Two studios. One script.
Real-footage documentaries or fully animated explainers. Orsona plans, narrates, sources or draws, scores and edits your video, then lets you fine-tune every shot.
2 free documentary minutes · No credit card · Animated videos available on all paid plans
17 skills at a glance
Every skill, in every video
What Orsona adds to your script automatically. The details for each tool follow below.
- Documentary
Exact-match real footage & B-roll
Every line gets copyright-free footage that shows what's being said, ranked for meaning and quality.
- Documentary
Satellite map dives
Zoom from orbit to the exact place in your script, with pins, routes and borders.
- Documentary
Broadcast motion graphics
Lower thirds, big labels and number callouts, timed to the voice.
- Both
Animated charts
Numbers in your script become charts that build on screen.
- Documentary
Newspaper & document graphics
Headlines, clippings and documents that make a point land.
- Documentary
Breaking-news straps
Red straps and tickers for current-events and news recaps.
- Both
Animated icons & stickers
Pop-in icons and stickers that keep the eye moving.
- Both
Kinetic captions
Word-by-word captions in many styles, sized for 16:9 or 9:16.
- Both
Sound design & music
A score that ducks under the voice, with whooshes and hits on the cuts.
- Documentary
Transitions & film looks
Wipes, whips and zooms chosen for the moment, plus film grades.
- Both
Upload your own voiceover
Use your recorded narration; every scene and caption syncs to it.
- Both
AI script writer
Start from a topic and get a tight, watchable script to edit.
- Create with AI
Consistent AI character
Design or upload a character once; it looks identical in every shot.
- Create with AI
Images or real animation
Illustrations with camera motion, or key moments truly animated.
- Both
Thumbnail generator
Paste a link, pick a style reference, get an original thumbnail.
- Both
Frame-by-frame quality check
Blurry, off-topic or broken shots are caught and fixed automatically.
- Both
72-hour secure storage
Your projects stay private and are deleted automatically after 72 hours.
Tool 1 · Documentary video
Real footage, real maps, broadcast editing
Paste a script and get a narrated documentary or news video with real footage matched to every line, real satellite maps with animated routes, motion graphics, captions, music and sound design.
Try it with 2 free minutes
The director
It reads your script like a director would
Each sentence is analysed for meaning before anything is placed on the timeline.
Scene planning
Sentences are grouped into scenes by meaning and pacing, not just by full stops. Long thoughts get room to breathe; punchy lines get quick cuts.
Smart scene types
Places become maps, numbers become counters, enumerations become step cards, quotes become typography, instructions become typing shots, and everything else becomes footage.
Entity detection
People, countries, states, cities, organisations, years and figures are pulled out of every line and used to search, label and annotate.
Real footage
The right shot for every line, at full quality
Orsona searches a vast library of real footage for every scene, then ranks every result.
A vast real-footage library
News-grade b-roll, historic film, space and Earth imagery, archives and photography, searched in one pass.
Hard quality gates
Low-resolution clips and stills are rejected, and logos, charts, watermarks and screenshots are filtered out. The highest-resolution files are used for the final render.
Multi-signal ranking
Candidates are scored on meaning, resolution, motion, orientation and clip length, and footage is never repeated within a video.
Multi-cut b-roll
Longer scenes are covered with several shots cut on the rhythm of the narration, so nothing lingers.
Archival look
Historic material is graded with a period film treatment so it sits beautifully next to modern footage.
Commercial-safe
Only media cleared for commercial use is selected. Any credit a license requires is saved and exported with your video.
Maps
Maps that move with the story
Real satellite maps and real borders, crisp at any resolution, animated on the narration.
Country & state highlights
“Floods hit Pakistan” lights up Pakistan with a camera push-in and a location label.
Routes & journeys
“From California to New York” draws an animated route between them, with the camera following and a travel whoosh.
City pins
Hundreds of world cities are located automatically and pinned with pulsing markers.
Satellite & editorial looks
Real satellite imagery, dark editorial and paper atlas styles, all coloured by your theme.
