AI video guides in plain English

The solution to fragmented AI video generation

People who make short AI video often run into three bottlenecks: very short clips, separate tools for voice and lip-sync, and low-resolution output that needs an external upscaler. BetterVideo brings these into one workflow: clips up to 20 seconds from a sentence or a photo, built-in music or a voiceover, a talking photo with lip-sync for faces (4 or 8 seconds), Full HD or 4K delivery, and a built-in enhancement pipeline, all paid for from one credit wallet.

Start here

If you are new, read how to write a prompt first, then how credits work. Everything else builds on those two.

What the guides cover

• Writing prompts and voiceover scripts
• Choosing the size, the shape and the music
• Making product videos and talking photos
• Labelling AI video and avoiding common problems

How the guides are written

Each guide is short, practical and honest about limits. When a guide gives a price or a length, it comes from the live price list, so it matches what you will be charged.

Explore

• Prompt that worksA simple formula for AI video prompts: subject, setting, light and camera move, with examples and the mistakes to avoid.
• From one photoTurn one product photo into a moving video ad in four steps: choose a photo, a camera move, a sound and a size.
• An ai videoWrite a script, pick a male or female voice and get an AI video with the voiceover already in it, up to 20 seconds.
• For phonesChoose 9:16 when you make your video and it fills a phone screen: how to frame it, what to describe and what it costs.
• Which should you choose?Full HD costs half as much as 4K. Here is when each is worth it, and the honest truth about how both are made.
• Ai video cost?Every length and quality priced in credits, how script length sets the price, and what a credit pack gets you.
• The real limitsAI video clips are short. Here are the real limits for text to video, image to video and talking photos, and how to go longer.
• Zoom, orbit, pan and floatWhat slow zoom, orbit, pan and float do to a photo, and which move to choose for products, places and people.
• Voiceover scriptFit your message into 20 seconds: how many words it takes, a simple structure and three example scripts.
• With ai lip-syncMake the face in a photo speak: choose the photo, write up to about 20 words, pick a voice. 4 or 8 seconds, Full HD or 4K.
• That work for ai videoLight, background, angle and sharpness: how to shoot a product photo that animates well with a camera move.
• Ai-generated videos?Many platforms ask you to label realistic AI-generated video. What to check, when it matters and how to stay on the right side.
• Which should you use?When AI video beats stock footage, when stock wins, and how to use both for short videos and ads.
• Which costs less?How to tell whether pay-as-you-go credits or a monthly subscription suits how often you make AI video.
• A plain-english guideText to video turns a sentence into a short video. What it can do, what it cannot, and how to start.
• A plain-english guideImage to video turns a photo into a moving clip. What it does, what to expect and how to start in minutes.
• Where to startFive simple ways a small business can use AI video: product clips, greetings, promos and listings, without a shoot.
• Without a cameraA step-by-step way to make a short video ad from a photo or a sentence, with a voiceover offer and the right shape.
• Without filming anythingMake a short video without a camera, actors or editing: describe a scene or upload a photo and let AI do the rest.
• And how to fix themShifting text, odd hands, soft detail and mismatched colour: why AI video does it and what to do about each problem.
• Your ai videoCinematic, energetic, calm and more: the ten music styles you can choose and which suits each kind of video.
• For your websiteHero loops, product previews and intros for a website: what to make, which size to choose and how to keep pages fast.
• Ai video clipsDownload, trim, join and add text to your AI clips in any editor, to build a longer video from several 20-second clips.
• Across ai clipsMake a series of AI videos that feel like one set: shared light, colour, camera and sound choices.
• Cost credits?What happens to your credits when an AI video fails to generate, and how BetterVideo returns them automatically.
• Expire?Why some AI video tools reset your credits every month, and how BetterVideo credits work: bought once, they never expire.
• Ai video generator?A pay-as-you-go AI video generator charges per video instead of per month. How it works, what it costs and who it suits.
• Commercially?Whether you can use BetterVideo videos in ads and client work, what our terms say, and the rules for photos and lip-sync.
• Photos and videos?How BetterVideo handles the photos and videos you upload: never used for AI training, private links, deleted after 30 days.
• Ai video credits?When BetterVideo returns credits automatically, when unused credits can be refunded, and what cannot be refunded.
• On my phone?Make AI videos from a sentence or a photo in your phone's web browser, with no app to install. What you need and how it works.

Keep reading

• Text to VideoType a sentence and get a finished video with music or a voiceover, up to 20 seconds, in Full HD or 4K. Pay as you go. Credits never expire.
• Image to VideoTurn a photo into a moving video ad, or make the face in a photo speak. Music or voiceover, Full HD or 4K, up to 20 seconds. No subscription.
• Prompt libraryCopy-and-paste AI video prompts for products, travel, food, nature, ads and more, with voiceover scripts and what each costs.