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Bedtime Story Video Generator
A calm story for bedtime: soft voice, gentle frames, no captions and nothing loud.
Start free — no credit card, and the script and the shot list cost no credits.
01Say what it is about. Something gentle. Bedtime stories work better with no jeopardy at all.
02Slow, soft scenes. Long sentences, present tense, nothing that resolves with a shock.
03No captions by default. A soft read over gentle frames — captions would be the only bright thing on screen.
Voice:
Elli
Captions:
None
Music:
Lo-fi
Format:
Vertical 9:16
What comes out
The settings this page ships with, and the shape they produce
Every example on this page is labelled with the exact configuration behind it, including the one that says it is a drawing.
Layout mock-up
Captions off on this preset
Style: 3D render
Voice: Elli
Captions: None
Ratio: 9:16
A mock-up of the frame and caption layout at this page’s settings — TikTok, Reels and Shorts, lo-fi music bed. It is a drawing, not a rendered video: we have no published render library to show you yet, and a stock clip dressed up as our output would be worth less than saying so.
Your input
“A lighthouse keeper’s cat who checks that the whole harbour is asleep”
Plus this page’s brief, verbatim
Write this as a bedtime story. Slow, warm, present-tense description with almost no jeopardy. Nothing is lost, nobody is frightened, and any small problem resolves within a scene. Long soft sentences rather than punchy ones. The final scene should settle rather than conclude — a place going quiet, not a lesson.
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.
5–8 scenes
each with its own line, its own frame and its own length
Under 60s
cut to the narration, not to a fixed per-scene timer
Word-timed
captions burned from the voice model’s own alignment
1080-class
vertical, square or landscape — no watermark on any plan
01
This is the one preset optimised against engagement
Everything else in this registry is written to hold attention. This one is written to release it. No hook, no open loop, no cliffhanger, no reason to keep watching — because the job is to make a child stop watching and go to sleep.
That is why the defaults are what they are: the softest voice, the lo-fi bed, and captions turned off entirely. Burned-in captions are the brightest, highest-contrast thing on a phone screen, and at bedtime they are exactly wrong.
02
No jeopardy, and why that is harder to write than it sounds
A language model asked for a story will introduce a problem, because that is what stories are. A bedtime story is a place described until it becomes calm, and the brief has to say so explicitly: nothing lost, nobody frightened, any small problem resolved inside its own scene.
The last scene is the one that matters most. It should settle rather than conclude — a harbour going quiet, a light going off — rather than delivering a moral, which wakes a listener up rather than letting them go.
03
What it cannot do
It stops at three minutes — one minute on a free account — which is short for a bedtime story, and this page writes to the default minute. There is no long-form mode and no way to string several together automatically, so what this makes is one calm minute rather than a twenty-minute sleep track.
It also cannot use your own voice. The five voices are ours, Elli is the softest of them, and none of them are a parent reading. That is a real limitation for this use in particular, and it is on the page rather than in a footnote.
Who this is for
Four people this was built for
Parents
One calm minute at the end of the day, without an advert in it.
Sleep and calm channels
A register the whole category uses, with the engagement mechanics deliberately removed.
Early years teachers
Quiet-time content that resolves gently and stops on its own.
Writers of gentle fiction
A form where nothing happening is the point, and hard to write on purpose.
Compared
What this replaces
Six things somebody has to arrange to make one short, and who arranges them.
Input
The usual way: Find a book, or make something up while half asleep.
With Veedio: A subject. A calm minute comes back, with the jeopardy written out of it.
Visuals
The usual way: Film it, or licence stock and hope a clip matches the line.
With Veedio: A frame generated per scene from that scene's own line.
Voiceover
The usual way: Book a VO artist, or record yourself and cut the breaths out.
With Veedio: Five ElevenLabs voices, re-recorded free whenever the line changes.
Captions
The usual way: Burned-in captions, which are the brightest thing on the screen at bedtime.
With Veedio: None by default. It is the only preset here where that is the right answer.
Turnaround
The usual way: Nothing exists for this except long sleep videos with adverts in them.
With Veedio: About a minute to make, and about a minute long.
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
Find a book, or make something up while half asleep.
A subject. A calm minute comes back, with the jeopardy written out of it.
Visuals
Film it, or licence stock and hope a clip matches the line.
A frame generated per scene from that scene's own line.
Voiceover
Book a VO artist, or record yourself and cut the breaths out.
Five ElevenLabs voices, re-recorded free whenever the line changes.
Captions
Burned-in captions, which are the brightest thing on the screen at bedtime.
None by default. It is the only preset here where that is the right answer.
Turnaround
Nothing exists for this except long sleep videos with adverts in them.
About a minute to make, and about a minute long.
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
Same engine, different preset
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.
Under a minute — the pipeline’s hard cap. That is short for a bedtime story and there is no long-form mode, so this is one calm minute rather than a sleep track.
Why are the captions off?
Because burned-in captions are the brightest, highest-contrast thing on a phone screen and this is the one video on the site where that is wrong. You can turn them on in the dropdown.
Can it read in my own voice?
No. There are five voices and none of them are yours — no voice cloning and no uploads. Elli is the softest, and it is still not a parent reading.
How is this different from the fairy tale preset?
Fairy tales have a bargain and a cost. This has neither: no jeopardy, nothing lost, and an ending that settles rather than resolves.
Is there music?
A lo-fi bed by default, ducked under the narration, and “no music” is an option. Neither has a beat that will keep anyone awake.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free one, and it needs no card. Writing the story costs no credits; rendering it spends from the 60 free credits the account starts with.
Do I have to sign up to try this?
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.
What does it cost after the free credits?
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.
Do I own the videos, and is there a watermark?
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.