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Doki, a text-native interface, is introduced to streamline generative video authoring by allowing users to define assets, structure scenes, create shots, refine edits, and add audio directly within a text document. This approach aligns video creation with the familiar process of text writing, making it more accessible. A week-long user study with participants of varying expertise demonstrated Doki's capabilities and validated the text-first approach as a powerful and accessible way to craft visual stories.
Imagine writing a script and instantly seeing it come to life – Doki makes generative video authoring as intuitive as writing a text document.
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.