Documentaries, explainers, Top 10 videos and shorts, from idea to upload.

Vidlore researches the story, writes and narrates it, finds licensed footage, builds maps and 3D scenes, then makes the thumbnail, the shorts and the upload. One system, start to finish.

Documentary · 10 min

Every video above was made by Vidlore. Open one to see the prompt it came from.

1440p

The sharpest render, on the Pro and Scale plans

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Languages for the script, the text and the narration

0

Clips scraped from the web or cut from other videos

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System from the first idea to the upload

Watch what one prompt becomes

Scroll through shots from videos Vidlore made on its own: archive photos with their credits, maps it draws, diagrams it labels and 3D scenes it builds.

The Ship That Trapped 422 Others

A public-domain NASA photo from the space station, found and credited by Vidlore.

How a video gets made

Here is one real video, The Ship That Trapped 422 Others, from the prompt to the upload. Vidlore did each step; the creator could change any of them.

01

Write what the video is about

A topic, a question or a whole brief with your angle. Choose the length, the format, the look, the language and the narrator, or leave them on automatic and let the topic decide.

  • Documentary or Top 10, from 3 to 20 minutes
  • Your channel's language, voice and look, saved once
  • The price in credits before anything starts
New video
The Ever Given: how one stuck ship froze world trade
Length, minutes
358101520
Format
DocumentaryTop 10
Look
Archive documentary
Real footage, photos and maps
Narrator
George
Warm storyteller, for history
Language
English
Script, text on screen and voice
Channel
Shipping Stories
Its voice and look are used
250 credits
You pay for the finished length, and nothing if it fails.
Make the video
02

Vidlore does the reading

It searches the web and public archives like a researcher, collects names, dates, numbers and quotes, keeps the source of each one, and shapes them into an outline with a hook, chapters and an ending.

  • Every fact keeps a link to where it came from
  • An outline built for watching, not for reading
  • The sources end up in your description
Research12 sources
Reading sourcesDone
Suez Canal Authority statements
March 2021
22 facts
Satellite images of the blockage
23 to 29 March 2021
9 facts
Ship-tracking counts of the queue
Daily, during the blockage
17 facts
Salvage and refloating reports
Press archives
14 facts
Outline
  1. 1A wall of sand
  2. 2Four hundred metres, sideways
  3. 3The queue grows
  4. 4Digging out a giant
  5. 5What a week cost the world
03

It writes, checks and narrates

The script is written to be heard: short sentences, a reason to keep watching, numbers that mean something. Before a word is recorded, a second pass checks every claim against the sources and fixes what does not match.

  • A fact check against the research, line by line
  • Narrators chosen for the topic
  • Quotes read in a second voice
Script and narrationFact check: 2 fixes

On 23 March 2021, in a sandstorm, a four-hundred-metre container ship turned sideways and wedged itself across the Suez Canal.

Matches 3 sources
Fixed by the fact check

The canal stayed shut for seven six days.

The sources agree: 23 to 29 March.

George · English0:12 / 4:22
04

It finds and makes the pictures

For every sentence it looks for the shot that shows it: archive film and photos under free licences, stock footage, maps that draw the route, charts, diagrams, and 3D scenes for what nobody filmed.

  • Only material whose licence allows it
  • Every licence recorded and credited
  • Every AI image checked before it is used
Pictures30 third-party shots, all licensed
Archive photo
Public domain · NASA
Archive photo
CC BY-SA 3.0 · credited
Animated map
Made by Vidlore
Map with numbers
Made by Vidlore
Map
Made by Vidlore
3D scene
Made by Vidlore
Every licence is recorded, and the credits go into the description by themselves.
05

You make it yours

Watch the cut in the editor. Drag, trim and swap shots, change the text on screen, or mark a part and say what you want instead. Render again when it is right.

  • Swap any shot for another candidate
  • Ask for a map, a calmer shot or new narration in plain words
  • Manual edits cost nothing
EditorRender
Video
Text
Voice
Music
Show where the ship is on a map here.
Added an animated map of the canal with the ship’s position.
The narration stays as it was. Render when you are ready.
Tell Vidlore what to change…
06

Thumbnail, shorts, upload

Pick one of three thumbnail designs, check the title and the description with chapters, sources and credits, and upload to your channel. The strongest moments come out as vertical shorts too.

