Guide

Everything you need to go from a new account to a finished video — as a map you can pan and zoom.

Nine steps from a fresh account to your first uploaded video. The script engine step forks three ways — pick whichever you already have.

1

Install the Scaldeo app

The engine runs on your own Windows PC: it writes, voices, times and renders every video, so your media never leaves your disk.

  • Download the installer from the dashboard and run it.
  • Leave it running in the background — the dashboard finds it by itself.
  • If Chrome asks to let the page reach this computer, choose Allow.

Sign up, then the dashboard offers the download.

2

Connect this computer

Links the app on this machine to your account, so your plan applies here.

  • Settings → This computer → Connect this computer.
  • One click; the code it uses is single-use and expires in ten minutes.
3

Add the Chrome extension

Images are generated in Google Flow in your own browser, on your own Google account — so the daily limit is yours, not shared.

  • Settings → Flow Automator Extension shows the folder to load.
  • chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked.
  • Copy the extension ID back into Settings.
  • Open your Flow project in that same Chrome.
4

Choose what writes your scripts

Three ways in. Use whichever you already have — you can switch at any time, even per video.

  • Settings → Script Provider.
Option A

Claude Code (recommended)

Runs on your Claude subscription — no API bill — and is the only engine that can research the web while writing.

  • In a terminal: npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
  • For unattended runs: claude setup-token, then save the token as CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN.
  • Settings → Test Claude CLI should answer OK.
npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
claude setup-token
Option B

An API key

Paste an Anthropic, Google Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible key. Writes from the model’s own knowledge.

  • Settings → Script Provider → pick the engine.
  • Paste the key, then press Test.
Option C

Any chatbot, no setup

No CLI and no key? Copy a ready-made prompt into ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude.ai, then paste the reply back.

  • Content Bank → Import from Chat.
  • See the “No Claude Code?” board for the whole loop.
5

Pick a voice

Fish Audio, ElevenLabs or OpenAI (a key, ready in minutes) or local voice cloning (a ~1 GB download, no key, runs on your PC).

  • Testing Suite → Voice: choose the engine and a voice, then preview it.
  • Fish and ElevenLabs need a voice selected — Scaldeo never guesses one.
6

Choose a format

A format is the recipe behind a video: its master prompt, visual style, pacing, length and canvas. Six ship with the app.

  • Video Formats: Business Explainer, Narrated Story, Every Type of X, History, Top 10, 60-Second Short.
  • Or build your own: Video Formats → Build with AI drafts a whole format from a description of your channel.
7

Run the readiness check

Proves ffmpeg, disk space, your script engine and your voice all actually work — before you spend an hour on a video.

  • Settings → Preflight Doctor → Run.
8

Make your first video

Give it a title and a format. Start Automation runs script → voice → timing → scenes → images → assembly.

  • Pipeline → New Video Idea.
  • Open it, then Start Automation — or run each step by hand.
  • Keep your Flow tab open while images generate.
9Optional

Upload to YouTube

Connect a channel once, and finished videos upload privately — you review before anything goes public.

  • Settings → YouTube Upload → Connect.
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