01Story scripts
Story scripts
Reconstruct the story, dialogue, narration and on-screen action in a readable, timestamped script.
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Reconstruct reference videos and analyze their Viral DNA.
Turn an authorized reference into a story script or AI video prompts, with optional Viral DNA analysis of its hooks, pacing and emotional turns. For long drama footage, choose a professional episodic screenplay instead.
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Get a story script, a professional episodic screenplay, or AI video prompts. Add Viral DNA to a story script or prompt result to explore the opening hook, pacing, reversals and emotional turns.
02Professional episodic screenplays
Professional episodic screenplays
Turn up to 60 minutes of drama footage into a Chinese or English screenplay with episodes, characters, dialogue and action.
Reconstruct a video as a script03AI video prompts
AI video prompts
Describe subjects, actions, camera movement and sound as structured prompts for AI video creation.
Create AI prompts from a video04Viral DNA analysis
Viral DNA analysis
Explore opening hooks, pacing, reversals and emotional turns. Available as an optional addition to story scripts or AI video prompts.
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Understand what happens and how the story holds attention
When a reference catches your attention, first recover its content, then inspect the creative choices around it. This workflow helps creators separate what is actually shown from an interpretation of why a hook, reversal or payoff may work.
Understand what happens and how the story holds attention When a reference catches your attention, first recover its content, then inspect the creative choices around it. This workflow helps creators separate what is actually shown from an interpretation of why a hook, reversal or payoff may work.
Recover the reference before interpreting it
Start with a story script to read the dialogue and action, or choose AI video prompts to describe the visuals for a new production. These are alternative outputs; select the one that matches your next task.
Examine the opening hook
Optional Viral DNA considers the initial question, conflict or information gap that invites someone to keep watching. Compare that interpretation with the opening footage rather than treating it as a performance score.
Follow pacing, reversals and emotional turns
Study where information arrives, how tension changes and how an ending pays off an earlier setup. The analysis describes creative patterns that may be useful to test in your own work.
Watch the evidence again
Timestamps and playable sections make it easier to check the script and analysis against the source. Scene and shot details support that review; the useful deliverable is the writing and insight you take away.
Develop a different version
Optional Rewrite starts from the selected story-script or prompt result. Change the subject, characters, wording and visual treatment to develop a new draft, then review it for accuracy and originality.
Viral DNA interprets creative choices visible in the video. It does not measure actual audience retention, establish what caused virality, or guarantee performance for a rewritten version.
How It Works
From a video to the writing you need
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Add the video
Paste a supported YouTube or direct video link, or upload a video you own or have permission to analyze.
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Choose the range
Preview and select your range: up to 60 minutes for professional episodic screenplays, or up to 10 minutes for story scripts and AI video prompts.
03Choose your result
Choose a story script, professional episodic screenplay, or AI video prompts. Viral DNA is optional for story scripts and prompts.
3.1
Story scripts
Reconstruct the story, dialogue, narration and on-screen action in a readable, timestamped script.
3.2
Professional episodic screenplays
Turn up to 60 minutes of drama footage into a Chinese or English screenplay with episodes, characters, dialogue and action.
3.3
AI video prompts
Describe subjects, actions, camera movement and sound as structured prompts for AI video creation.
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Review and use your result
Review your writing against the video. Use the screenplay in Word, or copy, download and optionally rewrite a story script or prompt result.
Product Tour
From video to a script you can read and study
The Last Delivery
Original authored sample · 00:00–03:00 · 12 beats · 3 editorial episodes
Story overview
Courier Ilya brings a twelve-year-overdue parcel to Mara’s door but cannot bring himself to enter. Her mother’s handwriting, a childhood photograph and a scar on his right wrist reveal the brother she has not seen for years. She crosses the threshold to stop him, turning an unsigned delivery into a return home.
Viral DNA
An interrupted knock opens the information gap. Handwriting, a date, a photograph and a scar supply successive evidence. “Who is he?” becomes “Will she let him stay?” The door and photograph change meaning when the reunion is delivered.
Story script · Reunion passage
Come inside
Emotional intensity · Editorial illustration
15s
Hope under pressure
BEAT 00902:00–02:15
Cast: Mara, Ilya
Mara sets the parcel on the hall table, keeping the photograph. She crosses the threshold in her house shoes. At the rail she sees Ilya one landing below. His hand is on the banister; he has not reached the street door. Mara (testing the name): Ilya? She calls his name. His hand tightens on the rail, but he does not turn immediately. Sound: Quick slippers on tile, followed by a held silence between floors.
Technical function
Make Mara act on the clue; the threshold changes from his obstacle into her choice.
Show analysis and evidence
- Viewer question
- Will he answer to the name?
- Retention progression
- A physical pursuit replaces exposition and turns the identity question into a visible response.
- Evidence
- 02:00 · At the rail she sees Ilya one landing below. His hand is on the banister; he has not reached the street door.
- Drop-off risk
- Establish the two landings in one shot so the audience understands that he can still hear her.
15s
Recognition
BEAT 01002:15–02:30
Cast: Mara, Ilya
Ilya turns halfway. His sleeve has ridden back where he grips the rail; the crescent scar is fully visible. Mara looks from his wrist to the bandaged wrist in the photograph. She lowers the photograph, no longer needing it. Mara (softly): You fell through the greenhouse roof. Ilya releases the rail. This time he lets the sleeve stay where it is and meets her eyes. Ilya: You told Mum it was you. Sound: The creak of the banister easing under his hand; two unhurried breaths.
Technical function
Pay off the scar visually, then confirm a shared memory with two specific lines.
