Tips & tricks

The shortest path to a good film. Each tip links to the guide that explains it in full.

Before you film

Pick the shape you will post. 9:16 films the site’s own mobile layout (Reels, Shorts, TikTok); 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5 film the desktop layout. Run inspect_page with the same aspect_ratio first.
Write one sentence of brief. Who it is for and what they should do next. “For dentists who lose patients to no-shows; end on the free trial” beats a paragraph of adjectives.
Choose the goal. explainer, ad, demo, tutorial or article — it sets the pace, the shots and the ending.
Check the page is public. A robot check or a sign-in page cannot be filmed past; inspect_page says so before you spend anything.

The words are the length. A scene lasts as long as its narration — about 149 words a minute at the default tone. For a 30-second ad, write about 70 words. Why.
One idea per scene. Four or five short scenes keep a film moving; one long scene feels slow.
Silence is allowed. A scene with no words holds for the time you give it — good for a logo or a final call to action.

Draft first. create_video with draft: true is free: a low-resolution preview with no AI visuals.
Edit the storyboard, not the prompt. update_storyboard is free and every edit can be undone with restore_revision. Then rerender_video once, without draft.
Price before you spend. dry_run: true or quote_cost returns the price; max_credits refuses anything above your figure. See Credits & pricing.

Five looks — clean, bold, editorial, playful, tech — set the captions, cuts and music together. bold for a feed that scrolls, editorial for a calm long read.
Voices are multilingual. Pick a voice for its character; the language is set separately (13 languages).
Generate only what the page cannot show. A real screencast is more convincing than a generated clip; add AI clips for the beats the site has no picture for.

From Chrome: sign in to your app, open the extension’s side panel and send the session. It is scoped to one site and expires within 24 hours.
Without an extension: tick This site needs a login when you create a film and give a test account’s sign-in page; the password is never stored. SSO and two-factor logins need the extension.
Filming behind a login is on the Scale plan and up.

Add https://pagetovid.com/mcp as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT, then just ask:

Make a 30-second vertical ad of example.com in French, with a bold look. Draft it first.

Here is our launch post. Turn it into a 45-second animated explainer, no website.

Look at the last film you made: shorten scene 3 and end on “Start free”.

In Claude Code, the plugin adds /pagetovid:video, /pagetovid:animate and /pagetovid:edit.

Read the warnings. A film can finish with a lost visual or a short scene and still say done: check get_video’s warnings before you share it.
Fix, don’t remake. Change the words or the shot of one scene and re-render; the plan and the visuals you kept are reused. How.
A failed render is refunded automatically, including any AI visual that never reached the film.
Still stuck? Open an issue with the video id.