From the Firefly home page, select Video > Build a story.
Last updated on
Nov 10, 2026
Learn how to turn an idea into a visual narrative with scenes and shots.
Share your idea with the AI Assistant, and when you have a structured story, generate images to build each scene. Then, turn those images into a video for a complete video story.
Video > Build a story is a beta capability in Adobe Firefly now available for testing and feedback.
Build a story
In the AI Assistant on the right side of the canvas, do one of the following:
- In the prompt field, type the idea that you want to build as a visual story.
- Select the thumbnail of the skill that meets your requirements. For more options, type / in the prompt field.
To add an image as a reference for the characters, location, objects, or theme, select in the prompt field, and then upload an image from your computer or add it from Adobe cloud storage.
When asked, select the required duration of the complete video and, if available, provide more details about the characters, location, objects, and the creative direction. The AI Assistant will then propose the look, sound, number of scenes and shots, and the characters, locations, and objects.
Example:
- For the look, it may propose: desaturated, grain-heavy live-action present; warm, overexposed golden tones for memory.
- For the sound, it may propose: silent, told in pure action.
Accept or refine the proposed look, sound, scenes, shots, characters, locations, and objects.
When you accept, the AI Assistant will save the characters, locations, and objects as elements to ensure consistency across the shots. It will also start planning the scenes and shots. It will then wire the elements across relevant shots, create a beat description, and generate the frames for each shot.
When the AI Assistant opens the Resolution and Aspect Ratio dialog box, select a resolution and an aspect ratio. On the canvas, all the shots appear as individual cards, categorized by scene. Each card shows the generated first frame.
Note
You can't change the resolution and aspect ratio for any shot in your project after you generate frames.
Review the frames and beat description for each card and refine them as needed using the Shot editor or the AI Assistant.
When ready to generate clips for the shots, do one of the following:
- To generate a clip for a card individually, hover over the card and then select Generate video.
- To generate clips for all the cards at once, select Generate all at the bottom of the canvas.
You can also ask the AI Assistant to animate the shots.
Add, delete, and organize the cards and scenes on the canvas, if necessary.
To preview the currently selected clips and frames one by one, select Preview above the canvas.
When your visual story is ready, do one of the following:
- To download the complete video, select Download.
- To edit the video further in the timeline, select Open in timeline.
The current limitations of Video > Build a story are:
- It doesn't support any desktop browsers other than Chrome and Edge.
- It doesn't support mobile web or viewports smaller than 1080 * 700.
- It doesn't allow you to upload clips from your computer into a card. You can only add them from Adobe cloud storage > Generation history.
- It's not available for Creative Cloud for Teams and Creative Cloud for Enterprise users.
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