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Xinyue Zhan
Xinyue Zhan

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A practical AI video workflow: storyboard, generate, dub (with Pavo AI)

When you ship short-form video every week, the slow part is not the idea — it is the loop between storyboard, generation, and dubbing. I have been testing a browser-based workflow around Pavo AI that keeps all three steps in one place.

The loop

  1. Storyboard — write 6 shots as text, one line each.
  2. Generate — turn each line into a 4-8s clip, keep the same character reference across shots.
  3. Dub — upload the cut, pick a target language, re-sync the lips.
  4. Export — 9:16 for shorts, 16:9 for landing pages.

What actually helped

Keeping the character reference consistent between image-to-video calls was the main quality win. Regenerating a single shot instead of the whole sequence cut my rework time roughly in half.

The tool I used for the full loop is Pavo AI — text-to-image, image-to-video, and dubbing in one workspace, no install.

Takeaways

  • Write the shot list before touching any model.
  • Lock the character reference early.
  • Dub last, never before the cut is locked.
  • Keep a per-shot changelog so you can re-roll one shot without losing the rest.

If you want to try the same loop: https://pavoai.app

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