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Latest · AIA director that rereads every film before it is shotFilms directed from Claude came out better than those our site made alone. Now the site runs the same review-and-repair loop on every film, before filming.Read · 4 min read →
The story, month by month
November 2026
AIAn AI clip that always finds a way to be madeAI video models come and go. Our house clip now has three routes, Veo, then Seedance, then MiniMax, so your film gets its generated shots at the same price. · 3 min read
DesignCaptions that sit on the picture, not on a grey slabOur vertical films kept captions readable with a dark band under every shot. Now the footage fills the frame, and outlined white words sit on the picture. · 3 min read
Our storyFour months of PageToVid, and the road aheadFrom a first commit in June to a film that looks before it writes and rereads itself before it shoots: where PageToVid stands today, and what we plan next. · 4 min read
ProductOne website, one media bank for everyone on itTwo people could share a website and its films, but not each other's captures or music. Now everyone with access to a site works from its whole media bank. · 3 min read
GrowthOne website, three films, side by sideThe free film is our simplest. A new page shows the same site filmed three ways: free, directed from Claude or ChatGPT, and with AI clips. · 3 min read
AIOur director now sees the pictures before it editsThe director that rereads every film now gets the photos of your site, the format's own rules and a safety net that undoes any edit that makes a film worse. · 3 min read- DesignSubtitles in one colour, chosen for every filmOur captions had grown five looks, lit words and coloured edges. Now every film gets one calm subtitle, its colour picked for the picture behind it. · 4 min read
AIWe now look at your site before writing a wordOur script writer planned clicks it had never seen. Now the probe photographs your site and presses its safe buttons first: every line follows a picture. · 3 min read
DesignYour colours, from the very first frameA tension effect tinted the opening of almost every film red. Now the hook shows your page in its own colours, and one-hue brands keep their own shades. · 3 min read
October 2026
ProductTours that keep walking after the clickA click used to lead nowhere: the next shot reloaded the page from the top. Tours now keep the page open for up to four scenes, on desktop and on phones. · 3 min read
Film qualityYour verdict now shapes our films, not a scoreA one-tap question now sits right under every film's player, with eight reasons in your own words. People judge the films; the automatic grader steps aside. · 3 min read
AIPicking the right card from 964 animated designsA new card director chooses each animated card for what the scene says, fills it only with real words and figures, and looks at every frame before it ships. · 4 min read
Film qualityThe voice now waits to see what the camera filmedBefore a film is voiced, every recorded scene's line is now checked against a frame of its real footage, and rewritten to match what is on screen. · 3 min read
ProductYour finished film, three ways to take it homeWhen a film is ready you now get a clear choice: clean HD, a publish kit in three shapes, or the free file. Plus an honest wait and edits from the watch page. · 3 min read
ProductCheckout reminders that arrive while you still careLeave a checkout and a short note now reaches you within the hour, then one last follow-up a day later. Never more, and never against an earlier word. · 3 min read
ProductYour film now speaks your site's languagePaste a French, Spanish or German site and the voice speaks that language from the first take. One rule decides, and a new step shows you why it chose. · 4 min read- Film qualityYour film now tours more than the home pageFilms now pick a site's own product pages, leave the front page for at least one scene, and read slowly down the page on phones instead of holding still. · 3 min read
ProductEvery free film now carries an address you can typeFree films now end with a readable pagetovid.com, download in one click, and earn a free film for you and a friend. One simple rule for the free plan. · 3 min read- EngineeringWhen a page will not load, you get your credit backA film should only show what a page really says. Our probe now stops at a page that never loaded or a real sign-in screen, before anything is paid for. · 3 min read
ProductOur extensions now install in one clickThe VS Code studio is live on the Marketplace and the Chrome recorder is in Web Store review: no more files to download, updates that arrive by themselves. · 3 min read
