# Short Video Maker

The generic short: a hook, four beats and a close, under sixty seconds.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/short-video-maker
Search intent: Wants a short video and has not decided what kind. The broadest possible query on the site.

## 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 (free accounts up to 60s, 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: rachel
- Captions: bold-center
- Music: uplifting
- 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: "short-video-maker"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a general-purpose short: a hook that works with no context, four beats that each add one new thing, and a close that lands rather than asking for a follow. Keep every line to one spoken sentence. Match the register to whatever the subject implies rather than defaulting to enthusiasm.

## Example inputs from the page

- A short explaining why bread goes stale faster in the fridge
- A short about the one thing that makes a CV get read
- A short on why some rooms sound better than others

## Free with an account

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. That needs a free
account — it takes a moment and no card — and costs no credits. Rendering the
visuals, voiceover and final file does spend credits, and signup comes with 60 of
them (about 4 videos).

## How it works

1. **Say what it is about** — Any subject. This is the general page — the specific ones start from better defaults.
2. **Hook, four beats, close** — The default short-form shape, with a scene and a generated frame for each.
3. **Voiced, captioned, rendered** — An ElevenLabs read with word-timed captions, 9:16 and under a minute.

## What “a short” actually means as a structure

Six scenes. The first has to work with no context at all, because the viewer has arrived mid-scroll with no idea who you are. The middle four each add exactly one new thing — a fact, a turn, an example, a complication. The last one lands the point without asking for anything.

That is the shape this page writes, and it is the shape most of the other pages start from before their own brief bends it. Naming it plainly here is useful, because once you can see the structure you can tell within ten seconds whether a draft has it.

## Where this page is the right choice, and where it is not

It is the right choice when you have not decided what kind of video you are making. The defaults are neutral: a warm voice, a cinematic look, bold captions, an uplifting bed, and a brief that does not assume a genre.

It is the wrong choice once you do know. A listicle, a storytime, a tutorial or a facts video all have their own page with a brief written for that shape, and every one of them produces a better script for its own format than a general brief will. This is the front door, not the destination.

## One minute here, three minutes at the outside

This page writes to the default minute: five to eight scenes, one or two spoken sentences each. The composer you click through to offers 30 seconds, a minute, 90 seconds and 3 minutes, and the scene count follows whichever you pick — a free account goes up to a minute, a paid one to three.

Three minutes is the ceiling, and it is a real one: the renderer, the credit model and the caption timing all assume short-form. If you need ten minutes, this is not the product, and we would rather you knew that on the page you landed on than after signing up.

## Who it is for

- **First-time visitors** — The page to try when you want to know whether any of this is any good.
- **Marketers testing the format** — Neutral defaults, so what you are judging is the writing rather than a preset.
- **Creators between niches** — A general shape for the video that does not fit the channel’s usual format.
- **Anyone with one video to make** — No decisions required beyond what it is about.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | A script, a camera, a microphone and an editor. | A sentence about the subject, and no decisions beyond that. |
| 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 | Auto-captions that drift out of sync by the third scene. | Burned in per scene from the voice model’s character alignment — nothing is estimated. |
| Turnaround | Hours per video, most of it in a timeline nudging clips. | About a minute, and the script is readable ten seconds in. |
| 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. |

## FAQ

### How is this different from the AI video generator?

Barely, and that is honest. That page is the general generator across all three input types; this one is fixed to the short-form shape with neutral defaults. If you are choosing between them, either will do — the specific format pages are where the real difference is.

### How long can the video be?

This page writes to a minute — five to eight scenes. In the composer you can pick 30, 60, 90 or 180 seconds instead, and the scene count follows; free accounts stop at a minute and paid plans at three. Nothing longer than three minutes is possible.

### Which format should I use instead?

If you know the shape — a list, a story, a tutorial, a facts video — use that page. Its brief is written for that format and produces a noticeably better script than a general one.

### Can I change the voice and the look?

Yes. Five voices, five visual styles, four caption styles, five music options and three aspect ratios, none of them gated by plan.

### Is there a watermark?

No, on any plan including the free credits. Nothing about the output file is gated by tier.

### Do I need to sign up to try it?

Yes, and it is free. The box at the top writes the script and the shot list for no credits; rendering spends from the 60 credits signup includes, and no card is needed.

### 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.

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