Meet Popp, your AI showrunner
When you create a movie in Popcorn, you’re talking to Popp 🍿 — the AI showrunner that runs the whole production. Popp is not a single model; it’s a small team of specialist agents, each focused on a piece of the job (script, art direction, shots, music, editing, QA), with a master agent coordinating them.
You don’t have to think about that. You just talk to Popp like a producer talking to a director: describe what you want, react to what comes back, ask for changes.
What Popp does for you
Section titled “What Popp does for you”Given any prompt, Popp will:
- Ask clarifying questions if your idea is ambiguous (length? format? characters?).
- Write the script — scenes, shots, dialogue, narration.
- Cast the characters and design any new sets, props, voices, or music.
- Produce each shot — generate AI video, narration, background music, lipsync.
- Edit the final video — assemble shots with transitions, captions, titles.
- Hand the video back to you in the studio, ready to download or publish.
Popp also gets better with each movie it makes — it remembers the elements you’ve created, the styles you tend to prefer, and the channels you publish to.
What you can ask Popp to do
Section titled “What you can ask Popp to do”- “Make a 30-second cinematic shot of a fox running through a misty forest at sunrise.”
- “Trim 16 frames off the last shot.”
- “Make scene 2 more dramatic. Use a darker color palette.”
- “Swap the background music for something more upbeat.”
- “Use my character @Milo as the host.”
- “Re-render the whole thing in vertical format.”
Plain English works. Popp interprets vague creative direction the same way a human team would.
What Popp can’t (yet) do for you
Section titled “What Popp can’t (yet) do for you”A few things still need either your judgment or a human eye:
- Choose between two equally good takes — Popp will offer both via versions, but you decide.
- Approve published content automatically (publishing is always your action, never the agent’s).
- Negotiate licensing of third-party footage — when you clip a YouTube video, you’re responsible for the rights.
Where to talk to Popp
Section titled “Where to talk to Popp”Three places, all the same agent:
- Movie Init — the first conversation when you start a new movie. You’re shaping the brief.
- Movie Chat — the studio chat for an in-flight or finished movie. You’re refining shots, swapping voices, regenerating scenes.
- Element Chat — when you create or edit a character, set, prop, voice, or sound, you talk to Popp inside that element.
The chat works the same way in all three. The only difference is what Popp is focused on.
- Writing good prompts — what works, what doesn’t.
- Iterating on your movie — the chat-based edit loop.
- @-mentions — how to reference your characters and sets inside a chat.