# Year in Review Video Maker

Type your year’s highlights — for your channel, your family, your business or your team — and get a narrated 2026 year in review with a scene for every moment and captions on every word.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/year-in-review-video-maker
Search intent: A creator, a parent, a small business owner or a team lead in the US or the UK who wants a short 2026 year in review video in December or January — a channel recap, a family’s year, a thank-you to customers with the year’s milestones, or an end-of-year recap for the team — without digging through footage or editing one.

## 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: bella
- Captions: pop
- 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 script preview on this page, in the video you generate after
clicking through to the composer, and in the API when you send
`preset: "year-in-review-video-maker"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a short narrated year in review video in a warm, upbeat, grateful tone. First decide whose year it is. A creator or channel: open on the year, give each highlight the user lists its own line, thank the audience and say what comes next. A family: a warm, personal look back at the moments the user lists, using only the names the user gives. A small business: thank the customers, then the year's milestones the user lists, and close on what is coming. A team or company: an end-of-year recap of the work and wins the user lists, thanking the team. In every case: one highlight per scene, in the order the user gives; use only the highlights, names and numbers the user types, read every number exactly as typed, and never invent a milestone, figure, growth rate, ranking, award, quote, date or comparison with another year; if the user gives no numbers, use none; no real person, celebrity or brand, and no real logo. Each scene describes one frame that matches its line: a desk with a laptop at dawn, a kitchen set for filming, a shop counter on a busy morning, a family on a beach at sunset, a moving van outside a new home, a team around a whiteboard, a calendar page turning to January, fireworks over a city at midnight; with no text, numbers or writing in the frame and no one speaking to camera.

## Example inputs from the page

- 2026 year in review for my cooking channel
- Our family’s 2026: the new puppy, the move and the trip to the coast
- Our coffee shop’s year: we opened on Sundays and started roasting our own beans

## 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. **Say whose year it is and list the highlights** — Your channel, your family, your business or your team, then the moments and any numbers you want said, in the order you want them.
2. **Read the script before it renders** — It comes back one line per scene, one highlight each. Reorder them, check every figure and cut a line before any picture is made.
3. **Post it or play it** — A vertical video for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, published from the app; switch to landscape in the composer for YouTube or the end-of-year all-hands.

## A 2026 year in review for your channel or your followers

The last weeks of December are when creators post a year in review: the series that took off, the milestone, the thing that went wrong and the thank-you to everyone who watched. Type the year as a list and the video gives each moment its own scene, in the composer’s Cinematic look, vertical, with a bright narrator and captions that pop in a few words at a time. A recap reads best as one moment per scene, in the order the year happened: open on the year itself, give each highlight its own line, and close on a thank-you and what comes next. Type the highlights as a list, month by month or in any order you like, and say how long it should run; the script comes back one line per scene for you to reorder, cut or warm up before any picture is made.

It does not import your photos, your camera roll, your channel analytics or your sales figures, and it connects to no account to read them. You type the year’s highlights — the moments, the milestones and any numbers you want said — and the script uses only those. The pictures are generated scenes that match each line, a family like yours, a shop like yours, a team like yours, not your own photos or faces. Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default with a short camera move (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan.

## Your family’s year, told as a short story

A family year in review is the video version of the holiday letter: the new baby or the new puppy, the move, the trip, the first day of school, told in a minute instead of a page and sent to the relatives who missed it. Type the moments and the names you want said, and the script uses only those, warm rather than sentimental, in the order you give.

The scenes are generated from each line: a desk with a laptop at dawn, a shop counter on a busy morning, a family on a beach at sunset, a team around a whiteboard, a calendar page turning to January. No real person, celebrity or brand appears and no real logo is drawn, and the frames carry no lettering or numbers, because generated digits come out wrong; the captions carry the words and the figures. 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. A classroom projector, a community hall screen, a family group chat, an email newsletter and a company all-hands are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and play it from the laptop, attach it, or upload it the way you would any video file.

