Settings

Settings is where you tune Ozu to suit you, and where you tune one film to suit itself. The gear on the project shelf opens App Settings: your account, how the app looks, the voice that reads to you, your own AI keys, and what Ozu keeps on this iPad. The gear inside a film opens Project Settings: that film’s frame shape and spend level, and which model each room reaches for. Nothing here spends credits by itself; it decides what every room’s buttons will do.

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Two gears, two reaches

Read it as two columns. Everything under the left gear travels with you: it is the same on every film you open. Everything under the right gear belongs to one film; open another and you see that film’s choices. The bridge between them is Studio defaults: what you set there is what every new film is born with, and the film’s own Project Settings can then move away from it.

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1 · You

Your account. The Profile card shows your picture, name and email (a green check means the email is verified); tap the picture to choose a new one from your photo library. Under What to call you, type the name you want Ozu to greet you by and save it. It does not have to be your real name; Ozu uses it in the app and in email. Plan & Credits shows your plan and the credits you have left. Change closes Settings and opens Plans & Credits, where you can move plans or buy a pack. Content holds Mature mode: switch it on and iOS asks you to share your age range to confirm you are 18 or over (your birthdate is never shared with Ozu); if the check does not allow it, a note says why and Check again asks once more. About shows your user ID and the app version. Log Out signs you out on this iPad. Support and reporting live in your account menu under the avatar, not here.

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2 · Look

How the app is drawn. The accent colour is the highlight you see in every room; once you change it, a Reset appears beside it. The proceed colour is separate on purpose: it is what the next-step arrow and Analyze light up in when a room is ready for you to move on, so pick something you notice; it has its own Reset. Panel style draws Ozu’s windows as see-through glass or flat dark panels.

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3 · Studio defaults

Standing choices every film starts from. New films sets the Generation level, High Quality or Low Cost, and the frame shape that films you create after this begin with; each film can change both in its own Project Settings. Script is how you write, on every film: the typeface you type in (formatted pages stay Courier), the type size, and the old-school block cursor. Listen is who reads your script aloud. Ozu’s voice by default decides whether Read Script uses Ozu’s voice, which spends credits and is much easier on the ears, or the free voice on this iPad. Pick which of Ozu’s voices you prefer; each has a one-line description under the menu. The free voice menu lists the iPad’s built-in voices, and the note under it says where in iOS Settings to install more at no cost. What these do while you listen is in Read Script.

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4 · Project shelf

Grid or list is the view the shelf opens in; the toggle on the shelf still flips it any time. Show tips again clears every “don’t show again” you have ticked, so each room’s first-time welcome plays once more.

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5 · Your own keys

Only on the Studio+ plan. Studio+ has no credits: you connect your own accounts with the companies whose AI models Ozu uses, and pay them directly. Each row is one company, with a note on what it does for your film and a status light (Not set, Saved, Checking, Connected, Invalid key). Get a key opens that company’s website; paste the key in and tap Save. It is stored encrypted on this iPad and checked straight away. A saved key shows masked, with Replace to paste a new one over it (Cancel keeps the old one), Remove to delete it, and Re-check to test it again.

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6 · Data and Legal

Data has two rows. Storage & caches › Manage closes Settings and opens the Storage panel (next). The Danger zone holds Delete account: you type DELETE, and your account, films and credits are removed for good. Exporting a film’s own data lives on that film’s Export step, not here. Legal is the Terms and Privacy Policy, readable in place.

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7 · The Storage panel

What Ozu holds on this iPad, in three buckets, each with a size. Offline Projects lists every film you have made available offline; Unpin stops keeping that film, so its media becomes ordinary cache. Caches is the pictures, video and audio Ozu has downloaded to show you; Clear Caches frees that space and Ozu re-downloads what it needs, when it needs it. Offline films are never touched. Exports lists every file you have exported: the bin deletes one, Delete All asks first and deletes them all; anything already shared or saved to Photos is unaffected. The foot line is the total. Your account menu opens this panel too.

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8 · This Film

Now the other gear, inside a film. Project Settings lists places on the left and shows that place’s rows on the right, with a line at the foot saying what the pane governs. Film comes first: the frame shape new stills and clips are made in (widescreen, standard, square or portrait) and the film’s Generation level. High Quality uses the usual models; Low Cost swaps in the cheaper set everywhere at once. Shots already made keep the shape they were born with.

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9 · Writers Room and Breakdown

Two small panes. Writers Room has one row, Show again, which brings the room’s first-time welcome back on this film (type and listen choices live in Studio defaults, because they follow you across films). Breakdown sets the time slice: how much time one square of the pipeline chart holds, from ten seconds to five minutes. The pane notes that this governs the Export pipeline chart, while the Breakdown and Dialog charts stay at ten seconds. Its own Show again restores the Breakdown welcome.

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10 · Recording Booth

The booth’s standing choices, in the order of its tabs. Under Voice Casting, actors with a cloned voice are always performed by one fixed voice model, shown as a read-only row. The default test line is what every voice reads at audition unless an actor has its own line; Reset goes back to the standard one. Under Dialog, Without reference audio picks the voice model that performs dialogue for actors without a cloned voice. Under Mixing, Dialogue unmasking quietly dips just the part of the music that would sit on top of a voice, so lines cut through without a full-volume drop; Duck strength is how deep that dip goes, greyed until unmasking is on. Under Score, the Music picker chooses who composes. Full write-up: The Recording Booth.

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11 · Models, room by room

The rest is mostly model pickers. Director Review has one, for the pictures of your actors, props and sets. Storyboard has three, for stills, clips and talking clips. Editing Room has five, for stills, clips, talking clips, dialogue and music made from the timeline, plus the same unmasking and duck strength pair as the booth, and Time pill shows frames, which reads the playhead as hours, minutes, seconds and frames instead of decimal seconds. Ref Board has its picture model and a fallback shape for when a generate has no reference picture to copy a shape from. Every picker shows the model’s price beside it, marks each model with what its maker may do with what you send (the marking key), and offers Reset to default once you have picked one. The chart is the rule to remember. A model you pick on a shot, clip or take in the room always wins. If you have not, the room’s pick here is used. If there is none here either, the film’s Generation level decides: Low Cost reaches for the cheaper set, High Quality for Ozu’s usual choice.

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12 · Export defaults

Where an export starts from, so you are not choosing everything each time. Usual destination is the place the Export screen opens on: Archive, the Photos app, or one of the social sites. Then the encode: codec (H.264 for anything, HEVC for smaller files, ProRes for an archive copy), container (MP4 or MOV; ProRes needs MOV), frame rate and resolution. None of it is locked in: on the Export screen you can still change the destination and the encode for a single file.

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What happens next

Settings has no next room; it stands beside all of them. Close App Settings and you are back on the Project Shelf, where new films are born with your Studio defaults. Close Project Settings and you are back in the film, where every room’s buttons now do what you told them to. For what those buttons cost, and who is behind each model, see Credits & Providers.