# The prompt

> One prompt starts every Muvomi tool. Learn how to choose a tool, set its options, see the price and send.

Muvomi has one prompt for starting things. It’s the same box on Home and at the top of every tool that starts from words, and your words follow you from tool to tool.

## Parts of the prompt

-   **The tool.** On Home, choose it with the **Create with** chips under the prompt. On a tool’s own page, the tool’s name at the top of the prompt is a menu: pick another tool and your words go with you. Switching tools never starts anything.
-   **The text box.** Write what you want. It grows as you type; <kbd>Enter</kbd> starts a new line.
-   **The options row.** Each tool adds its own options, such as **Length**, **Format** or **Resolution**. Tools that take files have a **+** button.
-   **The price** of what you’re about to start, and the round **send** arrow.

## What each tool needs

| Tool | Write | Send button | At least |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [AI Product Director](https://docs.muvomi.com/create/ai-product-director/) | The film you’re imagining: a launch, a brand story, a script | **Create film** | 12 characters, or a website, or a file |
| [AI Video](https://docs.muvomi.com/create/ai-video/) | A scene: a place, a feeling, a camera move | **Generate video** | 10 characters |
| [AI Shorts](https://docs.muvomi.com/create/ai-shorts/) | A skit idea, or your finished script | **Create short** | 12 characters |
| [AI Image](https://docs.muvomi.com/create/ai-image/) | The picture you want to see | **Generate image** | 10 characters |
| [Motion templates](https://docs.muvomi.com/create/templates/) | What the film is for, your website, your pictures | **Make my film** | 12 characters, a website, or a file |

A prompt can hold up to 100,000 characters. The count appears when you get close.

## Sending

Press the round arrow, or <kbd>⌘</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> on Mac (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> on Windows).

-   **The work starts straight away.** There’s no second confirmation, so check your options first.
-   **From Home**, the tool’s own page opens and the work starts there.
-   **With an empty prompt**, the arrow just opens the tool’s page.
-   **While it works**, the prompt shows what’s happening with a timer, and a **Cancel** button where the job can be stopped.

## The price

The price sits beside the arrow, for example *60 credits*. Hover to see what you’ll have left: *Uses 60 credits · 1,240 left*.

If you don’t have enough credits, it reads *Needs …* instead, and pressing the arrow opens **Not enough credits** rather than sending. That dialog shows when your credits refill and the plans that give more. Nothing is started or charged. See [Credits and plans](https://docs.muvomi.com/start/credits-and-plans/).

## Undo replaced words

Some actions replace what you’ve written: an example chip, a saved preset, **Reuse settings**, or a link that fills the prompt. When that happens, the prompt says *This replaced what you had written.* with an **Undo** button that brings your words back.

## Your draft is kept

Your words and options are kept while the tab is open, even if you move between pages. Once a tool has taken your words, the prompt clears.

> **Tip:** Each tool remembers its own options. Switching from AI Video to AI Image keeps your words, but each tool keeps its own format and resolution.

## When the prompt is unavailable

If a line under the prompt says an AI service isn’t connected, for example *No AI model is connected, so a script cannot be written yet*, that tool can’t make anything right now. Templates can still be opened as they are.