Email to Video: turn a newsletter or campaign body into a branded video
Paste the body of a newsletter, a product announcement, a campaign send, or a customer update. ngram reads the email, rewrites it as a video script, and hands back a storyboard you edit in plain language before it renders.
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How it works
Four steps from a flat email to a video subscribers actually watch.
No Canva canvas, no Gmail-blocked autoplay, no Stack Overflow thread about embedding video in email. The send you already wrote becomes the script, and the script becomes a storyboard you can argue with before anything renders.
Paste the email or drop the issue URL
Subject line, preheader, body copy, bullets, and the click target, up to 10,000 words. If the issue is published to the web instead, paste the link and ngram fetches the article body with Firecrawl.
The agent rewrites the email as a video script
ngram finds the hook in your subject line, lifts the value out of the paragraphs, and keeps your CTA as the closing card. Headings become scene breaks, bullets become callouts, and the newsletter footer gets dropped.
Review the storyboard before render
Each scene shows the line of script, the visual direction, and the duration. Cut a section, rewrite the hook for the inbox preview, swap a visual, or ask for a 30-second cut in plain language. Every change re-flows the script.
Export the video plus an inbox thumbnail
One render produces 16:9 for the landing page, 1:1 for the inbox, and 9:16 for social. You also get a play-button thumbnail sized for Gmail, with captions burned in and the Brand Kit applied.
Output controls
Smart defaults from the email. Real knobs when you need them.
Subject line becomes the hook
The agent treats your subject line and preheader as the first three seconds of the video, the part that has to earn the watch in an inbox preview. Rewrite the hook in the storyboard if the email opener was built for skimming, not viewing.
Body copy mapped to scenes
Headings split the email into scene breaks, paragraphs become narration, and bullet lists become on-screen callouts. A 600-word campaign body comes back paced for a 60 to 90 second watch, not one slide per sentence.
Play-button thumbnail for the inbox
Every render ships an animated thumbnail with a play button, sized to stay light enough for Gmail's inline limits. Drop it at the top of the next send so subscribers click into the hosted video instead of scrolling past static copy.
AI Visuals per scene
Each scene gets a brand-matched image or short generated clip tied to that paragraph's point. No keyword-matched stock footage that makes every campaign email look like the last one.
Brand Kit on every frame
Logo, fonts, colors, motion style, intro, and outro pulled from your saved Brand Kit. The video for issue 50 looks as on-brand as the welcome email's first send.
Voiceover from any saved voice
Read the email in a default ngram voice, your cloned founder voice, or a multilingual ElevenLabs voice. Pace and tone follow the script you approved in the storyboard.
Captions for muted inbox playback
Auto-generated captions burned into every export and styled to the Brand Kit. Subscribers reading in a muted Gmail tab still get the message you sent.
Three ratios from one render
16:9 for the campaign landing page, 1:1 for the inbox embed, and 9:16 for the social repost. Smart reframing keeps the CTA on screen across every ratio.
The rest of ngram
What ngram does to an email that a drag-and-drop builder can't.
Script Generation
Reads the pasted email and rewrites it as a hook-body-CTA video script. Your subject line becomes the opener and your click target becomes the closing line, paced for a watch instead of a skim.
Learn moreAI Visuals
Each scene of the email-to-video gets a brand-matched image or short generated clip tied to that paragraph's meaning. The visuals follow your campaign copy, not a stock-clip lookup table.
Learn moreBrand Kit
Logo, fonts, colors, motion, intro, and outro applied to every scene built from your email. The same kit drives every future newsletter render, so the campaign stays on-brand at send-cadence speed.
Learn moreCaptions
Burned-in captions styled to your Brand Kit and generated from the same script. Subscribers who open the video in a muted inbox tab still read the words you wrote in the email.
Learn moreAI Voiceover
Narrate the email script in an ElevenLabs voice, your cloned voice, or a supported language. The voiceover reads the lines you approved in the storyboard, so the spoken email matches the written one.
Learn moreMulti-format Export
One email in, three ratios out, plus an inbox thumbnail. 16:9 for the landing page, 1:1 for the embed, 9:16 for the repost, captions reframed per surface in a single render.
Learn moreUse cases
Eight sends where an email-to-video earns the click.
