AI Script to Video

Turn scripts into fully editable videos with AI — free to start

Paste your script — Kapwing AI handles the rest

Generate a video with B-roll, voice over, subtitles, talking-head characters, sound effects, and background music in minutes

Create videos faster with storyboard-level control

Paste your script into Kapwing AI and instantly get a frame-by-frame storyboard.

Fine-tune every detail before using any credits, including the voice over, shot list, aspect ratio, subtitles, and AI characters.

Generate, edit, then export as an MP4 in any format — 9:16, 16:9, 1:1, and more.

Generate Video From Script

Create videos faster with storyboard-level control

Automatically match any script with B-roll

Kapwing's AI analyzes your script and pulls from a library of licensed stock videos and images, or creates bespoke footage for your content using AI

Every clip is royalty-free and cleared for commercial use, including YouTube monetization — no need for additional Shutterstock or media library subscriptions.

Create short-form videos optimized for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels. Or build longer projects like marketing explainers, product demos, training videos, and press announcements.

Automatically match any script with B-roll

Design a custom character to deliver your script

Create an AI character to deliver your script with realistic, lip-synced speech.

Build a library of diverse characters for any project — whether it’s an AI UGC creator, animated persona, digital spokesperson, or even a clone of yourself.

Use AI voices in 40+ languages combined with automatic subtitles for polished international-ready content in 4K.

Transform Script to Video

`Keep your brand consistent across every video`

Every AI-generated video comes fully assembled, ready to customize or publish straight to social media.

Edit each layer in the timeline studio with drag and drop functionality — swap B-roll clips, change voice over, edit subtitle fonts and colors, or replace background music.

Save brand colors, fonts, subtitle styles, and even characters to a Brand Kit. Access them across any team project with real-time feedback and shared links for streamlined collaboration.

Script to Video vs Text to Video

Idea to video in one workflow — whatever your prompt

Text-to-video tools generate videos from short prompts — AI-generated scenes, short social media videos, AI adverts, and content up to 60 seconds long.

Script-to-video tools are designed for longer content like YouTube scripts, marketing copy, or podcast transcripts.

Kapwing supports both workflows.

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Idea to video in one workflow — whatever your prompt

Real teams creating on Kapwing

Already transforming video creation across industries

Hear directly from the teams who publish faster, collaborate better, and stay ahead.

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It just works!

Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.

Eunice Park

Studio Production Manager at Formlabs

With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.

Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!

Vannesia Darby

CEO at MOXIE Nashville

Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.

Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.

Grant Taleck

Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com

It keeps getting better!

Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.

Panos Papagapiou

Managing Partner at EPATHLON

By the far the most user friendly software to use.

As a housewife at home looking to start a YouTube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.

Kerry-lee Farla

Youtuber

Kapwing is my secret weapon!

This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.

Gracie Peng

Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.

Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As an English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.

Heidi Rae

Education

Excellent subtitling features

[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!

Natasha Ball

Consultant

Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.

[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)

Mitch Rawlings

Information Services Freelancer

This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.

I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, there is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.

Dina Segovia

Virtual Freelance Worker

`Script to video works for every format and team`

Trusted by 35 million creators worldwide — from podcasters to marketing teams

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Podcast Promos

Podcasters use Kapwing's AI Script to Video to transform scripts into engaging video teasers, making it easier to attract listeners on social media

Customer Testimonials

Communications professionals transform commercial copy into review videos for their websites, using AI avatars as the face of customer reviews.

YouTube Shorts

Kapwing's AI Script to Video is the perfect tool to assist YouTubers in their creation journey, especially shorter 1-3 minute formats like Shorts

Instagram Videos

Influencers and content creators create eye-catching videos for platforms like Instagram, saving time and maintaining consistency in brand messaging

Vlogging

Vloggers use Kapwing's AI to generate visually engaging intros and highlight reels, speeding up the editing process and enhancing storytelling

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Training & Tutorials

HR and L&D teams can quickly generate training and tutorial videos, simplifying the process of developing educational content for employees

Marketing & Video Ads

Marketers turn scripts into high-quality promotional videos without a large budget — no studio, agency, or production team required

Online Courses

Online Coaches transform course outlines into polished video lessons, enhancing the learning experience for students

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Educational Videos

Educators and teachers convert scripts into video content to help keep students engaged and make complex topics easier to understand

F&Q & Help Videos

Turning common FAQs into video content makes it easier for customers to find solutions and reduces the burden on support staff

●Step by Step

How to Create Videos From Scripts

Step 1
Open Kapwing AI
Start by opening Kapwing AI in any browser — no download or app required.
Step 2
Paste script
Paste your script into the text box and click "Generate." Give the AI further context with guidance on the aspect ratio, B-roll, voice over, background music, text overlay, and subtitles. Optionally, select a character for the video using the @ symbol.
Step 3
Generate video
Select "Generate Video" to complete your project. Edit any element by chatting with the AI or clicking directly in the editor. Finally, export and download or add further edits.

