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Trusted by millions worldwide to bring their stories to life.
Turn a script or a one-line idea into a cinematic, multi-scene film, right in your browser. No cameras, no crew, no editing timeline. HeyGen produces the film scene by scene.
Key featuresFeatures of the AI Movie Maker
One Consistent Cast in Every Scene
Most AI tools reinvent your lead's face with every clip. HeyGen build each character with Avatar V, which keeps the same face, wardrobe, and micro-expressions across wide, medium, and close-up shots, even in long films running past the 30-minute mark.
From Script to Storyboard in a Single Prompt
Paste a screenplay or a simple one-line idea and Video Agent drafts a scene-by-scene creative blueprint before anything renders. Approve or rewrite each beat in the intuitive editor, then HeyGen composes the shots automatically, producing sequences up to three minutes long.
Director-Level Camera and Motion Control
Set dolly moves, push ins, and lighting the way a director would. HeyGen runs Seedance 2.0 with physics-accurate motion and precise camera direction, and it is the only platform where that cinematic engine works on real, verified human faces.
Built-in Voiceovers and Cloned Voices
Give every character a distinct voice, from measured narrators to high-energy leads. Write the lines and HeyGen delivers voiceovers with phoneme-level lip sync technology, natural pacing and emotional range, so conversations play like performances instead of text-to-speech overlays.
Release Your Film in 175+ Languages
Finish one cut, then localise the whole film with the AI video translator, which re-voices dialogue in 175+ languages with matching lip movement, making a global release straightforward. A short made for one audience reaches dozens of markets in an afternoon.
Use cases
A festival short once required crews, locations, and months of editing. Write the story, run it through text to video, and create a short film refined enough for submissions in days.
Trailers usually wait until finished footage exists. Generate cinematic teaser shots straight from the screenplay to test tone, pitch to investors, or build an early audience months before principal production even begins.
Short-form audiences scroll straight past flat footage. Create engaging, film-grade vertical scenes for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, and keep one visual style locked across an entire series without reshoots.
Animation normally requires specialist software and years of training. Describe your characters or start from a reference image, pick an animated style, and produce story scenes that stay coherent from the first shot to the last.
Story-led ads outperform static product shots. Generate narrative brand scenes, refine pacing, cuts, and background music in the built-in AI video editor, and ship campaign-ready films without booking a shoot day.
Other movie tools generate strangers. HeyGen build a digital twin from a photo or a 15-second clip and place you inside cinematic scenes, so the face carrying your story can be your own.
How it worksHow the AI movie maker works
Go from a written idea to a finished cinematic film in four straightforward steps, with every scene reviewable before it renders.
Drop in a screenplay, story, or one-line idea. HeyGen splits it into scenes automatically.
Approve the scene-by-scene plan, characters, and shot list before any footage renders.
Adjust camera moves, pacing, lighting and performance in plain English until shots land.
Render in high resolution, upscale to 4K, then download the MP4 or publish to any platform.
An AI movie maker is an AI-powered video creation tool that turns a script or idea into a multi-scene film, no camera required. HeyGen's easy-to-use online movie maker plans scenes first, renders each shot, and handles production so you can focus on storytelling.
Each character is locked to a persistent identity, so the same face, wardrobe, and expressions carry through every shot and angle. That removes the identity drift that makes most AI films fall apart after a few clips.
Yes. Paste the screenplay and HeyGen breaks it into scenes, assigns your cast, and matches every spoken line. Approve the scene plan before rendering, then easily revise individual shots without touching the rest of the film.
Most AI movie generators produce short, disconnected video clips you stitch together elsewhere. HeyGen plans, renders, voices, and localises the whole film in one place, and it is the only platform that puts your real, verified face inside cinematic scenes.
Substantially. There are no crews, sets, or reshoot costs. Creator Anton Voroniuk reported production costs 40x lower after moving his video content to HeyGen, whilst reaching more than 1,000,000 students with the output.
Yes. The free AI movie maker plan gives you full access to the core workflow, so you can write, generate, and export scenes before paying anything. Paid plans start at $24 per month, and bespoke Enterprise plans are available for teams.
Most scenes render in minutes, so a complete short can move from script to first cut in a single sitting. Fast turnaround means you can generate several takes of a shot, swap them with ease, and keep the version that works best.
Yes. You can publish online, on screen, and monetise films made with HeyGen, provided any media you upload is cleared for commercial use. Consent-based character creation also protects you when building a film around a real person's likeness.
Yes. Translate the finished film into 175+ languages with lip-synced voiceovers and dialogue, and use AI voice cloning to keep each character's original voice across every version. One premiere can reach audiences in dozens of markets simultaneously.
Download the final cut as a high-resolution MP4, or upscale any scene to 4K with frame interpolation up to 120fps. That covers streaming platforms, festival submission specs, and large-screen playback without external post-production tools.
Yes. Use AI Movie Maker to develop cinematic brand stories or teaser scenes. When you need ready-to-publish paid video adverts created from product information, images, copy, or scripts, HeyGen offers a dedicated advertising workflow.
Yes. AI Movie Maker can build cinematic stories around generated characters and scenes. If you prefer narration supported by footage, graphics, text, and captions, use HeyGen's faceless video workflow instead.
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