Turn the campaign body into an email marketing video
Paste the send you A/B tested for two quarters and get back a captioned video plus a play-button thumbnail. The lift was never in the subject line, it was in giving skimmers something to watch.
See use caseShip a video version of this week's newsletter
Drop the draft and ngram returns a 90-second clip with a thumbnail ready for Substack, Beehiiv, or ConvertKit. Keep the video cadence past issue three without losing your Tuesday evening to editing.
See use caseLift click rate, not just open rate
Open rates look fine but clicks flatline at two percent. Convert the email copy into a short video with an inbox thumbnail that routes subscribers to a hosted landing page instead of a dead static image.
See use caseSend the launch announcement as a watchable video
The launch email you wrote in the campaign tool is the script. Convert it to a branded launch video, then drop the thumbnail in the send and the 16:9 cut on the launch page.
See use caseFeature emails become feature videos
Paste the what's-new email and get a 60-second video with motion graphics and a brand intro. The same copy ships to the inbox and the changelog without a second editing pass.
See use caseOutbound emails that loop a short clip
Convert your best cold-email paragraph into a short video and embed the thumbnail in the first line. Prospects see the pitch move instead of reading another wall of text in the inbox.
See use caseWelcome and activation emails with motion
The onboarding email sequence becomes a set of short step videos. New accounts watch the setup instead of reading it, so first-value lands sooner and week-one tickets drop.
See use caseRepurpose the send as a short social clip
The newsletter you already mailed becomes a 30-second 9:16 clip for the social repost. One source email, two channels, posted the same day without a rewrite.
See use caseOther converters
Source is a doc, a URL, or a PDF? Pick the converter that matches the input.
Email to video is one node on ngram's script and storyboard pipeline. Every text-source converter here shares the same scene planner, Brand Kit, storyboard review, and three-ratio export.
When the copy isn't an email yet, just a draft, a prompt, or a chunk of writing. Same scene planner as email to video, with no inbox-specific framing applied.
Open converterWhen the campaign already lives behind a link. ngram fetches the page, strips nav and ads, and feeds the body to the same storyboard flow your pasted email uses.
Open converterWhen the newsletter started as a blog post with H2s and bullets. Same engine as email to video, with extra parsing for editorial article structure.
Open converterTools that pair with this converter
Sharpen the email before. Edit the video after.
Editing the video further
Take the email-to-video output past the first cut
Video Editor
Re-cut the rendered email-to-video, drop a scene, or swap a visual. The converted output opens straight in the timeline editor with the email script attached.
Open toolAdd Subtitles to Video
Captions are burned in by default; this tool exports an external .srt for a switchable caption track on the landing-page embed or the hosted player.
Open toolVideo Cutter
Pull a 15-second teaser from the full email-to-video for the inbox thumbnail or a social pre-roll. Trim by transcript line, not by dragging a timeline.
Open toolVideo Translator
Translate the rendered email video into another language for a localized send list, with lip sync optional. One source email gets a multilingual cut without a second render.
Open toolGenerating from scratch
If you don't have the email drafted yet
AI Video Generator
No email written yet? Brief the agent in a prompt and skip the paste step. The script is generated on the way to the same storyboard reviewer the email flow uses.
Open toolVideo Script Generator
Draft the campaign script first from a short brief, then run it through email to video for the visual render. Useful when the send is still an idea, not a draft.
Open toolText to Speech Video
A straight read-through of the email copy over brand visuals, with no avatar and no rewrite. Useful when you want the subscriber to hear the email exactly as written.
Open toolAI Avatar Video Generator
Have a talking-head avatar read the email on camera instead of voiceover-over-visuals. Same source copy, a presenter-led cut for the welcome or founder send.
Open toolPolishing the source first
Tighten the email before you convert it
URL to Video
If the issue is already published to the web, skip the paste step and let ngram fetch the page directly, with the same scene planner and one fewer copy step.
Open toolAI Image Generator
Pre-generate the play-button thumbnail on the same Brand Kit so the inbox preview and the video's first frame match before you schedule the send.
Open toolAudio to Text
Recorded the campaign idea as a voice memo? Transcribe it first, tidy the email copy, then paste the cleaned text into email to video.
Open toolAdd Text to Video
Stamp the offer, the discount code, or the CTA from your email onto the rendered scenes as on-screen text, so the click target survives even on a muted watch.
Open toolBuilt for teams
Teams who turn a send into a video every week.
