A Shorts script with the hook in the first three seconds and the answer before the middle.
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The mistake most Shorts scripts make is treating the format like TikTok: tease at the top and reveal at the end. A Shorts viewer usually arrived for a specific thing, and a video that withholds it is closed before the reveal.
So this shapes the script the other way round: the question in the first line, something worth staying for by scene three, and a final beat that reframes what you have just been told rather than asking for a subscription.
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Every line comes back short enough to say in one breath and to fit on one caption line. That is a production constraint disguised as a style rule — a long sentence forces a caption to wrap into three lines, which on a phone covers the picture.
If you produce the Short with Veedio, those same lines become the scene split, and the captions are timed to the voice’s own word alignment rather than spread evenly across the scene.
Next step
These are the presets that take what you just wrote and produce it — same pipeline, one brief each.
Shorts that answer the question in the title, in under a minute, with captions timed to the voice.
You wrote the script. This cuts it into scenes, reads it in a real voice and puts a frame behind every line.
Type what the video is about. Get a scene-by-scene short with AI visuals, a real voiceover and word-timed captions.
One idea, explained properly in forty seconds — the claim, the mechanism and why it matters.
The shape. This one puts the answer near the front and keeps every line to one caption width, because that is what holds a Shorts viewer. The general one is tuned for TikTok-style openings.
Six scenes, about 40 to 55 seconds spoken. YouTube treats vertical videos under a minute as Shorts, so that is the target.
Yes, a free one, and it needs no card. The script costs the account nothing; rendering it into a video spends from the 60 free credits it comes with.
The script comes with a working title. Titles are worth more attention than that — write several and pick, because on Shorts the title is doing as much work as the hook.
Run it once per question. If you want that automated, Auto-Mode in the app takes a subject and a cadence and is told not to repeat titles it has already used.
A few runs an hour per account. It is a free tool, not an API, and the limit is what keeps it free.
llms.txt— what Veedio does and does not do, in markdown.
60 credits on signup, no card — about 4 finished videos with voice, captions and music.