For storytellers, channels and museums
Make a documentary style video with AI
Make a documentary style video from your research notes or a narration script. Atlabs turns each chapter into cinematic animated scenes, with the same people, places and objects returning throughout, so the story holds together like a real film.
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Start from your research
Turn a subject, research notes or a script into a documentary
Make a documentary style video from your research notes or a narration script. Atlabs turns each chapter into cinematic animated scenes, with the same people, places and objects returning throughout, so the story holds together like a real film.
Idée brute
A story subject in a line
Name the subject, the angle and the tone. The AI writes a documentary script in chapters, splits it into scenes with your recurring people and places and builds the film.
The rise and fall of the transatlantic telegraph, 12 minutes, serious tone, told through one engineer.
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Your research notes or chapter outline
Paste the timeline, quotes and facts you collected, grouped into chapters. Atlabs keeps your order and turns each beat into a scene with matched visuals.
1857: the first cable snaps. 1858: Queen Victoria's message takes 16 hours. Cable fails. 1866: success.
Script complet
A narration-ready script
Upload a script with chapter headings, scene notes and voiceover lines, written for your film. Atlabs animates every scene exactly as written, chapter by chapter.
SCENE 1. A cable ship rolls in a grey Atlantic swell. VO: "In 1857, the ocean said no."
Comment ça marche
From research to a finished documentary style film in four steps
Collez votre idée, votre histoire ou votre script
Paste a subject, your research notes or a chapter-by-chapter script, and Atlabs turns it into film scenes.
ÉTAPE 1
Choisissez un style et un format
Choose a documentary look, like cinematic 3D, painterly, archival-style 2D or paper-cut, in 16:9 for YouTube or 9:16 for vertical cuts.
ÉTAPE 2
Verrouillez personnages, univers et accessoires
Lock the people your story follows, the places they live and work and the objects that matter, so every chapter matches.
ÉTAPE 3
Générez, affinez et publiez
Generate the film, retime any chapter that needs room to breathe, then publish it to YouTube, your site or an exhibit.
ÉTAPE 4
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One story from start to end
Keep the same people, places and objects in every chapter of your documentary style video
A documentary works when viewers can follow the same faces through time. Atlabs locks the people in your story, the places they return to and the objects at the centre of it, so chapter five still feels like the film that began in chapter one.
Cohérence des personnages
Create a character once and Atlabs keeps the same face, outfit, colours and style in every scene and every video after it. The people in your story stay recognisable as years pass on screen.
Scène 2
Scène 7
Scène 20
Plan large
Gros plan
plan aérien
Cohérence des scènes
Lock a setting and it keeps the same layout, lighting and mood each time it returns, so a ship deck, a lab or a city street feels like the real place it stands for.
Cohérence des objets et des accessoires
The objects at the heart of your story, like a machine, a map or a letter, look the same in every scene, so viewers follow them from chapter to chapter.
Scène 1
Scène 13
Scène 11
Cas d'usage
Documentary style videos for YouTube, museums, brands, classes and podcasts
Vidéos explicatives produit et SaaS
Tell the story behind a product, invention or company, from the first idea to today, in a documentary style that feels like a short film, not a demo.
Vidéos explicatives pédagogiques
Explain an event, a discovery or a person's life chapter by chapter, with the same people and places guiding viewers through it.
Vidéos marketing et réseaux sociaux
Cut trailers and short chapters from your documentary for social media, with the same look as the full film.
Styles visuels
Plus de 20 styles. Un script. Des directions créatives infinies.
Une même vidéo explicative peut devenir une animation 3D épurée, un tableau blanc dessiné à la main ou une séquence ludique en papier découpé, simplement en changeant de style. Choisissez celui qui convient à votre sujet ou expérimentez librement.
Vous pouvez aussi entraîner votre propre style sur Atlabs : chaque vidéo que vous créez reflète l'identité visuelle unique de votre marque.
Fonctionnalités
Everything you need to make documentary style videos
AI that reads your script like a director
Atlabs reads your script like a documentary director would. It opens on a striking image, gives each chapter its own pace and holds on the moments that matter, choosing shots, lighting and pace, so a documentary style video feels like a film rather than a slideshow.
LA LECTURE DU RÉALISATEUR
Plan large d'ouverture
Éclairage chaleureux et concentré
Lent travelling avant sur le fondateur
Ambiance : frustration silencieuse
SÉQUENCE GÉNÉRÉE
01 · Plan d'ouverture
02 · Fondateur, travelling avant
03 · Le tableur
Conçu pour
Built for people who tell true stories well
TUTORIALS
Watch how documentary style videos are made
Short guides that take a subject or your research all the way to a finished narrated documentary.
Pourquoi Atlabs
Atlabs face à toutes les autres façons de créer des vidéos explicatives animées
Ce dont vous avez besoin
Atlabs AI
Délai du script à la vidéo
Quelques minutes
Coût
À partir de 19 $
Tournage nécessaire
Non ✓
Cohérence des personnages
Verrouillés sur toutes les scènes ✓
Cohérence des lieux
Verrouillés sur toutes les scènes ✓
Cohérence des objets
Verrouillés sur toutes les scènes ✓
Formats de script pris en charge
Idée, histoire ou script ✓
Édition au niveau de la scène
Contrôle total ✓
Ce que disent les créateurs
What storytellers say after making their first Atlabs documentary
FAQ
Questions people ask about making a documentary style video
How do I make a documentary style video with AI?
Paste a subject, your research notes or a chapter script, choose a cinematic style and lock your people and places. Atlabs builds every scene with narration and music, ready to publish.
Can I use my own narration script word for word?
Yes. Upload a full script with chapter headings and voiceover lines and Atlabs animates it without changing the wording, so the film says exactly what you wrote.
Will the same people appear in every chapter?
Yes. Lock each person once and Atlabs keeps the same face, outfit and style in every scene and every chapter, so viewers follow them through the whole story.
Which styles suit documentaries?
Cinematic 3D, painterly, archival-style 2D and paper-cut all suit documentaries, from 50+ styles in Atlabs. Switch the style of the same script in one click to compare.
Can I change one part after the first cut?
Yes. Swap, regenerate, retime or restyle any single scene and the rest of the documentary stays as it is, so new research slots in without starting over.
Is it free to start making videos?
Yes. Start free with no credit card, no film crew and no animation skills. Join 50,000+ creators and teams and make your first documentary style video today.
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Join 50,000+ creators and teams making documentary style videos with AI. Paste your research, lock your people and places and publish your first film.
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