# Small Business Video Maker

Marketing videos for a small business — offers, tips, announcements — written, voiced, captioned and posted from one sentence.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/small-business-video-maker
Search intent: A US small business owner looking for an affordable way to make marketing videos regularly, without a videographer.

## 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: 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: "small-business-video-maker"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a short marketing video for a small, local or family-owned business. Open on the customer’s situation, say one thing — an offer, a tip, a reason, an announcement — in a friendly, specific voice, and close with one clear next step. Use only the details the user gives; never invent prices, reviews, awards, years in business or statistics.

## Example inputs from the page

- Our bike shop now does same-day tune-ups — drop off by 10am, ride home by 5
- Why a family-owned hardware store can match big-box prices on most paint
- We are hiring two part-time baristas for weekend shifts in downtown Raleigh

## 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.

## How it works

1. **Say one thing** — An offer, a tip, a reason to choose you, or an announcement.
2. **Script in seconds** — Customer first, one clear message, one next step.
3. **Render and post** — Voiced, captioned and published to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube from the app.

## Video, for a business with no video budget

Video reaches more people than photos on every platform a small business uses, and most small businesses post almost none, because a videographer is a real expense and editing is a skill nobody on staff has. This is the alternative: a monthly plan, a sentence per video, and a narrated, captioned short with a generated scene per line.

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. Starter ($19 a month, 600 credits) covers about 46 five-scene shorts in pictures, or about 8 with AI motion in every scene.

## What it makes, and what it does not

It makes offers, tips, announcements, hiring posts, holiday hours and “why choose us” videos — the posts that make up most of a small business’s feed. Each is under a minute by default, in 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, or 1:1 and 16:9 if you need them.

It does not film your business. Every scene is generated from the script, so the video shows the idea rather than your storefront or staff. One photo can be the opening frame, added in the composer. For a tour of your shop or a real customer’s story, film it on your phone.

## Posting, without remembering to post

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.

For a steady cadence, auto-Mode is on Pro ($49 a month, 3 workers) and Studio ($149, 10 workers). Give it a topic or an RSS feed and a cadence — every day, every 2 days, every 3 days, every week — and each run writes, renders and publishes a new video to the accounts you connected.

## Who it is for

- **Main Street shops** — Offers, hours and new stock, posted the day they happen.
- **Service businesses** — A reason to call you, explained in under a minute.
- **Family-owned businesses** — A video presence without hiring a marketing person.
- **Marketing freelancers** — Videos for several small clients, with up to 25 connected accounts on Studio.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | Hire a videographer, plan a shoot, close the shop for an afternoon. | One sentence about the offer, the tip or the news. |
| Visuals | Real footage of your business, paid by the day. | Generated scenes per line; one photo of your business can open it. |
| 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 | One polished video a quarter, if the budget allows. | A video whenever you have something to say, posted from the app. |
| 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

### Is it cheaper than hiring a videographer?

It is a different thing. A videographer films your real business; this generates every scene, for a monthly plan. 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.

### Can I try it before I pay?

Yes. Your first video is free: 30 seconds in pictures, with voice, music and captions. No card. AI motion, videos longer than 30 seconds and sound effects need a plan, from $7 a month.

### Will it show my business?

Only in the opening frame: one photo can open the video, added in the composer. Every scene after it is generated.

### Can it post to my Instagram, TikTok and YouTube?

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.

### Can it post automatically?

Auto-Mode is on Pro ($49 a month, 3 workers) and Studio ($149, 10 workers). Give it a topic or an RSS feed and a cadence — every day, every 2 days, every 3 days, every week — and each run writes, renders and publishes a new video to the accounts you connected.

### Can I add my logo?

There is no logo overlay or brand kit. Your business name goes in the script and the caption; add a logo afterwards in any phone editor if you need one.

### How long does a video take?

The script comes back in seconds and you read it before anything renders. A finished video then takes minutes, and you watch it fill in scene by scene.

### Do I own the videos?

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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