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Environments & Scenes

The environment selector controls the scene your video is filmed in — the room, surface, lighting, and backdrop behind your persona and product. Choosing an environment is a required step in the generation wizard so the AI can lock a consistent set across every keyframe and segment.

Why environments matter

By locking the room, surface, and lighting up front, U-Gen holds the same background across every shot — no jarring scene changes mid-video — and gives you control over where your product is shown instead of leaving the backdrop to chance. Behind the scenes, the chosen scene becomes a reference image the keyframe model matches, keeping the environment identical from the first shot to the last.

The three environment modes

Smart Scene

Free · all plans

The default, zero-effort option. Based on your product and persona, U-Gen recommends a fitting environment and renders a preview image. Accept it to lock it into your job, or iterate for a different look (each Smart Scene preview iteration costs 8 credits). The accepted preview is passed to keyframe generation as a scene reference.

Presets

Free · all plans

Pick from U-Gen’s curated library of ready-made environments — kitchens, bathrooms, studios, outdoor sets, and more. A fast way to get a polished, professional backdrop without describing or uploading anything.

Upload & Build

Creator+ (build) · Business+ (upload)

One combined, chat-driven studio. Describe the scene in text, upload a real photo of your own space (your bathroom, kitchen, showroom), or start from a preset — then iterate in the chat until it is right. Gives brands precise, conversational control over their backdrop.

Save to My Scenes

When you generate a Smart Scene preview you like, use Save to My Scenes to keep it in your personal environment library. Saved scenes are reusable across future videos for a consistent brand look and appear alongside the preset library in the environment picker — turning a one-off AI recommendation into a permanent, reusable backdrop.

Smart Scene is free; iterations cost credits

Choosing Smart Scene or a Preset is free on every plan. Generating a new Smart Scene preview to refine the look costs 8 credits per iteration. The scene you accept is reused for every keyframe in the job at no extra per-shot cost.

Related

See the Video Pipeline guide for how the scene reference feeds keyframe generation, and Credit System for how iteration credits are billed.