Stillscope
Long-form video

Write it.
It makes
the video.

Paste a script. Come back to a finished 1080p video — narrated, sourced from the archives, cut. You edit nothing.


How it works

Three things you do. The machine does the rest.

1

Bring the words

Paste a script or upload a voiceover. Pick a narrator, and teach it any name it would get wrong.

2

Press Create, once

The price is quoted first and held, not spent. There is nothing to review and nothing to approve.

3

Come back to a video

A 1920×1080 MP4 lands in your library with a poster frame. Your phone can tell you the moment it does.

What runs while you are away 40–50 minutes end to end — a 45-minute archive video. Generated formats and other lengths differ; you see the estimate for yours before you spend anything.
  1. Timing the narration5%
  2. Planning the scenes3%
  3. Gathering footage12%
  4. Sourcing photographs25%
  5. Restoring the images35%
  6. Editing the final cut20%

60% of the wait is finding and restoring the pictures. Shares are the measured wall clock.


The second product

It writes books, too.

Give it a brief. It researches, outlines, drafts and proofreads a book-length work, illustrates every chapter, and typesets the result — then hands you the files. The same account, the same wallet, nothing else to learn.

  • 3 PDF, EPUB and DOCX — the print interior, the reader edition and the editable manuscript, from one run.
  • 0 chapters you have to write, format or place a picture in. There is no editor to open.

Why it holds up

The unglamorous parts are the product.

~2M

Archive records on our own disks

The National Archives, DVIDS, Wikimedia Commons, DPLA and Europeana — indexed and carried by us, not rented from a stock library.

200

Cloud functions per video

Each video gets a 16-core machine, then hands the cut to two hundred functions at once. The pool scales to zero, so the price carries no idle server.

1

Queue per account — yours

Every account drains its own line. Nobody can push your videos behind theirs, however many they submit.


Pricing

You pay by the finished minute.

One posted rate per format, charged on the length of the video you actually get. Nothing is priced per video, because no two videos are the same length.

  • The estimate is a hold. A short video costs less, and the difference comes back.
  • Cancelled or failed costs nothing. You are never billed for a video you did not get.
  • No other fee exists. No setup, rendering or provider charge is added later.
  • No seats, tiers or subscription. Top up when you need to; nothing expires.
  • Videos keep for ten days, with the countdown on the card.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Is the footage real, or generated?

Both, and the roster says which before you choose. War & conflict is the real record — shot at the time, restored rather than invented. The generated formats take nothing from an archive and draw every frame from your script.

How long does one take?

Forty to fifty minutes from Create to an MP4 in your library. Most of that is sourcing and restoring the pictures.

Do I have to review or edit anything?

No, and there is nowhere to: no timeline, no approval gate, no shot picker. A video that comes out wrong is re-run, not repaired.

Can I put these on YouTube?

Yes — that is what they are for. Archive material is public-domain-sourced but not rights-cleared on your behalf: you are the publisher.

What do I need to write?

Plain prose, at least 500 characters. No shot directions, no scene headings, no formatting — write it as it should be spoken.

Getting in

Sign in and start.

Google verifies the account. There is no separate application form.

New accounts start at the configured welcome balance.