  • Thumbnails in the formats that get clicked
  • Shorts for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram
  • Uploads labelled as AI-made, as YouTube asks
Publish to YouTubeShipping Stories
Title
The Ship That Trapped 422 Others: How Ever Given Froze Suez
Description

On 23 March 2021, a 400-metre container ship ran aground in a sandstorm and blocked the Suez Canal for six days.

Chapters · Sources · Credits (30)

UploadingUploaded
3 shorts ready for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and ReelsOpen shorts

More than an AI video generator

Generating a video is the easy part. Vidlore also does the parts other tools leave to you: the 3D scenes, the thumbnails, the licences, the shorts and the upload.

3D scenes for what nobody filmed

When no photo of a moment exists, Vidlore builds it: rooms, offices, vaults, vehicles and streets, with faceless figures dressed for their part and named on screen. Every scene is made for your story, not picked from a library.

Thumbnails that look designed

Three designs at a time, built from the same 3D figures, with tags and one strong headline. Or take any frame.

  • Public-domain archives
  • Creative Commons, always credited
  • Stock footage with free licences
  • Maps, diagrams and 3D made by Vidlore
  • Clips cut from other people's videos
  • Images scraped from the web

Licensed sources only

Every shot comes from a source whose licence allows it, and its credit goes into your description. Nothing is crawled from the web or lifted from other creators.

1440p

Rendered sharper than 1080p

On Pro and Scale. YouTube encodes 1440p uploads with its better codecs, so even viewers watching in 1080p get a cleaner picture.

Shorts from every long video

Vidlore picks the moments that work on their own and cuts them into vertical clips with captions, a hook and a pointer to the full video, with titles and hashtags for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels.

One system, from the idea to the upload

  1. Idea
  2. Research
  3. Script
  4. Fact check
  5. Narration
  6. Pictures
  7. Edit
  8. Thumbnail
  9. Shorts
  10. Upload

A look for every kind of story

Pick the look that suits your channel, or let Vidlore choose one from the topic. Every look gets the same research, script and narration.

Archive documentary

50 credits a minute

Film and photographs of the time, maps that move, dates and places on screen. The classic history channel.

Realistic reconstruction

300 credits a minute

The real archive wherever the moment was filmed, and photoreal film scenes for the moments no one filmed, true to the place and the era. For history with little footage.

Investigation

50 credits a minute

3D figure scenes, case files and timelines at a slower, tenser pace, for true crime, scandals and mysteries.

Company story

50 credits a minute

3D figure scenes, charts that build up and numbers that matter, for business, markets and how companies rise and fall.

Cartoon

50 credits a minute

Cartoon people and animals act out the story in painted places, with what they said in their own voices. For light and funny true stories.

Minimal

50 credits a minute

White pictograms, charts and infographics on black, drawn in as the narration explains. For essays and explainers about ideas.

Geo explainer

50 credits a minute

A satellite map of the real Earth: the countries the story is about glow, borders and fronts move, arrows carry trade and troops. For geography, borders and wars.

2D + 3D

50 credits a minute

Round-headed cartoon people in painted or realistic places with depth, hand-drawn charts and timelines, and a 3D view now and then. For money, business and history told simply.

Every look costs 50 credits a minute, except Realistic reconstruction at 300: most of its shots are new film scenes made for the video. Vertical Shorts for phones are 100 a minute, or 300 in Realistic reconstruction.

9 languages

Research, script, text on screen and narration in your channel’s language, with narrators chosen for the topic.

EnglishSlovakCzechGermanSpanishFrenchPortuguese (Brazil)ItalianPolish

Everything you need to publish

The video comes with its title, description, sources and credits. Thumbnails and shorts are a few credits more.

