Story to Video for narratives your audience should experience
Bring the written story and the source material that gives it truth and texture. Shape it into a visual narrative with clear pacing, then adapt the project for the audiences and channels it needs to reach.
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How it works
Four steps from a written story to a video that keeps the arc.
A story is more than its sentences. It has a hook, a tension, and a payoff, and a slide builder treats all three the same. ngram reads the narrative arc you wrote, maps it to scenes, and gives you a storyboard you can argue with before any frame renders.
Paste the story or drop a URL
A brand story, customer story, founder narrative, or short written story. Paste up to 4,000 characters. If the story lives on a published page, paste the link instead and ngram fetches the prose with Firecrawl.
The agent reads the arc, not just the words
ngram finds the hook, the turning point, and the resolution, then breaks the narrative into scenes. Each beat becomes a scene with a visual direction and a length tuned to where it sits in the arc, so the pacing builds instead of droning.
Review the storyboard before render
Every scene shows the line of narration, the visual direction, and the duration. Cut a tangent, sharpen the opening beat, swap a visual, or ask for a 60-second cut in plain language, and the change ripples back through the arc.
Review and export the video
Review the story video for its intended channel, including the crop and caption placement, then export one MP4 from Studio. Prepare and review another aspect ratio as a separate edit.
Output controls
Smart defaults from the narrative. Real knobs when a scene needs them.
Arc-aware scene planning
ngram reads the story as a hook, a build, and a payoff rather than a flat list of sentences. The opening beat gets room to land, the middle moves, and the resolution holds, so the video has a shape, not a uniform crawl through paragraphs.
Narration that keeps your telling
The story is tightened for video pacing, but the voice stays yours. Where a sentence carries the moment, ngram keeps it; where prose sprawls, it trims to a line that reads well on screen. You see every change in the storyboard first.
AI Visuals matched to each beat
Each scene gets a brand-matched image or short generative clip that fits what the story is saying at that moment. A tense beat looks different from the resolution. No keyword-matched stock footage that flattens the mood you wrote.
Brand Kit on every frame
Logo, fonts, colors, motion style, intro and outro pulled from your saved Brand Kit. The tenth story you turn into video looks as on-brand as the first, even across different narrators and themes.
Voiceover that carries the telling
The narration is read by a default ngram voice, your cloned founder voice, or a multilingual ElevenLabs voice. Pace and emphasis follow the beats you approved, so a story still feels told rather than recited.
Captions in your brand font
Auto-generated captions burned into every export, styled with the Brand Kit's caption preset and drawn from the narration. Viewers watching on mute still follow the story line by line.
Prepare each channel edit separately
Set the intended channel and aspect ratio for the story video, then review the crop, caption placement, and CTA before exporting one MP4. Prepare another channel version as a separate edit.
Data handling for your team
Your pasted stories, fetched URLs, and uploaded drafts live in your workspace, and you can delete your account and trigger a full data purge from Settings. Talk to sales about security, access controls, and data handling for your team.
The rest of ngram
What ngram does with a written story that a template builder can't.
Script Generation
Reads your story and shapes it into a hook-arc-payoff narration, paced for video. It keeps the story you wrote and tightens it just enough to hold a watcher to the end, instead of echoing one paragraph per slide.
Learn moreAI Visuals
Each beat of the story to video gets a brand-matched image or short generative clip tied to what that moment of the narrative means. The visuals follow the arc, not a stock-clip lookup against the nearest noun.
Learn moreBrand Kit
Logo, fonts, colors, motion style, intro and outro applied to every scene built from your story. The same kit drives every future story-to-video render, so a customer story and a founder story still feel like one brand.
Learn moreAI Voiceover
Narrate the story in an ElevenLabs voice, your own cloned voice, or a supported language. The voiceover carries the arc you approved in the storyboard, beat by beat, so the telling lands the way you intended.
Learn moreCaptions
Burned-in captions styled to your Brand Kit, generated from the narration. Viewers scrolling on mute still read the story, beat for beat, and stay long enough to reach the payoff.
Learn moreConvert the finished story video
Finish the story video in Studio and download one MP4. When a site, player, or handoff requires MOV, WebM, or MKV, convert that file separately in Video Converter, one input and one output per job.
Learn moreUse cases
Eight stories that earn a video the week you finish writing them.
Turn a written customer story into a video
The customer story you wrote up after the win has a clear arc: the problem, the switch, the outcome. ngram maps those beats to scenes and exports a branded video your sales and marketing teams can both ship.
