Text to Video AI

The model reads your prompt like a one-line shot description. The clearer the shot, the better the video. Try this order:

• Subject: who or what is on screen. "A golden retriever", "a barista", "a red vintage car".
• Action: one main thing that happens. "runs along the shoreline", "pours latte art", "drives through the desert".
• Setting and light: "on a beach at sunset", "in a rainy Tokyo street at night with neon reflections".
• Camera and style: "slow tracking shot", "drone shot", "close-up, shallow depth of field", "35mm film look".

Put together: "A golden retriever runs along the shoreline at sunset, spray in the air, low tracking shot, warm film look." Keep one action per clip; a 5 or 10 second video cannot hold a whole plot. If a result is close but not right, change one part of the prompt at a time so you learn what the model responds to.

A few things text to video AI still finds hard: readable text and logos, hands doing detailed tasks, exact numbers of people or objects, and complex interactions between several characters. Keep those out of the prompt, or add them later in your editor, and you will waste far fewer generations.

Pick the format before you generate, because text to video cannot be re-framed later without cropping.

• 16:9 for YouTube, websites and presentations.
• 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
• 1:1 for feed posts and ads that must work everywhere.
• 4:3 and 3:4 for a classic or portrait frame.

A 5 second clip costs $0.50 and is ideal for testing prompts and for fast social cuts. A 10 second clip costs $1.00 and gives slow camera moves room to breathe. Once you have a shot you like, you can extend it by about 6 seconds with the AI Video Extender or sharpen it to 1080p with the AI Video Upscaler.

Matching the platform from the start also saves money. A 16:9 clip cropped to vertical loses most of the frame, and the subject may end up cut in half. If you need the same scene in two formats, generate it twice with the same prompt rather than cropping.

Planning a series? Keep a short note of the prompts that worked, with the aspect ratio and length. Reusing the same style words, like the same lighting and film look, helps separate clips feel like they belong to one video.

Text to video gives you one AI-generated shot. The other tools cover the rest of a typical video workflow:

• Image to Video AI keeps a real product, character or face from your photo.
• AI Script to Video writes a script, films three shots, records a voice-over and edits it with captions and transitions.
• Video to Video AI changes the style of footage you already have.
• Video to Audio AI adds matching sound effects to silent clips.

All of them are pay per use with no subscription, and failed runs are refunded to your balance automatically. There is no watermark on any AI result, and every clip is kept in My creations for 30 days.

A practical way to use text to video is as a sketchpad. Generate a few 5 second versions of an idea, keep the one with the best framing and movement, and then build on it: extend it, add sound, upscale it, or recreate the best frame as an image and animate that for more control. You only pay for the clips you actually generate.

Budget tip: most people find a prompt they like within two or three tries. That is $1.00 to $1.50 in 5 second tests before the final 10 second render.