Create your first video

This walkthrough takes you from an empty prompt box to a downloadable video. Total hands-on time is a few minutes; generation itself runs unattended for roughly 30–60 minutes for a 10–15 minute video.

Describe your video

Open the create page and answer one question: what's your video about?

Be specific. Instead of "funny videos", try "Top 10 funniest Friends TV show moments". The more concrete your prompt, the better the script, the footage matching, and the pacing. If you're stuck, the quick-start chips offer rotating examples: top-10 list, movie review, documentary, tutorial, news explainer.

The create page: prompt box, format and duration toolbar, audio modes

Optional attachments

You can attach a custom script (read verbatim, up to 50,000 characters), story images that the script will flow through, or a video reference — a public YouTube URL whose writing style (never its topic or content) is analyzed and applied to your script.

Pick format and duration

Landscape (16:9) for YouTube and long-form — 30 seconds up to 30 minutes.
Shorts (9:16) for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels — 15 seconds up to 3 minutes.

Duration presets range from a 1-minute quick explainer to a 30-minute full-length video. The estimated credit cost updates live as you change the duration. Actual length may vary slightly, since it follows the script.

The duration selector with quick picks and a 30s–30min slider

Choose a voice and music

Pick a narration voice and preview it: generate a short test clip using a preset snippet (hook, statistics, emotional, high energy) or your own text. Adjust narration speed if you like.

For music, search the stock library by mood, genre, or instrument — or upload your own track. The recommended music volume is 8–15% so it never overpowers narration, and you can preview the mix of narration plus music before committing.

(Optional) Fine-tune in Advanced mode

Advanced mode exposes every production decision: content type, visual style (documentary, news, top-10, true crime, and more), writing style, scene mix (video clips, images, motion design, stock, AI images), footage sources, one of eight style packs, transitions, captions, sound effects, and thumbnail generation.

If you'd rather approve the script before production starts, enable "Review script before generating" — the project will pause at Awaiting Script Approval until you sign off.

Generate

Check the estimated cost in the sticky bar (for example, a 10-minute video is roughly 500 credits) and start generation. You can watch each pipeline step progress live — plan, narration, assets, clip search, assembly, final render. See the pipeline overview for what each step does.

Credits are reserved when generation starts and reconciled when it finishes — you're only charged for the work actually performed.

Review, edit, download

A finished project card with status, length, and credits spent

When the render completes, watch the result. If everything looks right, download it — done. If you want changes, open the editor: swap clips, edit and regenerate narration, adjust captions, restyle overlays. Re-rendering after edits costs only a small fraction of the original generation cost.

You can also generate YouTube metadata — title options with CTR scores, description, tags, and SEO analysis — and thumbnails.

Save your setup as a preset

After generating, VidNext offers to save your settings (voice, style, scene mix, design) as a preset. Next time, load the preset and only change the topic.