.spore/ — strictly additive, so existing projects keep working. Read about the governed spine →
Write, structure, generate, review, edit, reuse, and hand work to an agent without rebuilding the project for every new tool.
Chapters → Scenes → Shots. Drag-reorder, 4-shot discipline per scene, auto-save (Ctrl+S), focus mode. The ground truth of your production.
Open flat-relational YAML. LLMs read and write it. Every generated depth field survives a save round-trip. Published spec, zero lock-in.
Drop a .fountain screenplay. Genlock parses chapters, scenes, shots, dialogue, and action into .SKEL immediately. No copy-paste.
Tabbed drawer: Shot Data / Start Frame / End Frame / Video. Live prompt assembly, BONE inheritance badges, Soul ID auto-fill, macro chips.
Generator-agnostic prompt contracts. Swap Runway for Higgsfield by swapping a BONE. The story stays untouched. BONE inheritance: project → scene → shot.
spore-image / spore-video / spore-style. Author nested frames; Genlock serializes to each model's JSON shape (SEEDANCE/VEO/KLING).
Capability-scoped behavior manifests for validation, routing, continuity, house style, post-processing, and export. Safe patches, atomic apply, full audit trail.
Non-blocking, multi-provider. Active jobs with live CLI log tail, Needs Review with assignment actions, History. Any number of concurrent jobs.
image, video, marketing-video, product-photo, virality predictor. Async flow. Live model catalog reconciled to what the CLI actually accepts.
Shot N's end frame becomes Shot N+1's start frame. Continuity carries across every cut. The Sound Rule keeps music in post.
Dual-monitor NLE. V1–V4 + Dialogue/SFX/Music tracks with waveforms. Drag-resize, drag-reorder, markers, minimap, 50-step undo/redo.
Sequential shot playback with start/end-frame crossfade or active video take, dialogue subtitles, camera HUD, transport. Standalone pop-out window.
Auto-generated at workspace root. An agent reads your story, resolves BONEs, routes to the right provider, writes results back with the prompt. 77 abilities.
Chapters, scenes, shots, dialogue, camera intent, and production metadata stay organized as open `.SKEL` files instead of scattered outlines and chat transcripts.
Shot size, angle, movement, lens, lighting, frame continuity, Soul IDs, and active takes become controls you can revisit, not one-off prompts you hope worked.
BONEs turn model-specific prompt rules into contracts. Higgsfield, OpenArt, Codex, Claude, Gemini, and future providers all plug into the same production grammar.
What is missing? Which shots need frames? Which videos need review? What can export? Showrunner makes production state visible before deadline pressure does.
V1-V4 takes, dialogue, SFX, music, markers, minimaps, playback, and export packages turn generated assets into a sequence, not a folder graveyard.
Local-first files, offline licensing, git-native collaboration, reusable characters, locations, series, and packs make Genlock viable for serious teams.
Use what is exciting today, replace it when something better arrives, and keep the creative history that made the work yours.
A single experiment can stay simple. When it grows, its structure, prompts, references, decisions, and approved media are already connected.
Everything stays on your machine. No telemetry, no forced cloud, no vendor owning your workflow. Use it offline whenever you want.
Works with Higgsfield, your local models, or any future tool that supports structured interfaces. You’re never stuck with one provider.
Every important choice (provider, model, creative direction, runtime) can be recorded with context. You get a clear history of how your production was made.
Pay once. Keep the version you bought indefinitely. Minor updates are included; major upgrades stay optional. No subscription and no usage cap.
Higgsfield, OpenArt, and fal are already wired into Genlock. Add your own key, choose a route, and generate from the shot that owns the work. You pay providers directly; Genlock adds no compute markup.
Soul IDs, model discovery, image, video, marketing, and cloud renders.
Models, projects, structured parameters, and generation through your account.
Fast access to a broad model catalog without changing your production grammar.
Use the LLM app you already prefer
Genlock generates AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, and MCP surfaces so the intelligence is replaceable too—not only the renderer.
Start with zero API keys: offline text-to-speech (Piper) plus free stock media from Archive.org, Wikimedia, Pexels, and Pixabay are built in — you can draft a full production before paying for a single key.
Genlock auto-generates agent instructions — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, plus Cursor, Copilot, and skill files. An agent can read your story, check real capabilities, resolve BONE fields, route the right provider, and write results back — without you lifting a finger.
The recommended first prompt: Give me the Genlock production menu — the agent replies with everything it can do in your workspace right now.
Agents are grounded, not trusted: they read the capability matrix before proposing anything, append every consequential choice to the decision log, never fall back silently, and drop finished assets into _inbox/ with a sidecar manifest for Quick Ingest review.
Agent loads workspace rules, SKEL format, BONE registry, Higgsfield routing table, and per-generator llm_instructions.
Walks project → scene → shot inheritance chain. Soul ID auto-resolved from cast; face descriptions suppressed.
Selects CLI / MCP / Skill route based on what's ready. Assembles structured JSON prompt per bone's assembly strategy.
Output path: renders/{shot_id}.{bone_id}.ext. Prompt stored with every asset. Virality scores written to bone fields.
Genlock Studio Universal is a $119 one-time purchase. No Genlock subscription, recurring seat fee, or compute markup. Provider usage remains on your own accounts.
Payment plans available at checkout
There is no Genlock server behind the app — nothing holding your script, characters, prompts, or renders. That makes Genlock usable for professional productions with real confidentiality requirements.
Read the privacy guarantee →Start free with one full project. Keep your story, prompts, renders, takes, and cut as files you own.
When the next model arrives, swap the BONE. The production stays standing.