See use caseA testimonial narrative becomes a watchable clip
Paste the written testimonial or quote-led story and ngram builds the scenes around the moment that matters. The result is a short branded video that reads like a story, not a quote card with motion.
See use caseTell your brand story as a branded video
The About-page narrative about why the company exists is your strongest story. Convert it into an on-brand video for the homepage, a pitch, or a hiring page, with the arc intact and the brand applied.
See use caseTurn a founder's written story into video
Founder essays and origin stories carry weight on the feed and in a pitch. Paste the narrative, get a 60 to 90 second branded video that keeps the founder's telling, and post it without an editor in the loop.
See use caseShape a story-led explainer into video
An explainer lands harder when it is told as a story with a character and a stake. ngram lifts that structure into scenes, so the explainer video teaches through narrative instead of a list of features.
See use caseCut a story into short social clips
Use one longer story as source material for short narrative clips, each built around a single beat. Prepare and review every vertical cut as a separate edit before posting the mini-arc.
See use caseTurn a story you wrote into a creator video
The story you outlined for the channel becomes the storyboard. ngram holds your beats and narration, so the cut tells the episode you planned rather than a generic montage over a voiceover.
See use casePut your story video on the landing page
A story video above the fold outperforms a wall of copy. Convert the narrative you already wrote into a short branded video, embed it, and let the arc do the persuading.
See use caseOther converters
Source isn't a written story? Pick the converter that matches your input.
Story to video is one node on ngram's script and storyboard pipeline. Every text-source converter here shares the same scene planner, Brand Kit, and storyboard review. Prepare each channel version as a separate edit.
When the source is raw writing rather than a told story, like launch copy, a draft, or release notes. ngram rewrites it into a video script first, then runs the same storyboard flow you use here.
Open converterWhen you already wrote a structured video script with scene headers and narration lines. ngram preserves that structure instead of re-finding the arc, and renders scene for scene.
Open converterWhen the story is still a one-line idea in your head. Brief the agent and ngram drafts the narrative on the way to the same storyboard reviewer this page uses.
Open converterTools that pair with this converter
Shape the story before. Edit the video after.
Editing the video further
Take the story-to-video output past the first cut
Video Editor
Re-cut the rendered story-to-video, reorder a beat, or swap a visual. The output opens in the timeline editor with the narration attached, so edits stay tied to the moment of the story they came from.
Open toolAdd Subtitles to Video
Captions burn in by default; this tool exports an external .srt from the narration for video SEO or for embeds that want a switchable caption track on your story video.
Open toolVideo Cutter
Pull the single strongest beat out of the full story-to-video for a teaser or ad. Trim by narration line, not by dragging a timeline.
Open toolVideo Translator
Translate the rendered story into a supported language with lip sync optional. The narrative gets a localized cut without re-planning the arc or running a second render pass.
Open toolGenerating from scratch
If you don't have a story written yet
Video Script Generator
No story drafted yet? Generate a narrative script from a short brief first, then bring it here so the story-to-video flow turns those beats into scenes.
Open toolAI Video Generator
Skip the writing step. Brief the agent on the story you want to tell and the narrative is drafted on the way to the same storyboard reviewer you use for pasted stories.
Open toolText to Speech Video
Want a straight read of your story over brand visuals with no scene rework? This is the lean path: your narration, voiced, on-brand, no avatar.
Open toolAI Avatar Video Generator
Have a talking-head avatar tell the story on camera instead of voiceover-over-visuals. Same narrative, presented by a presenter.
Open toolPolishing the source first
Sharpen the story before you convert it
URL to Video
Story already published on an About page or case study? Skip the paste step and let ngram fetch it directly, with the same beat-by-beat scene planner and fewer steps.
Open toolAudio to Text
Told the story out loud as a voice memo? Transcribe it first, tidy the arc, then paste the written story into the converter.
Open toolAI Voice Generator
Audition a narrator on the opening beat of your story before you commit. Lock the read that fits the tone, then convert the full story-to-video against it.
Open toolAI Image Generator
Pre-generate the thumbnail for your story video on the same Brand Kit, so the social card and the video's opening frame tell a consistent story.
Open toolBuilt for teams
Teams who write a story and need it as video the same week.
Content Creators
The story you outlined for the channel becomes the storyboard. Your beats and narration stay intact, so the cut tells the episode you planned, not a montage that loses the thread.
