Phosphene docs
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- Getting startedPhosphene makes video, images and sound on your Mac — nothing is uploaded, nothing is rented. You describe a shot, it goes into a queue, and the finished…
- Install and requirementsHardware Apple Silicon only. MLX is Apple-only by design. RAM Tier What runs Under 48 GB Compact (Q4 surface) Text and image-to-video at smaller sizes.…
- Linux (community)Contributed by @joshuaswarren (PR #94). macOS through Pinokio is the supported platform; this target is maintained by the community and is not covered by…
Make things
- VideoThe Video tab turns a prompt — and, if you like, an image or a clip — into a video with sound. Pick a mode, write the prompt, choose Quality and Length,…
- One ShotOne continuous shot of 30 seconds to 2 minutes that never cuts. You write the whole shot once; Phosphene renders it in parts, each continuing from the…
- StoryboardStoryboard plans a whole film from one idea, renders every shot, lets you grade them, and hands the keepers to the Editor. Its steps run across the top: 1…
- RemixRemix is the last chip on the Video tab — motion control · refs · color . It holds four tools that start from your own media . Click it, then choose the…
- Motion ControlVideo tab → Remix → Motion Control. You give Phosphene a clip. The render copies its motion, camera move, composition and pose ; your prompt paints a new…
- Lip-sync and audioThe Audio tab makes a video driven by a sound file you bring — a voice line, a song. The sound steers the picture while it is generated (it is not laid on…
- ImagesThe Images tab makes stills. Two kinds of engine live here: Reference Edit , which reworks an image you give it, and Ideogram 4 , which puts words on a…
- EditorThe Editor is a timeline for the clips you make — from any engine, from a storyboard or from nothing. Trim and split, move sound for J-cuts and L-cuts,…
- Train a characterTrain Phosphene on one person’s face — and, optionally, their voice — from your own photos. The result is a character you can put in any LTX shot.…
- LoRAsA LoRA is a small add-on that teaches a model a face, a style, a motion or a speed-up. The LoRAs section of the Video form (it moves into Images too) is…
Engines
- Hailuo H3MiniMax-H3 (FL2VA) takes one prompt and returns picture, dialogue and sound generated together . It is a peer of LTX, not an add-on to it — but it is too…
- Music Studio (YuE2)YuE2 by Multimodal Art Projection writes vocals and an arrangement together from lyrics and a style description. It sits beside LTX and Hailuo H3 as a…
Write better prompts
- Prompting, the short versionCopy this whole page into your own assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Codex) and ask it to write your beats. The Storyboard planner already follows these rules…
- Two characters talkingEight renders of “two aliens at dinner” in one day taught the panel a lot the hard way. Before rendering a ninth, this is what Lightricks’ own guides, the…
Reference
- SettingsThe gear in the header opens Settings. Changes are saved to panel_settings.json when you press Apply and affect every new render; files already in the…
- Buttons and iconsThe buttons that show a picture instead of a word. Hover any of them in the panel for its tooltip. The header Button What it does LTX · 2.5 (engine…
- Keyboard shortcutsPhosphene uses the keys you already know from Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop and After Effects. Every tooltip that has a shortcut…