A Text-Native Interface for Generative Video Authoring
This provides a more accessible way for people to create videos without needing specialized tools, representing a fundamental shift in generative video interfaces.
The paper tackles the complexity of video creation by introducing Doki, a text-native interface that allows users to author videos through freeform text writing, as demonstrated in a week-long deployment study with participants of varying expertise.
Everyone can write their stories in freeform text format -- it's something we all learn in school. Yet storytelling via video requires one to learn specialized and complicated tools. In this paper, we introduce Doki, a text-native interface for generative video authoring, aligning video creation with the natural process of text writing. In Doki, writing text is the primary interaction: within a single document, users define assets, structure scenes, create shots, refine edits, and add audio. We articulate the design principles of this text-first approach and demonstrate Doki's capabilities through a series of examples. To evaluate its real-world use, we conducted a week-long deployment study with participants of varying expertise in video authoring. This work contributes a fundamental shift in generative video interfaces, demonstrating a powerful and accessible new way to craft visual stories.