Terms earn their keep by fixing the boundaries. This page sets out how far the line goes, who owns your material and the film that comes out, when credits are charged and when they are not — and where we have promised nothing, which is why you will not find a flattering number in its place.
These terms cover the Octoryn Studio marketing site (octoryn.studio), the workbench (studio.octoryn.app), the mobile apps, and the share pages that need no sign-in. Creating an account, or using any of these, means accepting them.
The party you contract with is OCTOPUS CORE PTY LTD (ACN 696 931 236, ABN 28 696 931 236), a proprietary company limited by shares registered in New South Wales, Australia under the Corporations Act 2001. “We” below means that company.
The registered office is not published on this page. The address for service of legal notices is on the public register held by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and can be looked up from either number above; for anything else, use the contact details in section 17.
Octoryn Studio is a video production line. You give it a premise; it works through outline, episodes, script, assets, storyboard, voice, footage, lip-sync, subtitles, assembly and render, and produces a finished film. Every stage leaves something you can read, edit and re-run on its own.
We do the orchestration, not the pixels
We do not train models and we do not run inference. Footage and speech come from external vendors — xAI, Google, Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance · Volcano Engine, MiniMax, OpenAI and others — and the screenwriting text goes through our own AI routing service. Our work is arranging them into a line that delivers, and moving to another vendor when one is not co-operating. Quality, limits and moderation policy are theirs to set, not ours.
It is not a video editor
There are no layers, no keyframes and no colour curves. If the work needs frame-level control, this is the wrong tool — and saying so is more use than hedging, because where the capability ends is what tells you when to come to us and when not to.
You are responsible for what happens under your account, including what the people you invite into your team do.
Business data belongs to the team, not to the individual account. If you leave or are removed, the projects you made there stay with the team.
Roles are owner, admin and member. Inviting someone into a team gives them everything already in it — that is by design, not an oversight.
API keys act with team admin rights. A leaked key is a leaked admin account; keep them as you would a password.
Another team's resources come back to you as “does not exist”. Attempting to work around that isolation to reach material that is not yours is a breach of these terms.
Passwords must be at least ten characters and cannot be all digits or all letters. This is enforced at sign-up.
Subscriptions are billed monthly. There is no annual option — no switch for it in the interface, because there is no logic for it in the backend either.
Quota is denominated in credits, granted once per billing period. Every stage is quoted before it runs, and if the balance is short you are stopped before it starts rather than halfway through.
When you are charged, and when you are not
External vendor calls are charged, by actual usage — video by the second, images by the still, speech by the character.
Failed attempts are not charged. Routing may try several vendors before one succeeds; every attempt leaves a record, but the failed ones are recorded at zero units and so never reach your bill. They are recorded so that the denominator in a success rate is the real one.
Built-in fallbacks are not charged. The built-in concept-board footage, local speech synthesis, silent audio track and local screenwriting implementation are all priced at zero — our degrading should not land on your bill.
Drafts are free and unlimited. The rounds you spend reworking a storyboard all run as drafts: structure, pacing, voice and subtitles are real, and only the picture is a concept board.
Every external call is accounted for
Which vendor, which model, how many seconds or characters, succeeded or failed, how long it took — you can always find out what a given film cost. That is a hard requirement of the line, not an optional feature.
Payment is handled by Stripe, on Stripe's hosted checkout page. We never touch your card number — there is nowhere in the backend that could receive a card number, expiry date or CVC. Changing a payment method, retrieving invoices and cancelling all happen in Stripe's billing portal.
Subscription state is driven by signature-verified webhooks from Stripe. You can close the page as soon as you have paid; the state does not depend on you being redirected back to us.
Cancelling takes effect at the end of the current billing period. A period already started is not pro-rated. For refunds, see section 6.
Refunds are handled case by case: write to us setting out the circumstances and we will answer on the merits.
There is no “14 days, no questions asked” window, and no “all sales final” rule either. Neither has been promised, so neither is written here. Statutory rights you hold under consumer law are unaffected by this section.
What you upload and type stays yours. Premises, scripts, character notes, uploaded music — putting them through this line does not transfer ownership of any of it.
To make the film, you grant us a licence to store your content, process it within our systems, transmit the necessary parts to external model vendors, render the result, and distribute it according to your sharing settings. That licence is limited to operating the service and lasts until you delete the content — with the practical caveats set out in section 9 of the privacy policy.
We do not train models on your content — we do not train models at all.
We do not sell your content or share it with advertisers.
We do not use it for anything beyond making your films and billing you.
