Reddit to video

A conversation can start a story.

Paste the story's text, pick a voice and a visual style, and Shotmatic drafts a script and builds a narrated short with captions.

Turn a story into a video Run it from the API

Reddit story videos pair a narrated post with visuals and captions. In Shotmatic you paste the story's text, choose a voice and a visual style, and it drafts a short script and builds the scenes.

Only use stories you have permission to repurpose, and take out usernames and personal details. Shotmatic generates its own visuals; it does not put gameplay footage behind the narration.

Examples made in Shotmatic

Real outputs from Shotmatic's own account, with the settings behind each one and the credits it was charged.

Why is the ocean salty?

A 30-second vertical Link to Video short made from a NOAA article: weathered rock, a river, a hydrothermal vent and labelled ions, narrated by Nora with Viral captions.

Format: Link to Video
Visual style: Cinematic
Image quality: Standard
Voice: Nora
Captions: Viral
Length: 30 seconds
Aspect ratio: 9:16
Music: On
Credits quoted: 140

Script

Why is the ocean salty? Most of the salt comes from rocks on land. Rainwater is slightly acidic, so it slowly wears rocks down and releases minerals. Streams and rivers carry them to the sea. More comes from openings in the seafloor, where hydrothermal vents release hot water rich in dissolved minerals, and from underwater volcanoes. Sodium and chloride make up about 85 percent of the ions in seawater. On average, salt is about 3.5 percent of the ocean's weight.

Made by Shotmatic on its internal QA account from the text of a NOAA web article (a U.S. government work in the public domain); the narration summarizes it and the images are AI-generated illustrations. Nora is one of the creator's catalog voices and the music is the built-in track "science documentary".

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What causes the aurora

A 53-second widescreen Link to Video explainer made from NOAA's aurora page: charged particles, the auroral ovals seen from space and curtains of light, narrated by Elise with Story captions.

Format: Link to Video
Visual style: Cinematic
Image quality: Standard
Voice: Elise
Captions: Story
Length: 53 seconds
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Music: On
Credits quoted: 140

Script

The northern and southern lights begin with electrons. They are energized in the space around Earth, then guided by its magnetic field down toward the polar regions. There they collide with oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere, about 80 to 500 kilometers up. Each collision passes energy to the gas, and when the atoms and molecules settle back down, they release that energy as light, much like a neon sign. The aurora usually forms two ovals centered on the magnetic poles. It often appears as tall rays that hang like folds of a curtain, and near midnight the arcs can twist and sway as if a wind were blowing them. During major geomagnetic storms, the ovals grow, and the aurora can be seen over much of the United States. To see it, you need clear, dark skies.

Made by Shotmatic on its internal QA account from the text of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center aurora page (a U.S. government work in the public domain); the narration summarizes it and the images are AI-generated illustrations. Elise is one of the creator's catalog voices and the music is the built-in track "science documentary".

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Permission and privacy

A Reddit post belongs to the person who wrote it. Ask before you turn it into a video, credit them if they want credit, and remove names, places and anything else that identifies the people in the story.

A voice for the story

Story videos live or die on the narration. Play the samples and pick a voice that suits the tone: the 12 narrators include Russell (British Narrator), Bella (Warm Storyteller) and Darian (Grounded Narrator).

How it works

01
Article or text
The story's text, pasted from the post.
02
Script and settings
Edit the script, then pick the voice, visual style, caption style and length.
03
Credit quote
The creator shows the price before you approve; nothing is generated until you do.
04
Explainer video
Shotmatic generates the scenes and narration and adds captions. Download the MP4 and post it on your channels yourself.

What you control

Source: The pasted text
Your media: Upload images or clips and assign them to scenesScenes without your media are generated.
Aspect ratio4 options: Vertical 9:16 · Social portrait 4:5 · Square 1:1 · Horizontal 16:9
Length: 15 to 180 seconds on a paid planUp to 30 seconds without one.
Visual style6 options: Cinematic
Animated
Sketch Black&White
Classic Animation
Hand-painted Anime
Anime
Caption style4 options: Viral · Bold · Minimal · Story
Narrator voice12 options: Adam - Deep & Firm · Russell - British Narrator · Sawyer - Movie Trailer Voice · Kael - Energetic Presenter · Tyler - Young & Upbeat · Kira - Bright & Friendly · Elise - Soft & Gentle · Sloane - Polished Professional · Bella - Warm Storyteller · Darian - Grounded Narrator · Adam - Dark & Brooding · Nora - Warm & ClearPlay a sample of each in the creator.
Script language8 options: English · Spanish · French · German · Italian · Dutch · Portuguese · Portuguese (Brazil)
Music: 18 built-in tracks, or no music

Limits and availability

Paste the story's text; Reddit links don't import. Use only stories you have permission to repurpose, and remove names and personal details.
Paste the story's text. Importing a post from its Reddit link is not available.
There are no gameplay or background-footage templates. Scenes are generated visuals or media you upload.
Shotmatic doesn't post anything for you. Download the finished MP4 and upload it to your channel or ad account yourself.

What it costs

The two examples above were quoted at 140 credits each before they rendered. That quote is what the render charges; Shotmatic's own account is not billed.

With the default six scenes and AI images, a video costs 140 credits, or 100 when every scene uses your own media. Each script draft costs 20 credits.

See plan prices and monthly credits

Questions

Can Shotmatic pull a post from its Reddit link?

Not at the moment: Reddit doesn't let it retrieve posts. Paste the story's text instead; that costs nothing extra.

Can I add gameplay footage behind the story?

There are no gameplay templates. You can upload your own clips for scenes, or use generated visuals.

Do I need permission to use a Reddit story?

Yes. Ask the author, and remove anything that identifies the people in it.

Which voice suits a story?

Any of the 12 narrators. Play their samples in the creator; the storyteller and narrator voices are a good place to start.

Run it from code or an agent

The hosted MCP server and the REST API run the same creation steps. This is the plan_video call for this format; angle brackets mark your own values.

{
  "tool": "plan_video",
  "arguments": {
    "goal": "A 60-second narrated story from a post I have permission to use",
    "script": "<the story text>",
    "duration_seconds": 60,
    "voice_id": "<voice id from shotmatic://voices>"
  }
}

Recommends a Faceless Short from the story text (source.kind "script") with the brief_video archetype.

From code, send the story as a script; Link to Video reads article links, not Reddit posts.

Read the API and MCP guide