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Top beats · Live nowThe shots people are
The shots people are
actually making right now.
A live reel of the highest-backed beats from public projects on Lyra — plus the storyboard grid that built each shot, visible underneath. Click to watch. Fork the prompt. Drop a comment. The whole pipeline is open, on purpose.
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The StudioAI gives you frames.
AI gives you frames.
Lyra gives you a film.
The tools you use today generate brilliant individual shots — and then forget them. Lyra Story is the directorial workspace where every render knows the storyboard it belongs to, every storyboard knows its beat, and every beat knows its scene. Every prompt, every selection, every take captured in a tree.yml you can open in any text editor.
The Loop
End to end,on a real shot.
The pipeline below is the actual workflow we use on the animated short being cut with Lyra Story right now — not a demo built for marketing.
STEP 01
Scaffold the scene.
Drop in the beat. Write a one-line description. The structure is empty until you fill it in.
STEP 02
Brainstorm the gallery.
Drag in Midjourney exports. Generate via fal.ai or your own provider keys. Build a pool of dozens of candidates per storyboard.
STEP 03
Promote to keyframes.
Pick the four shots. The 2×2 grid composes. The Seedance prompt regenerates with cumulative timing, panel positions, and card spelling failsafes.
STEP 04
Render, drop, iterate.
Generate the clip externally. Drop the .mp4 back into the storyboard. The graph remembers every take.
Local-first manifesto
Private by default. Yours by design.
Private projects never touch our servers. No telemetry. No training pipeline reading your renders. Lyra Story runs offline — the file system is the database. A tree.yml next to your images records every prompt, every parent, every selection. If we disappear tomorrow, your project keeps working.
Browser-Local mode
Chrome and Edge save directly to a folder you pick. No upload, no roundtrip.
SDK-Linked mode
Any browser, plus a @lyra-mcp/sync CLI that bridges localhost to the studio.
Cloud storage (Cloud Plan)
One toggle. Cloudflare R2 mirror with a self-describing manifest. Local stays authoritative.
▾scene_03/beat_02/tree.yml42 lines · 2.1kb
# lyra-story v0.9 · tree-of-thought
scene: "03_arrival"
beat: "02_threshold"
storyboard:
grid: 2x2
slots:
- id: A1 parent: cand_087
scores: { spec: 0.92, tonal: 0.88 }
selection_note: "silhouette reads at 24px"
- id: A2 parent: cand_104
- id: B1 parent: cand_122
- id: B2 parent: cand_156
prompt_versions:
- v: 3 mode: auto hash: a3f…
takes:
- file: take_03.mp4 active: true
Pricing
Free where it should be. Paid where it's worth it.
Always free
$0 forever
- ✓ Generate, score, branch, scaffold
- ✓ Scene · beat · storyboard · keyframe pipeline
- ✓ Seedance prompt generator
- ✓ Creators Fund + accept donations
- ✓ Withdraw Creators Fund balance anytime
- ✓ Browser-local + SDK storage modes
- ✓ Works offline
Cloud Plan
$5/mo
- + 50 GB storage on Cloudflare R2
- + Public projects & gallery placement
- + Access from any device
- + CLI daemon sync
- + Priority support
Pay for what augments your work, never for the work itself.
Creators Fund and donations are always free.
Community
Join the room where the actual work happens.
Feedback in #shot-review, prompt swaps in #cookbook, demo nights in #screening-room. No promo bots. No NFT energy. Just filmmakers working on real shots.
#shot-review#cookbook#screening-room#provider-keys
Join the Discorddiscord.gg/lyrastory
Try it on your next shot.
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