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To make an explainer video with MakeThisVid: write a one-sentence prompt covering subject, setting, lighting, and motion (or drop a photo + motion prompt), then click Generate. The clean 8-second 1080p MP4 with audio streams in your browser in 45–90 seconds for $2.99 — no watermark, commercial use already licensed. Want more after your first? $6.99 adds 3 more takes — any photo, any look.

How to Make an Explainer Video with AI

By MakeThisVid Editorial Updated Methodology

Making an explainer video with AI is one of the highest-leverage moves right now — short, specific, and shippable on the same day you decide to make it. The walkthrough below covers the prompt formula, how the $2.99 pay-once and keep-it-plus-5-more offers work, and the small calibration moves that take the output from generic to genuinely good.

Make an ad from one prompt. $2.99 a video · Ready in about a minute · No subscription.

How to Use MakeThisVid

From prompt to downloadable MP4, ready to deploy.

  1. Write the prompt

    Use the five-element formula: subject + setting + lighting + camera movement + emotional tone. Lead with the pain, then the relief.

  2. Choose aspect ratio

    Pick 16:9 for landscape placements or 9:16 for social/vertical feed. Every render is a fixed 8-second 1080p clip with audio on — no other settings to tune.

  3. Generate the clip

    Click Generate. The render runs on GPU; expect 45–90 seconds for your clean, no-watermark video to stream in your browser for $2.99. Broken renders are remade or refunded — if it fails for any reason, you haven't spent anything, so just try again.

  4. Iterate fast

    Bad first generation? Edit one variable — usually lighting or camera move — and re-generate. One concept per clip — chain multiple for longer

  5. Download and ship

    Save the MP4 — audio is already baked in, no watermark, commercial use licensed. Drop it straight into your ad manager, social schedule, or content brief.

Make a video — $2.99

Who Uses MakeThisVid for This

Same-day creative

When the brief lands at 9am and the ad needs to ship by 5pm. Skip the production timeline entirely.

Multivariate testing

Generate 4–8 variants on different lighting / camera / mood. Pick the winner from real performance data instead of an internal review.

Inspiration to brief

Use a fast generation to communicate a visual direction to a designer or stakeholder before committing to a full production.

Frequently Asked Questions

45–90 seconds per render on MakeThisVid. The whole loop from idea to downloaded MP4 — write prompt, generate, pay once, download — typically lands in under three minutes.
Subject + setting + lighting + camera movement + tone. Specific concrete details outperform abstract emotion words: "golden-hour backlight, slow dolly forward, warm" beats "cinematic and beautiful".
There's no monthly math anymore — every video is $2.99 for the clean, no-watermark 8-second 1080p download, commercial use included. Want more after your first? $6.99 adds 3 more takes — any photo, any look.
Yes. Every purchase includes a commercial use license. Run it as a paid ad, ship it to a client, post it anywhere. No watermark.
Yes. Switch to Photo → Video on the create page, drop a JPG/PNG/WebP, and add a prompt that describes the motion you want ("camera slowly zooms in", "hair blowing in the wind"). Want more after your first? $6.99 adds 3 more takes — any photo, any look.
Broken renders are remade or refunded, so a failed render doesn't cost you anything — no support ticket needed. Most failures are content-policy related; rephrase the prompt and try again.

Make your first explainer video

Type a prompt or drop a photo. 45 seconds to a downloadable MP4 — commercial use included.

Make a video — $2.99

Broken renders are remade or refunded.

or 3 more takes — $6.99 Any photo, any look · About $2.33 a take · No subscription required.