OpenDirector is a free local workspace that takes a short film from chat to canvas to timeline export
OpenDirector by ThinkFlowLab is an open-source AI video workspace that runs on your machine and opens in the browser. You chat to generate assets, sort them on a canvas, edit images, video and audio, then cut them on a timeline and export an MP4.
What it does
An assistant generates text, images and video with the model services you connect, and you can reference canvas assets with @. Image presets make character, face and product three-view sheets, four-image storyboards and multi-camera variations. The timeline sets in and out points, speed and volume, renders MP4, and also exports JSON, FCPXML and asset bundles.
Results and limits
The team's example film, We Can Still Win, is a 60-second 1280×720 short about a middle-aged Dota 2 player; its video shots were made with FastH3 served through vLLM-Omni.
Worth knowing
v0.1.0 (6 Nov 2026) is the first release. Projects stay on your machine, but generation uses whatever provider APIs or self-hosted model servers you configure, so it is only fully local if your models are. Installing from source needs Python 3.11+, Node.js 24.22.1+, Git and FFmpeg with libx264.