Motion graphics & broadcast editing
Designed cards, cut like the evening news
Broadcast-style edit
Fast news-package pacing with punch-ins, hard cuts, flashes and lower thirds, timed to the narrator.
Stat counters
Numbers count up with prefixes, suffixes and units: $4.2B, 33M, 78%.
Step & list cards
Points reveal one by one in sync with the narrator.
Quote cards
Large editorial typography with the speaker's name.
Typing & click shots
Search bars, browser bars and notes type themselves out with keyboard and click sounds.
Lower thirds & location tags
Names, titles, places and dates appear as clean broadcast graphics.
Tool 2 · Create with AI
Fully animated explainers, starring your character
Paste a script and get an illustrated, animated stickman or cartoon explainer in the style of the biggest history and explainer channels. Every shot is drawn for its line, and every shot is quality-checked before delivery.
Available on all paid plans
Your character
One star, identical in every single shot
Consistency is what makes animated channels recognisable. Orsona locks your character's face, outfit and colours for the whole video.
Design it with AI
Describe your character in a sentence and Orsona designs it for you.
Or upload your own
Bring your channel mascot or a drawing, and Orsona animates it.
Kept identical
Same face, outfit and palette in shot 1 and shot 200, in every pose.
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Storyboard & animation
A new shot every few seconds, and the big moments move
AI storyboard
Your script is broken into a shot list with a fresh, illustrated shot every few seconds, the pacing that keeps animated explainers watchable.
Real animation
Key moments are genuinely animated, not just panned: characters walk, react, argue, fight and celebrate.
Camera moves
Push-ins, pans and reveals between shots add energy to every scene.
Handwritten title cards
Chapter titles, names and dates appear as hand-lettered cards that draw themselves on.
Animated timelines
Eras and dates slide into place on a drawn timeline so viewers always know when they are.
Automatic quality checks
Every shot is automatically checked before your video is delivered, and you can still redraw any shot for free before export.
Cartoon maps
Playful maps, real geography
Hand-drawn maps with marching routes, arrows and labels, built on real borders and coastlines so the story is right even when the style is fun.
Sound, captions & formats
Made to be watched to the end
Word-by-word captions
Bold captions that light up one word at a time, sized for desktop and phone screens.
Sound effects on every beat
Whooshes, pops, impacts and ambience are placed on the action, under a score that ducks for the voice.
16:9 and 9:16 Shorts
Render long-form YouTube videos or vertical Shorts, Reels and TikToks from the same tool.
Shared studio
Everything else, on both tools
Narrators, projects, progress, credits and exports work the same way whichever tool you use.
2 free minutes, no card
Narration & sound
A voice and a soundtrack worth listening to
Natural narrators
A library of American and British studio-quality voices. Preview any voice on your own script before you choose.
Search & preview music
Search commercial-safe tracks and ambiences, listen in the app, then pick the one that fits.
Auto-mixing
Music ducks under the voice, swells in pauses and fades on the outro. Loudness is normalised for YouTube.
Projects & export
Generated is the starting line, not the finish
Review every shot, change what you want, then export.
Free shot replacement
Swap any documentary clip from ranked alternatives, or redraw any animated shot. Replacements before export are free.
Saved projects
Every script, setting and render is saved in your studio, ready to revisit or remix.
Parallel generation
Queue up to 5 videos at once, depending on your plan. Close the tab; we keep working.
Live progress
Follow every stage, from narration and visuals to the final render.
Theme & colour grade
Choose accent colours, caption styles and a grade for documentary projects: cinematic, news, noir, warm or cold.
Edit DNA
A unique, consistent style per project, so your channel never looks templated.
Landscape & vertical
16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok.
MP4 export
Upload-ready MP4 files, with subtitles and credits where you need them.
One credit balance
Billed in 30-second steps: 5 credits per 30 s for documentaries, 10 for AI images, 20 for AI animation. Only the final length counts.
Your next video is one script away
Real-footage documentaries or fully animated explainers. Same script, same studio, your call.
2 free documentary minutes · No credit card · Animated videos available on all paid plans