What it does

LocalMiniDrama is an Electron-wrapped Vue 3 app that manages the full short-drama production chain: story → script → storyboard → character/scene/prop images → video clips → final assembly. It stores everything in local SQLite and runs generation through your own API accounts (Alibaba DashScope, Volcengine/Seedance, Kling, Vidu, etc.). The pitch is simple: your prompts and outputs never leave the machine unless you send them.

The interesting bit

The tool treats consistency as a first-class problem. It passes reference images between shots to keep characters looking like the same person, and its “omni mode” feeds multiple reference images into newer models like Seedance 2.0 or Kling Omni using @图片1/@图片2 syntax in prompts. There’s even a “tail-frame splicing” feature that grabs the last frame of one shot to use as the first frame of the next—coherence via ffmpeg, not just hope.

Key highlights

• Fully offline data storage: SQLite backend, no cloud account required for the app itself
• Multi-provider video generation: supports Seedance 2.0, Kling (including Omni), Volcengine, Vidu, Google Veo, with independent config for text/image/video models
• Project portability: export entire projects as ZIP files with all assets, configs, and text
• Two storyboard modes: “classic” (reference-image-driven) and “omni” (description-driven with multi-image references), with validation that your AI config matches the mode
• Auto-retry pipeline: up to 3 retries per step, skips already-generated assets, shows live logs
• Pure JavaScript stack: Vue 3 + Vite frontend, Node/Express backend, Electron 28 shell—no TypeScript

Caveats

• Windows-only executables; other platforms need manual Node.js setup
• No built-in AI: you bring all API keys and pay all inference costs; the tool is strictly orchestration
• Documentation is primarily in Chinese, though an English README exists

Verdict

Worth a look if you’re producing short-form vertical video and want to iterate on prompts without leaking drafts to SaaS platforms. Skip it if you need collaborative cloud editing or don’t want to manage API keys and rate limits yourself.