Context persistence
Keep the base prompt, visual language, character references, and asset registry with the project.
Local-first AI video workspace
The studio is your file system.
Open Director is a creative workspace for AI video generation. Every prompt, reference, take, and finished shot lives in your project folder—ready for the tools and agents you already use.
Early project · expect breaking changes
Open Director — wildlife-film
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Newest firstMountain pass
01JQ9A…00:08
Desert portrait
01JQ98…00:08
Night crossing
01JQ94…00:08
Forest study
01JQ91…00:08
Soft daylight
01JQ8Z…00:08
Blue hour
01JQ8W…00:08
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Slow dolly-in on the fox den at dawn, mist through the pines — match @fox-den-ref
Seedance 2.016:9720p↑
Image grid editorGeneration planMCP server
Why local first
Data are just files.
Professional editors already work locally. Open Director puts AI generation artifacts where the rest of the production pipeline lives—on your machine, inside a folder you control.
Zero waitReview local generations without cloud-library latency.
Tool agnosticEdit, sync, back up, and version files with any tool.
Easy to shareShare a folder or zip, not another account-gated URL.
More than a model client
A harness, not a wrapper.
A generation model is a powerful but stateless instrument. Open Director connects it to the intelligence, memory, and control a real creative workflow needs.
Prompt synthesis
Let a reasoning model translate creative intent into precise, model-ready generation instructions.
Iterative control
Generate, judge, reuse, and regenerate without losing the decisions that shaped the previous take.
Cumulative memory
Build a durable local library of assets and prompt craft that improves with every project.
MCP built in
Your coding agent can direct.
Open Director exposes its creative procedures as MCP tools. Claude Code, Codex, or another local agent can queue generations, inspect results, and react—all against the same project folder.
codex — wildlife-film
› Regenerate shot 04 with warmer dawn light.
→ open.getGenerationRequest
→ open.generate Seedance 2.0 · 16:9 · 720p
→ open.setGenerationReaction liked
✓ scenes/04/shot-04_v3.mp4 written
Own your data. Own your files. Have fun.
Open Director is an early-stage local application for creative people who want AI video generation to fit their workflow—not replace it.
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