See workflowsProduct Marketing
Customer stories and brand narratives become videos the week they are written. Keep the original arc, then prepare and review each channel edit separately before exporting one MP4.
See workflowsGrowth Marketing
Test which story beat hooks hardest, the same day you write it. Prepare and review each channel edit separately before exporting one MP4.
See workflowsFounders
The origin story and the pitch narrative you wrote become a 60 to 90 second branded video. The telling stays yours; ngram handles the scenes and the render.
See workflowsSales Enablement
Written customer stories and proof narratives become short videos reps drop into outbound. Prospects watch the story unfold instead of skimming a slide of logos.
See workflowsCustomer Success
Renewal and reference stories you write up about an account come back as short branded videos the customer is happy to share, told as a narrative rather than a stats dump.
See workflowsEducators
Case studies and narrative lessons convert into story videos students actually watch. The arc carries the concept, so the lesson sticks past the first slide.
See workflowsAgencies & Consultants
Write the client's story once and render an on-brand video per client from a saved Brand Kit. Same narrative pipeline, a different brand on every export.
See workflowsIntegrations
Trigger story to video where your stories already get written.
Wire the converter into your docs, your CRM, your agent stack, or your publishing tools. Every integration ships with a working story-to-video recipe you can fork.
whenA new customer or brand story is marked 'Ready to film' in your Notion or Airtable workspace
thenUse Zapier's documented Create Video or Get Status action for this Story to Video job with its supported input, then pass the result to the next step.
whenClaude or ChatGPT is asked to turn a written story into a branded narrative video
thenUse MCP's documented create and status tools for this Story to Video job with its supported input, then return the status or result to the agent.
whenAn internal workflow files a finished customer story in your self-hosted store
thenUse n8n's documented Create From Text, Create From URL, or Get Status node for this Story to Video job, then pass the status or result onward.
whenYou hit 'Convert to video' with a story highlighted on any page
thenGet a beat-by-beat storyboard back in a new tab, ready to review and render
whenThe video from your story is ready for LinkedIn Social Publishing Beta
thenCompose the LinkedIn post for the approved story video, then publish it now.
whenThe video from your story is ready for YouTube Social Publishing Beta
thenVerify the YouTube destination for the approved story video, then publish it now.
whenThe video from your story is ready for X Social Publishing Beta
thenCompose the X post for the approved story video, then publish it now.
How it compares
If you've been using something else to turn a story into video.
Pictory and Lumen5 match each line of the story to a stock-clip library, beat after beat, so the arc you wrote gets buried under generic footage. Synthesia centers an avatar and treats the story as speech for it. ngram reads the narrative arc, plans a storyboard you can argue with before render, and applies your Brand Kit per scene, so the video tells the story the way you wrote it.
| Feature | ngram | Pictory | Lumen5 | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How the story is read | Narrative arc. The agent finds the hook, turn, and payoff and paces scenes around them. | Line-by-line over stock clips | Line-by-line over stock clips | Treated as avatar speech script |
| Storyboard review before render | Full beat-by-beat plan, editable in plain language | Scene cards, limited script edits | Inline timeline, no story-level review | Scene list, limited script editing |
| Visual generation | AI Visuals matched to each story beat per Brand Kit style | Stock-library matching | Stock-library matching | Avatar over template backgrounds |
| Brand application | Brand Kit (logo, fonts, colors, motion, outro) on every scene | Brand presets, limited per-scene control | Template-based, limited per-scene control | Template-based, limited per-scene control |
| Channel-specific editing workflow | One reviewed MP4 per channel-specific edit | One ratio per render | One ratio per render | One ratio per render |
| Voiceover | Carries the telling via ElevenLabs voices or a cloned voice, any supported language | Limited TTS voices | Limited TTS voices | Avatar voice library |
| Audience-focused script revisions | Ask for a shorter, more direct, or differently paced story, then review and render the revised edit separately | Manual rework | Manual rework | Manual rework |
| Source story control | Your story stays in your workspace, with account-level data purge from Settings | Indefinite retention | Indefinite retention | Indefinite retention |
| API + agentic access | REST API with self-service API keys; MCP, Zapier, and n8n for documented workflows | Limited API | API available | API available |
FAQ
Common questions about story to video
Still curious?
Story → Video
Ready to turn your written story into a branded video?
Paste the story and review the storyboard. The arc stays yours from paste to publish. Prepare and review each channel edit separately before exporting one MP4.