Overview
Canvas is an infinite spatial workspace for AI filmmakers and professional creators. On a single board you can generate and edit images and videos, lay out storyboards, build editable pitch decks and demo websites, review work with your team, and share preview links with your customers — all in one browser tab, with everything kept exactly where you or a collaborator left it.
Open it from the Canvas tab in the top navigation, or go straight to letz.ai/canvas. Canvas requires an active paid subscription. The AI Assistant draws from your Credit balance.
This guide covers the main features. When you're ready to work faster, keep the full shortcuts reference close by.
Canvas Shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut, mouse action, and right-click menu on Canvas — in one place.
Inviting users
Canvas is collaborative in real time — you can see everyone's cursors and presence avatars in the top bar, and changes sync instantly.
Add collaborators
Click Share in the top-right of the board to open the collaborators panel. Search for a user by username, pick a role, and add them:
| Role | Can do |
|---|---|
| Owner | Full control, including managing collaborators and deleting the board. |
| Editor | Generate, edit, move, and arrange everything on the board. |
| Viewer | View-only — can navigate, zoom, present, and comment, but not edit or generate. |
You can change a collaborator's role or remove them at any time from the same panel. Owners can also share a board with an entire organization, so every member gets access automatically. If someone opens a board they can't access yet, they can request access, and the owner approves it from the Share panel.
Share previews with customers
To share work outside the team, publish a section or design and send a link on preview.letz.ai — a dedicated preview surface where stakeholders can watch and react without opening the editor or creating an account. Share the cut, not a zip file.
Moving elements & tools
The board is an infinite stage. Pan with the Hand tool, Space + drag, or two-finger scroll. Zoom with ⌘ / Ctrl + scroll or pinch. Press ⇧1 to fit the whole board in view and ⌘0 to reset to 100%.
Tools
Press a letter to switch tools (when you're not typing in a field):
| Key | Tool |
|---|---|
| V | Select — move, resize, and multi-select |
| H | Hand — pan the board |
| T | Text |
| R O L A | Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Arrow |
| P | Pen — freehand strokes |
| S | Section — a generation surface (dashed outline) |
| F | Frame — an empty designable rectangle (solid outline) |
Moving & arranging
With the Select tool, click to pick a node and drag to move it. Drag the handles to resize, or hold K for proportional (scale) resize. Hold ⌥ and drag to duplicate. Nudge with the arrow keys. Standard editing applies everywhere: ⌘Z to undo, ⌘C / ⌘V to copy and paste, ⌘D to duplicate, ⌘G to group a selection into a section.
Bring your own content in by dragging files from your desktop onto the board, pasting from the clipboard, or pressing M to open your media library. Right-click anywhere for context actions — change the board background color, fit or reset zoom, or open node actions like download, duplicate, and layer order.
Using Chat
The AI Assistant lives in the panel on the right of the board. Unlike a generic chatbot, it reads your layout and respects your selection, so it can work in the context of what's already on the board.
Ask it in plain language to plan a storyboard, generate stills shot by shot, animate panels, build a deck or website, or pull web references onto the board. It can run longer multi-step jobs and shows a live plan as it works.
- Send a message with Enter; add a new line with ⇧Enter.
- Use a reference — select an image on the board first, and the assistant uses it as context for the next request.
- Mention a model by typing
@modelin your prompt to generate with one of your trained models. - Search and place — ask it to search the web for references and drop the results straight into your layout.
Everything you already have on LetzAI is reachable without leaving Canvas: drag from your library, paste from the clipboard, or pull from your Boards.
Creating videos, sections & editing on the timeline
Sections
A Section (press S, or group a selection with ⌘G) is a generation surface with its own prompt and a grid of shots. Use it to generate a set of related images — a storyboard strip, lighting variations, or a sequence of shots — and keep them together as one unit you can move and present.
Turning shots into video
Select any image and press A (or use the right-click menu) to animate it into a video. You can re-animate existing videos the same way. Generate shot by shot, animate the ones you want, and arrange them in a section.
Editing on the timeline
Double-click a section's body — or right-click it and choose Present sequence — to open Present mode: a fullscreen player with a shot-by-shot timeline underneath and transport controls to play, scrub, split, and reorder. Each frame on the strip is a shot you generated or placed; drag to rearrange, trim where you need to, and watch the cut update in place. Use ← / → to step through and Space to play or pause.
Review tools sit right beside the timeline: comment on individual shots and add colour-coded labels for approved takes, VFX notes, or alternate directions — all tied to the version your team is watching. When you're done, render and export the video to your device.
Creating presentations & editing them
Canvas can build entire editable pitch decks. Ask the assistant to create a deck (for example, "build a 6-slide pitch deck for…") and it generates a multi-slide design on the board.
Presenting
Double-click the design to open it fullscreen in present mode. Step through slides with ← / →, and preview how it looks across device sizes with the device toggle in the header.
Editing
You don't have to regenerate to make changes. In present mode, click the edit (pencil) button to edit copy directly in place. For larger changes, just tell the assistant what to adjust — wording, layout, colors, or a new slide. Compare variants side by side at full size on the board.
Exporting & sharing
Export a design as HTML, PDF, or PNG from the present header or the right-click menu, or publish it to preview.letz.ai to send stakeholders a link.
Creating websites & editing them
The same design system builds working demo websites. Ask the assistant to generate a site — a landing page, a product page, a portfolio — and it produces an interactive design that runs live on the board in its own sandboxed frame.
- Browse it — double-click to focus the design, then scroll, click links, and follow slide navigation inside it.
- Edit it — describe the changes you want and the assistant updates the site. You can also edit copy in place, or open the source files in the Designs panel's code editor for fine control (⌘S saves).
- Preview responsively — switch device sizes in present mode to check desktop and mobile layouts.
- Publish — export the design or publish it to preview.letz.ai to share a live preview link.
Next steps
The fastest way to learn Canvas is to open a board, drop in a reference, and ask the assistant to build something. When you want to move faster, keep Canvas Shortcuts handy for every keyboard and right-click action.