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A story told in five beats, illustrated frame by frame, narrated and captioned.
Start free — no credit card, and the script and the shot list cost no credits.
What comes out
Every example on this page is labelled with the exact configuration behind it, including the one that says it is a drawing.
The lighthouse keeper who kept a light burning for a ship…
Your input
“The lighthouse keeper who kept a light burning for a ship that never came”
Plus this page’s brief, verbatim
Tell this as a short story in five beats: situation, complication, escalation, turn, resolution. Use past tense and concrete sensory detail. No moral at the end and no explaining the story after it has finished — the last line is part of the story.
That string is not marketing copy — it is the instruction the script writer is given before it reads a word of yours, and it is the only thing separating this page from the other forty-seven.
The shape that comes back
Scene 1 — the hook
One line that works with no context, because the viewer arrived mid-scroll.
Scenes 2–6 — the body
One idea each, one or two spoken sentences, each with its own image prompt and its own duration.
Final scene — the close
A line that lands the point rather than asking for a follow.
Per scene — the shot
The exact image prompt the model would receive, with this page’s style suffix already appended.
This is the structure, not a saved example. The box at the top of the page writes the real one — with your wording, in about ten seconds, free once you sign in.
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Under a minute, a story gets five moves: the situation, the thing that goes wrong, the escalation, the turn, and the landing. Any more and the beats get too thin to feel; any fewer and the turn arrives before the viewer cares about it.
That is the structure this preset asks for by name. The turn is the whole reason the video exists, so the pacing is arranged to arrive there with about ten seconds left rather than in the last two.
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Stories are the format where generated visuals are genuinely better than stock, because the scene you need has never been filmed. A lighthouse in the specific weather your story describes does not exist in a stock library, and a nearby lighthouse in different weather quietly undercuts the writing.
Each beat’s frame is generated from that beat’s own line, in a consistent style, which is closer to illustrating a book than to editing a video. The captions default to the subtle style here, small and out of the way, because on a story the picture is doing work the captions should not fight.
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The same character will not look the same in every frame. Each image is generated independently, so a recurring person’s face drifts between beats.
Stories that survive this are about a situation, a place or an event, and describe people by role rather than by face — the keeper, the mapmaker, the crew. Stories that need a consistent protagonist in shot after shot are better served by something built for character consistency, which we are not pretending to be.
Who this is for
Anecdotes, folk tales and historical oddities, illustrated rather than filmed.
A scene from the book as a short, made without commissioning an illustrator.
The founding anecdote, told properly once, instead of buried on an about page.
The story behind the fact, which is the part students actually remember.
Compared
Six things somebody has to arrange to make one short, and who arranges them.
Input
The usual way: A script, a storyboard, and an illustrator with a two-week queue.
With Veedio: A premise. The beats and the frames come back together.
Visuals
The usual way: Stock footage of somewhere that is nearly the place in the story.
With Veedio: A frame generated from the beat itself, so it is the place in the story.
Voiceover
The usual way: A narrator booked by the hour, re-booked for every rewrite.
With Veedio: A soft storytelling voice, re-recorded free whenever a beat changes.
Captions
The usual way: Auto-captions that drift, then an hour nudging keyframes.
With Veedio: Burned in from the voice model’s own word alignment, so they land on the syllable.
Turnaround
The usual way: Days, and most of it waiting on someone else.
With Veedio: About a minute, and you watch it fill in scene by scene.
Changing it
The usual way: Re-record the line, re-cut the timeline, re-export, re-upload.
With Veedio: Edit the line and regenerate that one scene. Regenerating a scene is free.
| The usual way | With Veedio | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | A script, a storyboard, and an illustrator with a two-week queue. | A premise. The beats and the frames come back together. |
| Visuals | Stock footage of somewhere that is nearly the place in the story. | A frame generated from the beat itself, so it is the place in the story. |
| Voiceover | A narrator booked by the hour, re-booked for every rewrite. | A soft storytelling voice, re-recorded free whenever a beat changes. |
| Captions | Auto-captions that drift, then an hour nudging keyframes. | Burned in from the voice model’s own word alignment, so they land on the syllable. |
| Turnaround | Days, and most of it waiting on someone else. | About a minute, and you watch it fill in scene by scene. |
| Changing it | Re-record the line, re-cut the timeline, re-export, re-upload. | Edit the line and regenerate that one scene. Regenerating a scene is free. |
Related tools
Twenty more pages over the same pipeline. Each one is a different brief, a different look and a different page — and each one prints its brief the way this one does.
