# Social Story Video Generator

A calm, illustrated social story that walks a child through a situation before it happens — a haircut, a fire drill, a new school — read slowly, with captions and no music.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/social-story-video-generator
Search intent: A special education teacher, a speech or occupational therapist, or a parent — mostly in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia — preparing an autistic or young child for a new or hard situation.

## 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: elli
- Captions: bold-center
- Music: none
- Visual style: watercolor
- Aspect ratio: 16:9

## 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: "social-story-video-generator"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a social story that prepares a child for one situation, to be read slowly and calmly. Write from the child’s point of view in the first person and the present tense, in short, literal sentences with no idioms or sarcasm. Describe what happens in the order it happens — where, who, what they will see, hear and feel — using mostly describing sentences and only a few gentle sentences about what the child can try, such as asking for a break. Reassuring and positive, never threatening, and never promising that nothing will go wrong. Use the places, people and steps the user gives, and never name a real child unless the user typed the name.

## Example inputs from the page

- Getting a haircut: the cape, the sound of the clippers, and asking for a break
- A fire drill at school: the loud alarm, lining up with my class, and walking outside to our spot
- Going to the dentist for a check-up: the big chair, the bright light, and counting my teeth

## 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. **Describe the situation** — The haircut, the drill, the new classroom — with what is true for this child.
2. **Read the story first** — It comes back before anything renders, so you can change any line that is not right for them.
3. **Watch it together, ahead of time** — Calm pictures, a slow voice and captions, as many times as the child needs.

## What a social story video is for

A social story describes a situation before a child meets it: where they will be, what will happen, what they will see and hear, and what they can do if it gets hard. The approach was developed by Carol Gray in the early 1990s for autistic children, and parents, teachers and therapists now write them for all kinds of new or difficult moments — a haircut, a fire drill, a new baby, a first day.

This turns one into a short video: a calm illustrated picture for each step, a soft voice reading slowly, and captions on screen, with no music by default. A child can watch it several times in the days before the haircut or the trip, with an adult beside them, and the story is told exactly the same way every time.

## Written the way social stories are written

The brief writes in the first person and the present tense, in short, literal sentences with no idioms, and keeps to mostly describing sentences with only a few gentle ones about what the child can try. That follows the published guidance on writing social stories — including Carol Gray’s emphasis on describing more than directing — though the tool does not claim to meet her criteria, and you are the judge of whether a story is right.

You know the child; it does not. Add the details that are true for them — the barber’s name, the spot outside where the class lines up, the break card they use — and every script comes back for you to read and change before anything is rendered. It is a support for a child, not therapy, and it does not replace the advice of their teacher, therapist or doctor.

## Calm pictures, and a photo of the real place

The default look is a soft watercolor with a muted palette, chosen to be calm rather than busy, and there is no music unless you add it. The pictures show the situation — a chair, a mirror, a line of children outside — and because each frame is generated on its own, a child drawn in one scene will not look identical in the next.

What helps most is a photo of the real place: one image of your own, such as the front of the dentist’s office or the classroom door, can be the opening frame, added in the composer, so the story starts somewhere the child will recognize. 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.

## Who it is for

- **Special education teachers** — A story for the fire drill, the assembly or the substitute, ready before the day it is needed.
- **Speech and occupational therapists** — Stories for the situations a child is working on, to send home after a session.
- **Parents and caregivers** — The haircut, the dentist, the flight or the new sibling, told calmly before it happens.
- **Preschool teachers** — Transitions and first times for very young children, in pictures they can follow.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | Write it, find pictures, build it in a slide deck, record your voice. | One situation, with the details that are true for this child. |
| Visuals | Clip art and photos found online, in five different styles. | A calm watercolor picture for every step, in one consistent hand. |
| Voiceover | Your own voice, recorded on a phone between other jobs. | A soft, slow read, re-recorded free whenever you change a line. |
| 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 | An evening per story. | Minutes per story, so every new situation can have its own. |
| 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

### Does it follow Carol Gray’s approach?

It follows the same idea — the situation described from the child’s point of view, calmly and literally, with more describing than directing — and you can edit any story toward her published criteria. It does not claim to meet them on its own.

### Is this therapy?

No. It is a way to turn a social story into a video. It does not treat anything, and it does not replace the advice of the child’s teacher, therapist or doctor. You read and change every script before it renders.

### Can it use the child’s name and real places?

Type the details that help — the place, the steps, the people involved — and it uses them. A first name is your choice; the brief never adds one on its own. One photo of the real place can be the opening frame, added in the composer.

### Will the child look the same in every picture?

No. Each frame is generated on its own, so a child drawn in one scene will not look identical in the next. The story is carried by the place and the steps, and a photo of the real place can open it.

### Why is there no music?

Because extra sound can be distracting or overwhelming for many of the children social stories are written for. The default is a soft voice and nothing else; a music bed can be added in the composer if a child prefers one.

### 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 it be in another language, or another accent?

Yes to the language: the narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages, chosen in the composer, so a story can be told in the language the child hears at home. 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.

### 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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