How to use FacelessAI: from prompt to export
FacelessAI takes a written brief and returns a finished video draft with a voiceover, captions, and scene-by-scene visuals. You stay the director: you review the draft, fix anything weak, and export when it is ready. Here is the actual workflow, step by step, including where you spend credits and where you do not.
You can run all of this on the $1 intro pass: 7 days and 250 credits for new accounts.
Step 1: Set up a project
Everything lives inside a project. Before your first video, you can save a Brand Kit: default voice, caption style, template, format, CTA, and hashtags, so every video in that project starts on-brand without redoing settings. You can also upload reference assets and add up to five image references to guide the look.
If you are just testing, skip this and go straight to the brief. You can add a Brand Kit later.
Step 2: Write the brief
The brief is a prompt of 30 to 4,000 characters plus a few settings. A good prompt names five things:
- Topic, narrow and specific.
- Angle or hook you want to lead with.
- Length, from 15 seconds up to 10 minutes.
- Tone for the narration.
- A clear ending, such as a takeaway or a soft CTA.
Then pick your settings: aspect ratio (9:16, 16:9, or 1:1), duration, quality profile (Draft, Balanced, or Studio), a voice from 30 options, and a target platform. Default is a 60-second vertical Balanced video with captions and the Clean Minimal template.
Create a 45-second vertical explainer about why Roman concrete survives
seawater. Open with a surprising comparison, keep the narration calm, use
clear scene-by-scene visuals, and end with one memorable takeaway.
Step 3: The AI plans and drafts
Once you submit, FacelessAI does the heavy lifting automatically. It runs a safety check, decides whether the topic needs web research and pulls sources if it does, writes a creative brief, checks your project memory so it does not repeat past videos, plans the scenes, writes the narration, and validates timing and facts.
Then it generates the draft: one voiceover in your chosen voice, word-timed captions transcribed from that voiceover, and a visual for every scene. This planning-to-draft step is where generation credits are spent. When it finishes, you have a previewable video, not yet an exported file.
Step 4: Review and edit (the part that matters)
This is where a good video separates from a generic one. The draft opens in a player with a scene timeline and an inspector. You can:
- Edit the narration and the visual direction for any scene.
- Regenerate a single visual you do not like. Only that scene's credits are charged, and the voiceover and other scenes stay untouched.
- Swap a scene between an image and a video clip, or upload your own visual.
- Change the voice, captions, title overlays, motion, and transitions.
Caption styles include Clean, Bold, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal, and Documentary. Title overlays include POV, Hook, and Meme presets. Motion runs from a slow Ken Burns zoom to handheld drift, with transitions like crossfade, whip, and blur dissolve.
Prefer to talk to it? The workspace assistant makes many of these edits from a plain instruction like "shorten scene 2, make the captions karaoke, and add crossfades." Styling changes apply instantly; anything that regenerates paid media asks you to confirm first.
Step 5: Export and download
When your draft looks right, the main action becomes Export. Export reuses the assets you already generated and reviewed, so it costs zero credits. What you preview is exactly what renders, because the player and the encoder read the same spec.
You get a 1080p H.264 MP4. From there you can pick and download a cover frame and generate a proposed title, caption, and hashtags to paste when you upload.
What costs credits
| Action | Credits |
|---|---|
| Voiceover | 2 per draft |
| Captions | 0 |
| Generated image scene | 8 to 15, by quality |
| Video clip scene | 3 to 8 per second, by quality |
| Uploaded visual | 0 |
| Regenerate one scene | that scene only |
| Preview and export | 0 |
You pay to generate, not to export. Planning, research, project memory, the assistant, and all styling changes are free.
What FacelessAI does not do
Straight answers so you know what to expect:
- It does not post to YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. You export the file and upload it yourself, which keeps titles and disclosure in your hands.
- It runs in English (en-US) today.
- Each video uses one voice, not multiple speakers.
- The assistant edits scenes but does not add, delete, or reorder them.
FAQ
Do I approve the video before it costs credits?
Generation credits are reserved when the draft job starts, so you spend to produce the first draft. After that, editing styles is free and only regenerating a visual or updating the draft spends more. Exporting the finished video is always free.
Can I fix just one bad scene?
Yes. Regenerate that single visual and the rest of the video, including the voiceover, stays exactly as it was. You are only charged for the one scene.
What formats can I export?
A 1080p MP4 in 9:16, 16:9, or 1:1, with captions burned in. That vertical export works for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. See the YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels pages for platform tips.
How many videos do I get on the $1 pass?
There is no fixed number. The 250 credits stretch further with image slideshows and shorter videos, and less far with generated video clips at Studio quality. See pricing for the full breakdown.