AIM Previz vs Shot Designer

AIM Previz is a pre-visualization platform for creative work from script planning through screening, with continuity controls to carry choices across shots. Its six modes include an infinite board, script breakdown, storyboard, keyframe, 3D scene staging, and motion generation. Users can lock cast, wardrobe, props, set, and grade. The toolkit describes more than 45 cameras, 21 lenses, and 200 graded look profiles. Outputs include progressive upscaling and named, separated layers for organized PSD export, as well as individual frames, ZIP archives, and professional formats. The maker says its orchestration routes work across 99 generative engines for video, image, audio, and 3D. Generation uses credits per action, and motion rates vary by footage duration and engine; the app shows the rate before a run. It runs on the web and through an API. The Free plan is free and provides 50 credits a month, all rooms and tools, and a seven-day Pro trial with 150 credits. Pro costs $29 a month; Creator $80 a month; Studio $199 a month. Creator seats cost $450 a month.

Shot Designer is a camera-blocking tool that brings diagrams, shot lists, storyboards, animation, a Director’s Viewfinder, and team sharing together. It can move cameras automatically when characters are repositioned in a diagram. The shot list and diagram stay linked, so edits to one update the other. Users can animate characters and cameras in real time to preview scene rhythm, while the Viewfinder supports major camera formats and records the lens used for a shot. Other tools include set and lighting designers, imports for production drawings, templates, and a prop and furniture library. The Free plan saves the current scene but allows only one scene at a time and omits file management, export, and sync or team sharing. Pro costs 19.99 USD once and adds those management and sharing features, Scene Freeze, and PDF, JPG, and Excel export. Shot Designer runs on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. The maker positions it for directors and directors of photography.