We built SEELE TV to make multi-shot AI video less chaotic
Hi Indie Hackers,
We recently launched SEELE TV, a planning tool and workflow guide for AI video production.
The problem we care about begins when a video has more than one shot. The original brief starts to drift, and revisions become difficult to trace. A clip might look good on its own but still be wrong for the sequence.
SEELE TV lets you describe what the finished video should communicate and turn that into a production handoff for the SEELE Film & CG workspace. The planner runs in your browser. It does not upload media or call a generation model.
Behind the site is a statically exported Next.js application. We keep the content in a typed registry rather than maintaining separate lists for pages, metadata, links, and source information. Each page also states where workflow advice ends and current product capability begins.
We block production releases when the source information or route validation is incomplete. That may sound strict for a content site, but model availability and product details change often. We do not want an old page quietly turning into a product promise.
We are now trying to answer one question: would you use a planning step before opening an AI video generator, or would it feel like extra work?
The planning vs. friction debate shows up in every creative workflow that scales past one shot. Brief drift is the AI video equivalent of a director who skips the storyboard and wonders why the edits don’t cut together. The generator is the camera — it can only execute what’s already decided. Your planning layer is the pre-production meeting. To your question: yes, especially once someone has regenerated the same clip four times and still can’t explain why it doesn’t sequence right. The time cost of planning is front-loaded; the time cost of skipping it compounds.
The tension I notice is that SEELE TV is trying to reduce chaos by adding a planning layer before generation — but that layer itself has to earn a place in a workflow people already consider fast.
That makes the “extra work” question more fundamental than it initially sounds.