Show analysis and evidence
- Viewer question
- Can recognition become forgiveness?
- Retention progression
- The identity mystery resolves; the remaining uncertainty concerns their relationship.
- Evidence
- 02:15 · Mara looks from his wrist to the bandaged wrist in the photograph. She lowers the photograph, no longer needing it.
- Drop-off risk
- Avoid an explanatory monologue about twelve years away; it would interrupt the emotional peak.
Expand the rest of this passage and its analysis
15s
Tentative acceptance
BEAT 01102:30–02:45
Cast: Mara, Ilya
Mara folds the delivery slip along its old crease. She takes one step down, leaving space between them. Ilya looks at the photograph in her hand. He starts to speak, stops, then keeps his eyes on her. Ilya: I didn’t know if you’d open the door. She turns toward her apartment, leaving the door open. After a pause, he takes a single step upward. Mara (with a small, uneven smile): You still haven’t knocked. Sound: The folded slip; a hesitant upward footstep instead of retreating footsteps.
Technical function
Echo the missing knock as relationship dialogue, giving the opening action a new meaning.
Show analysis and evidence
- Viewer question
- Will he finally come inside?
- Retention progression
- The reversal in walking direction supplies a small, visible commitment before the final invitation.
- Evidence
- 02:30 · Ilya looks at the photograph in her hand. He starts to speak, stops, then keeps his eyes on her.
- Drop-off risk
- Do not add a sudden embrace; cautious distance is consistent with a twelve-year separation.
15s
Quiet release
BEAT 01202:45–03:00
Cast: Mara, Ilya
At the doorway, Mara steps inside and places the photograph beside the parcel, face upward this time. Mara (from inside) (O.S.): Come in. The kettle’s still warm. Ilya reaches the threshold. His right hand rises toward the door, then opens against the wood rather than knocking. He follows her into the warm room. The door remains ajar; the stairwell is empty, but no one has been left outside. Sound: A kettle lid, two sets of footsteps inside, and the familiar hinge settling softly.
Technical function
Resolve the doorway, photograph and final-delivery motifs through changed actions rather than a moralising line.
Show analysis and evidence
- Viewer question
- How will they begin speaking after so long?
- Retention progression
- The central promise is fulfilled. An open future remains without withholding the reunion itself.
- Evidence
- 02:45 · Ilya reaches the threshold. His right hand rises toward the door, then opens against the wood rather than knocking.
- Drop-off risk
- Let the domestic sound finish the scene; extra music or a slogan would overstate an already clear release.
Original authored sample with illustrative frames; no playable source film. Viral DNA is optional for story scripts and AI video prompts, and is not included with episodic screenplays. A real task selects one output.
Explore the same authored story as a story script with Viral DNA, an episodic screenplay or timed AI video prompts. Images are illustrative; these examples are not live generation tests.
- Story, dialogue and action
- Video playback for review
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Source media, storage and credits
Source use
Your video, written out
Get story scripts, screenplays or AI video prompts from source content. Rendering and editing a finished video happen in your chosen production tool.
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About 21 one-minute script breakdowns
Includes the one-time first-purchase bonus; estimated at 21 credits per 60-second story script without Viral DNA. Later purchases provide fewer tasks. Duration and add-ons change usage.
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For regular breakdown work, week after week.
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- +525
- First-purchase total
- 1,575
- credits per $1
- 55
About 75 one-minute script breakdowns
Includes the one-time first-purchase bonus; estimated at 21 credits per 60-second story script without Viral DNA. Later purchases provide fewer tasks. Duration and add-ons change usage.
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3,500 credits
The best per-credit value for heavy analysis.
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- 3,500
- First-purchase bonus
- +1,750
- First-purchase total
- 5,250
- credits per $1
- 59
About 250 one-minute script breakdowns
Includes the one-time first-purchase bonus; estimated at 21 credits per 60-second story script without Viral DNA. Later purchases provide fewer tasks. Duration and add-ons change usage.
One-time packs, spendable on any analysis. Purchased credits never expire. Your first credit purchase includes a one-time +50% credit bonus on any pack.
Questions before you analyze a source
VidBreak turns existing videos into story scripts, professional episodic screenplays, or AI video prompts. Choose the result you need before starting. The screenplay workflow supports up to 60 minutes in one task; story scripts and AI video prompts can include optional Viral DNA analysis.
Viral DNA examines a viral video’s opening hook, pacing, visual patterns, reversals and emotional turns. Add it when choosing a story script or AI video prompts. It interprets creative choices rather than measuring actual viewer retention, and it is not included in episodic screenplays.
Upload a video or paste a supported YouTube or direct public video link, then select the range. Choose Story script for a readable story script, or Episodic screenplay for an episodic script in Chinese or English. Review the credit estimate and start.
No. The results are written story scripts, episodic screenplays or AI video prompts. Video rendering and editing happen in your chosen production tool. Optional Rewrite is available for story scripts and prompts.
Use an authorized public YouTube watch, Shorts or youtu.be link, a direct public video URL, or an uploaded file. Only analyze videos you own or have permission to study. VidBreak temporarily imports media for analysis but does not provide a source-video download.
Uploaded or imported source media and temporary derivatives auto-delete 24 hours after processing finishes. Generated results have no fixed expiry, but when your result capacity is exceeded the oldest result is deleted first. You can delete source media earlier when processing is inactive.
The estimate depends on duration and output. Story scripts start at 12 credits for 15 seconds, AI video prompts add 7, and optional Viral DNA adds 13. Each charged component adds 1 credit per additional 5 seconds, rounded up. Screenplays sum the base script charge for each episode, with no additional task-level base fee. You see the estimate before starting.