# Tutorial Video Generator

A how-to in five steps, each step its own scene, its own frame and its own length.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/tutorial-video-generator
Search intent: Has a process to explain and wants it broken into steps that a viewer can follow on a phone.

## 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: subtle
- Music: uplifting
- Visual style: documentary
- 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: "tutorial-video-generator"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write this as a step-by-step tutorial. Open by naming the outcome and how long it takes, not by introducing yourself. Then five steps in order, one per scene, each an instruction in the imperative with one specific detail — a setting, a measurement, a duration. The last scene says how to tell it worked. No filler, no recap.

## Example inputs from the page

- How to season a cast iron pan properly
- How to set up a personal budget in a spreadsheet in ten minutes
- How to take a passport photo at home that will actually be accepted

## 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 you are teaching** — The outcome, and who it is for. A tutorial written for a beginner is a different script.
2. **Five steps, five scenes** — Each step is one instruction with one concrete detail, and gets its own frame and duration.
3. **Narrated and subtitled** — A warm, clear read with small bottom captions, so the picture stays visible while you follow.

## A tutorial short is not a shortened tutorial

A ten-minute how-to can afford to explain why. A forty-five-second one cannot, and the videos that try are the ones people leave at step two. What holds a short-form tutorial is the outcome stated in the first line and then instructions with no throat-clearing between them.

So this brief opens on the result and the time it takes, then goes straight into the imperative: do this, then this. Every step is required to carry one specific thing — a temperature, a setting, a number of minutes — because a step with no specifics is the step people already knew.

## Why the captions are the small ones

This is the one preset where the default caption style is subtle rather than bold. Big centre-screen captions are a retention device for entertainment, and on a tutorial they cover the middle of a frame that is supposed to be showing you the thing.

Small bottom captions keep the video watchable on mute — which is most of the feed — without hiding the picture. It is a dropdown, so change it if your audience is used to the louder style; but the default is set this way on purpose.

## What the frames can and cannot show

Every frame is generated, which means the visuals illustrate the step rather than record it. For a physical process — cooking, cleaning, a repair — that reads well: a pan, a hand, a workbench, in a consistent documentary style.

For anything on a screen it does not. A generated image of a settings menu will be a convincing picture of a menu that does not exist, and the wrong thing to put behind an instruction. We cannot take a screen recording — nothing can be uploaded — so for software tutorials use this to write and voice the script, then put your own capture behind it in an editor you already have.

## Who it is for

- **Teachers and trainers** — The same process explained the same way every time, without recording it again.
- **Home and hobby channels** — Physical processes illustrate well, and this is the format the whole category runs on.
- **Support and success teams** — The five answers you type out weekly, as videos you can send instead.
- **Anyone with expertise and no camera** — You know the steps. This turns them into something watchable in about a minute.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | Script it, set up a camera over the workspace, film it, cut it down. | The outcome in one line. The steps come back split and timed. |
| Visuals | Overhead footage you have to shoot, or stock that shows a different process. | A documentary-style frame per step, generated from that step’s instruction. |
| 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 covering the middle of the frame you are trying to show. | Small bottom captions by default, word-timed, so the picture stays visible. |
| Turnaround | Days, and most of it waiting on someone else. | About a minute, and you watch it fill in scene by scene. |
| 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

### Can it record my screen?

No. Nothing is captured and no video goes in — a screenshot could only be the frame the video opens on — so for a software tutorial the generated frames would be pictures of interfaces that do not exist. Use this for the script and the voiceover and put your own screen capture behind it.

### How many steps will I get?

Five by default, which with a hook and a closing check comes in under a minute. Ask for fewer in the box if the process is genuinely three steps — padding a tutorial is worse than a short one.

### Is the advice accurate?

It comes from a language model, so treat it the way you would treat a knowledgeable stranger: fine on settled processes, unreliable on anything specific to a version or a product released recently. Read the script before you render it — that is free.

### Why are the captions small here?

Because big centred captions cover the part of the frame a tutorial is meant to be showing. It is a dropdown, so switch to bold if your channel uses that style.

### Can I write the steps myself?

Yes, and for anything precise you should. Paste your steps into the box and the script writer keeps them, adds the hook and the close, and splits them into scenes.

### Do I need an account?

Yes, a free one. The script and the shot list cost no credits; rendering is what spends them, and signup includes 60 with no card.

### 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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