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Every video node in Nodaro, from text-to-video and talking avatars to extending, cutting, sound, titles, captions, formatting, analysis and 3D scenes.
The Video tab of the node picker holds every node that brings in, creates, animates, edits or finishes video. It covers uploads, text-to-video and image-to-video generation, long videos and whole films, talking avatars and lip sync, extending and restyling footage, cutting and assembling, sound, titles and captions, formatting, analysis, UGC videos and 3D previz. Press Tab on the canvas and open the Video tab to see the nodes, grouped in families.
The twelve families
Add Your Own
Bring your own footage into a workflow. Upload Video takes an MP4, MOV or WebM file or a direct link, and lets you crop, trim or convert it before the upload. For a video from a link to its page, use Video URL in the Automate tab.
Create
Make new video. Generate Video turns a prompt, a start frame or references into a clip, on more than 30 video models, and chooses text-to-video, image-to-video, first-and-last-frame or reference mode from what you connect. Generate Video Pro makes one long video by stitching several segments. Music Video makes visuals for a Suno song. Still to Video and Slideshow turn images and an audio track into an MP4 for free, with zoom and Ken Burns motion.
Story & Script
Plan and write before you generate. Story → Video turns a story prompt into a finished film in eight stages, from the script to the final edit, and stops for your approval between them. Each scene of that film is a Scene node with its shot list and keyframes. Generate Script writes a multi-scene script with image prompts, dialogue, music moods and sound effects, ready to feed image, voice and music nodes.
Animate & Perform
Make people and characters move and speak. AI Avatar makes a HeyGen avatar or your own image say a script or a voiceover, and Cinematic Avatar puts 1 to 3 avatar looks into a prompt-driven cinematic clip. Lip Sync makes a portrait speak an audio track or dubs a video into new speech, and Speech to Video generates a video driven by a speech track. Motion Transfer makes a character perform the moves of a reference video, and Face Swap puts a new face into a clip.
Continue & Restyle
Change footage you already have. Extend Video continues a clip with new footage that follows your prompt. Edit Video Pro replaces a span of a video with new footage, and Retake Video regenerates a time window, sound, picture or both. Video to Video restyles or edits a whole clip from a prompt, and Relight & Switch relights a subject or swaps its background, driven by the clip's own pixels. Video Depth turns a clip into a depth video, where near is bright and far is dark. Video Mask tracks a subject that you describe through a clip and outputs a black-and-white mask video.
Cut & Assemble
Edit clips into a finished video. Trim Video cuts a clip, and Combine Videos joins clips with transitions and clean joins for continuous shots. Adjust Speed, Loop Video and Fade In/Out change timing and edges. Assemble Narrated Video fits voice takes to their clips. Composite layers up to four videos. Mask Composite places a foreground video over a background video through a mask video, such as the one Video Mask makes. Compose Video arranges your media into a timed composition from a description. Edit Plan plans cuts, clips or chapters from a transcript, and Apply EDL renders such a plan. On a multicam recording, Camera Switch puts each cut on the camera of whoever is speaking. Speaker Frames finds where each speaker's face is on every camera, and Speaker View shows the speakers side by side, in a grid or as a picture-in-picture. Split into Chunks cuts a long file into equal pieces. Shot Cuts finds where every shot of a video starts and ends, and can save each shot's first and last frame as images. Manual Edit opens clips in the NodarCut editor for hand editing.
Reframe
Turn a video of people talking into a vertical clip that shows whoever is speaking. Reframe adds Transcribe, Speaker Frames and Speaker View in one step, wired and grouped, so the clip needs no edit.
Podcast
Turn a recorded episode into finished media in one step. Tighten Episode transcribes a podcast or interview, cuts silences, filler words and false starts, and renders the tightened episode. It can add captions, a music bed and a speaker framing, and it can stop at a preview for your review first. Chapters lists the episode's chapters with their start times, ready for show notes. Trailer cuts a 20 to 40 second trailer and renders it in each social format you choose. Clip Pack cuts the episode into a pack of short, captioned clips. Speaker Layout frames the whole recording by speaker, with nothing cut.
