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Long-form YouTube video generator

Make your next faceless YouTube video.

Turn your topic into a narrated episode with AI-generated visuals, a style you can reuse and scenes you can edit. Create videos up to 3 hours long on Ultra.

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  • Episodes up to 3 hours on Ultra
  • A channel style you can reuse
  • Edit any scene
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Long episodes stay in one project

Ultra-long-form is what creators call videos that run for hours: long documentaries, deep dives, compilations, sleep stories, full histories. Animatic handles projects up to 3 hours on Ultra, 2 hours on Pro and 1 hour on Creator.

Tools that make a few seconds of video at a time leave you with dozens of clips to line up for an hour-long video. Animatic keeps the whole video in one project, and keeps working after you close the browser.

  • Planned before anything is made

    The whole video is laid out as scenes first, however long the narration runs.

  • One project, start to finish

    One project and one timeline, so there's nothing to stitch together afterward.

  • The same look all the way through

    Your Visual Style and Continuity carry from the first minute to the last.

  • Fix one scene at a time

    Remake the scene that isn't right and leave the rest as they are.

Free10 minutes
Creator1 hour
Pro2 hours
Ultra3 hours
Longest episode on each plan. However long it runs, it's one project and one export.

These are the longest episodes each plan allows, not an amount of video included. How many credits an episode uses depends on how many scenes it has and what you generate.

The same look from the first scene to the last

Viewers come back to a channel they recognize. One Visual Style sets the look, and Continuity keeps the same characters and places looking the same as the story moves on.

  1. A linocut print in brick red, cream and black: a small white fox at the edge of a still black lake, facing a forest of red autumn trees reflected in the water.1A fox at the edge of a red forest.
  2. The white fox walks along the lake's edge, seen side-on, its reflection beneath it and the red trees rising behind.2It follows the shore.
  3. The white fox steps between tall brick-red trees with black trunks, fallen red leaves on the dark ground.3Into the trees.
  4. In a clearing, the white fox looks up at a tall pale tree whose bare cream limbs spread against a dark sky.4At the foot of the pale tree.
  5. The white fox sleeps curled at the base of the pale tree as a few red leaves drift down around it.5It sleeps.
The Fox and the Burning Forest · Linocut Print · Made by the Animatic team. The same throughout: the white fox, the pale tree and a three-color palette.

One look across every episode

Set your channel's look once and start every upload from it, so episode 40 is recognizably the same channel as episode 1.

  • A Visual Style: one of the 20 built-in looks, or your own from a prompt and up to 3 reference images on any paid plan
  • The same AI voice and delivery on every episode, or your own recording
  • Continuity helps the same person, place or object look the same throughout an episode
  • A Space keeps a channel's projects and defaults together, with a Brand Kit for its logo, intro and outro

How an episode gets made

You review the scene plan and the visuals before anything is exported.

  1. Start from the topic or the script

    Give Animatic an idea and edit the script it drafts, paste a script you've written, or upload your own voiceover.

  2. Animatic plans and illustrates it

    The narration is split into scenes where the subject changes, and each scene gets an image in your channel's style.

  3. Direct the episode

    Rewrite scene descriptions, set the pace and regenerate any scene that misses.

  4. Export and publish

    One 1080p video with no watermark on every paid plan. You decide what goes up.

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Formats it suits

  • Documentaries

    Long narration with an arc, and subjects that come back throughout.

  • Video essays

    Visuals that follow the argument instead of decorating it.

  • History and mysteries

    Places and figures you can't find as stock footage.

  • Educational series

    One Visual Style and one Brand Kit across every episode.

  • Sleep and ambient

    Videos hours long, at a slow pace with gentle movement.

  • Compilations

    Segmented scripts where each part gets its own treatment.

A finished episode, ready to publish

Export a complete 1080p video with no watermark, cut to your narration — not a folder of clips to assemble.

