The PrismPoster workflow: Source to Export
Every project in PrismPoster moves through five stages: Source → Generate → Direct → Review → Ship. You bring one source, generate media from it, direct the output with each studio's controls, review the result, and ship it by exporting. The platform takes you all the way to a finished, labelled file — and stops there. It does not post for you; you take the export to your own channels. Here is what happens at each stage.
Stage 1: Source
A source is the one thing your project starts from — a URL, a transcript, a podcast, a video, a launch note, a brief, a song idea, or a rough prompt. PrismPoster reads that source and uses it as creative direction across the four studios. Your source material is kept in the Library so you can reuse it later.
Stage 2: Generate
From the source, you generate media in any of the studios — Image Studio, Video Studio, Music Studio, or a board in Storyboard Studio. Each generation spends credits from one shared pool. Images cost the least; video costs the most and scales with resolution and length. See credit costs by type.
Stage 3: Direct
Directing is where you shape the output. In the Image Studio that means cinema modes, camera treatment, and @tag references. In the Video Studio it means director mode, cast references, camera treatment, and scene planning, finished on the multi-track timeline editor — which automatically splits audio into its own linked lane and lets you extend a clip from a trailing reference. In the Music Studio it means lyrics, stems, extensions, and personas. You can also restyle and retouch images with Magic Edit.
Stage 4: Review
Before you ship, you review. Use per-platform previews to see how your image or clip will look cropped for a given platform, and check the media itself. Nothing leaves your account at this stage — everything is still private to you.
Stage 5: Ship
Shipping means exporting. PrismPoster renders the finished file server-side — landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16 — and attaches a visible AI label plus embedded provenance metadata, on every plan. The export is the end of PrismPoster's job: you download the file and post it to your channels yourself. PrismPoster does not post, schedule, or auto-publish.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the five stages of the PrismPoster workflow?
Source, Generate, Direct, Review, and Ship. You start from a source, generate media in the studios, direct the output with studio controls, review it with per-platform previews, and ship it by exporting a finished, labelled file.
Does "Ship" mean PrismPoster publishes my post?
No. "Ship" means you export the finished file. PrismPoster never posts, schedules, or auto-publishes to social platforms — you download the export and post it yourself.
Where does my source material go?
Your source is kept in your Library along with prompts and saved media, so you can reuse it across projects. It stays private by default.