> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getmarsell.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> Marsell's MCP server is at https://getmarsell.com/mcp: agents connect with a key the owner makes in the app (a project's Agents page, Your own AI). See /developers/mcp for its tools. There is no public REST API yet; don't suggest REST endpoints.
> The search MCP server at https://docs.getmarsell.com/mcp only searches these docs. It can't read or change anyone's Marsell projects.
> Each business is a project with seven places: Home, Create, Market, Sell, People, Agents and Brand. 'Marsell plan' means the subscription (Solo, Core, Growth, Network); 'the plan' or 'the week' means the work Marsell has planned.
> Tokens are Marsell's unit for AI and media work, granted monthly by the Marsell plan. They are not model tokens.

# Shows: a channel of your own

> Give a project a show: a channel with its own characters, voices, material, look and kinds of video. Marsell makes every episode, and you read each script first.

A show is a channel of the project's own: a video series with its characters, voices, material and kinds of video. You describe it once. Marsell makes every episode from it, and each episode starts as a script you read first. Each project has one show, and a show counts as a running project on your plan.

## Start a show

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Your show">
    In Create, scroll to **Your show**: "Give" your project "a show of its own."
  </Step>

  <Step title="Name it">
    Fill in **What it's called** and **What it's about**, in a line.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start the show">
    Press **Start the show**. Its board opens. Starting a show costs nothing.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## The show's board

The board has seven tabs: **Videos**, **Make one**, **Cast**, **Kinds of video**, **Material**, **Look** and **About**. Changes wait in a bar at the top until you press **Save the show**, or **Undo them**. If something needs fixing first, the bar says how many things.

### About

Its name, the language it speaks, what it's about, its tone and its taste, in your words. Every script starts from these.

* **Ideas for episodes**: your own ideas, one a line. The writer reads them before anything of its own.
* **Lines it might say**: sign-offs, catchphrases and jokes you want in, used word for word.
* **Its accounts**: the addresses of the show's own accounts.

**Remove this show** removes the show and its parts; videos already posted stay where they are.

### Cast

A show can run on a narrator alone, or **Add a character** for each person or creature in it. Give each a **Name**, a **Role** (**Host**, **Narrator**, **Recurring** or **Guest**), **What they're like** and **How they look**, and up to eight of **Their pictures**, so they look the same from shot to shot.

**Pick a voice** opens the voice chooser: search by how a voice sounds, such as "Warm, British, older, deadpan", and play samples. **Directed** voices take directions such as \[calm] or \[whispers] in 85 languages; **Straight** voices read plainly in 29. Picking a voice costs nothing.

### Kinds of video

A kind of video is one sort of episode the show makes. Each is a set of plain choices, and shows about what one video takes:

| Choice | Options |
| - | - |
| **Its shape** | What happens in every video of this kind, in your words |
| **What it looks like** | **Moving clips**, **Still pictures**, **Drawn animation** or **A mix** |
| **Pictures** | **May be made**, or **Real only** (yours and archives) |
| **Who is heard** | **A narrator**, **The characters** or **Nobody** |
| **Length** | **Short · 30–60 s**, **60–90 s**, **3–5 min** or **8–12 min** |
| **How often** | From **Only when I ask** to **Twice a day** |
| **Quality** | **Standard 768p**, **HD 1080p** or **2K 1440p** |
| **Words on screen** | **Spoken words**, **Titles only** or **None**, always clear of faces |
| **Music under it** | On or off |
| **Research first** | A researcher reads up on the story and checks its sources before the script |
| **Scheduled films wait for my yes on the script** | On at first. A film you make yourself always shows you the script first |

### Material

**Add files**: **Pictures**, **Clips**, **Music**, a **Logo** and **Fonts**. For each, say **Where it's from**: **Yours**, an **Archive** or **Made**. An archive item needs its licence first (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA). Switch **Use in films** on for what films should use. If your show is a YouTube channel, **Take pictures from** it brings in its thumbnails and profile picture.

### Look

**Upload a logo**, set up to eight colours (or **Take the colours from a picture**), describe how its pictures look, and choose its type.

## Make an episode

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Make one">
    A show with no kind of video asks you to **Add a kind of video** first.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the kind and how it's made">
    Pick **What kind of video**, then how it's **Made as**: **Moving** (clips from first frames, with mouths moving to the voice), **Images, edited by Opus**, or **Drawn in code**. Each shows its price. Pick the **Quality**, and **A 4K master too** if it's for ads.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose how much you see">
    **Step through with me** stops at the script, a new voice, the table read and the plan with its first frames. Off, it runs to the end and you watch the film.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Give the idea">
    Write **Your idea** in a line or two, or tap one **From your ideas**. Leave it empty and Marsell takes one from your ideas.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the price and start">
    The form shows about what the episode takes, the share of your month, its budget and the tokens left on your plan. **Allow more** lets it go past the budget by a set amount. Press **Start: write the script**, or **Make it**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

From there the episode runs on its film board. See [Films](/create/films#the-films-board).

**Videos** lists every episode, marked **Your turn**, **Being made** or **Stopped**. Open one to watch it, answer it or make it again.

## Episodes Marsell plans

A kind of video with **How often** set makes episodes on that schedule. While **Scheduled films wait for my yes on the script** is on, each one stops at its script for your yes.

## What shows cost

Starting and editing a show is free. Each episode uses tokens: the form shows the estimate and the budget before you start, and every paid step shows its price. If your plan doesn't have enough left, the form says how many it needs, with **Add tokens**. See [Marsell plans and tokens](/account/plans-and-tokens).

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Films" icon="clapperboard" href="/create/films">
    The board every episode runs on.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Projects" icon="folders" href="/projects">
    How shows count on your plan.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


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