LTX Studio Retake AI: Selective Video Editing Without Regeneration

What Is Retake in LTX Studio?

Retake AI is a new directing feature introduced by LTX Studio, designed to give creators more granular control over already-generated video footage.

Instead of regenerating an entire scene from scratch, Retake AI allows users to rework only the specific part of a video they want to improve.

This capability turns LTX Studio into not just an AI video generator, but an AI directing environment, where creative adjustments can happen after the main video has already been produced.

With Retake AI, creators can refine a moment, adjust tone, replace dialogue, or change how a scene unfolds — all without compromising continuity, pacing, or the original creative intent.

LTX Studio

LTX Studio is an all-in-one, browser-based generative AI video creation platform developed by Lightricks. It is built as a comprehensive creative suite, offering tools that cover nearly every stage of video production: scripting, storyboarding, style selection, editing, sound design, and final delivery.
Key capabilities include:

• Text-to-video & image-to-video generation
• AI-driven editing and control
• Storyboarding and pre-production tools
• Flexibility in style and output

Why Retake Matters

The Retake AI feature represents a significant evolution in how AI-generated video can be edited. Previously, if a video created with AI wasn’t perfect, the only solution was to regenerate the full scene.

However, full regeneration comes with a challenge: AI output is not always identical or repeatable. Even using the same prompt may produce a slightly different camera angle, character expression, lighting variation, or timing. This randomness makes it difficult to preserve moments that were already successful while correcting only the elements that need improvement.

Retake solves this problem by allowing creators to keep the strong parts of a scene intact and only refine the portion that requires adjustment.

1. Save Time and Money

Instead of restarting a full generation cycle, Retake AI allows precise fixes. You can adjust messaging, dialogues, or emotional beats after generating a video — rather than regenerate entire shots or re-shoot.

That means quicker delivery and lower production cost — especially when multiple versions are needed.

2. Improve Details Without Losing the Core Vision

If only one line of dialogue, facial expression, pacing, or tone feels off, you don’t have to compromise the entire scene. Because Retake preserves the original lighting, motion, framing and performance context, you don’t risk visual discontinuities when you change only small parts — important for professional-looking flow.

Retake AI provides a way to fix minor errors without affecting the whole structure.

3. Keep the Whole Video but Change Style or Direction

Retake supports experimentation. Creators can explore alternate endings, tone shifts, or new emotional angles while keeping the rest of the content fully intact.

For teams testing variations for social media, regional marketing, or storytelling, this flexibility makes LTX AI a far more adaptable tool.

4. Creative experimentation or A/B Testing

If you’re not sure which vibe or line will resonate (for example, for different markets), you can test variations efficiently.

Key Functionalities of LTX AI Retake

Retake is built to give granular directing control, similar to real-world filmmaking. The core functional capabilities include:

Rewriting or Modifying Dialogue

Retake allows users to change spoken lines while keeping the original voice characteristics, lip-sync accuracy, pacing, and visual continuity intact.

This flexibility is especially valuable for:

• correcting script errors,
• refining tone,
• updating messaging,
• creating localized versions in multiple languages.

Adjusting Emotional Delivery

Beyond changing the words, Retake AI can also reshape the emotional tone of a scene. You can make a character sound warmer, funnier, more serious, curious, sarcastic, or dramatic — all without altering the surrounding performance or visual style.

This feature helps enhance storytelling, align character behavior with narrative goals, or test how tonal variations affect audience perception. Rather than re-filming the performance, Retake updates emotional expression while maintaining the shot’s original continuity.

Modifying Pacing or Timing

Sometimes a scene needs breathing room — or a faster delivery for better rhythm. Retake AI allows you to alter pacing by extending, shortening, or refining the timing of a selected moment between 2 and 16 seconds.

Whether you want a dramatic pause before a reveal or a quicker, sharper comedic delivery, pacing adjustments can reshape how the scene feels. Retake makes this possible without affecting camera movement, background action, music, or other performance elements.y.

Exploring Alternate Creative Directions

One of the biggest advantages of Retake AI is the ability to generate multiple variations of the same scene — each with different delivery, tone, or script. This makes it ideal for:

• A/B testing before publishing,
• sharing creative options with clients,
• iterating for narrative improvement,
• adapting content for different audience segments or platforms.

Refining Scene Beginnings or Endings

Retake also allows creators to reshape how a scene starts or concludes. This may include:

• changing how a character enters a moment,
• adjusting reactions,
• refining closing dialogue,
• altering facial expressions and pacing.

These micro-changes can improve storytelling flow, strengthen emotional transitions, or help align a scene with the rest of the narrative structure — without affecting the surrounding footage.

What to Know Before Using Retake AI

While Retake AI introduces a powerful new way to refine video scenes inside LTX Studio, there are a few practical constraints to be aware of.

Segment Length Range: 2–16 Seconds

Each Retake edit applies to a clip between two and sixteen seconds. This ensures the system has enough contextual information to keep the regenerated content consistent while preventing full-scene reconstruction.

Export Resolution Limited to 1080p

Retake AI currently outputs regenerated clips at 1080p, even if the original file was uploaded in 4K. Higher resolution support may be introduced in future updates, but at the moment, footage requiring native 4K replacement may need full regeneration.

Cost Structure Based on Duration

Retake uses a per-second cost model — approximately $0.10 per second (or 88 credits/sec). This pricing structure makes it economical for quick corrections or multi-version content testing, while encouraging selective refinement rather than whole-scene re-creation.

Not Suitable for Major Shot Changes

Because Retake AI preserves continuity with surrounding frames, it excels at subtle revisions — new dialogue, pacing tweaks, mood adjustments, or emotional variations.

However, if you need a different camera angle, new choreography, entirely new motion, or visual resets, full scene regeneration may be required.

Final Words

Retake AI introduces a new level of control to AI-generated video, allowing creators to refine specific moments rather than regenerating entire scenes. Try video retake in LTX AI, and try photo retake in SuperMaker for free.