●Thoughtfully Unique

What's different about Kapwing?

Six reasons creators stay in flow: faster edits, smarter tools, and collaboration that actually keeps projects moving.

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Collaborative

Quickly review and share feedback with your team using real-time comments in shared workspaces. Save assets to your Brand Kit for easy access.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

AI-Powered

Kapwing uses the latest advanced AI models to power generative AI and one-click editing tools.

●Just the FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

We have answers to the most common questions that our users ask.

Is Kapwing's Script to Video tool free?

Yes, Kapwing’s AI-powered Script to Video tool is free for all users. However, to access all of Kapwing’s AI tools with extended usage limits, a paid subscription is required.

Is there a watermark on exports?

Yes, free exports include a Kapwing watermark. To remove the watermark and export in 4K, upgrade to Kapwing Pro.

How long should a video script be for a talking head video?

For top performance on social media, draft a video script of at least 500 characters, which would result in a video around 30 seconds long. Here are the recommended characters and words for other video durations.

30-second video: 300-600 characters (80–90 words)
1-minute video: 750–900 characters (125–150 words)
2-minute video: 1,500–1,800 characters (250–300 words)
3-minute video: 2,250–2,700 characters (375–450 words)

Can AI videos be monetized on YouTube and other social platforms?

Yes, AI videos be monetized on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media channels. Kapwing's audio, image, and video library is royalty-free. Every social media network has a unique set of community standards, copyright laws, and platform restrictions, so make sure you read them in full to best understand monetization policies. In 2025, YouTube released new guidelines saying it plans to de-monetize creators making mass-produced or repetitive content.

How does AI match B‑roll footage to my script?

Based on the subject of your script, AI selects relevant clips from licensed stock libraries. Then, it analyzes the candidate visuals, comparing them to the keywords in the script outline, to choose the best cut of the video to feature. Kapwing's Smart B-Roll feature uses Google's Gemini, a multimodal LLM, to get intelligence about the best video selects.

Are AI video generators safe to use?

Kapwing is safe to use and we have strict moderation guidelines and ethics policies in place. You can read more under our full Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Can I customize the voice, tone, or avatar in script-to-video tools?

Kapwing's AI Video Generator enables full customization:

Script: After generating a script from a video prompt, edit or refine the script through our AI Script Generator. Insert emphasis, pauses, or inflection to refine the emotional tones in the video.
Avatar: Choose the face and voice of the speaker from hundreds of stock avatar options, create an AI Twin of yourself, or design an AI character from scratch
Music: Replace the suggested background tunes with your own soundtrack or audio file.
Voice over: After generation, edit or change the words, volume, pacing, or tone of the TTS.
Aspect ratio: Choose the dimensions of the generated output to make it best for the platform you're publishing on

How long do AI videos take to generate?

The speed of AI generation depends on the length of your script. Kapwing's AI video generator takes about 30 seconds per minute of video to generate.

What AI models does Kapwing use?

Kapwing's editing studio is powered by multiple AI models including Sora, Veo, MiniMax, Kling, Seedance, ChatGPT Image, Google Nano Banana, and more.

What is the difference between script-to-video AI and text-to-video AI?

Script-to-video AI generates videos from longer written content like scripts, articles, or outlines. Text-to-video AI usually works from short prompts. Tools like Kapwing support both methods, allowing creators to paste full scripts or enter simple prompts to generate video content automatically.

Script to Video: Best for YouTube, marketing, courses, explainers
Text to Video: Best for clips, ads, creative visuals, social content

What video formats and aspect ratios does Kapwing export?

Kapwing exports videos as MP4. You can choose 16:9 (YouTube, LinkedIn), 9:16 (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), 1:1 (Instagram), alongside other aspect ratios.

Can I use my own footage or images in a script-to-video project?

Yes. After generating your initial video, you can replace B-roll clip with your own video files, images, or screen recordings directly in the Kapwing editor.

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