I'm in the ai film studio app, I click on New Project, then I write a couple sentences. Then I pressed the Open Button. Here I sit waiting, nothing seems to be happening! Does anyone have any ideas what could be occurring?

Well yes and no. I've been a bit busy recently but restarted the Storyboard bit for the 4th time last week and then ran into the next problem of getting the positioning of things really nailed down. Nano Banana 2 previously did this quite well but I don't know if it got updated and despite my best efforts, it would not position the character(s) part way down the corridor. Clearly I'm leaning towards being a bit of a control freak but I set about building a workflow based off an "inpainting" approach, using Flux 2 Klein to position things where I ORDER, ahem, tell it to position things. This, as with everything in this space, turned out to be more complicated under the hood than initially imagined. I won't bore you too much with the details but it seems AI diffusion models don't really understand space and layout like we do, so asking it to scale the characters to fit x or to size y isn't really understood. Gemini educated me on this one, but it's the same way they don't understand left and right reliably. Cutting a very long story short, the workflow I wanted was to be able to draw a mask on a background where I wanted a character(s) placed and have it put my characters there, scaled to fit the mask and not chopping off feet or heads... (there was soo much chopping off feet and heads and I had to build extras into the workflow to restrain it but I can do this fairly repeatably now finally! This is pretty much prompt free to integrate a pre-posed character into an existing background. I've not not tried taking them from a character sheet(s) straight into a position in a scene yet, that might work but isn't as important I don't think. 🤔 Anyway, still at the "building tools" stage! I'm hoping to get some storyboard stuff done this weekend. Here's a before/during and after.

This was a real challenge to do it.It was all easy, until I not faced the dwarfs. I think 2 days I played to avoid the protection of Seedance. Hard work :-) Offer a like on Youtube if you like the result :-)

I hope that this information will provide you with enough info regarding my video project that you can understand the process in which i was using & attempting to achieve even though weather got in the way & wreaked the 1st floor of church to the tune of at least 2/3 to over 1 million dollars in damage. That is where all of my equipment is located & it will take several months to return some kind of normalized life as we once knew. Anyway, I plan on attending that last few Zoom sessions to the end.....My video was a first generation cell phone copy & that is all I have of the project when the storms hit with 5 1/2 to 7 inches of rain in 1 1/2 hours last Friday evening. Thanks again Mark for all of your hard work!

Think I have downloaded just about everything that I can.