How to Use Leap: From Idea to Finished Video

Head to useleap.xyz and click "Get started". You can sign up with an email address and password, or continue with Google. New accounts verify by email before the workspace opens.

Leap runs on monthly plans rather than one-off credit purchases. Starter covers scripting, narration, and the core pipeline; Pro adds research, reference analysis, channel analysis, images, and the calendar; Studio adds video generation, packaging suggestions, and team sharing. You can look around the workspace before picking a plan — an active plan is what unlocks generating.

Before your first project, create a channel. A channel is the durable context for a YouTube identity: its niche, default language, audience, and tone.

That context travels with you. When you generate a script, the channel's audience and tone are already the starting point instead of something you retype every time. Channels also accumulate memory and analysis over time, so the tenth video starts from what the first nine taught the workspace.

Projects are the central unit of production. From Projects, create one and give it a working title, a short description of what the video is about and who it is for, a channel, and a target length in minutes.

Each project carries a status that moves with the work: idea, research, scripting, voice, editing, completed, or archived. The status is the honest answer to "where is this thing?" — the dashboard groups projects by it, and the calendar schedules against it.

The Research tab collects what you already know about the video: reference links, a transcript, and your own notes. It is deliberately dull — a place to park source material so the script is not written from memory.

The Strategy tab turns that into a plan. Score the idea on fit, demand, and feasibility, run the publishing checklist so you know what is still missing before upload, and record the published URL and date when it goes live so the retrospective has something to look back at.

Script Studio generates a structured draft from a working title, an idea or brief, a content type, a target length, a language, a tone, an audience, and a narrative style. The result is not a wall of text — it is a hook, a set of sections, and a conclusion, each one editable on its own.

Every block can be rewritten independently: rewrite it, expand it, shorten it, or change its tone to something you type in. Each rewrite bumps the script's version, and you can switch between versions from the dropdown without losing the one you liked.

Two checks are worth running before you commit. The retention audit reads the current script at roughly 150 spoken words a minute and returns editing prompts for the hook, clarity, pacing, and retention. Treat it as a list of suggestions, not a prediction.

The Voice tab renders the script in one of two modes. Single voice reads the script straight through as narration. Dialogue stages it as a two-speaker conversation, with a delay between turns so it does not sound like an argument in a hallway.

Voices come from a catalogue spanning several providers, filterable by language, accent, gender, and age, and you can keep a shortlist of favourites. Speed is adjustable from 0.5x to 1.5x. For finer control, insert delivery tags directly into the script — [pause], [long pause], [whispering], [excited], [drawn out], [breath], [laughter], [applause] and more, grouped by speed, pause, sound effect, and experimental. Results vary by voice and provider, so preview before you keep the take.

The Scenes tab generates visuals frame by frame — pick a model, set the aspect ratio and resolution, and generate variations alongside recent work so you can compare rather than guess.

Localization translates and re-voices the project for a new audience, which is how one script reaches a second language without rewriting it.

Packaging prepares the video for upload: title options, thumbnail concept and text, description, chapters, and a pinned comment. You can log experiments with impressions and click-through rate once a title has been live, so the next title is a decision rather than a guess.

The Review tab creates a shareable link to the script with an assignee and a due date. Your reviewer comments on specific blocks from the browser without an account, and approval is tracked on the project.

When it is ready, export the upload package and an edit manifest from the Strategy tab. Every generated asset — scripts, audio, images, and exports — is collected on the project's Assets tab and searchable in the Content Library.

Every plan includes a monthly credit allowance issued on your billing date and shared across the whole workspace. Each tool has its own cost, shown before you generate: a short script is roughly 405 credits, a documentary-length script around 1,215, 10,000 characters of narration about 12,000, a standard image around 1,000, and video generation 5,000. Audio tools vary with model, duration, and provider usage, and the final charge lands in your history.

Plan credits reset each period rather than rolling over. If you need a heavier month, add a credit pack on top — packs are spent only after your allowance runs out, are valid for 90 days from purchase, and the clock pauses while you have an active plan. Bonuses, refunds, and credits shared to you never expire. We always spend the credits closest to expiry first.

Pricing is shown in naira or dollars depending on where you are. Plans and credit packs use Bachs checkout in NGN or USD. Plans renew manually; access ends when the paid period expires.

Generated media is stored in your account for up to 72 hours. Download anything you want to keep — the files in the Content Library are not a permanent archive.

The content calendar plans publishing rhythm per channel, and automation can chain research, script, and voice into a single run when a project is ready to move.

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