Story to Video

Quick answer: Paste a story of at least a paragraph and SceneMixer turns it into a video: the read finds the characters and places, splits the story into scenes and episodes, and writes the dialogue; you approve the cast, read the storyboard and render it with voices and music. Prose works as well as a script. Reading costs 4 credits per 1,000 characters (English counts lighter), and video 10 credits a second on the default tier.

Still from “Il Tavolo dell'Oliva”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (4 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “Il Tavolo dell'Oliva” — Shot on Film, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

Paste a story like: My grandmother kept a jar of buttons on the windowsill. Every button was a coat she had mended for someone in the village, and on the day she died the jar was full…

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

Any story that has people in it

You have	What comes out	Tip
A short story	One or a few episodes	Keep names consistent
A family anecdote	A short film	Invented faces; no real people
A fable or fairy tale	A cartoon short	Public-domain tales, your own designs. Fairy tales
A chapter of a novel	A drama episode	Whole books: book to video
A Reddit-style story you wrote	A dramatized short	Reddit story videos
A bedtime story	A gentle kids' episode	Kids' story videos

Prose becomes scenes

You do not need to rewrite a story as a screenplay. The read turns narration into scenes: who is there, where, what they do and what they say. Lines in quotation marks become dialogue; narration can stay as a narrator's voice-over if you want it heard. Dialogue, voice-over and captions.

The minimum is about a paragraph, roughly 330 characters of English; anything shorter has nothing to split into scenes. Links are not fetched; paste the text. What you can feed in.

What you choose, what is done for you

You choose: how it looks (21 visual styles from live action to watercolour), portrait or landscape, the dialogue language, and Short Drama, TV Series or Film. Done for you: the cast list, a voice per character, the location plates, the shot list and the music. You can change any of it before rendering. Choosing the visual style.

Narrated or acted?

A narrated story video has one voice telling the story over pictures. An acted one has characters speaking their own lines. Both are possible; acted versions hold attention better on short-form platforms. If you want narration, say so in the story or in the storyboard with a voice-over line. Story video formats.

Before you start

Use a story you wrote or have the rights to. A recording or likeness of a real person needs their permission.
Keep one spelling per name, or one character becomes two.
Read the summary after the read: it is the cheapest place to catch a misunderstanding. Checking the summary.

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

Can you make money with AI dramas on TikTok and YouTube?

Yes, within each platform's rules, and the rules are about the account and the video, not about how the video was made. TikTok's Creator Rewards Program (checked November 2, 2026) is open to personal accounts aged 18+ in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Mexico and Brazil with at least 10,000 followers and 100,000 video views in the last 30 days; a rewarded video must be original, longer than one minute and reach 1,000 views on the For You feed. YouTube's Partner Program needs 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Both platforms require realistic AI-generated content to be labelled, and YouTube states that disclosing AI use alone does not limit a video's audience or its eligibility to earn. SceneMixer episodes are longer than a minute by design, carry an AI badge by default (members can switch it off and add the platform's own label instead), and are yours to publish. The full answer, with sources.

FAQ

Can AI turn a written story into a video?

Yes. Paste the story; it is read into scenes, cast, storyboarded and rendered with voices.

Does my story need to be a script?

No. Prose works; dialogue in quotation marks becomes spoken lines.

How short can the story be?

About a paragraph, roughly 330 characters of English, at minimum.

Can I have a narrator?

Yes. Write the narration as voice-over lines, or keep the story's narration and ask for it in the storyboard.

Can I use photos of my family?

Real people's likenesses need consent; uploading photos is a member feature, and the video provider refuses faces that look like real photos.

What does it cost?

Reading is 4 credits per 1,000 characters (English counts lighter); video is charged per second.

Is SceneMixer like ReelShort or DramaBox?

No. ReelShort and DramaBox are apps for watching short dramas. SceneMixer is for making them: it turns your script or novel into episodes with a consistent cast and spoken dialogue, and you publish the episodes wherever you like, including those platforms' creator programmes where they exist.

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Turn a story into video

Updated November 2, 2026