Three hours, one project
Animatic plans a full three-hour narration as one scene plan and exports it as one video. There's nothing to stitch together afterward.
InVideo AI vs Animatic: built around your narration
InVideo AI writes, voices and assembles a video from a prompt. Animatic starts from the narration you've already written and recorded, and gives every line a visual made for it — up to three hours in a single project.
- Free plan, no card
- Up to 3 hours per video
- Every scene editable
3 hours in one projectOne scene plan, one timeline, one export
Your voice, your scriptScenes cut where your narration turns
A visual for every lineGenerated in a Visual Style you own
Made for channels with something to say.
InVideo AI and Animatic, side by side
One generates a video from an idea. The other directs a video from your narration.
| Feature | Animatic | InVideo AI |
|---|---|---|
| What you start from | Your recorded voiceover, a transcript or a script | A prompt or a script — it can write the script and generate the voiceover for you |
| Where the visuals come from | An image generated for every scene of your narration, in your Visual Style | Stock media, plus clips from third-party generative video models |
| Longest video | 3 hours on Pro, 60 minutes on Creator — as one project and one export | No per-video limit published; generative shots run up to about 15 seconds each and are stitched together |
| How usage is counted | Credits for image generation; video length is set by your plan | Credits, with generative video priced per second |
| One look across a series | Saved Visual Styles, Continuity for recurring subjects, and Brand Kits | Character and location memory carried across shots |
| Changing a single scene | Rewrite what it shows and regenerate it alone; earlier versions are kept | Regenerate or replace it in the editor |
| Try it free | Free plan: 10-minute projects and 100 credits, no card | Free plan with a watermark |
InVideo AI details from its pricing page, help center and clip-length FAQ, checked September 2026.
Where Animatic pulls ahead
For long, narrated video, these are the differences you'll feel.
Your narration leads
Scenes are cut where your voiceover turns, with timings from your own read — so the channel sounds like you, not a default AI voice.
Every line gets its own visual
Each scene's image is generated from what that line says, so the picture follows the argument instead of decorating it.
Pacing you set
Scene density decides how often the picture changes — slow for a sequence that needs to sit, fast for a montage.
A style that's saved, not re-prompted
A Visual Style keeps your prompt, references and aspect ratio, so episode forty looks like episode one.
Fix one scene, keep the rest
Rewrite and regenerate the scene that misses. Everything else stays exactly as it was, and every version is kept.
One project, however long it runs
Generative video models make a few seconds at a time. At an hour or more, that turns into hundreds of clips to line up and keep consistent.
Animatic treats the whole runtime as one production from the start: the narration is planned as scenes, generated in the background with the browser closed, and exported as a single video — up to an hour on Creator and three hours on Pro.
0:000:401:202:002:40
Cold open
Part one
Part two
Part three
CloseOriginal enough to monetize
YouTube pays channels with a real point of view. Its Partner Program policies target mass-produced uploads — generic templates, default voices, videos that could have come from anyone.
With Animatic, the structure comes from your script and the pacing from your voice. Every scene is generated for the line it sits under, so each upload is unmistakably yours.
- Built from your own script and voice, not a one-line prompt
- Original visuals for every scene, in a look that's yours
- A consistent style that builds a channel viewers recognize
- 1080p export with no watermark, and commercial use on Creator and Pro
Scene PlanContinuityVisualsTimeline & Export
1001:02As children, they formed a small alliance against the adult world.Ready1101:14Years later, he was the one waiting on the stairs.Ready1201:25They split the weeks between them, one color each.RegeneratingWhich one should you choose?
Different starting points, different strengths. Here's the honest version.
Choose Animatic if…
- You've written or recorded the narration and want it visualized
- Your videos run long — 30 minutes to three hours
- You want one saved look across every episode
- You want to direct each scene before anything is exported
InVideo AI may suit you if…
- You want a video written and voiced for you from a one-line prompt
- You're making short social videos or ads with stock footage or presenter avatars
- You want fully generated video clips rather than animated stills
Animatic pricing
Start free, then pay for length: an hour per video on Creator, three hours on Pro.
Free
Run a real script through it before you pay for anything.
$0
No card required.
What you get
- 100 Credits, no card
- Projects up to 10 minutes
- The full editor and every generation feature
- 720p export with a watermark
Recommended
Creator
For anyone publishing on a schedule.
$24per month
Billed monthly.
Everything in Free, plus
- 1,200 Credits a month
- Projects up to 60 minutes
- 1080p export, no watermark
- Commercial use
- 3 Spaces, 1 Brand Kit, branded intro and outro
Pro
For full-length projects and more than one series at a time.
$59per month
Billed monthly.
Everything in Creator, plus
- 3,000 Credits a month
- Projects up to 3 hours
- 10 Spaces and 10 Brand Kits
- Higher generation concurrency
- No card required to sign up
- Cancel or switch plan any time
- Commercial use on Creator and Pro
Compare plans
| Plan | Free | Creator | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credits | 100, one-time | 1,200 a month | 3,000 a month |
| Longest project | 10 minutes | 60 minutes | 3 hours |
| Export | 720p, watermarked | 1080p, no watermark | 1080p, no watermark |
| Commercial use | — | Included | Included |
| Spaces | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Brand Kits | — | 1 | 10 |
| Generation queue | Standard | Standard | Higher |
Scroll the table sideways to compare all three plans.
Credits meter image generation. Top up any time for $15 per 1,000. Billing is self-serve from the portal in Studio.
InVideo AI vs Animatic questions
Is Animatic a good InVideo AI alternative?
For narrated long-form video, yes. InVideo AI is built to generate a whole video from a prompt. Animatic is built for creators who have their own script or voiceover and want every scene visualized, in one project up to 3 hours long.
How long can a video be in Animatic compared with InVideo AI?
Animatic makes videos up to 3 hours long on Pro, 60 minutes on Creator and 10 minutes on Free, each as one project and one export. InVideo AI doesn't publish a single per-video limit; its generative shots are made a few seconds at a time and stitched together.
Does Animatic write the script or voiceover for me?
No — and that's deliberate. Animatic starts from your own voiceover, transcript or script, so the research, the writing and the voice stay yours. It handles everything after that: scene planning, visuals, motion and export.
Is InVideo AI or Animatic better for YouTube monetization?
Animatic is designed around what YouTube's Partner Program rewards: your own narration, with an original visual made for every line. Videos built from generic templates and default voices are what YouTube's inauthentic-content rules target. YouTube makes the final call, but original, high-quality uploads are what it pays for.
Does Animatic make video clips or images?
Animatic generates a still image for every scene and brings it to life with per-scene motion, transitions and 2.5D Cinematic Depth. That keeps long videos consistent and affordable to make at length.
Can I try Animatic without paying?
Yes. The free plan needs no card and runs a real project of up to 10 minutes end to end with 100 credits. Paid plans export at 1080p with no watermark.
Bring the narration you've already recorded
The free plan runs a real ten-minute section end to end, so you can see every scene planned before you decide.