Want the rank on screen? Make it a Countdown — a top 3, 5 or 10, with each number and name drawn over its scene. Make a countdown
01Name the category. “Top 5 X” is enough. Adding what you are ranking by makes the reasons much less generic.
02Counted down, five to one. Each rank is its own scene with its own frame — and with the Countdown format, its number and name pop up on screen as its scene starts.
03Number one lands last. The final scene gets the payoff line — which is the whole reason anyone watched to the end.
Voice:
Josh
Captions:
Highlight
Music:
Trap
Format:
Vertical 9:16
What comes out
The settings this page ships with, and the shape they produce
Every example on this page is labelled with the exact configuration behind it, including the one that says it is a drawing.
Layout mock-up
Top 5 cities in Europe to visit in winter
Style: 3D render
Voice: Josh
Captions: Highlight
Ratio: 9:16
A mock-up of the frame and caption layout at this page’s settings — TikTok, Reels and Shorts, trap music bed. It is a drawing, not a rendered video: we have no published render library to show you yet, and a stock clip dressed up as our output would be worth less than saying so.
Your input
“Top 5 cities in Europe to visit in winter”
Plus this page’s brief, verbatim
Write this as a ranked top five, counted down from five to one. Open by naming the category and the criterion being ranked by. Each scene is one rank: say the number, name the pick, and give one specific reason it placed there. The number one pick gets the last scene and the strongest sentence in the script.
That string is not marketing copy — it is the instruction the script writer is given before it reads a word of yours, and it is the only thing separating this page from the other forty-seven.
The shape that comes back
Scene 1 — the hook
One line that works with no context, because the viewer arrived mid-scroll.
Scenes 2–6 — the body
One idea each, one or two spoken sentences, each with its own image prompt and its own duration.
Final scene — the close
A line that lands the point rather than asking for a follow.
Per scene — the shot
The exact image prompt the model would receive, with this page’s style suffix already appended.
This is the structure, not a saved example. The box at the top of the page writes the real one — with your wording, in about ten seconds.
5–8 scenes
each with its own line, its own frame and its own length
Under 60s
cut to the narration, not to a fixed per-scene timer
Word-timed
captions burned from the voice model’s own alignment
1080-class
vertical, square or landscape — no watermark on any plan
01
A ranking is a promise, and the promise is what holds the viewer
The reason “top 5” outperforms “5 things” is that a ranking withholds something. The viewer knows the best one is coming and knows exactly when — which is a much stronger retention mechanic than curiosity alone, because it is specific and it is countable.
That only works if the countdown is honest. If number five and number one are interchangeable, the format is doing nothing and the audience notices immediately. So this brief asks for a criterion up front and one specific reason per rank, which forces the ordering to mean something.
02
Five, and why the page says so
This page writes to a minute, which is five to eight scenes. A top ten would use every one of them on a rank and leave nothing for the hook that sells the countdown, so this page is a top five rather than a top ten and says so rather than quietly truncating your list.
If you genuinely need ten, make two videos and let the first one’s hook promise the second. That is better content strategy than a rushed ten-item read, and it is also the only version of it our pipeline can render honestly.
03
What the model knows, and what it does not
The rankings come from a language model’s general knowledge, not from live data. For settled subjects — historical events, geography, well-established tools — that is fine. For anything that changed this quarter it is not, and you should supply the picks yourself in the box rather than trusting the ordering.
That is a real limitation rather than a caveat we tucked into a footer. If your video is a ranking of this month’s releases, write the five names into the box and let the pipeline do the part it is actually good at: the script shape, the frames, the voice and the captions.
Places, tools, films, gear — the countdown is the native format of the whole genre.
Affiliate and review accounts
A ranked five with a reason each is the shape that converts, and it renders in about a minute.
Faceless niche channels
A repeatable format where only the category changes, which is what daily posting needs.
Anyone with an opinion and no editor
You bring the ranking and the reasons; the pipeline brings the frames, the voice and the timing.
Compared
What this replaces
Six things somebody has to arrange to make one short, and who arranges them.
Input
The usual way: Research, script, storyboard, then source five clips that match five picks.
With Veedio: The category. Or your own five picks, pasted in, if the ordering matters.
Visuals
The usual way: Stock clips that are approximately about the right thing.
With Veedio: A frame generated from each pick’s own line, in one consistent style.
Voiceover
The usual way: Book a VO artist, or record yourself and cut the breaths out.
With Veedio: Five ElevenLabs voices, re-recorded free whenever the line changes.
Captions
The usual way: Auto-captions that drift, then an hour nudging keyframes.
With Veedio: Burned in from the voice model’s own word alignment, so they land on the syllable.
Turnaround
The usual way: An afternoon for a two-minute countdown, most of it in the timeline.
With Veedio: About a minute, watched filling in rank by rank.
Changing it
The usual way: Re-record the line, re-cut the timeline, re-export, re-upload.
With Veedio: 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.
The usual way
With Veedio
Input
Research, script, storyboard, then source five clips that match five picks.
The category. Or your own five picks, pasted in, if the ordering matters.
Visuals
Stock clips that are approximately about the right thing.
A frame generated from each pick’s own line, in one consistent style.
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
An afternoon for a two-minute countdown, most of it in the timeline.
About a minute, watched filling in rank by rank.
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.
Related tools
Same engine, different preset
Twenty more pages over the same pipeline. Each one is a different brief, a different look and a different page — and each one prints its brief the way this one does.
This page's own brief writes a top five to a minute, which leaves room for the hook. If you want ten, pick Countdown in the composer: it makes a top 3, 5 or 10, one scene per rank, and a top 10 fits a minute there because the rank badges carry the numbers on screen.
Are the rankings accurate?
They come from a language model’s general knowledge, so they are reasonable for settled subjects and unreliable for anything recent. If accuracy matters, paste your own five picks into the box — the script writer will keep them and write the countdown around them.
Can I count up instead of down?
Yes, say so in the box. Counting down is the default because holding number one until the last scene is what keeps people watching to the end.
Will it show the rank number on screen?
Yes, with the Countdown format: pick Countdown in the composer's format row (or use the link on this page). Every rank gets a badge with its number and name that pops in as its scene starts, and you can rename any rank in the editor without remaking the video. Through this page's own brief the number is spoken and captioned only.
How is this different from the listicle preset?
The ordering. A listicle’s items are peers; a top five is ranked, counted down, and written so the last pick is the best one. Different brief, same pipeline, one dropdown apart.
Do I have to sign up to try it?
Yes, and signup is free and takes a moment. The script, the ranking and the shot list cost no credits.
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.