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Try it outA whole channel’s worth of video with no camera, no room and nobody on screen.
Try it outYou wrote the script. This cuts it into scenes, reads it in a real voice and puts a frame behind every line.
Try it outAn anime-styled vertical short: key-visual frames, a narrated script and captions timed to the voice.
Try it outOne idea, explained properly in forty seconds — the claim, the mechanism and why it matters.
Try it out“POV: you…” shorts written in second person, with a frame for every beat of the scenario.
Try it outA topic in, a five-beat numbered list out, with one generated frame per item and the count on screen.
Try it outFive ranked picks, counted down, one scene and one generated frame each.
Try it outThe storytime shape — a confession, four beats and a turn — narrated with nobody on camera.
Try it outA how-to in five steps, each step its own scene, its own frame and its own length.
Try it outOne idea, explained in forty seconds, for somebody who is scrolling.
Try it outType what the video is about. Get a scene-by-scene short with AI visuals, a real voiceover and word-timed captions.
Try it outPaste any block of text and get it back as a narrated, captioned vertical video with a frame per scene.
Try it outA vertical, captioned, voiced TikTok from one line of brief — written to survive the first second.
Try it outShorts that answer the question in the title, in under a minute, with captions timed to the voice.
Try it outA Reel with a clean look, a real voiceover and captions that fit inside the safe area.
Try it outBright, rendered cartoon frames with a narrated script and captions that land on the word.
Try it outA 40-second motivational short with a cinematic look, a deep read and captions that hit on the beat.
Try it outA short that explains what your product does and who it is for, in the words a customer would use.
Try it outA premise is enough — a situation and, if you have it, the turn. It will write the five beats. The more of the ending you supply, the more the story will be yours rather than the model’s.
No. Frames are generated independently, so faces drift between beats. Stories that describe people by role rather than by face hold up; stories that need one consistent protagonist on screen do not.
You can, with one caveat: there is no gameplay background here, so the visuals are illustrated scenes rather than footage under a voice. If the gameplay layer is the format, this is not it.
Around 40 to 55 seconds. Each beat is one or two sentences, and each scene runs exactly as long as its narration.
Because on a story the image is doing narrative work, and full-height bold captions cover it. The subtle style keeps the words available without competing. Both louder styles are one dropdown away.
Yes — use the script-to-video preset instead. It is briefed to keep your wording and only split it into scenes.
Only as narrated dialogue: one voice reads the whole thing. There is no per-character casting, so a story that turns on two voices will not sound the way you are imagining it.
The image models refuse graphic and explicit prompts, so a story that depends on those will come back with weaker frames. Horror and tension are fine, and there is a horror preset tuned for exactly that.
Yes, a free one. Signup takes a moment and needs no card. Once you are signed in, the box at the top writes the script and the shot list for no credits — that is the part that decides whether the video is worth making — and rendering it into a file uses the 60 free credits the account starts with, about four videos.
Starter is $19 a month, Pro $49, Studio $149. A credit is a unit of pipeline cost rather than a video, so a five-scene short costs less than a nine-scene one, and you see the estimate before you spend anything.
You own them, on every plan including the free credits, and there is no watermark on any plan, no resolution cap and no platform withheld. Four things do follow the plan, because they are what a video costs to make: AI motion and sound effects need Starter, a presenter avatar and the choice of video model need Pro, and a free account tops out at a minute where paid plans go to three. Everything else — every voice, every language, every caption style, every aspect ratio — is the same on all of them.
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AI Story Video Generator
60 credits on signup, no card — about 4 finished videos.