Sound for Video
Put sound on video, or take it off. Video SFX generates sound effects and ambience that follow the action. Merge Video & Audio adds a voiceover, music or effects to a video. Extract Audio takes the sound track out of a video, and Remove Audio leaves a silent clip.
Titles, Graphics & Captions
Add text, graphics and effects. 3D Title and Motion Graphics animate titles, lower thirds and kinetic typography from a description. After Effects plans a look such as a grade, grain or letterbox, and Lottie Overlay places animated overlays over a video. Add Captions transcribes a video and burns in captions, Video Overlay shows timed images over a video, and Render Video turns the plans of these nodes into an MP4.
Format & Export
Fit a video to where it goes. Resize Video changes the aspect ratio, and Social Media Format fits a video to the frame of a platform. Upscale Video increases the resolution with AI, Transcode Video re-encodes a file to shrink it or make it play anywhere, and Gif to Video turns an animated GIF into an MP4 for free.
Analyze
Read a video and turn it into data. Video Analysis breaks a video into short scenes with prompt-ready visuals, camera, audio and castable people and places. AI Audit re-watches a video against its analysis and applies only the fixes the footage confirms.
UGC Video
Make a video of a creator who talks to camera about your product, while your screenshots pop up as cards, with captions. UGC Script writes the script from your product name or website and up to 8 screenshots. UGC Creator chooses the person, an AI creator or your own photo. UGC Clips splits the script into clips, and UGC Clip renders each clip. UGC Finish hands every clip on in order, ready to join. UGC Cards times the cards and the captions to the speech. The UGC nodes run on Nodaro Cloud only.
3D Scenes
3D Scenes is not a family of its own: in the node picker, its nodes are listed under Titles, Graphics & Captions. Previz in 3D before you generate. Generate 3D Scene makes an editable, animated 3D clay scene from a description, Edit 3D Scene changes it with an instruction or direct edits, and 3D Render Pro authors and renders a 3D scene in one run.
Which video node do I need?
| You want to | Use |
|---|---|
| Use your own video file | Upload Video |
| Make a clip from a text prompt | Generate Video |
| Animate a still image | Generate Video, with the image in Start Frame |
| Move from one image to another | Generate Video, with a Start Frame and an End Frame |
| Make a video longer than one model run | Generate Video Pro |
| Make a whole film from a story | Story → Video |
| Write a script with scenes and image prompts | Generate Script |
| Turn images and a voiceover into a video, for free | Still to Video or Slideshow |
| Make a music video for a Suno song | Music Video |
| Have a presenter say a script | AI Avatar |
| Make a portrait speak an audio track | Lip Sync |
| Dub a video into new speech | Lip Sync, with a dubbing model |
| Make a character copy the moves of a video | Motion Transfer |
| Replace a face in a video | Face Swap |
| Continue a clip | Extend Video |
| Replace part of a clip | Edit Video Pro or Retake Video |
| Restyle a whole clip | Video to Video |
| Relight a subject or swap a background | Relight & Switch |
| Turn a clip into a depth video | Video Depth |
| Put a subject from one video into another video | Video Mask and Mask Composite |
| Cut a clip | Trim Video |
| Find where every shot of a video starts and ends | Shot Cuts |
| Join clips into one video | Combine Videos |
| Tighten a podcast or interview in one step | Tighten Episode |
| List an episode's chapters for the show notes | Chapters |
| Cut a short trailer of an episode in several social formats | Trailer |
| Cut an episode into short, captioned clips | Clip Pack |
| Frame a whole recording by speaker, with nothing cut | Speaker Layout |
| Cut a multicam podcast to whoever is speaking | Camera Switch |
| Make a vertical clip that follows whoever is talking | Reframe |
| Speed up, slow down or reverse a clip | Adjust Speed |
| Add sound effects that follow the action | Video SFX |
| Add music or a voiceover to a video | Merge Video & Audio |
| Add captions | Add Captions |
| Add a title or a lower third | Motion Graphics or 3D Title |
| Make a landscape clip vertical | Resize Video or Social Media Format |
| Increase the resolution | Upscale Video |
| Break a video into scenes with prompts | Video Analysis |
| Make a UGC video of a creator talking about your product | UGC Script, UGC Creator and the other UGC Video nodes |
| Plan a shot in 3D first | Generate 3D Scene |
The AI models behind the video nodes, with their credit prices, are listed in Video models. For help choosing one, read Choosing a model.