The video
An MP4 in 1080p, or 1440p on Pro and Scale, with narration, music, captions and on-screen text
Thumbnails
Three designs in the formats that get clicked (a huge number, things side by side, a title bar or a clean question) with real lettering, for 30 credits (5 in the Minimal look), or any frame of the video for free
Shorts
Three vertical clips of the strongest moments, with captions, titles and hashtags, for 5 credits
Title and description
Written for search, with chapters, ready to upload or copy
Sources
Everything the script was written from, listed for your viewers
Credits
The author and licence of every third-party photo, clip and map
The project
Reopen it any time to change shots, text or narration, and render again

Simple plans, priced by the minute

Every plan has every feature. A minute of video costs 50 credits, you pay only for the finished length, and a video that fails costs nothing.

Starter

A new channel, about a video a week

$2.04/ minute

$49 / month

  • ~2 videos of 10 minutes
  • 24 minutes of video
  • 1,200 credits a month
  • 1 person
  • 1 video at a time
  • Videos editable 30 days after the last change
  • Renders up to 1080p
Get started

Creator

Most popular

Two or three videos a week

$1.86/ minute

$149 / month

  • ~8 videos of 10 minutes
  • 80 minutes of video
  • 4,000 credits a month
  • 2 people
  • 2 videos at a time
  • Videos editable 60 days after the last change
  • Renders up to 1080p
Get started

Pro

A daily channel or a small team

$1.75/ minute

$349 / month

  • ~20 videos of 10 minutes
  • 200 minutes of video
  • 10,000 credits a month
  • 4 people
  • 3 videos at a time
  • Videos editable 90 days after the last change
  • Renders up to 1440p
Get started

Scale

Studios running several channels

$1.66/ minute

$799 / month

  • ~48 videos of 10 minutes
  • 480 minutes of video
  • 24,000 credits a month
  • 10 people
  • 5 videos at a time
  • Videos editable 180 days after the last change
  • Renders up to 1440p
Get started

Every plan includes: Research with sources and a fact check · Licensed footage, credited for you · Maps, diagrams and 3D scenes · Every look and all 9 languages · Thumbnails and shorts · Editor with the AI chat · Upload to YouTube · Commercial use

Try it once for $9

200 credits for one video of up to 4 minutes. No subscription, once per account.

Try for $9

What does a minute cost?

Set how much you make, and see the plan that fits.

Minutes of video a month100 min
153060100150250400600900
Kind of video
Your plan
Pro $349 / month
Your price per minute
$3.49
  • Covers your 100 minutes with 50% of its credits
  • Need more some month? Credits on top cost $0.04 each and do not expire while your plan runs

Questions, answered

What does Vidlore make?

Narrated documentaries and Top 10 videos for YouTube, from 3 to 20 minutes, in the look and language you choose. Every video comes with a title and a description with chapters, sources and credits; thumbnails and shorts are a click and a few credits away.

How long does a video take?

Usually 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the length and the look. You can close the tab; the video waits for you in your projects.

Is the footage safe to use?

Vidlore only uses public-domain archives, Creative Commons material, stock with free licences, and pictures it makes itself. It never crawls the web or cuts clips from other people's videos, and it writes every credit a licence asks for into your description.

Can I trust the facts?

Vidlore researches from real sources, keeps the source of every fact, and checks the script against them before it is narrated. If you like, it stops there for you to read and fix the script first. AI can still make mistakes, so watch the video before you publish it, and fix anything in the editor.

What are the 3D scenes?

Where no photo of a moment exists, Vidlore builds the scene in 3D, with faceless figures for the people involved. The Investigation and Company story looks use them as still scenes.

Can I change the video?

Yes. Move, trim and swap shots on the timeline, change text on screen, or mark a part and tell the AI what to change. Then render again.

Which languages can I use?

English, Slovak, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Polish. Research, script, text on screen and narration are all in the language you pick.

Who owns the videos?

You do. Publish and earn with them as you like. Third-party footage stays under its own licence, which is why the credits travel with the video.

What does it cost?

Plans start at $49 a month, and a minute of video costs 50 credits (300 in the Realistic reconstruction look). You pay for the finished length, failed videos cost nothing, and you can try one video for $9 without a subscription.

From an idea to your channel, in one place.

Write what the video should be about. Vidlore does the research, the script, the voice, the pictures, the edit, the thumbnail and the upload.

Documentary · 10 min
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