DocsAIZornov 0.1.2

What AI assistants can do in Zornov

An overview of the tools Zornov gives AI assistants, from opening and editing a project to looking at frames, checking the work and exporting.

An AI assistant connected to Zornov can edit your project and look at, listen to and read the work as it goes. The tools below are grouped by what they're for, so you know what to ask for.

You don't need to name tools when you talk to an assistant: say what you want, and it picks them. The names are here so you can recognise them when the assistant reports what it did.

How an assistant gets started

When it connects, an assistant is told to read Zornov's guide first. The guide maps everything Zornov can do, department by department. For each kind of work (titles, colour grading, sound design, 3D scenes and so on) there's also a skill the assistant can load with skill: the procedure, the checks and the common mistakes. capabilities answers "can Zornov do this, and how?" before it settles for a workaround.

Open, save and start projects

Tool	What it does
`new_project`	Start a new, empty project
`open`	Open a saved project folder
`save`	Save the project
`undo`, `redo`	Take back or redo the assistant's own last change
`versions`	Save, compare and restore named versions of the project

Bring in media

Tool	What it does
`import`	Bring in video, sound, pictures, Photoshop files and Lottie animations
`download`	Fetch a file from a link, or a video from a page where it's openly available
`search_media`	Look for real pictures, video, sound and 3D models in Zornov's library and on the web before making anything
`catalogue`	Browse Zornov's own library of music, sound effects, stickers, effects, looks and motions
`make_playable`	Convert media Zornov can't play (such as VP9 or AV1) to H.264

Edit

Almost every change goes through one tool, edit. One edit call holds a list of operations and is applied as a single undo step, all or nothing. Its operations cover:

Cutting and arranging: placing clips, splitting, trimming, moving, reordering, rolling and slipping edits, film editing from takes.
Building a beat: scene makes a spoken beat with pictures, a title and sound in one go; narrate speaks a line.
Titles and graphics: text and 3D lettering, lower thirds and end cards, charts, shapes and colour cards.
Motion: keyframes and curves, motion presets, transitions, physics, particles.
Look: effects, looks, masks, matching colour between shots.
VFX: keying, cut-outs, rotoscoping, tracking, stabilising.
Sound and music: original music composed to fit the cut, sound effects, foley, EQ, fades and ducking.
3D and characters: models, cameras, lights, atmosphere, puppets, rigs, poses and walks.

Other tools cover specialist work: colour (grading, colour spaces, LUTs), picture (painting and retouching stills), vector (logos, icons and illustrations), enhance (restore, denoise, upscale), viewport (the 3D workspace), mix, loudness, stems, dialogue, adr, subtitles and dub (the sound department).

Look, listen and read

Tool	What it does
`see`	Describes each shot in words: light, colour, faces, where the subject sits, camera motion, sharpness, lettering
`frame`	A picture of one moment of the timeline, or of a media file
`contact_sheet`	Many moments tiled into one picture
`listen`	Hears a song, a sound or the whole mix: sections, beats, loudness, faults, and how well music sits under a voice
`analyse`	Finds shot changes, pauses and beats in footage
`objects`	Names what's in footage and pictures, and where and when it appears
`scopes`	Video scopes as numbers, for matching shots
`summary`, `script`	The timeline as data, or read like an edit decision list
`inspect`	Everything about one clip
`notes`	The assistant's notebook, kept with the project: the brief, the plan, what's left

Check and review

Tool	What it does
`check`	Finds what a professional wouldn't ship: gaps, titles off the canvas or over faces, clipping and loudness problems, black frames. Each problem comes with a time, a clip and a fix
`review`	Watches the whole film as a viewer would, for what makes it feel lifeless even when `check` finds nothing: shots all the same length, cuts mid-sentence, places with no sound of their own
`qc`	Quality control on a finished file: levels, flashes, frozen frames, loudness, missing captions

Export and deliver

Tool	What it does
`export`	Render a file from a preset, such as Social 1080p, 4K master, Vertical, GIF or a ProRes master
`deliver`	Render to a platform's spec (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, broadcast and more) and check it
`bundle`	A folder of deliverables: master, proxy, mix, stems, captions, thumbnails
`cutdown`	A shorter version (15, 30 or 60 seconds) as a project of its own, leaving yours unchanged
`queue`	Background renders

Plan, collaborate and remember

Tool	What it does
`story`	The production plan kept in the project: script, scenes, cast and shots
`production`	Breakdown, schedule, budget and tasks
`comments`	Review notes pinned to a time or a clip, with replies
`team`	Who works on the project, and their roles
`taste`	What you like and dislike, remembered across requests and projects
`plan`	The plan you follow while it works, with checkpoints
`layout`	Open, close and arrange the editor window's panels (only when working in the window)

What it can't do

Pictures made from words come from Codex's image generation, so they need Codex. Video, music and sound effects made from words aren't available; the assistant uses Zornov's library music, composed music, made-to-measure sound effects and camera moves instead.

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