Script free with an accountrender in about a minuteno watermark on any plan
The VHS look — grain, bloom and analog colour — over a modern script.
Start free — no credit card, and the script and the shot list cost no credits.
What comes out
Every example on this page is labelled with the exact configuration behind it, including the one that says it is a drawing.
The home videos nobody transferred, and what happens to th…
Your input
“The home videos nobody transferred, and what happens to the tapes now”
Plus this page’s brief, verbatim
Write this for a VHS-styled short: slower, quieter and more reflective than a normal short-form script. Favour memory, texture and small domestic details over argument. Sentences can be fragments. Do not explain the nostalgia — describe something specific and let it do the work.
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, free once you sign in.
01
The VHS aesthetic is soft, low-contrast and busy with noise. A punchy script fights it: fast cuts over grain read as a mistake rather than a style, and small captions disappear entirely.
So this preset slows everything down — fewer words per scene, a lo-fi bed instead of a punchy one, and bold captions that survive a low-contrast frame. It is the same style suffix as the retro page and almost the opposite video.
02
Tape artefacts are a shorthand for memory. Bloom, colour shift and grain tell a viewer that what they are watching is old before a single word is spoken, which is why the aesthetic is used so heavily for anything about the past.
That is worth using deliberately. Over a script about your childhood it is atmosphere; over a script about a current product it is a costume, and the audience reads it as one.
03
The look comes from the image prompt, not from a post-processing chain. There is no scan-line overlay, no tracking-error effect, no timestamp burn-in and no tape wobble — those would be renderer features and we have not built them.
What you get is a still frame generated to look like it was shot on tape, with a slow move on it. That reads convincingly on a phone and would not survive being played on a television, which is a fair description of the whole aesthetic anyway.
Who this is for
The look is the content, and it is applied consistently across every scene.
A shorthand for the past that costs nothing to apply.
Atmosphere over narration, which is what this look was made for.
A register where fragments and slow pacing are correct rather than sloppy.
Compared
Six things somebody has to arrange to make one short, and who arranges them.
Input
The usual way: Find real tape footage, digitise it, and hope it fits your script.
With Veedio: A memory in a sentence. The treatment is on every frame already.
Visuals
The usual way: A plugin chain over footage you had to shoot first.
With Veedio: Frames generated to look like tape, from each scene’s own line.
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: Days, and most of it waiting on someone else.
With Veedio: About a minute, and you watch it fill in scene by scene.
Changing it
The usual way: Re-grade and re-export the whole timeline.
With Veedio: Change a line, regenerate one frame, spend nothing.
| The usual way | With Veedio | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Find real tape footage, digitise it, and hope it fits your script. | A memory in a sentence. The treatment is on every frame already. |
| Visuals | A plugin chain over footage you had to shoot first. | Frames generated to look like tape, from each 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, then an hour nudging keyframes. | Burned in from the voice model’s own word alignment, so they land on the syllable. |
| 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-grade and re-export the whole timeline. | Change a line, regenerate one frame, spend nothing. |
Related tools
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.
80s film grain and neon light, applied to whatever you are talking about.
Try it outThe storytime shape — a confession, four beats and a turn — narrated with nobody on camera.
Try it outShallow depth of field, 35mm, dramatic light — applied to whatever you are talking about.
Try it outA story told in five beats, illustrated frame by frame, narrated and captioned.
Try it outA 40-second motivational short with a cinematic look, a deep read and captions that hit on the beat.
Try it outAn anime-styled vertical short: key-visual frames, a narrated script and captions timed to the voice.
Try it outBright, rendered cartoon frames with a narrated script and captions that land on the word.
Try it outSoft-lit 3D renders, one per scene, generated from a line of text.
Try it outPhotoreal, naturally lit frames, narrated the way a documentary narrates.
Try it outEverything built from plastic bricks — minifigure scale, glossy studs, tilt-shift macro light.
Try it outA blocky voxel world — textured cubes, low sun, saturated colour — built from a line of text.
Try it outHand-moulded plasticine on a miniature set, fingerprints and all, from a line of text.
Try it outHeavy ink, halftone shading and flat colour — one comic panel per line of narration.
Try it outLoose watercolour on textured paper — soft bleeding edges, a muted palette, one warm accent.
Try it outType what the video is about. Get a scene-by-scene short with AI visuals, a real voiceover and word-timed captions.
Try it outPaste any block of text and get it back as a narrated, captioned vertical video with a frame per scene.
Try it outYou wrote the script. This cuts it into scenes, reads it in a real voice and puts a frame behind every line.
Try it outA whole channel’s worth of video with no camera, no room and nobody on screen.
Try it outOne idea, explained properly in forty seconds — the claim, the mechanism and why it matters.
Try it out“POV: you…” shorts written in second person, with a frame for every beat of the scenario.
Try it outNo. The look comes from the image prompt, not a post-processing chain — there is no overlay, no tape wobble and no timestamp burn-in. It reads as tape on a phone and would not fool a television.
Same style suffix, opposite video. Retro is neon and punchy with highlight captions; this is soft and slow with a lo-fi bed. The brief, voice, music and captions all differ.
Not as a render feature. You can ask for one in the image prompt and the model will invent something that looks like one, with unreliable digits.
Because a low-contrast grainy frame swallows small text. Bold survives it. Subtle and highlight are both available if you prefer them.
Five or six scenes, thirty-five to fifty seconds. The mood does not survive being stretched, and the pipeline caps at sixty seconds regardless.
Yes — it costs no credits with a free account, and signup needs no card. Rendering is what spends the 60 credits the account comes with.
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.
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.
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.
Read this page as markdown— the plain-text version, for language models and anyone who prefers one.
VHS Style Video Generator
60 credits on signup, no card — about 4 finished videos.