The foot of the Video tab also has a collapsed Creative Controls block. These pickers, such as Camera Motion, Lighting and Transition, add tested wording to video prompts. See Creative Controls.
Every video node
Create
- Generate VideoMake a video clip from a prompt, a start frame or references with Seedance, VEO, Kling, Wan and more, with sound, end frames and per-model credit rules.
- Generate Video ProMake one long AI video from a prompt or a script. Generate Video Pro splits it into model-sized segments, renders them in order and stitches one clip.
- Music VideoGenerate a music video for a song made with Suno. Connect a Suno music node, run Music Video, and get visuals made for that track, for 11 credits.
- Still to VideoTurn one image and one audio track into an MP4, with an optional zoom, pan or Ken Burns motion. No AI model runs, so it costs 0 credits.
- SlideshowTurn 2 to 100 images and an optional audio track into an MP4 slideshow with motion and transitions. No AI model runs, so it costs 0 credits.
Story & Script
- Story → VideoTurn a story prompt into a finished AI film. Story → Video writes the script, casts, plans shots, animates and edits, and stops for your approval.
- SceneThe Scene node holds one scene of a Story → Video film, with its shots, camera, keyframes and clip. Review it, refine the shots and approve it.
- Content IdeasTurn one or more content recipes and your brand into 1 to 10 post ideas, each with a hook, beats and a shot list. The next node runs once per idea.
- Generate ScriptWrite a multi-scene video script with AI. Each scene gets a description, action, mood, length, camera, dialogue and a ready-to-use image prompt.
Animate & Perform
- AI AvatarMake a talking avatar video with HeyGen. Pick an avatar or animate your own image, then give it a script and a voice, or a recorded voiceover.
- Cinematic AvatarMake a short cinematic clip with 1 to 3 HeyGen avatar looks from a text prompt. No script or voice; the prompt directs the scene, action and camera.
- Lip SyncMake a portrait speak an audio track, or dub an existing video by re-syncing its lips to new speech, with Kling Avatar, OmniHuman, Seedance and more.
- Speech to VideoGenerate a video driven by a speech track with Wan 2.2. Connect speech audio, a portrait and a prompt, and get a talking video from 33 credits.
- Motion TransferMake a still character perform the moves of a reference video, such as a dance or a gesture, with Kling 2.6, Kling 3.0 or Wan Animate.
- Face SwapReplace the face in a video with the face from a reference image, for character replacement, privacy or creative remixes, for 143 credits per run.
Continue & Restyle
- Extend VideoContinue a video with new footage from your prompt, using Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, Kling 4, LTX 2.3 Pro, VEO or Runway Extend. Chain runs for long shots.
- Edit Video ProReplace a chosen span of an existing video, from 4 seconds up to 2 minutes, with new Seedance footage stitched back so the rest of the clip stays the same.
- Retake VideoRegenerate a time window of an existing video with LTX 2.3 Pro. Replace only the sound, only the picture or both, and keep everything outside the window.
- Video to VideoTransform a whole video from a prompt. Restyle footage as anime or claymation, turn day into night, or edit a clip by instruction with Seedance 2.5 Edit.
- Relight & SwitchRelight a subject, swap or restyle a background, or composite new elements into a video, driven by the clip's own pixels, a mask and a reference image.
- Video DepthTurn any video into a depth video, where near is bright and far is dark, with Video Depth Anything or Depth Anything per frame, in grayscale or a colormap.
- Video MaskDescribe a subject in plain words and get a black-and-white mask video that tracks it through the clip, with SAM 3.1 or SAM 3, for clips up to 5 minutes.
Cut & Assemble
- Trim VideoCut a video by start and end time, trim seconds or frames from its edges, keep its first or last seconds, or cut at the cleanest loop point with Smart loop cut.
- Combine VideosJoin several video clips into one in the order you set, with more than 50 transitions, audio crossfades, seam trims and jump-free joins for continuous shots.
- Apply EDLRender an edit decision list into one finished video or audio file, with cuts and crossfades, and remap a transcript so captions follow the finished cut.
