nolanx-ai/nolanx.ai

NolanX is an open source system for AI assisted filmmaking, built to chain together multiple AI models for text, images, audio, and video into long, coherent creative productions. The problem it addresses is that today's AI video generators can only produce short clips at a time. NolanX acts as a coordination layer that strings those short clips together into much longer pieces, while trying to keep characters, story logic, props, environments, and visual style consistent across the whole runtime. It covers the full filmmaking pipeline described in the project: screenplay writing, breaking a script into shots, character design, scene composition, storyboarding, dialogue, and timeline editing. It manages several different AI providers at once, so text generation might run through one service, image generation through another, and video rendering through a third, letting a user swap out any single piece without rebuilding the whole pipeline. There are three ways to use it: through the hosted website with a paid membership or credit packs, through an API route using your own keys for each provider, or fully self hosted by running the project's own startup script on your own machine. The project is built and maintained by a two person team, and is offered as an open alternative to closed AI video platforms. It needs separate API keys for text, image, and video generation to unlock every feature, though the system still runs with some features disabled if a key is missing. An optional cloud storage connection can be added for saving generated files, but the project works without it too, and local data is otherwise stored in simple JSON files on disk.