Turn a poem into a video
Paste a poem into Scenes AI and it becomes a video built around the reading: one stanza per scene, performance cues that shape how each line is delivered, captions that fade rather than punch, and music written to follow the arc of the piece. Poems are a first-class format here, not a general video pipeline with a poem pushed through it.
Built around the reading
- One stanza or refrain per scene, typically four to eight lines, so the imagery changes with the verse.
- Performance cues in the narration — softly, building, whispered — shape the delivery rather than leaving it flat.
- Captions default to a fade style, which suits a poem far better than word-by-word punching.
- Music is written to follow the arc of the piece across scenes rather than looping underneath it.
Your words, unchanged
If you bring your own poem, the text is what gets narrated — it is not rewritten or paraphrased into a script. If you would rather Scenes AI write one, it can, and the same structure applies.
Imagery that carries through
A recurring visual motif is chosen and enforced in every scene, and any character or place that recurs in the poem gets a reference sheet so it looks the same each time it appears. That is what stops a poem video becoming a slideshow of unrelated pretty images.
What it costs
Pay as you go: one credit is one US dollar, with no subscription and no expiry. A video costs the clips, one generated still per scene, the narration and one music track — and you approve a scrubbable preview before any clips are bought, so you never pay for a cut you have not seen.
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