Growth Marketing
Convert your best campaign sends into short video with inbox thumbnails, then test the thumbnail-to-landing-page flow against the static-image control the same week you draft it.
See workflowsProduct Marketing
Launch emails and feature announcements become branded videos the same day they ship to the list. One paste, three ratios, plus a thumbnail, no editor in the loop.
See workflowsContent Creators
Paste this week's newsletter and get a clip plus thumbnail ready for Substack, Beehiiv, or ConvertKit. Keep the video version going long after the motivation for issue three runs out.
See workflowsSales Enablement
Outbound email copy and deal-stage follow-ups become short videos reps drop into the inbox. Prospects watch the pitch loop instead of skimming another paragraph.
See workflowsCustomer Success
Onboarding sequences, policy emails, and renewal outreach paste in and come out as short branded videos customers actually open and finish.
See workflowsFounders
The investor update and the company-news email turn into 60 to 90 second branded videos for the list and for LinkedIn. No video team, no calendar wait for an editor.
See workflowsSupport Teams
Turn the canned response and the help-article email into a short clip that shows the fix. Customers watch the steps instead of re-reading two paragraphs in the reply.
See workflowsIntegrations
Trigger email to video where your campaigns already live.
Wire the converter into your ESP, your CRM, your agent stack, or your publishing tools. Every integration ships with a working email-to-video recipe you can fork.
whenA campaign draft is marked 'Ready for video' in your Mailchimp or Klaviyo workspace
thenConvert the email body into a 16:9 and 1:1 video plus a play-button thumbnail, then drop all three into Drive
whenClaude or ChatGPT is asked to turn this week's newsletter draft into a video
thenHand the email copy to ngram, return the rendered video, the inbox thumbnail, and a /watch share link
whenAn internal flow posts a finalized customer-update email to your self-hosted store
thenConvert the email body to a branded video without the campaign copy leaving your VPC
whenA HubSpot marketing email is updated with approved launch copy
thenAuto-convert that email into a campaign video and attach it plus its thumbnail to the campaign record
whenYou hit 'Convert to video' with the email body selected in your campaign editor
thenGet a storyboard back in a new tab, ready to review before the send goes out
whenAn email-to-video finishes rendering
thenPublish the 1:1 cut as a LinkedIn post with the email's strongest line as the caption
whenThe 16:9 cut of an email-to-video is ready
thenUpload it as the hosted version your campaign thumbnail links to, with the subject line as the title
whenA 9:16 email-to-video clip finishes rendering
thenPost it to X with the newsletter's headline as the tweet copy and the link back to the full issue
How it compares
If you've been using something else to put video in email.
Wistia and Vidyard host the video and hand you a thumbnail to paste in the email, but you still produce the video somewhere else first. BombBomb centers a webcam record for one-to-one sends. ngram reads the email body itself, plans a storyboard you can argue with before render, and applies the Brand Kit per scene, so the video reads like your campaign, not a generic clip dropped into a player.
| Feature | ngram | Wistia | Vidyard | BombBomb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from the email body | Paste the send; the agent rewrites it as a video script | Bring your own finished video | Bring your own finished video | Webcam record, not the email copy |
| Storyboard review before render | Full scene-by-scene plan, editable in plain language | No script planning step | No script planning step | Record-and-send, no storyboard |
| Inbox play-button thumbnail | Animated thumbnail sized for inline inbox limits | Animated thumbnail provided | Animated thumbnail provided | Animated GIF preview provided |
| Visual generation | AI Visuals matched to each email scene per Brand Kit | None, uses your footage | None, uses your footage | None, uses webcam footage |
| Brand application | Brand Kit (logo, fonts, colors, motion, outro) on every scene | Player skin and CTA only | Player skin and CTA only | Limited intro/outro |
| Aspect ratios per render | 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 from one render | Source ratio only | Source ratio only | Source ratio only |
| Voiceover | ElevenLabs voices plus cloned voice, any supported language | Your recorded audio | Your recorded audio | Your recorded audio |
| API plus agentic access | REST, MCP server, Zapier, n8n, Make | API available | API available | Limited API |
FAQ
Common questions about email to video
Still curious?
Email → Video
Ready to turn the next send into a branded video?
Paste the email, review the storyboard, export three ratios plus an inbox thumbnail. Roughly five minutes from paste to schedule.