3D scenes on the canvas

Turn an image into a 3D scene for free that lives on your canvas as a card. Open the card to place cameras, draw how they move, and record takes. The takes land next to the card, ready to use as references for video.

Antes de começar

Start from an image on the canvas. A wide shot with a clear floor and walls gives the best set. Only one scene is live at a time: opening a second card closes the first.

Turn an image into a scene

Select an image on the canvas and choose Convert to 3D from its menu. This feature is free with no credit cost.

A new scene card appears beside the image, connected to it, and shows Building scene… while the set is made. Keep working on the canvas, or click the card to watch the build. When it finishes, the card shows the first camera's view.

You can also ask the chat to turn an image into 3D while you are on the canvas.

The scene card

A closed card shows a still of the scene with Direct Scene on top. The footer lists the cameras, the length of the show, and the takes you have recorded.

• Click the card to open it.
• Open in 3D Stage opens the same scene in the full editor.
• Hover the card to rename the scene or remove the card from the canvas.

Get familiar with the scene UI

An open card shows the scene live, with a panel docked under it.

• Live view, top: what the selected camera sees.
• Plan, middle: a top-down map of the set. People are stick figures, cameras have a view cone, and props are footprints.
• Footer, bottom: the selected camera's Height and Lens, plus Rehearse and Record.
• ?, upper right of the panel: replays the short tutorials.

Aim the camera

The tag in the lower left of the live view names the camera you are looking through. Drag the picture, or use the four arrows, to change where it aims.

With no camera selected, the view orbits freely around the set and reads Free view.

Move things on the plan

Click anything on the plan to select it, drag to move it, and use the ring around it to turn it. Hold Shift while dragging to snap.

Scroll or pinch to zoom the plan (up to 500%), and drag with the right or middle mouse button to pan. Click the zoom percentage to fit everything in view.

Adicionar uma câmera

Click Add camera in the upper left of the panel. The new camera appears on the plan and the view glides to it.

Each camera has a pill in the upper left of the plan. Click a pill to select that camera. A camera off the edge of the plan gets an arrow that points to it.

Draw a camera move

1. Select a camera, a person, or a prop.
2. Click Draw direction next to it. The pill changes to Drawing….
3. Press on the plan and draw where it should go. The show plays while you draw, so you can time the move to the action.
4. Let go to save the move.

Match draw speed is on by default: the move keeps the speed you drew it at, pauses included. Turn it off for a steady speed.

While drawing with a camera, hovering a person or prop shows Tap to focus · Drag to draw. A tap makes the camera keep that subject in frame for the whole move. A drag that starts on it still draws a path.

Once something has a move, the pill reads Update direction. Draw again to replace the move, or click Delete path to remove it. A camera keeps its focus after you delete its path.

Shape the height and lens

When the selected camera has a move, Height across the move appears above the footer.

• Press the line and drag up to raise the camera through part of the move, like a crane.
• Drag a point to move it, and drag its handles to shape the curve. Hold Alt to bend one handle on its own.
• Double-click a point to remove it.
• Drag along the strip at the top to scrub through the move.

Height sets how high the camera sits. Lens goes from 14 mm (wide) to 200 mm (telephoto).

Rehearse and record

Rehearse plays the whole show from the start in the live view. Click it again (it reads Stop) to end early.

Record Camera N records the selected camera. With no camera selected, Record all records every camera.

The takes appear on the canvas next to the scene card, connected to it. Use them as video references like any other clip. One undo on the canvas removes a whole recording.

Se algo parecer errado

Clicking a card does nothing. Another scene may be busy, for example while it builds or while the chat edits it. Wait for it to finish and try again.

A tap selects something instead of drawing. Click Draw direction first so the pill reads Drawing…, then drag. A tap focuses; a drag draws.

Undo changed the canvas instead of my scene. Undo follows your pointer: inside the scene and its panel it undoes scene edits, outside it undoes canvas edits.

The camera cannot go high enough. The height range grows with the set: up to 4 m in a room, 12 m on a large set, and more on very tall sets, up to 50 m.

I want the tutorials again. Each one shows once. Click ? in the panel to see them again.

Próximo

• 3D Stage basics to add characters and props in the full editor.
• 3D Stage animation to make the characters act.
• 3D Stage export for more ways to record a take.