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A film editor, seen from behind, leans toward two monitors showing a car on a desert road, in a small dark edit suite lit by brass lamps at night.
SC.00AI faceless video studio

Idea to upload, in one quiet studio.

Cinetana is the AI studio we built to make our own faceless YouTube videos. Ideas, scripts, pictures, motion, the edit and the upload all happen in one place. This site shows how each part is done, with the real work.

See how a video is made →The five topics
TC 00:00:00:002.39 : 1 · 24 fpsStill: AI-generated
NotesFrom the edit

We do not film anything. We write, picture, animate and cut, with a person at every step. The models do the heavy lifting. The judgement stays with us.

Our own channels firstEvery workflow here runs on channels we make ourselves: pregnancy stories, home repair, survival and campgrounds.
Models we did not buildText comes from Claude models by Anthropic, pictures from Google's Gemini, motion from Kling. We name them as the suppliers they are.
Honest about the numbersOur channels are small. The largest had 137 subscribers on 13 October 2026. We show the work, not promises.
TimelineOne video, five scenes

How a video moves through the studio

Each video passes the same five stations, in order. Nothing goes to the next station until a person has looked at it.

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Idea

One viewer question, one hook, one format, written on the Ideas board.

A hand marks a typed script page with a pencil under a desk lamp.00:00:12:04
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Script

Drafted by a Claude model, rewritten for the voice, checked by a person.

A loupe rests on a contact sheet of film frames on a glowing lightbox.00:01:03:17
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Pictures

A still for every line, made with Google's Gemini image model.

A printed photo of a lighthouse held up in front of the same scene in motion on a monitor.00:02:40:09
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Motion

The strongest stills are set in motion with Kling, a third-party video model.

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Cut and upload

Voice, shots, captions and Shorts on one timeline, then a careful upload.

Five stations · one person signs off eachRead each stage in full →
TopicsWritten from the studio floor

Five topics, one way of working

Each topic collects the guides we are writing on one part of the craft, shown with our own scripts, frames and edits. No rankings of other tools, no prices, no growth promises.

A narrator's hands adjust a studio microphone with a round pop filter at a desk at night, headphones beside it and a grid of film frames on the monitor behind.SC.01 · 8 guides

Faceless YouTube

What a faceless channel is, how one video is made from start to finish without a camera, and what YouTube asks of AI-made videos.

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A hand holds a printed photograph of a lighthouse in front of a monitor showing the same lighthouse as a moving shot with waves breaking.SC.02 · 7 guides

Photo to Video

How a single still becomes a moving shot: what the model does, how to direct the camera with words, and what usually goes wrong.

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An editor's hand rests on a jog wheel in front of a wide monitor showing a multi-track editing timeline in a dark edit room.SC.03 · 6 guides

AI Video Editing

What AI does well in an edit, what a person still decides, and how Shorts are cut from a long video, all shown in Cinetana's own editor.

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Seen from above, a hand marks a line on a typed script page with a pencil, beside handwritten notes and a cup of black coffee under a desk lamp.SC.04 · 7 guides

Video Scripts

How a script is drafted, rewritten for the voice and marked up into shots, with templates filled in from scripts we actually used.

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A person pins a white index card onto a cork wall covered with cards and small film stills joined by red thread, in a studio at blue hour.SC.05 · 6 guides

Video Ideas

Video and channel ideas grouped by format, with a one-line hook each, many of them taken from what our own channels have made.

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An empty small film studio at night: two chairs at a desk with dark monitors, a brass lamp, film reels on a shelf and a rainy city beyond the window.
InteriorEdit suiteNight

No face on camera. A person at every cut.

FactsEvery claim in a script is checked against a source before it is voiced.
FramesWarped hands, drifting faces and melted lettering are sent back, not shipped.
TitlesEach title leads with what the video is about. No clickbait.
DisclosureRealistic AI scenes are marked in YouTube's upload settings.
DailiesThree channels, three looks

One studio, many kinds of story

A pregnancy story wants soft dawn light. A home repair video wants a work light under the sink. A survival video wants a fire at dusk. Each channel keeps its own look in its settings, so every new video matches the last.

These three frames were made for this page in the style of those channels. They are AI-generated stills, like every image on this site.

Dated, as it is: the six channels we track had between 5 and 137 subscribers on 13 October 2026.
Hands fold a small knitted baby blanket on a rainy windowsill at dawn, baby socks beside it.
A · Pregnancy stories
Gloved hands tighten a brass fitting on a copper pipe under a kitchen sink with a wrench.
B · Home repair
A small campfire with a hanging kettle in front of a glowing tent in a misty pine forest at dusk.
C · Survival
House rulesWhat we will not make

Some videos stay unmade

A faceless studio can be used badly. These are the lines we keep on our own channels, and in every guide on this site.

No deepfakes of real peopleNo face swaps, and no cloned voices without written consent.
No reuploadsWe never repost other people's videos or use music and clips we have no licence for.
No hidden AIRealistic AI scenes are disclosed, following YouTube's own rule on synthetic content.
No promisesNothing here promises views, subscribers, monetization or income.
No fake news footageIdeas that would need real news footage or a real person are turned away.
No invented numbersEvery figure on this site is ours, dated, or cited to its source.
End cardThe studio is private

Built for our channels, shown in the open.

Cinetana is not for sale, and there is nothing to sign up for. This site is where we show how the work is done: the scripts, the frames, the edits and the rules we keep.

How it works →About the studio