Story to Movie AI

Quick answer: Paste a story, a few paragraphs or a few thousand words, and SceneMixer reads it into characters, places and scenes, draws each once, and renders the movie with the dialogue spoken in the video. You do not have to format it as a script: prose works. Choose Film for a single piece or TV Series to split a longer story into episodes. Reading is 4 credits per 1,000 characters (English counted lighter); the video is paid by the finished second.

Still from “The Veil at Dawn”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (6 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “The Veil at Dawn” — Digital HD, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

SceneMixer at a glance	What you get
Video price	From $0.06 a second (10 credits) on the default tier, up to $0.47 a second on the top tier; every price is shown before you press the button
Clip length	Up to 30 seconds per generated segment; an episode is composited from its segments at 1 credit a second
One episode, worked out	A 60-second episode on the default tier is about 660 credits (video plus compositing), about $4.11 at the lowest credit price; a 10-episode series of 90-second episodes from a 30,000-character novel is about 10,026 credits, about $62
Dialogue	Spoken in the video itself, one voice per character, in any of 15 languages
Formats	9:16 vertical or 16:9 landscape; 480P to 1080P, plus a 2K tier
Free to start	50 credits on signup, 15 free setup images, a free storyboard for the first episode and a free 5-second video preview
Who uses it	2,900+ creators have generated with SceneMixer (accounts with at least one generation, counted November 2026)
Input	A script, a novel or a one-line idea; .txt, .docx and .md uploads

What a story needs to become a movie

In your story	In the movie
Who it is about	A character with a full-body drawing and one voice
Where it happens	A place drawn once and used as the set each time it returns
What they say	Dialogue spoken in the video, in the language you choose
What they do	Numbered shots with seconds and framing in the storyboard
What they think	Voice-over lines, or a look held a beat longer

Inner thoughts are the one thing a camera cannot show. Either keep them as a narrator's voice-over, or turn the important ones into spoken lines. Writing dialogue so it is picked up.

Story length and what it turns into

Your story	Make it as
A short story that fits one sitting	Film: one project, sequences if it needs them
A longer story with chapters	TV Series: one chapter or two per episode, up to 300 seconds each
A fast, hook-driven cut for phones	Short Drama: up to 240 seconds an episode, a hook to close each

One project reads up to 300,000 characters of English. A whole book · A web novel.

Three things to do before you press go

Read the cast list. Merge a nickname that is the same person as a full name.
Cut what the screen does not need. Descriptions of the weather are fine; a paragraph of backstory is a voice-over or nothing.
Test with the first scene. Make the opening alone, watch it, then decide how much more to make.

Upload and read a text · The free preview.

Rights

The story must be yours or licensed to you. Other people's characters, and well-known film versions of stories, are refused by the IP check; invent your own cast or use a public-domain text. What you get to keep.

Languages

Native dialogue in 15 languages

Every series below was produced by the same pipeline with the cast speaking that language natively: the interface, the working documents and the spoken lines are all in one language, and nothing is dubbed. Open one to hear it.

See all 15 languages

In SceneMixer vs. stitching tools together

Most AI drama workflows are five or six tools in a row. This is where each step happens here, and what it replaces.

Step	In SceneMixer	Doing it by hand with separate tools
Script and episode plan	Paste a script or a novel, or type one line: it is read into a cast, locations, props and an episode outline you can edit	A chat model writes the script; you split it into episodes and carry the text from tool to tool
Character faces and places	Every character, location and prop is drawn once as a reference sheet and attached to every shot it appears in	An image model, one sheet at a time; you upload the right reference to every clip yourself
Shots	A storyboard per episode with numbered shots and seconds; video is generated segment by segment in 9:16 or 16:9 against the same sheets	A video model, one clip per prompt, describing the same people again each time
Voices and dialogue	Lines are performed in the video itself, one voice per character, in any of 15 languages	A text-to-speech tool for each line, then a lip-sync pass on every clip
Fixing one shot	Edit that shot's text and regenerate the segment alone; the rest of the episode is untouched	Regenerate the clip, then re-cut the timeline
Finishing	Segments are composited into one episode file with its score; members download without the AI badge	A video editor to join the clips, add music and captions, then export
Publishing	You upload the finished episode to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or anywhere else; nothing is posted for you	Upload by hand, the same as here

FAQ

Can AI turn my story into a movie?

Yes. Paste the story; characters and places are read from it, drawn once, and shot as scenes with spoken dialogue.

Does my story need to be a screenplay?

No. Prose works. Scripts with scene headings and character names also work.

How long can the story be?

Up to 300,000 characters of English per project, about 50,000 words.

How much does it cost?

Reading is 4 credits per 1,000 characters. Video is 10 credits a second on the default tier plus 1 credit a second to join.

Can I keep the narrator?

Yes, as voice-over lines in the storyboard.

Can I try it free?

Yes: 50 credits on signup, the first 15 setup images, the first storyboard and a 5-second preview.

Can it be in another language?

Yes. Dialogue can be spoken in any of 15 languages.

Paste the first scene

See the cast and the storyboard for free.

Turn a story into a movie

Updated November 2, 2026