# YouTube Shorts Generator

Shorts that answer the question in the title, in under a minute, with captions timed to the voice.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/youtube-shorts-generator
Search intent: A YouTube creator or channel operator producing Shorts at volume, often to feed a main channel.

## 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: idea
- Voice: adam
- Captions: bold-center
- Music: cinematic
- 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: "youtube-shorts-generator"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write this as a YouTube Short. Pose the question in the first line and answer it properly — a Shorts viewer arrived for the answer, not for a tease. Use one concrete number or name early so it is credible, and close on the fact that reframes the whole thing rather than on a call to subscribe.

## Example inputs from the page

- Why aeroplane windows have a tiny hole in them
- How the Wright brothers funded the first aeroplane with a bicycle shop
- What the numbers on a bridge’s side actually mean

## 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. **Give it the question** — Shorts are search-shaped. The best input here is the thing somebody would actually type.
2. **It answers it in scenes** — Question first, one concrete fact early, and a closing line that lands rather than begs.
3. **Upload to YouTube** — Connect the channel and publish from the app. Views, likes and comments come back afterwards.

## Shorts reward the answer, not the tease

TikTok and Shorts look identical and behave differently. A Shorts viewer usually arrived through a title or a suggestion and came for a specific thing; a video that withholds it for twenty seconds is closed before it delivers.

So this preset asks the question in scene one and answers it by scene three. The retention curve on a Short is decided in the middle, not just at the start, and the way to hold the middle is to have already given something worth staying for.

## The documentary look, on purpose

The default visual style here is documentary — natural light, photographic, no gloss — with the Adam voice over it. That combination reads as informational rather than promotional, which is what a Short that explains something needs.

Every scene’s image prompt is written for that scene’s own line and then given the style suffix, so the whole video looks like one piece rather than five stock images from five different eras. Style is a dropdown, so cinematic, anime, 3D and retro are all one change away.

## Feeding a long-form channel

The usual reason to make Shorts is to feed something bigger. That works when the Short is genuinely complete: it answers its own question, and the long-form video is the next thing rather than the missing thing.

A practical pattern is to take one segment of a long video, run its argument through here as a standalone Short, and post it the same week the long one goes up. Since 16:9 output is available too, the same script can also become a landscape cut.

## Who it is for

- **Channels feeding a main upload** — Three Shorts a week around each long-form video, made from the same research you already did.
- **Educational channels** — The format is a question and an answer, which is exactly what this preset is tuned for.
- **Faceless Shorts operators** — Volume is the strategy. This is the production step, and it takes a minute.
- **Podcasters and interviewers** — One idea from the episode, rebuilt as a standalone Short that stands on its own.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | Research, script, record, cut, caption, export, upload. | The question. Everything downstream of it is generated. |
| Visuals | Film it, or licence stock and hope a clip matches the line. | A frame generated per scene from that scene's own line. |
| Voiceover | Your own voice, three takes, and the room noise you cannot remove. | A documentary read, generated per scene and re-recorded free when 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 per Short once uploading is counted. | About a minute to render, then publish from the same screen. |
| 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

### Does it upload to YouTube?

Yes, once the channel is connected. Uploads from an app that has not completed Google’s OAuth verification are locked to private by Google regardless of the setting, which affects every tool in this category equally.

### Will it be treated as a Short?

YouTube classifies vertical videos under 60 seconds as Shorts, and that is what this preset produces — 9:16 and under a minute by construction.

### Can it write the title and description?

The generated script comes with a title, and there is a free YouTube title generator on this site that will give you ten alternatives for the same subject. Descriptions are yours to write at upload time.

### Does YouTube penalise AI-generated Shorts?

YouTube’s policy targets repetitious, mass-produced content with no added value, not the use of AI. Reusing one template with a different noun a hundred times is what gets caught. Editing the script and having a point is the difference.

### Can I make the landscape version too?

Yes. Format is a dropdown — 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 — and it is not gated by plan. The same script can be rendered in more than one shape.

### Do the view counts come back?

Views, likes and comments, refreshed periodically after publishing and shown on the video in your dashboard, using the read scope granted when you connected the channel.

### How many scenes does a Short get?

Five to eight. Each is one or two spoken sentences with its own generated frame, and scene length follows the narration rather than a fixed duration.

### Can I keep a consistent look across a series?

Choose the same visual style and voice each time. Every scene prompt is suffixed with the style you picked, which is what makes a run of videos look like one channel rather than five.

### 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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