- Assemble Narrated VideoFit each voice take to its video clip and join the blocks into one narrated MP4. Short voices are centered, long voices slow the clip, and no voice is ever cut.
- Adjust SpeedChange a video's playback speed from 0.05x to 100x, play it in reverse, keep or shift the pitch, add smooth slow motion, or ramp the speed with segments.
- Loop VideoRepeat a short video a set number of times or until it reaches a target length, and cut it at its cleanest loop point first so that no repeat shows a jump.
- Fade In/OutFade a video in at its start and out at its end, from and to black or white, with separate durations from 0.1 to 3 seconds. The sound fades along with it.
- CompositeLayer up to four videos into one composition with per-layer position, blend mode, opacity and timing. It costs no credits; Render Video turns it into an MP4.
- Mask CompositePlace a foreground video over a background through a mask video, or pixelate or blur the masked area to hide faces. It runs on every edition without a key.
- Compose VideoDescribe the video you want, and an AI model arranges your connected images, clips and audio into a timed, multi-track composition that Render Video renders.
- Split into ChunksCut a video or audio file into frame-exact parts between a minimum and a maximum length, or a video into one part per shot, and run the next node on each.
- Shot CutsFind where every shot of a video starts and ends, measured from the file itself, and optionally save each shot's first and last frame as images.
- Manual EditOpen clips, images and audio in the NodarCut video editor, cut and arrange them by hand, and pass the edited video on, or pause a workflow until you finish.
- Edit PlanPlan an edit from a recording's transcript. Tighten it, find short clips, mark chapters or cut a trailer, as an edit decision list that Apply EDL renders.
- Camera SwitchPut each cut of a multicam podcast or interview edit on the camera of whoever is speaking, from a transcript with speaker labels. The sound never changes.
- Speaker FramesFind where each speaker's face is, over time, on every camera of a multicam edit, and get a face-track file that Speaker View's tracked framing reads.
- Speaker ViewRender a multicam edit with its speakers on screen, side by side, stacked, in a grid or picture-in-picture, with an emphasis on whoever is talking.
Podcast
- Tighten EpisodeTighten a podcast or interview in one node. It transcribes the recording, cuts silence and filler, renders the episode and can add captions and music.
- ChaptersThe Chapters node lists a podcast or interview's chapters in one step, each with a title and a start time, ready to paste into show notes or a description.
- TrailerThe Trailer node cuts a 20 to 40 second trailer from a podcast or interview in one step, in each social format you choose, after an optional intro card.
- Clip PackThe Clip Pack node cuts a podcast or interview into a pack of short clips in one step: it finds the best moments and renders each one framed and captioned.
- Speaker LayoutFrame a whole podcast or interview recording by speaker in one node, with nothing cut. With several cameras, each speaker is shown on their own camera.
Sound for Video
- Video SFXGenerate sound effects, foley and ambience that follow the action in a video, from an optional prompt. The new sound replaces the video's own audio track.
- Merge Video & AudioAdd voiceover, music or sound effects to a video. Set each track's volume and start time, and keep, lower or mute the video's own sound.
- Extract AudioPull the audio track out of a video as a standalone MP3 file, to split it into stems, clean the voice or reuse the soundtrack under another clip. No settings.
- Remove AudioStrip the audio track from a video and keep a silent clip. The picture is copied without re-encoding, so nothing is lost and the node finishes almost at once.
Titles, Graphics & Captions
- 3D TitleDescribe a title and an AI model plans an animated 3D text scene with camera moves, lighting and particles, up to 60 seconds, for intros, outros and trailers.
- Motion GraphicsDescribe a lower third, title card or kinetic typography and an AI model animates it in 2D, as editable Lottie with free color and text edits, up to 60 seconds.
- After EffectsDescribe a look and an AI model plans video effects, such as a color grade, film grain, vignette, letterbox or motion blur, and previews them before you render.
- Lottie OverlayDescribe the overlays and an AI model places and times Lottie animations, such as confetti, hearts or arrows, or your own Motion Graphics, over a video.
- Add CaptionsTranscribe a video and burn in captions, as a clean subtitle or one of five animated word-by-word styles, with fonts, outlines, position and words per line.
