Background Steps
Background steps are nodes that execute automatically during a flow run, without requiring user input. They handle AI generation tasks in the cloud.Which nodes run in the background?
By default, these node types can run as background steps:- Script Generation — Generates video scripts from prompts
- Image Generation — Creates images from text prompts
- Text-to-Video — Generates video from text descriptions
- Image-to-Video — Animates images into video
- Motion Transfer — Transfers motion from reference video to character image
- AI Transform — Transforms text using AI (always background by default)
- Parse Scenes — Breaks scripts into individual shots
- Continuity Enhance — Analyzes scenes for character/background consistency
- AI Music — Generates background music
- Clip Finder — Analyzes video for clip extraction
- Split (For Each) — Fans out an array for per-item processing
- Collect (Merge) — Gathers iteration results back into an array
Interactive-only nodes
These nodes always require user interaction and cannot be set as background steps:- Text Input
- Media Upload
- TikTok Scraper
- YouTube Scraper
- Text Editor
- Review / Approve
- Approve & Export
How background execution works
- The flow runner reaches a background step
- Credits are checked — if insufficient, the step cancels
- Credits are deducted
- The AI model processes the request in the cloud
- A loading spinner shows the step’s progress
- Once complete, the result is stored as an artifact
- The runner automatically advances to the next step