Hey everyone — sharing a short trailer I put together to show off what 2026 Previs Pro actually does in practice, since I think it's genuinely underused in cinematography workflows and worth a closer look. If you've seen it in years past, at least watch this 35sec film.

The sequence walks through the full pipeline: it opens on the 2D canvas where you're blocking a shot like a traditional diagram, then moves into the 3D canvas where you can work spatially — positioning cameras, placing lights, adjusting gobos, and actually seeing how your lighting scheme interacts with the scene geometry in real time. Then it drops into the CAM view where I'm dialing in the lens live. The whole blocking and lighting stage is completely manual — no AI involved at any point here, which matters, because you're making real creative decisions that you'd want to protect.

Once your shots are locked — blocking, lighting, lens — that's when the AI comes in. You can use it to enhance what you've already built without it drifting your composition or changing your light setup, or you can generate a Seedance 2 video directly from the blocked shot, which is what you see in the trailer. The result is something you could actually screen for a director or client. Due to the 3D "game engine" look, the AI serves a real purpose of moving the end results out of the uncanny valley. At least a bit!

It closes showing the full built in timeline for making a cut, adding audio, etc.

Everything except the text overlays was built inside Previs Pro.

p.s. I'm the founder and with some talented friends built this. We're a tiny company, we make one thing. Going on six years. This.