- Render VideoRender the plan of Motion Graphics, 3D Title, After Effects, Lottie Overlay, Compose Video or a 3D scene into an MP4, or arrange connected media without a plan.
- Video OverlayShow up to 20 timed image or video layers over a video, with layouts for stacked videos and picture in picture, a live preview and the audio kept.
- Generate 3D SceneDescribe a shot and get an editable, animated 3D clay scene for previz, with objects, camera moves and timing, to render as a layout reference for video models.
- Edit 3D SceneChange a 3D clay scene with a plain instruction or free direct edits, lock the objects that must stay the same, and keep every revision to compare or restore.
- 3D Render ProAuthor an animated 3D scene from a brief and render it in one run on a hosted engine, returning the MP4, the editable scene and one still image per shot.
Format & Export
- Resize VideoChange a video's aspect ratio to 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5 by cropping, padding or stretching, for example to turn a landscape clip into a vertical Reel.
- Social Media FormatFit a video or image to the frame size of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, X, Facebook or LinkedIn, and keep the post caption within the platform's limit.
- Upscale VideoUpscale a video with Topaz or Nodaro Video Upscale, up to 4K, re-render a VEO generation, or finalize a Seedance 2.5 draft at 1080p.
- Transcode VideoRe-encode a video with H.264 or H.265, a quality (CRF) value, a lower resolution and an audio bitrate, to shrink files or make them play on any device.
- Gif to VideoConvert an animated GIF into an MP4 for free, loop short GIFs to a usable length, and use the clip as a motion reference for video models that refuse GIF files.
Analyze
- Video AnalysisBreak a video, or a link to a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X or Facebook post, of up to 10 minutes into scenes of 8 seconds or less, with prompt-ready visuals.
- AI AuditRe-watch a video against its Video Analysis, apply only the fixes the footage confirms, and get a report of every fix, declined change and watch item.
- Content RecipeFind out why a social post worked: the hook, format, beats, call to action, sound and pace, as a reusable recipe in structured data and readable text.
UGC Video
- UGC CreatorChoose who talks to camera in a UGC video, an AI creator drawn for your product or your own photo, and keep the creator you like for every later run.
- UGC ScriptWrite the opening line, beats and closing line of a UGC video from your product name or website and up to 8 screenshots, checked against the video rules.
- UGC ClipsSplit a UGC video script into clips, one per take, choose the creator's voice, and see what the clips and the steps after them will cost before they render.
- UGC ClipRender one clip of a UGC video per take, check two of its frames, render it once more if the check fails, and re-render only the clips you do not like.
- UGC FinishTake every clip of a UGC video at once and hand them on in order, ready to join. On a Hebrew video, lay the recorded speech back over the clips.
- UGC CardsTime the screenshot cards and captions of a UGC video to the creator's speech, check that each clip said its line, and get plain-language Notes on the run.
Frequently asked questions
Which node makes a video from a text prompt or an image?
Generate Video. With only a prompt it makes a text-to-video clip. Connect an image to its Start Frame input and it animates that image instead. For a video longer than one model run, use Generate Video Pro.
How do I join several clips into one video?
Connect the clips to Combine Videos in the order you want. It joins them with a cut or one of more than 50 transitions, and handles the audio at each join.
How do I make a person or a character talk?
Use AI Avatar to have a HeyGen avatar or your own image say a script or a voiceover. Use Lip Sync to make any portrait speak an audio track, or to dub an existing video into new speech.
Which video nodes cost no credits?
Still to Video, Slideshow, Composite and Gif to Video render without an AI model and cost no credits. Upload Video only brings in your file and costs nothing either.
Which video nodes need Nodaro Cloud?
Story → Video, its Scene nodes, 3D Render Pro and the six UGC Video nodes run on Nodaro Cloud only. Generate Video Pro, Edit Video Pro, Edit Plan, Tighten Episode, Chapters, Trailer, Clip Pack, Speaker Layout, Camera Switch, Speaker Frames, Speaker View, Video Analysis and AI Audit run on Nodaro Cloud, and on a self-hosted install through a Nodaro Cloud connection.
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Upload Video
Bring your own video into a workflow. Upload an MP4, MOV or WebM file or paste a URL, crop, trim or convert it, and send it to any video node.