ShortDrama Studio

What's new

New features and improvements in ShortDrama Studio, newest first. Have an idea or found something that could be better? Use Send feedback at the bottom of the sidebar.

November 8, 2026

  • Updated policies. Our Terms of Service, Content Policy, Creative Licensing Agreement and Refund Policy now spell out the rules for AI content (no NSFW, deepfakes, face-swaps or voice cloning without consent), that credits are not money, how our merchant of record sells to you, and a new 7-day refund on unused purchases.
  • Short films are one film, told in scenes. A short film opens on its Scenes, with an Overview tab, a film length in minutes and seconds, and pictures and clips in the film's own frame.
  • A new Help menu. The question mark at the bottom of the sidebar opens Help & support: contact us, report a problem with a screenshot attached, or open the new Help Center.
  • Send feedback from the sidebar: rate your experience and tell us what to improve.
  • Top up on any plan. Credit packs are now open to everyone, Free included. A pack costs the same for everyone, and a plan gets more credits for it, up to 78% more on Ultra and Max.
  • New credit prices and plan credits. Credits now cost the same per picture, clip and music track as on Redrama (a 10-second scene on the standard model is about 84 credits), episode music is 55 credits a minute and a render 5 credits up to 3 minutes, and plan credits were recounted to match. Current subscribers keep their old monthly credits until their paid period ends.
  • Short films in any frame and length. Pick vertical, widescreen, square or portrait and set the length in minutes and seconds, all from the language button.

November 7, 2026

  • Drama TV and the watch page. Drama TV now shows the Redrama Original Series, and every drama plays on its own watch page with the episode outline and more dramas beside it. The home page's Featured dramas open there too.
  • Connect agents with an access token. The setup prompt in MCP & Agents asks for an access token first, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents connect without a browser sign-in. Agents connected this way now appear under Connected agents, by name.
  • Smarter new chats. A new chat in the studio suggests the next steps that fit where your drama stands, such as writing the rest of the outline or making missing portraits.
  • New agent marks for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent and Grok.

November 3–6, 2026

  • Light theme. Choose Dark, Light or System in Settings → Theme.
  • Episode music. Write a music direction in any language, set a level for each scene's section on the cue sheet, set the music volume, and listen to every take in the studio's own player with a waveform.
  • Render versions. Every episode render is kept as v1, v2 and so on. Click one to use it, delete the ones you don't need, and play the finished render from its episode card.
  • Scene editor, redone. Every scene opens in one column with Setting, What we see, Characters, Dialog, Beat and camera, Director notes, Key visual and Video. Scenes are held to 6–15 seconds, and a key visual can be a Keyframe, a Storyboard or a Storyboard 3×3, or skipped with Direct reference.
  • Missing pictures, named. When a scene's sources are missing, the studio lists each portrait, plate or prop picture with an Open button, and nothing is charged.
  • Studio addresses now name the format, like /studio/drama-series/….
  • Receipts carry the ShortDrama Studio letterhead.
  • MCP onboarding. "Onboard your agents!" in the sidebar opens MCP & Agents with a one-prompt setup.

October 29 – November 2, 2026

  • Genre and visual style pickers with picture tiles, search and filters, plus a custom genre or style of your own, in every UI language.
  • Cover versions. Every cover you generate is kept; click one to use it. Before a cover whose people have no portrait yet, the studio offers to make the portraits first.
  • Age rating for each drama (all ages, 7+, 13+, 16+).
  • One Generate button everywhere, showing the model it uses and the credits it takes, with a menu to pick another model.
  • The agent's chat says what each step is doing and what it did, and ends an answer with its time and credits, in all 15 UI languages. A failed step has Try again.

October 19–22, 2026

  • A chat-first studio. The studio is a conversation with the drama agent, with a side panel for Drama, Bible, Characters, Places, Props and Episodes that follows the part the agent is writing. Everything saves by itself.
  • Approval and confirmation cards. The agent asks before expensive steps, and always asks before deleting or undoing anything.
  • Episodes as cards, with a timeline of scenes inside each episode.
  • Assets and My projects list every character, place, prop, scene, episode and drama, with tabs, search, sorting and infinite scroll.
  • Free models in the chat while your plan's free AI allowance lasts.
  • Credit top-ups come with a plan.

October 8–18, 2026

  • ShortDrama Studio launches at shortdrama.studio: the prompt on the home page, the studio, Drama TV, Skills and guides.
  • Agent skills you can browse, edit, import from a ZIP or GitHub, and download for your own agents.
  • MCP server at mcp.shortdrama.studio, so your own AI agent can make dramas with the studio's tools. See Connect your agent.
  • Plans and credits with PayPal checkout: monthly, yearly or a one-time Lifetime plan.
  • Sign in with an email code or with Google, from one sign-in window.