A self-hostable drama-production pipeline that automates the path from manuscript text to finished short drama videos. It requires an external OpenAI-compatible gateway for model inference and runs locally via Docker or Python.
Project overview
A self-hostable drama-production pipeline that automates the path from manuscript text to finished short drama videos. It requires an external OpenAI-compatible gateway for model inference and runs locally via Docker or Python.
Project type
Workflow · Video
Use cases
Documents & Office · Video Creation · Audio & Speech
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
License pending
Best for
Creators, enterprise teams, and developers looking to self-host a pipeline that maintains character identity consistency while converting manuscripts into short drama videos.
Key capabilities
Parses a manuscript into a queryable graph of characters, relationships, and timeline.
Provides unified management of characters, scenes, props and voices while keeping stable identities across episodes.
Handles automatic chapter segmentation, beat planning, and multi-episode arcs.
Offers multiple modes including adaptive, literal, and staged generation alongside review and repair loops.
The software is source-available under Elastic License 2.0, which restricts reselling it as a hosted service.
The pipeline depends on external AI models through a gateway, requiring paid services or complex local setup for full operation.
Getting started
Copy the environment example file, run docker compose up with the build flag, open the local host port 8080, navigate to Model Config in settings, and paste the required DC key. Configuring external AI model keys and mappings adds overhead to the medium difficulty setup.
Evidence and sources
GitHub project description: A general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline — dramas, ads, product videos, otome games, and more.
README: Drop in a manuscript and DramaClaw takes over all the heavy lifting: extracting characters, planning episodes, generating scripts, drawing storyboards and first frames, synthesizi…
README: It's built for creators, indie studios, and creative engineers — letting you run the whole "drama factory" on your own infrastructure, without stitching together a dozen disconnec…
README: - **Novel parsing & story graph** — parse the manuscript into a queryable graph of characters, relationships, and timeline - **Asset Library & identity consistency** —…
README: <sub>Real short dramas our team produced on this very pipeline — click a link to play.</sub>