Your account
Cask Film and Cask Flow spend from the same credit balance, against the same plan, on the same backend. A credit spent in one app is gone in the other.
What is free
Section titled “What is free”Everything local. In Cask Film that is import, the canvas, the timeline, playback and export. In Cask Flow it is the stage, the layers, the dope sheet, the camera and export. Neither needs a paid plan.
Captions in Cask Film are free too. The app transcribes a clip’s speech with macOS on-device speech recognition, so no audio leaves your Mac and no credits are spent. The first run may download a speech model.
What costs credits
Section titled “What costs credits”Every generation: image, video, music, sound and text. Regenerating costs the same as generating did. Chaining a shot from a previous shot’s last frame costs a generation, because it is one.
You see the price before you commit
Section titled “You see the price before you commit”Both apps quote the job before they submit it, and both quote it from the backend rather than guessing.
| Cask Film | Cask Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the estimate appears | Next to the Generate button, reading for example 12 credits | Under the prompt in the Generate tab |
| While the quote is in flight | The button reads Estimating | The panel reads Checking credits… |
| Second confirmation | None. Pressing Generate submits at that price | Only above 5,000 credits, as a strip reading This image generation will spend about N credits. Generate it? |
| Where the balance lives | The editor toolbar. Click it for the Credits panel | Settings > Account, and above the prompt in the Generate tab |
Cask Film’s Credits panel also carries an Activity list of every reservation, charge, refund and grant on the account, across both apps.
Credits are reserved when a job starts and settled when it finishes. A generation that fails is refunded. In Cask Film the card records which it was: None used, Credits refunded, or the number actually spent.
Three limits you can hit
Section titled “Three limits you can hit”No plan. Generation needs an active plan. Cask Film says Choose a plan to generate; Cask Flow says Generation requires an active AI plan. Choose a plan, then try again. Editing carries on either way.
Not enough credits. Cask Film says Not enough credits, naming what the job needs and what you have, with Buy credits. Cask Flow names the same two numbers in the panel.
Too many at once. Your plan sets how many generations run at the same time. Cask Film reports this as Generation limit reached, telling you the number your plan allows. Wait for one to finish, or upgrade.