The Master Guide / 16 Tools at a glance
I need to…
Start from the job in front of you: the chart gives the tool, what not to use, and the page that teaches it. Each tool's settings, price and evidence label are in Tools at a glance → Each job, its tool, its label and its chapter.
Start from the job in front of you: the chart gives the tool, what not to use, and the page that teaches it. Each tool's settings, price and evidence label are in Tools at a glance → Each job, its tool, its label and its chapter.
I need to… | Use | Not | Read |
make a photoreal still of a person, place, product or prop | Nano Banana Pro | Seedream or GPT Image | |
make any still for a drawn, painted, clay or 3D film | Seedream 5.0 Pro | Nano Banana Pro | |
make a staging map, a position image, a transparent cut-out or a graphic with text | GPT Image, at the project's version | Nano Banana Pro or Seedream for these | |
make any moving shot | Seedance 2.5 in omni-reference mode, with the approved anchors | A start frame by default; Kling, Veo or another video model | |
show a label or exact copy the viewer must read | One of the four build routes, from the client's own photo or artwork | A generated label, unless it passes the every-frame check | |
record an Arabic line | A take on your own ElevenLabs account (Eleven v4), with a native voice artist as the fallback | Seedance's voice, for any Arabic line | |
voice an English line | A take on ElevenLabs v4, or Seedance's own voice when you choose it for the project | — | |
lip-sync an Arabic line | Other lip-sync and dubbing tools | ||
transcribe a voice note or check a take's words | ElevenLabs Scribe v2; Gemini 3.5 Transcribe as the Egyptian cross-check | faster-whisper for dialect content | |
make music | Suno, the latest model | A commissioned composer, Eleven Music or Udio | |
find a real sound | Openverse, CC0 only | Any other licence | |
design a sound reality can't give | ElevenLabs Sound Effects | Regenerating the shot for its sound | |
put supers, end cards or Arabic on screen | Graphics built in code (HyperFrames); After Effects for anything tracked or curved | Generated text | |
get a reading of a take's motion, acting and sound | Gemini, then Higgsfield's video analysis | The report as a verdict: your eyes on the frames decide | |
measure loudness | Any EBU R 128 loudness meter | — | |
hand over an edit the editor can change | Premiere, the timeline exported as XML | A rendered-only edit | |
know what a film will cost | The estimate, each currency on its own line | One total across currencies |