Getting started

A practical guide for your first Aon Pro Studio project.

You do not need a license key to follow this guide. Install on Windows or Apple Silicon Mac, start on the free Basic plan, add API keys, then choose the production mode that matches the video you want to make. Activate a Pro license whenever you want to lift the free plan's limits.

Prefer to watch first? This walkthrough builds a Persona Short and a Music Video step by step, from the first input to the final render. Watch on YouTube

1. Install and start free

  1. Install Aon Pro Studio on Windows 10/11 or an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later, macOS 14 or later).
  2. Launch the app. Skip license-key activation to start on the free Basic plan - no key, and not a trial that locks after a deadline.
  3. When you want Pro, choose license-key activation and enter the key provided with your order. You can also enter it later from the main screen.
  4. Keep the license file on the activated computer and avoid sharing license screenshots.

The free Basic plan exports with no resolution cap, limits one-click, persona, and motion graphics to 3-scene Shorts, and keeps full automation and high-quality production mode for Pro. Software downloads (re-downloads included), product updates and future major versions are guaranteed for 12 months from the purchase date, and software you have downloaded keeps working with no time limit after that. AI API usage stays separate on both plans. See the free-vs-Pro comparison.

2. Add API keys

Open Settings and add your OpenAI API key. OpenAI is required for core AI workflows. For TTS you can use free voices (no API key, made on your computer) or choose from four providers - OpenAI, MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and Typecast - and MiniMax also adds image-to-video (Hailuo 2.3 Fast, H3 and H3 Max) and the high-quality production mode. Gemini is not currently supported.

  • OpenAI powers required core AI work such as scripts, images, voices, and transcription where used.
  • MiniMax is optional for higher-quality TTS and supported image-to-video (I2V) workflows.
  • ElevenLabs is optional for natural, expressive premium TTS voices.
  • Typecast is optional for voice-actor style voices, especially strong in Korean. Load the list in the voice picker and play free samples before choosing.
  • Provider usage is billed by your provider account, not by the Aon Pro Studio license.

Don't have keys yet? The API key setup guide walks through creating your OpenAI, MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and Typecast keys step by step, with direct links to every official signup, billing, and key page.

3. Pick the right production mode

Editor

Best when you want per-scene control over 16:9 or 9:16 projects, media sources, voice, subtitles, titles, BGM, audio balance, and render settings.

One-click · Standard (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9)

Best when you have a topic and want a guided workflow from script to render. It is the simplest and fastest route, so start here if this is your first project.

One-click · Persona (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9)

Best when you want a recurring character. Generate a character sheet (front, three-quarter, full body) from a name alone or upload your own image, save it to the persona library, and keep the character consistent across every scene. You also control where they appear: every scene, intro and outro only, or explanatory scenes only.

One-click · Motion Graphics (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9)

Best when you want on-screen titles, labels, and numbers, like an infographic. Pick one of the paper collage, documentary collage, ink brush, or cyber-tech HUD style sheets by eye and every scene is drawn against that sheet, with a per-scene motion prompt prepared for image-to-video. Requires gpt-image-2 or gpt-image-1.5.

One-click · My Materials (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9, Pro)

Best when you already have photos, clips and text to build from. Drop the files in and give each photo and clip a short tag; AI decides the scene count and the script and puts your materials on scenes. Use your text as the narration word for word or let AI rewrite it, and change the material on any scene. Photos are redrawn to fit their scene, clips are used as they are, and scenes without a material get a new image. Tags only tell your files apart — they are never sent in image or video requests.

One-click · Typo Motion Graphics (Vertical 9:16 · Wide 16:9, 2 presets free)

Best when you want a short motion graphic where the title, keywords and a number land on the beat. Pick one of 51 ready-made presets, type your text, and you get a video with its own music. Line, bar and donut charts, ranked bars and comparison tables, icons that draw themselves in, and ten scene transitions are built in, and exported videos add motion blur to sliding moves and transitions. The app draws the presets and synthesizes their music in code, so there is no API key and no generation cost, and the preview redraws as you type. Vertical and horizontal are laid out separately rather than cropped. Exports are HD or FHD at 30 or 60fps; Basic can use two presets and Pro every preset.

