By The PixelloAI Team · 11 October 2026

Making a video used to need a camera, footage, an editor and an afternoon. Text-to-video flips that: you describe what you want, a model generates the clips, and you finish the result in an editor. If you have never done it before, the whole process takes a few minutes and four steps.

Step 1: write the idea as one sentence. Describe a single subject doing one thing in a clear setting, for example "a barista pouring latte art in a sunlit cafe, slow push-in, warm and calm". Short, concrete prompts beat long ones because the model has less to keep consistent from frame to frame.

Step 2: choose where the video will be posted. Vertical (9:16) suits TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts; square and wide formats suit feeds and ads. Picking the platform first means the video is generated in the right shape instead of being cropped afterwards.

Step 3: pick a quality level and generate. PixelloAI plans the video as short scenes, generates each one, and assembles them into a single clip. Faster tiers cost fewer credits and are ideal for drafts; higher tiers take longer and look more polished. You are only charged if the video completes.

Step 4: finish it in the editor. Edit the auto-generated captions, add your logo and an end screen, and let the app write a caption for each platform. Export in the size you chose and post.

The most common mistake is trying to fit a whole story into one prompt. Generate a strong 10-second clip first, then make more clips and combine them. Small, repeatable clips are cheaper to iterate on and easier to keep on-brand.