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Bring the finished narration
Upload the recorded voiceover, or the transcript or script it came from. Long files resume if the connection drops.
An AI documentary video maker that keeps you in the edit
Give Animatic your finished narration. It lays the film out scene by scene against what you are saying, generates the imagery, and leaves every shot open for you to change.
- Works from a finished voiceover
- Up to 3 hours in one project
- Regenerate any single scene
04:12The report sat unread for eleven years.Ready
04:38By then, three of the witnesses had died.Ready
05:02What follows is what the files actually show.Regenerating
From recorded narration to finished film
The research and the writing stay yours. Everything from the voiceover onwards is where Animatic starts.
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The film gets a scene structure
Animatic transcribes the audio and cuts it into scenes where the subject changes, taking the timings from the read itself.
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You work the sequence
Rewrite what a scene depicts, change its pace, swap the Visual Style, regenerate a shot that misses the meaning.
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Export the finished film
One timeline, one render, up to three hours on Pro at 1080p with no watermark.
Imagery that follows the meaning
A documentary lives on the relationship between what is said and what is shown. Animatic proposes that relationship from your own audio, and every part of it stays editable — see the full set of controls.
- Scenes are cut where the narration turns, not on a fixed interval
- Scene density sets how often the picture changes — slow for a sequence that needs to sit
- Each scene carries a description you can rewrite before it is generated again
- Motion and transitions are set per scene, so a reveal and a montage don't move the same way
- Earlier versions of a scene are kept, so a change is never one-way
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Regenerate scene3 versions kept
What you get to control
One Visual Style per film
Your prompt, your reference images, your aspect ratio — saved and reused across the whole project or a whole strand.
Recurring subjects hold
A figure introduced in the first act still looks like themselves in the third.
Selective regeneration
Remake the four scenes that don't work. The rest of the film is untouched.
Your own assets
A Brand Kit carries your logo, colours and an intro and outro into the export.
Depth where it earns it
2.5D parallax is applied to the shots that suit it, rather than to everything.
Feature-length runtimes
Up to three hours in a single project on Pro, with generation running in the background.
How a 45-minute film comes together
An honest division of labour — what the tool does, and what stays with the film-maker.
Research and script
Sources, structure, fact-checking and the write-up. None of this happens in Animatic.
YouRecord the narration
A 45-minute read, exported as a single audio file.
YouImport and plan
The audio is transcribed and cut into scenes against its own timings. Runs in the background.
AnimaticRead the plan before anything renders
Rewrite the scenes that describe the wrong thing, merge two that should be one, set the pace of the middle section.
YouGenerate the sequence
One image per scene in the Visual Style you set, with failures retried automatically.
AnimaticReview and regenerate
Work through the film, regenerate the shots that miss, adjust motion and timing in the timeline.
YouBrand and export
Intro, outro and logo from the Brand Kit, then a single 1080p render.
Animatic
Long enough for the whole thing
Feature-length documentary work does not fit tools built around clips of a few seconds. Animatic runs a three-hour project on Pro and sixty minutes on Creator, as one project with one scene plan and one export.
Transcription, planning and image generation carry on with the browser closed, which matters when a single pass covers hours of narration. If the films go out as a channel, the faceless YouTube page covers ultra-long-form runtimes and episode-to-episode identity.
Animatic does not research your subject, verify claims or clear rights in third-party material. Accuracy, sourcing and permissions stay with you as the film-maker.
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Plans
Creator suits single films up to an hour. Pro covers feature length and more than one strand at a time.
Founders pricingDiscounted rates for our first users. Limited, and held for as long as your subscription stays active.
Free
Run a real script through it before you pay for anything.
$0
No card required.
What you get
- 300 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.
$18per monthStandard price $24Save 25%
Founders price, held while your subscription stays active.
Everything in Free, plus
- 2,500 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.
$42per monthStandard price $59Save 29%
Founders price, held while your subscription stays active.
Everything in Creator, plus
- 8,000 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 | 300, one-time | 2,500 a month | 8,000 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. Billing is self-serve from the portal in Studio.
Documentary questions
Does Animatic research or fact-check the documentary?
No. It works from the narration you give it. Sources, accuracy and fact-checking are yours, and nothing in the tool verifies a claim.
Do I need a finished voiceover before I start?
A recorded voiceover gives the best result, because scene timings come from the read itself. A transcript or a written script also works.
How long can a documentary be?
Up to 3 hours on Pro, 60 minutes on Creator and 10 minutes on Free — as a single project rather than parts you assemble later.
Can I use my own footage, photographs or archive material?
You can bring your own brand assets, logo and intro and outro clips through a Brand Kit. Animatic does not source or licence archive material, and clearing rights in anything you supply is your responsibility.
What if a scene shows the wrong thing?
Rewrite what that scene depicts and regenerate it on its own. The rest of the film stays exactly as it is, and earlier versions of the scene are kept.
Can I keep several films looking like one series?
Yes. A Visual Style saves the prompt, references and aspect ratio, and a Space groups the projects that share it.
Can I publish and monetise the finished film?
Commercial use is included on Creator and Pro, and exports are 1080p without a watermark. Meeting a platform's rules on originality, rights, accuracy and AI disclosure is your responsibility as the publisher.
Put a narration you've already recorded through it
The free plan runs a real ten-minute section end to end, so you can see the scene plan before you decide.