Any video, from one line

Type an idea.Get the video.

Explainers, top 10s, comparisons, map stories, history, how-it-works. Vidlore writes the script, finds the voice, searches for real pictures, animates the maps and renders the video. Then you can change any of it.

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Data mapThe largest countriesArea · million km²000001. Russia17.102. Canada9.983. United States9.834. China9.605. Brazil8.52
Territory mapMediterranean SeaBlack SeaCaspian SeaPersian GulfArabian SeaRed SeaMacedonAsia MinorEgyptMesopotamiaPersisMediaBactriaSogdianaIndiaArabiaTaurus MtsZagros MtsHindu KushNileEuphratesTigrisIndusOxusPellaGranicus · 334 BCGordiumIssus · 333 BCTyreAlexandriaGaugamela · 331 BCBabylonPersepolisBactraHydaspes · 326 BC
Satellite zoom
Arabian PeninsulaIranPersian GulfAbu DhabiUnited Arab EmiratesDubaiThe World islandsPalm JumeirahDowntown DubaiBurj Khalifa
Dubai, from orbit to street levelScale 1 : 0
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 · CC BY 4.0
11:00 minute video30 scenes1,346 words narrated90 real pictures9 animated maps4.8 s to write every scene0 hand edits11:00 minute video30 scenes1,346 words narrated90 real pictures9 animated maps4.8 s to write every scene0 hand edits

The journey

From one line to a finished video.

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Idea · One line in

Type a topic, pick a look and a voice. That is the whole brief.

0 s
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Script · Claude writes it

The narration and a plan for every scene: footage, picture, map or number.

91 s
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Voice · A narrator reads it

A real voice, and every word gets a timestamp so the shots land on it.

48 s
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Footage · Found and checked

Video clips and pictures from archives and the open web, each one checked.

90 found
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Maps · Drawn in 3D

Real terrain, tilted like a camera flying over it; the route draws on the spoken word.

9 maps
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Scenes · Assembled

Footage, pictures, maps and numbers, built into scenes and timed to the voice.

30 scenes
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Refine a map · In the map editor

Drag a pin to the right place, recolour a route, push the camera in.

by hand
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Refine a scene · In the video editor

Move any layer on the canvas, drag a keyframe on the timeline.

by hand
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Ask the AI · Or just say it

Swap a photo for footage, add a slow push-in. One request, one undo step.

in seconds
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Render · Frame by frame

Our engine renders it in 1080p on our render machines.

19,810 frames
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Done · Ready to post

Download it, share a link, or open it in the editor again any time.

11:00 · 1080p

The editors

Two editors. Every frame is yours.

Change any scene by asking in plain words, or open a map and direct the camera, the borders and the routes on a timeline. Both are running below.

01 Map editor · six kinds of map, each with its own AI chat
02 Video editor · Advanced view

Live maps

Maps that move.

Routes, empires, numbers, stories, in the look of a real documentary. Real coastlines, animated on the spoken word. These four are running live in your browser, not videos.

PacificAtlantic OceanIndian OceanOaklandMiamiSan JuanNatalDakarKhartoumKarachiCalcuttaBangkokSingaporeDarwinLaeHowland Island ?
Caspian SeaBlack SeaGobiTibetKhanbaliqSamarkandKyivBaghdadKarakorum
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Atlantic OceanIndian OceanMediterraneanEthiopiaMocha, YemenIstanbulVeniceLondonJavaRio de Janeiro

Territory map simplified to modern borders · population figures are 2024 estimates

Library · coming soon

Every kind of video.

Explainers, top 10s, comparisons, map stories, history, infographics. All made with Vidlore.

Made by Vidlore

One line in. Eleven minutes out.

One example: “The Black Death, 1347 to 1351: how the plague reached Europe.” That was the whole brief. Everything you see here came straight out of the pipeline. A top 10 or an explainer goes through the same journey.

Rendered00:00:00
The Black Death1920 × 1080

Silent preview · the real video is narrated

One real video, measured

The writing takes seconds.

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To write an 1,346-word script and plan all thirty scenes.

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To voice eleven minutes of narration, with every word timed.

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To write twenty-one scenes, all at the same time.

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Real pictures found and checked for subject, era, faces and watermarks.

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Maps on real coastlines, routes drawn on the spoken word.

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Hand edits. What you saw above is what the pipeline made.

Two ways to run it

Our cloud, or your machine.

Vidlore Cloud

Type it. We make it.

Everything runs on our servers: writing, voice, picture search, maps and render. You get the video and the editor in your browser.

Your ideaVidloreYour video
  • WriteScript, scene plan and voice
  • FindArchive pictures, checked one by one
  • Render1080p, on our render machines
Vidlore Local · coming

Bring your Claude. Use our engines.

The engine, map engine and picture search run on your own computer with your own Claude. The editor stays in your browser.

Your ClaudeOur engines, on your MacEditor
  • YoursYour model, your keys, your machine
  • OursMotion engine, map engine, sourcing
  • SharedThe same editor, the same films

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