To turn text, article or webpage into video for free online without watermark and sign up, follow this step-by-step guide
To make the content to video conversion process fast and easy, 011.video do not use timeline, layers, templates and others computer nerdy stuffs. 011.video text-to-video generator offers 2 conversion options. The first one to make your video from an HTML web page article and the second to transform any text into a great video with images. The main difference between a web page and plain text is that the HTML paragraph structure of the web page is preserved, so a bullet points list for instance will automatically be transformed into short sentences appearing word for word dynamically.
1st option : convert article from URL into a video – Quick start
- Start 011.video app
- Paste the URL of the article [English language only] into the input field (CTRL+V or Command+V)
- Enter the http://… URL by clicking on
- It takes a few seconds to load the text from the web page (sometimes more). For security reasons, certain websites block the import of the web page. In this case, go to 2nd option.
- By default, the dimension of your recorded video is the same as the canvas size. The resolution is SD (standard definition), but you can choose a different format (Landscape/Portrait) and a different resolution (HD, 4K…) by clicking on
- Change the color as you like
- Get a different font if you like
- The article’s text appears within an input form.
- You can rewrite, edit the text and add or remove sentences, especially for some webpages truffled with advertisements and CTAs.
- To summarize the text in a shorter story, move the slide cursor. This will again display a shorter text inside the input field that you can edit again.
- If your webpage contains a bullet points list, 011.video automatically turn this into a listicle video animation. Any ordered list from the webpage (HTML tag is <ol>) is automatically converted into a numbered list video from “1•” until “10•”. Any unordered list from the webpage (HTML tag is <ul>) is converted into a bullet list video of items starting with “‣ “
- Enter the final edited text by clicking on
- 011.video automatically detect keywords from the article and match a generic image to each of them.
- You can remove any image that you don’t like by clicking on the thumbnail below the canvas.
- To upload your own images (Format : JPG, PNG, SVG, WebP) click on
Just make sure to name your images exactly with words used in the web page article (exp : Tesla.png or John_Doe.png). To replace a generic 011.video image by your own image, use the same keyword provided by 011.video as file names (keyword1.png, Key_Word2.png…). 011.video only uses transparent images in PNG format. Use this format for your images to make the picture transition more esthetic. - Optionally you can add a music soundtrack to your video, click on
- To start the article to video generation, click on record
- The automatic video generation starts by displaying the text and images inside the canvas. During this process, the text is displayed with short sentences (less or equal to 12 words) appearing one word at a time with sometimes kinetic typography effects and long paragraphs as scrolling text. In the case of word-by-word display, there is a three-word interval between each image; in the case of paragraph display, there is a six-word spacing between each image to prevent disarray in the display. An image associated with a keyword will not be displayed below these thresholds. Do not leave the page and wait until the end of the URL-to-video conversion.
- When the URL page to video conversion is finished, the video “011.video.webm” is automatically downloaded.
2nd option : turn plain text into video – Quick start
- Start 011.video app
- Paste your text [English language only] into the input field (CTRL+V or Command+V).
- Enter the plain text
- By default, the format of your recorded video is the same as the canvas size. The resolution is SD (standard definition), but you can choose a different dimension (Landscape/Portrait) and a different resolution (HD, 4K…) by clicking on
- Change the color as you like
- Change the font as you like
- The text is displayed inside an input field.
- You can edit the text and add or remove sentences.
- To summarize the text, move the slide cursor. You will get a shorter text in an input field that you can continue to edit.
- If you need to create a bullet points list video animation (1o items maximum), follow this guideline. To make an ordered list, start each item by a number, follow by a dot “.”, follow by a space ” ” (Example : 1. This is the first item / 2. This is the second item…). You can also start each item with “#” follow by a number, follow by a space ” “ (Example : #1 First item / #2 Second item… ). To create an unordered bullet list of items, start each item with “‣” (Example : ‣ First sentence ‣ Second sentence…). Do not use tabs.
- Enter the final edited text
- 011.video automatically detect keywords from the text and match a generic image to each of them.
- You can remove any image that you don’t like by clicking on the thumbnail below the canvas.
- To upload your own images (Format : JPG, PNG, SVG, WebP) click on Just make sure to name your images with words used in the text (exp: Myproductname.png or Eiffel_Tower.png). To replace a generic image by your own image, use the same keyword provided by 011.video as file names (keyword1.png, Key_Word2.png…).
- To add a music soundtrack, click on
- To start the article to video conversion, click on record
- The automatic text-to-video conversion process starts by displaying the text, wait until the end. During this process, the text is displayed with short sentences (Maximum 12 words) appearing one word at a time with or without kinetic typography effect and long phrases (>12 words) as scrolling paragraph text. Three words separate each word in word-by-word image display, and six words separate paragraph image display in order to prevent a chaotic presentation. Below these thresholds, the image matched with the keyword will not be displayed.
- When the text-to-video conversion is ended, the video “011.video.webm” is automatically downloaded.
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