But content does go to external vendors, on their terms
Once content leaves our servers, how long it is retained and whether it feeds model improvement is governed by each vendor's own terms — we hold no written “not used for training” commitment on your behalf. Exactly what goes to whom is set out in section 5 of the privacy policy. Read the relevant vendor's terms before putting sensitive or unreleased material in.
You must have the right to use what you upload — particularly music, reference images, and anything involving a real person's likeness or name.
As between you and us, the film the line produces is yours, commercial use included. We claim no rights in it and will not use it as promotional material unless you separately agree.
But “yours” is not the same as “protected by copyright”
Whether AI-generated output attracts copyright, and to what extent, differs between countries and is still moving. We cannot guarantee that you will be able to assert copyright in a finished film. The vendors that generate the footage also have their own terms about their output, and those apply too. If ownership of the output is load-bearing for your business, get it confirmed independently.
Generative models do not guarantee uniqueness — similar prompts can produce similar footage for different customers.
Finished films carry an AI-generated badge by default, and it is genuinely burned into the frame rather than being a boolean in the metadata. You can change the wording to your own brand.
Turning it off is your compliance decision, not a default we make for you. Once you turn it off, the disclosure obligations that follow are yours — a number of countries and platforms now require AI-generated content to be labelled, and we have no way of knowing where your film will end up.
Unlawful content — sexualised material involving minors, terrorist content, and anything else prohibited by applicable law.
Real people without their consent — impersonation, deepfakes putting words or acts on identifiable people, and unauthorised use of anyone's likeness or voice.
Fraud and deception — fabricated news events, fabricated evidence, or material passed off as coming from someone else.
Harassment, defamation, or content targeting a private individual.
Material that infringes someone else's intellectual property.
Circumventing usage metering, tenant isolation, or a vendor's content moderation.
Reselling or redistributing the service itself. Making films with it and selling those films is fine; repackaging it as your own API is not.
Each external vendor has its own content policy and moderates independently of us. When a vendor refuses a request the line falls back and carries on, but we cannot overturn their judgement and cannot tell you in advance what they will reject.
The service carries no SLA, no uptime target and no service credits. We will not print a figure we cannot stand behind, which is why there is no percentage anywhere on this page.
What the deployment actually looks like
A single region (AWS in Sydney, Australia), two API instances, one worker, and no cross-region failover. There will be planned and unplanned interruptions. Weigh anything where an outage would be expensive against that, rather than against a promise.
Two more things worth knowing: the line depends on external vendors, so their outages, rate limits and policy changes affect output directly; and we may modify, suspend or withdraw a feature where reasonably necessary, giving notice of significant changes.
Media files are deleted automatically after 90 days
A lifecycle rule on the object store expires media 90 days after it is written, including your finished MP4. Projects, scripts and storyboards in the database are unaffected. Download anything you want to keep.
Those 90 days are an operational setting, not a retention commitment: we have neither undertaken to keep media for at least 90 days nor undertaken to delete it on the 90th. If the figure changes, section 16 applies.
What deletion actually removes, and what it leaves behind, is set out item by item in section 9 of the privacy policy.
You can stop using the service at any time, and cancel your subscription from Stripe's billing portal.
We may suspend or terminate an account for breach of the restrictions in section 10, for failed payment, or where an account's behaviour threatens the service or other customers. We will give notice first, unless the situation is urgent or the law requires otherwise.
The product has no self-service account deletion. After termination nothing is purged automatically — media still falls under the 90-day rule in section 12 — and deletion means writing to us for a person to action, with no turnaround time stated. What deletion removes and what it leaves is itemised in section 9 of the privacy policy.
The service is provided as is. We do not warrant the quality, fitness or accuracy of the output, and we cannot guarantee that any particular run will complete — generative output is inherently uncertain, and the vendors we depend on fail sometimes too.
How you use the finished film is your responsibility, including review before publication, any disclosure it needs, and whatever your sector requires.
These terms set no cap on liability and exclude no category of loss. Any commercial contract would normally carry both; this one does not, so liability between us falls to be determined by the applicable law rather than by a borrowed clause.
Rights under the Australian Consumer Law and other applicable law that cannot be excluded are unaffected by these terms in any case.
The operating entity is registered in New South Wales (see section 1). These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales, and disputes go to the courts of that state.
Two carve-outs have to be stated. Parts of the Australian Consumer Law cannot be contracted out of. And if you use the service as a consumer in the EU, the UK or China, local mandatory rules may take precedence over the law and forum named above. Nothing in the preceding paragraph cuts down either of those.
The version and date are at the top of the page. Registered users will be emailed in advance of substantive changes; continuing to use the service after they take effect means accepting them. If you would rather not, you can cancel and stop using the service before that date.