Narrated Typo Shorts and Longform: like One-Click, a topic becomes a script and a voice (this needs the same API keys as One-Click), and each scene gets a typo pattern instead of an image. The layout is prefilled from the script and editable per scene, and keywords pop on screen the moment they are spoken. There is no background music; sound effects can be turned on or off (off by default). Like One-Click Shorts, Basic can make Narrated Typo Shorts in 3 scenes; the longform is Pro only.

High-quality · Narrated Story (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9, Pro)

Best when you want to set shot size, angle, camera move, and lighting per scene and lock the cast with character sheets. You walk nine steps - script, voice, planning, characters, images, video, subtitles and BGM, review, render - and video is generated with MiniMax H3 or H3 Max as 5-15 second clips that continue from the previous scene's last frame. Needs both an OpenAI key and a MiniMax key; H3 is billed per second, so costs are announced first.

High-quality · Music Video (16:9, Pro)

Best when you want to turn one song into a story music video. You walk plan, music, storyboard and clips, characters, backgrounds, clip stills, video, review, and render, and the length of the song you confirm becomes the length of the video. Generate the music with MiniMax music-3.0 or import a file you already have; character and background sheets go into every clip so people and places stay consistent.

High-quality · Story Drama (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9, Pro)

Best when you want a drama in which the characters speak, made as a series. One project is one series (a single episode works too). You do not start a new project per episode: the project window tracks every episode as not started, in progress or done. The outlines from the series plan become the to-do list — episodes you have not created yet hold their place, and clicking one creates it with the title and length it was given.

Open an episode and plan → storyboard and lines → characters and voices → locations → video → subtitles and translation → review → render run as a single flow, each step reading what the step before it left behind. The plan reads the series bible and the previous episodes' summaries; the storyboard turns that plan into scenes and lines; a directing pass stages those lines on screen; the video is generated from that prompt together with the sheets and voices. You can edit any field at any step, and the edit reaches the next step immediately.

MiniMax H3 or H3 Max takes the character and location sheets plus the voices you register as references and generates the lines and sound effects with the picture; subtitles are transcribed from the clips' actual audio with Whisper, editable and translatable. Pick an art style and the sheets are drawn in it and the video follows, so live-action drama and animation run through the same flow. There is no background music.

High-quality · Advertising (Shorts 9:16 · Longform 16:9, Pro)

Best when you want a 10–100 second ad for one product. The plan step carries the weight: write the product name, category, selling points, audience and forbidden claims, attach real product photos, and proposals are written from those facts alone. A proposal is never right the first time, so they stack up as proposal 1, 2, 3…, and you can take one and ask for a variation ("funnier", "product only") that keeps its number in the sequence. Adopt one and the next step opens.

From there it runs plan → storyboard and video prompts → models → product sheet → reference frames → video → review → render. A 10 or 15 second ad is one clip; 20 and 30 seconds split into two; longer ads become several clips of up to 15 seconds. Skip the character step when nobody appears. The product sheet is drawn from your photos — same shape, label and colours — so the product looks identical in every clip.

Scenes that carry Korean copy get a reference frame where the image model draws the text exactly, and that frame is handed to the video model as a reference. Every video prompt spells out, moment by moment, the shot size, the camera move, what the product does, how the person reacts and how the clip cuts into the next one. There is no narration or dialogue: 10 and 15 second ads get music composed inside the clip, and longer ones carry sound effects only.

Full automation

Best when you want to queue multiple topics, URLs, or quotes and process them in sequence.

AI Video Editor

Screens and a 4:25 walkthrough video are on the AI Video Editor page.

