Sora Studio
A real production tool around the Sora API: remixing, prompt history, a pricing calculator and a payload viewer, not just a prompt box.
The question I was chasing
What does a real production tool around a single video model actually need, beyond the prompt box everyone ships?
The demo version of 'a Sora app' is a text field and a render button. The useful version is everything around it: managing what you've made, editing incrementally, knowing what a render costs before you run it. I wanted to build the second one.
Why it exists
Working with Sora seriously means generating a lot, iterating on what's close, and keeping track of cost and history. The official surface gives you the model; it doesn't give you a workshop. Sora Studio is the workshop: the tooling that turns a powerful model into something you can actually produce with.
The constraints
Everything had to run through the Sora API across Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro, at the various resolutions and durations they support, so the tool had to expose real control without becoming a settings dump. Iteration had to be cheap and legible: you should be able to nudge a result rather than re-roll from zero, and you should know the cost before you commit, because frontier video isn't free to experiment with blindly.
The decisions that mattered
Remixing for incremental editing: the most important call, because real work is iteration, and re-prompting from scratch each time wastes both time and money.
Basic and advanced prompting modes, so the tool serves a quick idea and a precise one without forcing everyone through the same surface.
The power-user tooling most apps skip: a pricing calculator so cost is visible up front, a payload viewer so you can see exactly what's being sent, and notes plus prompt history so a session is something you can return to.
What it is
A platform for creating and managing Sora videos through the Sora API. A custom library for content, basic and advanced prompting modes, reference-image uploads and remixing for incremental edits, across Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro at a range of resolutions and durations. Plus notes, prompt history, a pricing calculator and a payload viewer. There's a walkthrough above.
Where it landed
A working tool, and a clear statement of what I think production AI tooling should be: the model is the easy part, the workshop around it is where the real product lives. What I'd carry into the next version is collaboration: sessions, libraries and histories a small team can share, not just one operator.
Part of the Rolling Waves work archive.