An Austin film studio that makes trailers with generated production. No location, no crew day, no reason the third act has to be cheaper than the first. Days, not months.
A finished trailer. Cut, scored, graded, delivered as a master you own.
Not a tool subscription, not a folder of clips, and not something trailer-shaped that a text box produced in fifteen minutes. If that is what you need, the generators are genuinely good at it and they are free, and we would rather you used one than paid us for the same thing.
This is for when the trailer has a job. It goes in front of investors, a boardroom, a distributor, a conference, or a buyer who has seen a thousand of these. Those rooms notice pacing, restraint, and whether the thing has a point, which are the decisions a tool cannot make for you.
Real quote after the call, not before it.
Not months. Usually waiting on your notes, not our renders.
Teaser, full trailer, or investor cut.
Clients anywhere. Texans can sit in the edit.
Five steps. The first two happen before anything is generated, which is the whole reason the finished thing holds together.
Twenty minutes. What the trailer is for, who watches it, and what you need them to do when it ends. An investor trailer and a sales trailer are different films, and the difference is decided here rather than in the edit.
We write the trailer before we make it: beats, voiceover, the shape of the thing. You read it and mark it up. This is the cheapest place to change your mind and the only place most trailers get fixed.
Stills first, never shots. We build the world, the faces and the lighting as frames you can approve, because a generated shot you don't like costs a lot more to fix than a generated still.
Shots get made against the approved frames. Characters hold across cuts because the references are locked, which is the part that separates a trailer from a reel of pretty clips that don't appear to be about the same person.
A human cuts it, scores it, and watches every frame. Then you see it, you give notes, and we go again. Revisions are in the price, within reason, and 'within reason' means we tell you when we think we're polishing something that is already done.
// a human directs it, a human cuts it, and a human watches every frame before it ships.
The briefs that actually arrive, rather than the ones a marketing page imagines.
You have the script and you need the two minutes that gets it financed. Historically this was faked with stock and other people's footage. Now you can shoot the thing you are pitching.
A body of work with no footage attached to it. A trailer gives a keynote, a book or a legacy something that moves, which is the only format most rooms will sit through now.
Four episodes written, nothing shot, a meeting on Tuesday. A trailer proves tone faster than a deck proves anything.
A campaign that needs a hero piece and cannot justify a shoot for it. Same craft, different buyer.
We test everything on our own films before it goes near yours.
Backlot74 is our original slate, and it exists partly so that nothing we sell is theoretical. Every Man in Town Proposed has a trailer on the channel. THRESHOLD and The Painter are films we wrote and directed. The studio reel is two and a half minutes of work made this way.
Most recently a commercial real estate firm commissioned a trailer about Zig Ziglar, which arrived through this website from someone who went looking for an AI film studio in Texas and found one.
A finished trailer made with generated footage instead of a shoot. Same job as any trailer: open, escalate, turn, and land somewhere that makes you want the thing. What changes is the back half of production. There is no location, no crew day and no casting call, so a thirty-location trailer costs what a one-location trailer costs. What does not change is the front half. Somebody still has to decide what the trailer is about, and somebody still has to cut it.
From $4,000. The range above that depends on length, how much look development the world needs, and whether there is an existing script to work from. A trailer for a 4-part episodic drama with six characters is more work than a 45-second piece about one speaker, and we will quote the real number after the call rather than before it. What we will not do is quote you a price and then discover the project.
Days, not months. The honest constraint is not generation time, it is how fast you turn around approvals. The script and the look frames both need your eyes on them, and projects that take a long time are almost always waiting on a decision rather than on a render.
A tool gives you an output. A studio gives you a trailer. Most of what you'll find searching for this is a text box that generates something trailer-shaped in fifteen minutes, which is genuinely useful if what you need is a mood piece for yourself. It is not useful if the trailer is going in front of investors, a boardroom, or a buyer, because those audiences notice the things a text box cannot decide: pacing, restraint, when to cut away, and whether the thing has a point. We are a film studio that uses generated production. The models are a camera, not the director.
Either. Several of the people who have come to us already have the thing written, sometimes a whole four-part series, and they need the two minutes that sells it. Others have a subject and a person and nothing on paper. Both are normal. If you have a script we read it before the call.
That is most of this work, and it always has been. A trailer for an unmade film is how films get financed, and it was always a cheat: a teaser cut from a pitch, or a sizzle made of other people's footage. Generated production means you can now shoot the film you are pitching rather than approximating it with stock. The ethical line we hold is that we will not pass generated footage off as documentary record of something that happened.
Yes. Talentless AI is an Austin studio and the work gets made here. Steve came up in film, wrote, produced and directed a feature, and sits in the middle of the Austin AI ecosystem. We work with clients anywhere, but if you are in Texas you can come sit in the edit, which people do.
You do. You get the master and the files. We ask to be able to show the work unless there is a reason you need it quiet, and if there is, that is fine and we will say so in writing.
Twenty minutes on a call and you will know whether this is the right way to make your thing, including if the answer is no. We will tell you when a trailer is not what you need, because a trailer nobody asked for is the most expensive kind.
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