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Lost Empires is for history and war documentaries: empires, campaigns and dynasties. Your script becomes painted battle scenes, maps and dated titles.
Start free, no card needed. You can change everything after you start.
Who it's for
History and military history channels covering empires, wars, battles and dynasties.
What the video looks and sounds like
Painted, cinematic scenes with wide landscapes and armies at scale. Route maps show where armies moved, timeline bars and titles give the dates, and chapter cards split the campaign. A documentary voice reads over music and the sounds of battle.
What the template sets up
- Visual Style
- Painted Cinematic Documentary
- Voice
- A documentary AI voice
- Turns on
- chapters, titles, infographic scenes, music and sound effects
- Also sets
- The finish, transitions, camera movement and the look of titles and graphics
Everything can be changed once you start.
Example opening: Hannibal's March
The first scenes of a Lost Empires video: what the narrator says, and what's on screen.
- 00:00
Title: Hannibal's March, 218 BC
An army with war elephants crossing a dusty plain.
- 00:07
“In the spring of 218 BC, Hannibal left New Carthage with an army and thirty-seven elephants.”
Hannibal on horseback at the head of the column.
- 00:24
Map: Route map: New Carthage, across the Pyrenees, to the Alps
- 00:36
“By autumn they reached the Alps, and the snow had already started.”
Soldiers and elephants on a narrow mountain pass in snow.
How to start
Open the template
Use this template to sign up free and open a new project with Lost Empires already set.
Add your story
Upload your voiceover, paste a script or start from an idea. Mention the real places in your script. Animatic suggests a map for each one, and a timeline bar for each date.
Check the scenes, then make the video
Read the scene plan, remake any picture you don't like, and export. Credits and plan limits are on the pricing page.
Lost Empires questions
Are the battle scenes historically accurate?
They show what your narration describes, as painted illustrations. Check details like armor and banners, and rewrite and remake any scene that's wrong.
Can I show where a battle happened?
Yes. Route, region and locator maps of real places are drawn from a built-in map of the world, and Animatic suggests one for each place your narration names.
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Start your first Lost Empires video
Sign up free and your first project opens on this template. No card needed.