B-Roll Density
The density selector controls how many B-Roll moments the AI identifies in your script — from a few focused moments to comprehensive coverage.
Overview
Before you click Analyze, you choose a density level. This tells the AI how aggressively to look for B-Roll opportunities. More moments means more search results and more footage options — but it also takes longer and, for credits users, costs more.
The selector appears as four pill buttons directly above the Analyze button in the Input phase of every project.
Density Options
Each option sets a different words-per-moment ratio. The app calculates how many moments to request based on your script's word count, then enforces a minimum so short scripts still get useful results.
Approximately 1 moment per 400 words, with a minimum of 2 moments. The AI focuses only on the most impactful B-Roll opportunities and skips anything marginal.
Best for: talking-head videos, interview-style content, and scripts where B-Roll is supplementary rather than central to the storytelling.
Approximately 1 moment per 200 words, with a minimum of 3 moments. A balanced approach that works well for most video content.
Best for: tutorials, explainers, and general-purpose videos. If you're not sure where to start, Standard is the right choice — you can always re-analyze with a different setting.
Approximately 1 moment per 100 words, with a minimum of 3 moments. The AI covers nearly every visual opportunity in the script.
Best for: fast-paced content, documentary-style videos, news recaps, and scripts with lots of specific events or visuals to illustrate.
No cap. The AI uses its full editorial judgment to decide how many moments to identify based on the script's content and pacing. Results vary — it might produce fewer moments than Dense or more than Standard, depending on what the script calls for.
Best for: experimentation and situations where you want the AI to make all the decisions. The cost preview shows a range estimate since the exact moment count isn't known until analysis runs.
Choosing the Right Density
Not sure which to pick? Match your content type to the table below.
| Content Type | Recommended Density |
|---|---|
| Talking-head / interview | Light |
| Tutorial / educational | Standard |
| Documentary / news recap | Dense or AI's Pick |
| Fast-paced / montage | Dense |
| Not sure | Standard (you can always re-analyze) |
Cost Impact
More moments means more AI calls during script analysis and evaluation. For credits users, this directly affects how many credits each analysis consumes.
The cost preview updates in real time as you change the density setting, so you can see the estimated credit cost before committing. For AI's Pick, the preview shows a range (based on the Light and Dense estimates) since the exact moment count isn't known until the AI runs.
For a 1,000-word script: Light produces roughly 3 moments, Standard roughly 5, and Dense roughly 10. AI's Pick could land anywhere in that range or outside it.
See Credits & Pricing for a full breakdown of how credits are calculated per analysis.
Where to Find It
The density selector appears as four pill buttons — Light | Standard | Dense | AI's Pick — directly above the Analyze button in the Input phase of every project.
Your selection is per-analysis. You can change it each time you click Analyze, so there's no penalty for experimenting. If you re-analyze with a different density, the previous moments are replaced with the new results.