How to Make a Video with Scenes in Kaiber Canvas
A step-by-step guide to building scripted videos with characters and scenes in Kaiber Canvas and Editor.
Written By Christine Larsen
Last updated About 12 hours ago
Making a multi-scene video in Kaiber Canvas breaks down into four stages: plan your shots, build your images, animate them, then edit everything together in Kaiber Editor.
Step 1: Break your script into shots
Before you open Canvas, work out how many scenes your video has. Each shot needs its own image. Think of it like a simple storyboard where each shot defines a moment in the story: Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3 and so on.
Step 2: Create your base images in Nano Banana 2
Use Nano Banana 2 in Canvas to generate images of your characters and settings. A few things to keep in mind:
Keep image prompts focused on visuals only, the scene, the character, the lighting, the style
Don't add any movement, speech or camera action to your image prompt. Save that for the animation step
Generate your base characters first, then use Image Edit to create variations for each shot. This will keep your character and style consistent across your video.
Step 3: Use Nano Banana 2 in Image Edit to build your scene shots
Click an image on the canvas to select it, type your change into the prompt box and hit Generate. Different location? Different outfit? Different pose? Just describe it. Want to combine two characters into one shot? Select both images by dragging across them, write your prompt and generate.
Do this for each shot until you have one image per scene.
Step 4: Arrange your images as a storyboard
Lay your shot images out on the Canvas in order before you start animating. Do they have the flow and key moments that you want? Do the images start to tell a story even without movement? That’s the feel you’re going for.
Step 5: Animate each image
Hover over an image and select the Animate Image button on the right of it.
This will add a Create Image Flow to the canvas with your image loaded in.
Type or paste your video prompt into the subject box.
Your animation prompt should only describe what's happening, not what things look like. The image already handles the visuals.
Cover these in your animation prompt:
What's moving and how
Camera behaviour
Any dialogue or speech
For most scenes, Kling 2.1 is the one to use. This will be automatically in your Animate Image Flow. If your characters are speaking or you want audio generated with the clip, go with Veo 3.1.
Repeat for each shot.
Step 6: Move to Kaiber Editor
Once your clips are ready, click the Home button to navigate to Kaiber Editor. Drag your videos from the Media Library, arrange your clips in order on the timeline, add your audio, make any edits or trims to the clips and export.