How to make a video from text with AI

Start by turning your text into a shot list. Split the script into short beats, one idea per line, and decide what each one looks like on screen, because the model turns descriptions into shots and abstract sentences give it nothing to picture. A paragraph of prose becomes three or four visual beats. This planning pass is where a text-to-video project is won or lost, so spend a moment here before generating anything. Think of it as writing a shot list from an essay: the reader will not see your sentences, only the pictures you chose to stand in for them, so choose pictures that carry the meaning on their own.

Rewrite each beat as a directed shot rather than a bare line. Name the subject, the light, and a camera move so the model makes the filmmaking choices on purpose instead of guessing. "The city at night" becomes "a rain-slicked city street at night, neon reflections, slow push-in." Keep one clear action per shot, since a prompt that asks for several things at once tends to muddle all of them.

Generate each beat and keep the take that holds. AI video is strongest in its first couple of seconds, so use the part that stays convincing and regenerate a shot by changing one thing, the light or the camera pace, rather than rewriting it wholesale. Work through the shot list beat by beat until you have a clip you trust for each line of the script.

Use the script you already wrote to generate the voiceover. Create a voice, direct its tone and pacing, and you have narration that matches the visuals because both came from the same text. The AI voiceover guide covers directing the read; add styled captions from the same script if you want the words on screen for sound-off viewers. Because the narration and the shots come from one script, they stay in step without extra syncing, which is the quiet advantage of building a video from text.

Bring the shots onto the Compose timeline in script order, lay the narration underneath, and cut each shot to the length of its line so the picture and the voice stay together. Cut on motion, add a music bed under the voice, and review the whole thing once for pacing. If a beat feels thin, this is the moment to generate one more shot to cover it rather than stretching a clip past the seconds that hold. Keep the narration clear above the music, then export. Free exports carry a watermark; a paid plan exports clean and at higher resolution for publishing.