How to Make an AI Story Video

What this video is

An AI Story Video is a faceless narrated short made from images, captions, and voice-over. It is a good fit for mini dramas, light suspense, emotional stories, and plot twists.

Who this is for

Use Story when you want a full beginning-middle-end video without learning traditional editing software.

What you do

• Choose a story idea, or leave it blank and let us come up with one.
• Pick the visual style and slide count.
• Optionally add reference images, logo guidance, reused characters, or an outro idea.
• Review the result and render when you are happy with it.

What we do for you

• Write the story script and break it into scenes.
• Create a consistent look for characters and slides.
• Generate narration, captions, and timings.
• Render the final vertical video.

Steps (simple)

1. Name your video
   Give it a name so you can find it later.
2. Script
   Generate the story, then rewrite or edit it if needed. This is also where you can add story references, logo notes, and optional outro instructions.
3. Character sheet
   Create or choose the character look so faces and outfits stay consistent across the video.
4. Slides
   Generate an image or choose Use from My Library to add an image you already made or uploaded. You can optionally animate individual slides or set up an outro here.
5. Voice
   Create the narration for the story.
6. Timings
   We line up the narration and slides so the story plays in sync. Timings save automatically after transcription finishes.
7. Caption styling
   Choose the caption look and optional background music.
8. Review and render
   Check the final draft, then render the finished video and download it when ready.

Use images you already made

Images created in Create images & videos are saved in My Library. Choose them as script or character-sheet references, or use one directly as a Story slide. Reusing a saved image does not spend generation credits. Your Story keeps its own slide copy, so deleting the original from My Library will not remove that slide.

One-click create (optional)

On Step 1, you can choose One-click create to make a Story Video automatically.

To keep it truly one click, optional settings are hidden at first. Click Options if you want to change anything.

• Story idea (optional) — leave blank and we pick one for you.
• Slides (optional) — 12 by default.
• Story type (optional) — Dialogue by default.
• Visual style (optional) — choose the look you want from the preview images.
• Music (optional) — choose a track in a modal with search, mood filters, favorites, and upload.
• Reuse previous characters (optional) — keep characters from an older Story video.
• Reference images (optional) — upload images for logos, mascots, products, or style guidance.
• Reference instructions (optional) — tell us where and how to use those references.
• Preview only (optional) — stops before the final render so you can render later.

When you provide references, we try to use them where they make sense instead of forcing them into every scene.

You will always see an Estimated cost before you start.

If you reuse previous characters, you can choose what kind of story you want:

• Continue the story (series) — the next part of the same story.
• Similar story — a standalone new episode with the same characters/world vibe (not a continuation of the previous plot).
• New story — completely different story (same characters only).

After you start One-click create, we send you to My Library and show progress. It usually takes about 10 minutes.

If progress looks stuck, open the video from My Library and continue from the step that needs attention.

Advanced option: API

You can also create Story Videos with an API call:

• POST /api/v1/story/videos — start a Story Video
• GET /api/v1/story/videos/{video_id} — check status and get a temporary download link when ready

See Video API docs for API key, polling, and webhooks.

Keep scripts suitable for ages 13 and up

Trending is a general-audience service. Prompts and scripts with sexual content, self-harm, violent stories, hate, threats, or similar unsafe material are refused.

We check the idea before writing, check the finished script, check saved edits, and check again before creating the voice-over. If a request is refused, try a different, non-graphic idea that is suitable for a general audience. A refused generation does not use generation credits.