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Text to Video AI: Turn a Prompt into a Short Video, Free to Start

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What turns a sentence into a clip worth watching

Text to video AI turns a sentence you type into a short video clip, like a video maker that works from words. Describe a scene, pick a model, and Plimo creates the clip from your words alone, with no photo to upload.

  • Start with who's in the shot and what they do

    Name one subject and one action, like an old man scattering bread for pigeons on a park bench. A single clear action reads better than three things happening at once, because the clip is short. A few lines from a script work too, as long as they describe one scene.

  • Tell the camera where to go

    Add a few words about the camera: a slow push in, following from behind, holding still at eye level, looking down from above. Leave it out and the model picks a move for you.

  • Set the light and the weather

    Late golden sun, a blue neon sign seen through a wet window, grey morning fog. A phrase like these often changes the mood more than another adjective about the subject would.

  • Ask for the sound you want to hear

    On models that make sound, you can describe that too, such as rain on a tin roof, a dog barking far away or a quiet piano. Otherwise the model chooses the sound itself.

Turn a sentence into a clip on Plimo

  1. Stay in video mode

    The generator at the top of this page is already set to video, so leave the photo slot next to the prompt box empty.

  2. Describe the scene

    In the box that says Describe the video you want, write a sentence or two about the subject and what it does, then add the camera and the light.

  3. Choose a model and settings

    Open the model menu to switch models, set Shape and Length (and Sound, where the model has a switch), and check the Generate button, which shows how many credits this clip will use.

  4. Sign in and generate

    Press Generate, and if this is your first clip, sign in through Google or an emailed code before it starts.

  5. Watch it in My creations

    The clip turns up in My creations beneath the generator. Download the version you like, or choose Remake to bring the same prompt and settings back for another try.

Why use Plimo for text to video

  • 100 free credits when you join

    Every new account gets 100 credits once, enough for a six-second clip on Grok Imagine 1.5 to see how your writing turns out.

  • Several video models in one box

    Two Seedance models, Kling, Wan, MiniMax, Grok Imagine and Google's Veo all sit in the same generator. Run one sentence through two and keep the version you like.

  • The cost is on the button

    The Generate button shows how many credits this clip will take, and if a clip fails, those credits go back to your balance.

  • A ready-made scene if you'd rather not write

    Templates below the generator come with the scene already written, so you can make a clip without typing anything.

  • Clean clips members can use for work

    Members' clips have no watermark and can be used commercially, for example as a short video on your shop's page.

Video models that work from words alone

Each of these can make a clip from a written prompt with nothing uploaded; where they differ is clip length, sound and the shapes on offer.

  • Seedance 2.0 Mini

    The default model here runs 4 to 15 seconds with sound on by default, offers the same six shapes as Seedance 2.5, and sits with Wan 3.0 among the cheapest per second.

  • Veo 3.1 Fast

    Google's Veo is fixed at eight seconds and always has sound, so you only pick landscape 16:9 or vertical 9:16 and a resolution setting.

  • Seedance 2.5

    Runs from 4 to 30 seconds with sound on by default, and besides 16:9, 9:16 and square it offers 4:3, 3:4 and an extra-wide 21:9 cinema shape.

  • Kling 3.0

    Makes clips of 3 to 15 seconds in 16:9, 9:16 or square; it starts silent and costs more credits once you switch sound on.

  • Wan 3.0

    Goes from as short as 2 seconds up to 30, has a sound switch that doesn't change the price, and accepts the longest prompts on this list.

  • MiniMax H3

    Always adds sound, runs 4 to 15 seconds, and has a 21:9 shape alongside 16:9, 9:16, square, 4:3 and 3:4.

  • Grok Imagine 1.5

    Always comes with sound, runs 6 to 15 seconds, has the lowest starting price per second on this list, and adds 3:2 and 2:3 shapes that the others here don't offer.

Scenes to try, and the words that get them

  • A rainy-day mood clip

    Write “a little paper boat drifts down a flooded gutter at dusk, the camera follows close to the water” and press Generate. The sentence names the subject, the place, the light and the camera, a handy pattern to copy.

  • A birthday clip for a friend

    Write something like “a chocolate cake with lit candles on a kitchen table, the camera slowly pushes in, warm lamp light, soft party music” and send the result to the group chat on the day.

  • Pictures for a bedtime story

    If you read to your kids, turn one page into a short scene, such as “a small fox in a red scarf walks through a snowy pine forest at night, a lantern glowing ahead, the camera stays low behind it.” Reusing that description word for word on later nights helps the fox look similar.

  • A tall clip for your phone

    Set Shape to 9:16 first, then describe something that fills a tall frame, like “steam rising from a bowl of noodles at a night street stall, close-up, the camera tilts up to the cook's hands.” Close-ups and upright subjects suit a phone better than wide views.

  • A place you remember

    Describe somewhere you can't go back and film, such as “a narrow lane in summer, laundry hanging between balconies, afternoon sun, a bicycle bell ringing.” Small details like that bell often bring the feeling back.

  • A short clip for a small business

    If you sell homemade jam, try “hands wrapping a jar of apricot jam in brown paper, top-down view, soft window light.” Using it in an ad or on a shop page needs a plan.

  • Testing a shot before you film it

    Write out a shot you plan to film, such as “a camera rising slowly over a misty river at sunrise,” and check the framing before carrying any gear outside.

  • When the scene already exists in a photo

    For your dog asleep on the sofa, words alone won't reproduce the exact scene, so use image to video and let the clip start from that picture. If you'd like to settle the look first, make a still with the AI image generator and animate that.

Text to video questions

You can type a scene without one, but generating it needs an account. Use Google or an emailed code, and no card is needed. Your clips then wait in My creations on any device you sign in on.

Partly. New accounts get 100 free credits once, enough for one short clip, such as six seconds on Grok Imagine 1.5 or five on Seedance 2.0 Mini. After that a membership adds monthly credits, and the pricing page lists the plans.

Without a membership, every clip gets a small watermark in its bottom-right corner. Members' clips come out without one.

Only with a membership. Clips made without one are for personal, non-commercial use, so a birthday video for a friend is fine, but an ad for your café needs a membership.

Clips made without a membership are kept for 7 days, and members' clips are kept longer, depending on the plan. Download anything you want to hold on to before then.

No, Plimo doesn't use your prompts or clips to train models. Each clip is stored at a random link that's hard to guess, though anyone who has that link can open it.

Yes, start from a template further down the page. Some have the scene already written and need no photo, so one click is all it takes.

Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 reach 30 seconds. Seedance 2.0 Mini, Kling 3.0, MiniMax H3 and Grok Imagine 1.5 cap out at 15, and Veo never changes from 8. Most charge by the second, so get the shortest version the model offers right before stretching it.

Yes, on every model listed here, though they handle it differently. With Veo, MiniMax H3 and Grok Imagine 1.5 sound is part of every clip, both Seedance models and Wan 3.0 have it on by default with a switch, and Kling 3.0 starts silent and charges more once you turn it on. Naming sounds in your prompt, like waves or a busy café, steers what you hear.

Usually the prompt asked for too much. Cut it to one subject doing one thing, then add the camera and the light. “A cat” leaves almost everything to the model, while “a ginger cat jumps onto a sunny windowsill, the camera holds still at eye level” gives it far less to guess.

Open it in My creations and press Remake. Your prompt and settings come back, so you can rewrite one line or switch models and try again. This page starts you on words only, and the AI video generator page covers the other ways to make a clip on Plimo.

Yes. Plimo doesn't support adult content, and a model may also refuse other prompts that go against our Content Policy. If that happens, your credits come back and you can reword the scene.

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