Best when you want to edit footage or a YouTube URL through its transcript. Delete words to cut the video; AI proposes an edit concept, cuts, and a target length, and pulls up to 30 Shorts from a long video for one render. A click selects a phrase, the words between two pauses, so most cuts land cleanly in the pauses; cuts inside connected speech gather under 'Cuts to check' so you can listen and fix them. After cutting, 'Check joins' reads each cut straight through and fixes words left hanging or broken sentences. The Apple Silicon Mac app aligns word boundaries in Korean videos more precisely with a Korean alignment model. You can also drag over the waveform on the timeline and press Delete to cut a range (hold Option for frame-exact cuts; ⌘K drops an edit point — Alt and Ctrl+K on Windows), and cut and export videos you never transcribe. 'Open without analyzing the audio' skips the analysis so the preview is ready sooner, and screen recordings with no audio track open and cut too. Save As keeps several edits of one video (a 10-minute and a 3-minute cut) without paying for transcription again. On Apple Silicon Macs and Windows, 'On this computer (free)' transcribes without an API key (a 574 MB model downloads once; Windows uses the CPU and shows the expected time first). Mark speakers with a right-click to select one speaker's lines or show names in captions. Split recordings open as one with 'Join several videos', and B-roll laid over the words follows them through cuts. 'Replace' in the find bar fixes a misheard name everywhere at once, and right-clicking the transcript or timeline offers delete, restore and play from here. Translated captions (English, Japanese and more; paid) come out as SRT or VTT with the edit's timing, and 'Apply translated captions' puts the original, the translation, or both into the video itself (Shorts get the same captions; words cut from the main edit show in the original). Captions take your colors, length and an optional spoken-word color, and a saved style carries over to other videos. Background music (your file or a track the app makes) dips automatically while you speak. Exported audio is leveled to YouTube loudness (−14 LUFS).

Mode how-to videos

Each video follows one mode from the topic to the finished render with real app screens. The videos are narrated in Korean; YouTube can translate the captions.

How-to video (Korean) · High-quality narration

Video not playing? Narrated in Korean; YouTube can translate the captions. Watch on YouTube

How-to video (Korean) · Music video

Video not playing? Narrated in Korean; YouTube can translate the captions. Watch on YouTube

How-to video (Korean) · Motion graphics longform

Video not playing? Narrated in Korean; YouTube can translate the captions. Watch on YouTube

How-to video (Korean) · Narration typo

Video not playing? Narrated in Korean; YouTube can translate the captions. Watch on YouTube

How-to video (Korean) · AI Video Editor · translated captions

Video not playing? Narrated in Korean; YouTube can translate the captions. Watch on YouTube

4. Recommended first project

  1. Start with One-click Shorts and a simple topic.
  2. Generate a short script and review each scene line before image generation.
  3. Use still images first; add image-to-video only to opening or key scenes after the draft looks right. The default model, Hailuo 2.3 Fast, is billed per clip; use the per-second H3 model only where it matters.
  4. Open the editor to check scene order, framing, subtitle position, title placement, BGM volume, and narration clarity.
  5. Render a short test before committing to a longer batch or higher quality export.
  6. Check source-media rights, private data, subtitles, audio balance, safe areas, and export quality before publishing.

5. Common troubleshooting checks

  • If Windows Security, SmartScreen, or antivirus software blocks the EXE, confirm you downloaded it from the official link, check release/version details, review quarantine information, and contact support or your IT administrator before allowing it.
  • If macOS blocks the app, confirm the DMG came from the official link, then review System Settings → Privacy & Security. The Mac build requires Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14 or later.
  • If generation fails, check API key spacing, billing, balance, model permissions, provider status, and network access.
  • If transcription fails, confirm the video has clear speech and the provider account can use the selected transcription model.
  • If higher-quality TTS is unavailable, confirm the MiniMax or ElevenLabs API key is saved and that the selected voice actually uses that provider. For image-to-video, confirm the MiniMax key is saved.
  • If rendering is slow, test a shorter clip first and avoid converting every scene to video on the first pass.