## A year in review for your small business or your team

A shop, a café or a studio that looks back on its year with its customers has two things to say: thank you, and here is what we did together. A team lead closing out the year wants the same for the all-hands: the launches, the hires and the wins, each named once and thanked. Every figure in the video is one you typed, read exactly as you typed it: a follower count, a number of orders, a fundraising total, a race time. The script invents no milestone, no growth rate, no ranking and no comparison with last year, and it never rounds your number up, so leave a number out and the video leaves it out too.

Post the business version to Reels, Shorts and TikTok from the app, or download it for the newsletter and the year-end meeting. Every video is made on a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee.

## Who it is for

- **Creators and channels** — A year in review for your followers: the series, the milestones you type and a thank-you, vertical for Reels, Shorts and TikTok.
- **Families** — The year’s moments as a short narrated story to send to relatives, with only the names and moments you type.
- **Small businesses** — A thank-you to customers with the year’s milestones, in your own words, to post or put in the December newsletter.
- **Teams and team leads** — An end-of-year recap of the launches and wins you list, for the last all-hands of the year or the first one in January.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | Scroll back through a year of camera roll and drafts to find the clips worth using. | A list of the year’s highlights, typed in the box. |
| Visuals | A template with the same transitions as every other recap that week. | A scene generated from each highlight’s own words, set in motion. |
| Voiceover | Record the narration yourself, or post it silent with text over music. | A bright narrator by default, 5 voices to choose from, a changed line re-read on its own. |
| Captions | Typed in by hand, clip by clip, for viewers watching on mute. | Every word captioned in time with the voice, figures included, for the feed on mute. |
| Turnaround | A weekend of editing in the last busy weeks of the year. | The script in moments and the video right after it, before the year is out. |
| Changing it | Remember one more highlight and the timeline has to be rebuilt. | Add the line to the script and render the video again. |

## FAQ

### Does it import my photos, videos or channel stats?

No. It does not import your photos, your camera roll, your channel analytics or your sales figures, and it connects to no account to read them. You type the year’s highlights — the moments, the milestones and any numbers you want said — and the script uses only those. The pictures are generated scenes that match each line, a family like yours, a shop like yours, a team like yours, not your own photos or faces.

### Will it make up milestones or numbers?

Every figure in the video is one you typed, read exactly as you typed it: a follower count, a number of orders, a fundraising total, a race time. The script invents no milestone, no growth rate, no ranking and no comparison with last year, and it never rounds your number up, so leave a number out and the video leaves it out too.

### How should I write the highlights?

A recap reads best as one moment per scene, in the order the year happened: open on the year itself, give each highlight its own line, and close on a thank-you and what comes next. Type the highlights as a list, month by month or in any order you like, and say how long it should run; the script comes back one line per scene for you to reorder, cut or warm up before any picture is made.

### Can it make a year in review for my business or my team?

Yes. Say whose year it is and list the milestones; it thanks the customers or the team first and keeps to what you type. 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. A classroom projector, a community hall screen, a family group chat, an email newsletter and a company all-hands are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and play it from the laptop, attach it, or upload it the way you would any video file.

### What is on screen, and do the pictures move?

The scenes are generated from each line: a desk with a laptop at dawn, a shop counter on a busy morning, a family on a beach at sunset, a team around a whiteboard, a calendar page turning to January. No real person, celebrity or brand appears and no real logo is drawn, and the frames carry no lettering or numbers, because generated digits come out wrong; the captions carry the words and the figures. Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default with a short camera move (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan. Nothing on screen talks: there are no moving mouths and no lip sync. One narrator voice tells the whole video, dialogue included, and the captions carry the words.

### Can it be vertical for Reels and Shorts, or landscape for YouTube?

Both. The page starts vertical (9:16) for Reels, Shorts and TikTok; switch to landscape (16:9) or square in the composer before you generate. 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.

### Is there a British voice, and can it be in another language?

No. There are 5 voices, all recorded in American English. There is no British, Irish or Australian voice and no voice cloning. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages — French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish among them — chosen in the composer; the voices read them, but a native listener may hear the American accent, so listen to the first one before you post a series.

### What does it cost, and how long can a video be?

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. 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. 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, and pick a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment has a 7-day money-back guarantee. On a plan, 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.

### 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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