Blog to video
Blog to video: give every post a second life
Paste the link to a post. Motiongist reads it, writes a short narration around its main idea, and animates it, so the article reaches people who scroll instead of read.
- 500 free credits at sign-up
- Free storyboard review
- 45–180 s, vertical 9:16
- 8 voices, 10 languages
Your link
9:16 · 1080×1920“https://example.com/blog/what-is-technical-debt”
- Length
- 45–60 s
- Look
- Your brand
- Voice
- Brian
- Rendering
- 2D · English
Storyboard · 5 scenes
- 0–5 sHook. A codebase drawn as a tower of blocks; one block slides out. Title: “Fast now, slow later.”
- 5–18 sThe post’s core idea: a shortcut is a loan. A coin labelled “time saved” moves over to the team.
- 18–32 sThe interest. Every new feature takes a little longer, shown as a progress bar that keeps slowing down.
A good blog post keeps working for years, but only for the people who find it. Short vertical videos reach a different crowd: people on TikTok, Reels, Shorts and LinkedIn who would never land on your blog from a search. Turning posts into videos lets the same thinking travel further without writing anything new.
Motiongist reads the post from its link, so there is nothing to copy and paste. The script sticks to what the post says. A long post can become several videos, one per idea, and each comes with post copy you can edit to send viewers back to the full article.
How it works
Turning a blog post into a short
- Step 1
Paste the link
Any public post URL. The page is fetched and its text read, so the video works from the published version.
- Step 2
Pick the angle
A short holds one idea. Name it in your notes (“the three warning signs”, “the main argument”) or let the engine choose from the post.
- Step 3
Review it and brand it
Read the storyboard for free, then render in your brand colors (from the Solo plan) so the video looks like it came from the blog.
- Step 4
Post with a way back
Use the generated title, description and hashtags for each platform, add the article’s link, and publish or schedule.
Example
A blog post on technical debt, as a 55-second short
What you give: “https://example.com/blog/what-is-technical-debt”
What the video shows, scene by scene
- 0–5 s
Hook. A codebase drawn as a tower of blocks; one block slides out. Title: “Fast now, slow later.”
- 5–18 s
The post’s core idea: a shortcut is a loan. A coin labelled “time saved” moves over to the team.
- 18–32 s
The interest. Every new feature takes a little longer, shown as a progress bar that keeps slowing down.
- 32–45 s
The post’s three warning signs as numbered cards, in the blog’s brand colors.
- 45–56 s
Close. “Pay it down a little every sprint,” then the blog’s name on screen.
An illustrative storyboard for this brief (Your brand look, 2D). Motiongist writes its own scenes from your input, and you can edit them for free before rendering.
Why Motiongist
Why repurpose posts this way
Reads the post for you
Paste a URL: the published text is fetched and used as the source, so the narration matches the article.
Post copy for every platform
Each video gets a title, a description and hashtags for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn, editable before you post.
Publish or schedule
Connect your accounts and post now or at a set date. Publishing costs no credits.
Looks like your blog
Your colors and logo on titles, diagrams and captions from the Solo plan, imported from your website in one step.
One long guide, several shorts
Make one video per section with its own angle, or save a long guide as a document and turn it into a series on the Team plan.
Which posts make good videos
Posts with a clear claim or a sequence: how-tos, explainers, myth-busting, lists of mistakes, a framework. Opinion pieces work too when the argument has steps.
News posts and link roundups are harder, because there is no single idea to build around. For those, pick one item and make the video about it.
Close the loop with the article
Embed the video in the post itself with the share page’s player, and give the share page a button that links back to the article. Readers get a quick summary; viewers get a way to the full post.
Start faster
Templates that fit
Each template is a ready-made brief: an example subject, a target length, a look and notes. Open one and change the subject.
What it costs
One credit balance. A short video is 400 credits, a standard one 700, a long one 1,000, plus 1 credit per 10 narrated characters for the final voice.
Free
$0
500 credits at sign-up
To try it out: a first video, draft voice, discreet watermark.
Solo
$19 / month
3,000 credits / month
To post every week: final voice, clean exports, your brand.
StudioMost popular
$49 / month
30,000 credits / month
To produce at volume: priority rendering, custom looks, API and MCP.
Team
$149 / month
100,000 credits / month
For teams and agencies: 5 seats, 4 renders in parallel, one invoice.
Prices before tax, in US dollars. Yearly billing is 35% cheaper. Failed renders are refunded automatically.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Does it work with any blog platform?
It works with any public page it can fetch: the post just needs to open at its link without logging in. Posts behind a login or a paywall won’t work.
Will the video copy my post word for word?
No. The post is the source, and the narration is written for speech and for the length you pick, sticking to what the post says. To keep exact wording, paste it as a script instead.
Can I make several videos from one post?
Yes. Run it again with a different angle in the notes: one video per idea.
Can I automate it for every new post?
Each video can be scheduled to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or LinkedIn from its page. To go further, the REST API and the MCP server (from the Studio plan) let you or an agent start videos from new post links. See the API docs.
What does a blog video cost?
A short video is 400 credits plus the final voice, and you see the exact price before you confirm. Sign-up gives 500 free credits; Solo is $19 a month. See pricing.
Ready to make your first one?
500 free credits at sign-up. Review the storyboard for free, see the exact price, then render.
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