Hanukkah Video Maker

Yes. Name the age or grade — preschool, kindergarten, 2nd grade — and the story is pitched to it, gentle and short, in the composer’s Claymation look with every word captioned. Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, December 4, the evening of the first candle, and ends at nightfall on Saturday, December 12, after eight nights.

The story is told the way it is usually taught: Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees’ revolt, and the tradition of a small jar of oil that lasted eight days. Each night one more candle is lit on the menorah, with the helper candle, the shamash, lighting the others, and families spin the dreidel and eat foods fried in oil, such as latkes and sufganiyot. The script keeps to those basics, makes no religious claim beyond them, does not preach, and invents no date, quote, statistic or source; paste your own lesson notes or your community’s wording and the script keeps them.

Hebrew is not one of the composer’s narration languages. A Hebrew word typed in English letters — Hanukkah, menorah, shamash, dreidel, chag sameach — is read by an American English voice and may not sound the way your family says it, so listen to the first video before you share it. The candle blessings are never written by the script: if you want them in the video, type them exactly as your family or community says them and they are read as typed, but many families would rather say the blessings themselves, in the room, as the candles are lit. The frames carry no Hebrew lettering, because generated letters come out garbled.

Yes. A greeting or an invitation uses only what you type: the family or community name, the night, the day, the time, the place and anything to bring. Nothing is added — no candle lighting you did not mention, no time you did not give, no speaker and no menu — so leave out a detail and the video leaves it out too, and you check every one in the script before it renders. 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 classroom projector, a community hall screen, a family group chat, an email newsletter and a company all-hands are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and play it from the laptop, attach it, or upload it the way you would any video file.

The scenes are generated: a menorah glowing in a window on a winter evening, a plate of latkes, a dreidel spinning on a wooden table, a family seen from behind around the candles, a community hall set for a party. No real person, rabbi, celebrity or brand appears, and nobody is drawn as a caricature or a stereotype. Image models do not count reliably, so a generated menorah may not show exactly nine branches or the right number of candles for the night; the frames keep it in soft candlelight rather than close up, and the narration and captions, not the picture, say which night it is.

The video keeps Hanukkah its own holiday: it is not written as a Christmas alternative and uses no Christmas trees, stockings or Santa in the frames. For an interfaith family greeting that marks both, say so in the box and the script names both holidays as you ask. Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default with a short camera move (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan. Nothing on screen talks: there are no moving mouths and no lip sync. One narrator voice tells the whole video, dialogue included, and the captions carry the words.

Yes. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages, chosen in the composer, so one greeting can be made for each language your family speaks. There are 5 voices, all recorded in American English. There is no British, Irish or Australian voice and no voice cloning. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages — French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish among them — chosen in the composer; the voices read them, but a native listener may hear the American accent, so listen to the first one before you post a series.

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. Every paid plan makes videos of 30 seconds, one minute, 90 seconds or three minutes; a longer video has more scenes and costs more credits, and you see the price before you generate. 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.

Yes, and pick a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment has a 7-day money-back guarantee. On a plan, 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.

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.