Commercial use is included on every paid plan, so you can run ads, take sponsorships or deliver client work. Each episode is built from your script and your direction, and you review every scene before export.

1080p, no watermarkExports on every paid plan
Commercial useIncluded on every paid plan
Up to 3 hoursLongest project, on Ultra

Upload-ready for YouTube, sponsors and client work.

Plans

Creator covers most channels. Pro adds 2-hour episodes and room for more than one channel, and Ultra goes up to 3 hours.

Creator

For publishing videos regularly.

$20per month

Billed annually at $240 — save $48 a year.

$24per month

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

Everything in Free, plus

  • 1,200 credits a month
  • Projects up to 1 hour
  • 1080p exports with no watermark, and commercial use
  • Your own Visual Styles and music
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Pro

For longer productions and more than one series.

$49.99per month

Billed annually at $590 — save $118 a year.

$59per month

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

Everything in Creator, plus

  • 3,000 credits a month
  • Projects up to 2 hours
  • 5 Spaces and 5 Brand Kits, one per series
  • Faster generation: up to 6 scenes at once
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Best value

Ultra

For the longest projects and the heaviest output.

$82.99per month

Billed annually at $990 — save $198 a year.

$99per month

Billed monthly. Cancel any time.

Everything in Pro, plus

  • 6,500 credits a month
  • Projects up to 3 hours
  • 10 Spaces and 10 Brand Kits
  • 100 GB of storage
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Explore Animatic with your own idea. No card required.

100 credits is enough to try Animatic. A full 10-minute video usually needs more.

  • 100 credits to spend once, not a monthly allowance
  • Projects up to 10 minutes
  • 720p exports with a watermark
  • Animate scene, to turn chosen scenes into video
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Credits pay for what Animatic makes for you, and you see the cost before each step. Paid plans get their credits every month, however you pay, and unused credits don't roll over. The longest project is a limit on each project, not an amount of video.

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Faceless channel questions

Do I need to show my face or record on camera?

No. Upload a voiceover, have an AI voice read your script, or start from an idea. Animatic generates the visuals for every scene, so you don't need to film anything or find stock footage.

Can I use an AI voice instead of recording my own?

Yes. Paste your script, choose from 6 voices, play a free sample, and set the speed and delivery style. You see the cost in credits before you generate.

Can Animatic write the script for an episode?

Yes. Start with an Idea drafts an editable script from your idea, at the length you choose. You edit and approve it before any narration or visuals are generated.

What does ultra-long-form mean?

Creators use it for uploads measured in hours rather than minutes — extended documentaries, deep dives, compilations and sleep-friendly stories. Animatic supports projects up to 3 hours on Ultra, 2 hours on Pro, 1 hour on Creator and 10 minutes on Free.

How do I stop a long video looking repetitive?

Set the look once with a Visual Style, choose how often the picture changes, and remake any scene that isn't right. Continuity keeps recurring characters and places consistent. Turn a few key scenes into video with Animate scene, and on paid plans Cinematic Depth adds a subtle sense of depth to the pictures that suit it.

How much of the result can I control?

The scene plan, what each scene shows, the Visual Style, the pace, each scene's camera movement and transition, its timing, and which scenes become video. Earlier versions of a scene are kept, so you can go back.

Can I monetize the videos on YouTube?

You can publish and monetize them where the finished video meets that platform's rules on originality, rights, disclosure and eligibility. Commercial use is included on every paid plan. YouTube makes the monetization decision — we can't guarantee approval or revenue.

Does it keep working if I close the browser?

Yes. Transcription, scene planning and image generation run in the background, which matters when a project is hours long.

What do I get at the end?

A finished video file: your narration over AI-generated pictures that move with the camera, plus any scenes you've turned into video. 1080p with no watermark on every paid plan, 720p with a watermark on Free.

Start free with your next episode

Use a topic, a script or a recording you were going to publish anyway. Try it with 100 free credits, and upgrade when you want longer episodes, more credits and exports without a watermark.

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