Long Take
Some things are easier to show than to write down. Long Take makes short camera films in a browser — a title, a route of steps, a closing line, or your own charts — with the camera work already done. You change the words; the shots still join up. One file out, and it plays anywhere.
A film about making a film
The film below is the tool itself, running live: a template picked, four steps typed, the assistant asked for a first draft, the cut played, the file downloaded, opened full screen and dropped into a course page. Nothing in it is a mock-up — the film it makes is a real Long Take film.
The tool, live
Start from a template — a module opener, a process walkthrough, a vertical micro-lesson, a picture wall, a data story — and make the words yours. Every shot is a clip in a strip; press play under the preview to watch the cut; download the film as one file. Or bring your own numbers: ten chart types stand in the same space and get filmed the same way.
The engine films. You write.
A piece is a handful of scenes standing in a space — words as objects the camera can fly through, a journey of steps it walks one at a time, an object to orbit, a picture, a chart — and a cut: which scene, from where, for how long, with what caption. The camera vocabulary is a film crew's (corner, close, over the shoulder, establishing; fly, cut, carry on; dissolve, dip, wipe) and every preset is only a starting number you can type over.
Captions burn in. A transcript travels inside the file and downloads on its own. The finished film is one HTML page with the engine inside it: a course page, a slide, an intranet, a USB stick.
Templates that already work
A finished piece with the wrong words in it. Change the words; the arrangement, the frame and the cut are kept.
Nothing is uploaded
The film is assembled in your browser tab. Your words and your numbers never leave your machine; the download is the only thing that moves.
AI writes, people decide
The assistant turns a brief into scenes and captions — as a proposal you apply or discard, with an undo. It never touches the camera. That's the working example of what the workshop teaches.
Free to build. A plan keeps and shares your work.
Everything the builder does is free: build it, download the file, package it as SCORM. Free exports carry a small Lazuro mark. A Lazuro Tools plan keeps your work on your account, publishes it as a hosted link that collects results, takes the mark off, and adds the writing assistant. One plan, one account, every builder.
Free
Everything the builder does, the file to download and a SCORM package, with a small Lazuro mark.
Lazuro Tools · $29 a month
Your work kept on your account, hosted links that collect results, no mark, exports stamped to your licence, and the assistant in every Lazuro builder. Cancel any time.
Lazuro Tools · $290 a year
The same, two months cheaper. Prices in AUD, GST added where it applies; invoices available for organisations.
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Want it written and built for you, with your own material? That's a service.
Something easier to show than write down?
Start from a template and make the words yours. If you'd rather it were made with you, that takes a conversation.
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