# Book Trailer Maker

A short, cinematic trailer for your book — the hook, the world, the stakes, never the ending — for BookTok, Reels, Shorts and your author site.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/book-trailer-maker
Search intent: A self-published or traditionally published author in the US, the UK, Canada or Australia who needs a trailer for launch week and every promotion after it, without hiring an editor.

## What it produces

- 5 to 8 scenes, each with one spoken line and one generated frame
- A minute by default; 30, 60, 90 or 180 seconds are selectable in the composer (paid plans to 180s). Scene length comes from the narration's true duration
- ElevenLabs voiceover: 5 voices, narrating in any of 29 languages
- Word-timed captions burned in from the voice model's own character alignment
- A licensed music bed, ducked under the narration, loudness-normalised master
- 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, 1080-class, no watermark on any plan

## Preset applied on this page

- Source type: prompt
- Voice: adam
- Captions: bold-center
- Music: cinematic
- Visual style: cinematic
- Aspect ratio: 9:16

## The brief this page adds, verbatim

This string is prepended to whatever the visitor types before the scriptwriter
sees it — in the free preview on this page, in the video you generate after
clicking through to the composer, and in the API when you send
`preset: "book-trailer-maker"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a short trailer for a book. Open on one striking image or line from the premise, establish the world and the main character in a sentence or two, raise the stakes, and end on the question that makes someone want to read it — never the answer, never the ending. Match the tone to the genre the user names. Use only the plot, names and details the user gives; never invent a plot point, a review, a quote, an award, a rating or a bestseller claim. Close with the title and author only if the user typed them.

## Example inputs from the page

- Cozy mystery: a retired librarian in a Cornish village finds a first edition that was reported stolen in 1962
- Epic fantasy: the last mapmaker in a kingdom where the roads move at night must chart a way out before the border closes
- Small-town romance: she came home to sell her grandmother’s orchard; he is the neighbor who has been keeping it alive

## Getting started

Pick a plan at /pricing and start creating today. The widget on the page runs the
real scriptwriter with this preset and returns the script, the per-scene image
prompts and the estimated runtime. Rendering the visuals, voiceover and final
file spends credits.

## How it works

1. **Paste the blurb** — The back-cover copy or the premise, with the genre, the title and your name.
2. **Read the trailer script** — A hook, the world, the stakes and the question — never the ending — back before anything renders.
3. **Post it for launch** — Vertical for BookTok, Reels and Shorts; landscape for your website and YouTube.

## A trailer is a hook, not a summary

The trailers that sell books do not summarize the plot. They open on one image, give you the world and the person in it in a sentence, raise the stakes, and stop on the question the book answers. Everything else — the subplot, the twist, the ending — is the reader’s reason to buy it, and a trailer that gives it away has spent it.

The brief is written to that shape. Paste your blurb or premise and the genre, and the script comes back as a short sequence of lines, each one a scene: the hook, the world, the turn, the question. You read it before anything renders, so you can cut a line that says too much or sharpen one that says too little.

## Your book’s mood, not a stock-footage montage

The default look is cinematic — low light, shallow focus, scenes that feel like film stills — and every frame is generated from the line it sits under, so a mapmaker’s kingdom or a Cornish village looks like your book rather than the nearest stock clip. Switch to watercolor for a cozy read or anime for a YA fantasy; the look is one dropdown.

Each frame is generated on its own, so your heroine’s face will not stay identical across scenes. Trailers that work lean on places, objects and weather rather than a character’s close-up, which is what a reader wants to imagine for themselves anyway. One image of your own — the cover — can be the opening frame, added in the composer.

## Launch week, and every promotion after it

Connect TikTok, Instagram and YouTube once and publish to TikTok, Reels and Shorts from the app, on every plan. Mini connects 1 account, Starter 3, Pro 6 and Studio 25. A trailer for launch week, another for the first promotion, one for the audiobook and one for the sequel — each is a paragraph typed in a box.

Plans are monthly: Mini $7 (200 credits), Starter $19 (600 credits), Pro $49 (2,000 credits), Studio $149 (7,500 credits). A five-scene short in pictures costs 13 credits; with AI motion in every scene it costs 68. You see the price before you generate, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Mini ($7 a month, 200 credits) covers about 15 five-scene shorts in pictures, or about 2 with AI motion in every scene.

## Who it is for

- **Self-published authors** — A trailer for launch week without hiring an editor, and another for every promotion after it.
- **Traditionally published authors** — Your own trailers for your own channels, alongside whatever your publisher makes.
- **Indie presses and author services** — Trailers for a whole list, with up to 25 connected accounts on Studio.
- **Teachers and librarians** — A model book trailer to show a class before students plan their own.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | A brief to a freelance editor, and a week of back and forth. | Your blurb, the genre and your name, pasted in a box. |
| Visuals | Stock footage that looks like every other trailer in the genre. | Scenes generated from your own premise, in the mood of your genre. |
| Voiceover | Book a VO artist, or record yourself and cut the breaths out. | Five ElevenLabs voices, re-recorded free whenever the line 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 per trailer, and a fee every time. | Minutes per trailer, so every promotion can have one. |
| Changing it | Re-record the line, re-cut the timeline, re-export, re-upload. | Edit the line and only its voice is re-recorded, free. A new still is free too; a new motion clip is free once per video. |

## FAQ

### Will it give away my ending?

Not unless you paste it. The brief writes a hook, the world, the stakes and the question, and is told never to reveal the ending. Paste the back-cover copy rather than a synopsis and there is nothing to give away.

### Can it show my book cover?

Yes, as the opening frame: one image can be added in the composer, and every scene after it is generated. Put the title and your name in the post caption as well, where readers look for them.

### Will it quote reviews or call it a bestseller?

No. It is told never to invent a review, a quote, an award, a rating or a bestseller claim. If you have a real review you are allowed to quote, type it and it will use it.

### Can the main character look the same throughout?

Not reliably. Each frame is generated on its own, so a face drifts between scenes. Trailers built on places, objects and atmosphere hold together much better.

### What does it cost?

Plans are monthly: Mini $7 (200 credits), Starter $19 (600 credits), Pro $49 (2,000 credits), Studio $149 (7,500 credits). A five-scene short in pictures costs 13 credits; with AI motion in every scene it costs 68. You see the price before you generate, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Mini ($7 a month, 200 credits) covers about 15 five-scene shorts in pictures, or about 2 with AI motion in every scene.

### Can the narrator sound British or Australian?

The 5 voices are American English. There is no British, Irish or Australian voice, and we would rather say so here than after you have paid. Adam is the default here, deep and unhurried, and every voice has a preview in the composer, so you hear it before you render anything.

### Do I own the trailer?

You own the videos on every plan and can use them commercially, paid ads included. There is no watermark on any plan, the export is 1080p, and the music beds are licensed for commercial use with no attribution.

### 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.

### What does it cost?

Starter is $19 a month for 600 credits, 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, 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, and a presenter avatar and the choice of video model need Pro. Everything else — every voice, every language, every caption style, every aspect ratio — is the same on all of them.

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