GrowthSearch finds our guides, never your filmsFrom today, search engines see only the pages that explain PageToVid. Your films stay yours, and fifteen use cases became real guides in four languages. · 3 min read- Film qualityCaptions step aside, and your site shows up in 3 secondsCaptions now move off whatever the voice names, films reach your real site within three seconds, and our quality check measures pace instead of guessing it. · 3 min read
- EngineeringOne day to check every corner of PageToVidAfter weeks of film features, we reviewed eight areas of PageToVid in one day and shipped three releases: steadier tests, clearer assistants, a calmer editor. · 3 min read
EngineeringOur home page got 50 times lighter on wordsEach page of PageToVid now carries only the words it shows: the home page's translations went from 139 KB to 2.6 KB, and a 1.5 MB catalogue left the browser. · 3 min read- ProductPageToVid is now listed in the official MCP registryAssistants now find PageToVid where they look for tools, in the official MCP registry. Plus tests on the front door, and real films first on our home page. · 3 min read
ProductAn Edit button beside Download, and an editor worth itThe editor now sits one click from every film, keeps every detail you did not touch, and lets you pick any visual, card, motion or shot, with a live check. · 3 min read- DesignRich cards for the middle of your film, held to the truthFeature grids, step paths, stat cards, pricing and reviews now fill the middle of a film, built from your page and checked for meaning: 663K stays 663K. · 4 min read
- Film qualityEvery quote in your film is one your site really saysReading four test films one frame per second led to three new rules: every quote traced to your site, cards that echo the voice, and no shot that lingers. · 3 min read
- InfrastructureFilms render twice as fast, and the bar tells the truthThe progress bar now moves the way your film does, with an estimate built on measured times, and the renderer uses its whole machine: about twice as fast. · 3 min read
AIEvery animation gets a card that says what it is forWe wrote a card for each of our 979 animations: what it needs, what it holds, where it fits. A scene can now ask for the right one; the editor suggests it. · 3 min read- AIRead first, write second: a planner in seven stepsOur new planner gathers what your page really says before it writes a word, then casts, fills and times each scene. Films got four times more designed cards. · 4 min read
AIA planner that stays light, however many cards we addHundreds of new motion cards could have made every film's plan heavier. We kept the plan the same size forever, and now test it hourly on the real model. · 3 min read- Product664 designed cards for the moments between shotsToday every film can draw from 664 designed motion cards, each tested in three shapes, visible in the catalogue and kept safe through every edit. · 4 min read
- EngineeringA library ten times bigger, and renders that tidy upAdding 664 motion templates changed the size of PageToVid's build. We gave it room where it needs it, and taught every render to clean up after itself. · 3 min read
- Film qualityYour directions steer the film, the voice never reads themWrite "warm tone, 30 seconds" in a brief and PageToVid now treats it as direction, not script. Plus scenes that wait for the page and captions that clear it. · 3 min read
- AIClaude writes the animation, then checks its own workYour assistant can now write a PageToVid animation itself, check it, preview it in three shapes and save it to reuse. Free on every plan. · 3 min read
- DesignFifteen ways to show a number in your filmLines that draw themselves, donuts, funnels, ranking races, heatmaps: fifteen animated chart kinds, in your brand colours, readable in 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1. · 3 min read
- DesignEvery animation in our films, redrawn in a dayCards, lists, numbers and quotes had grown one by one. In a single day we gave them one motion system and rebuilt the whole library on it, cut by cut. · 4 min read
- Film qualityYour notes on a month of films, turned into controlsWe read a month of real films and every note written about them. Now one sentence can change a film's language, music, subtitles or voice speed in one go. · 3 min read
- InfrastructureEvery film to the finish, and a plan B for locked sitesYour first film should simply arrive. Every picture is now secured before the render starts, and a site behind a password gets three clear ways forward. · 3 min read
September 2026
- EngineeringA day spent looking at everything at onceWe paused new features for a day and ran five audits side by side. The result: films that always finish, a clearer first sign-in, a release gate that holds. · 3 min read
- ProductAn email the moment your film is readyA film takes a few minutes. From today PageToVid writes to you when it is done, and its welcome emails help you connect an assistant and make the next one. · 3 min read
- ProductHand us your slide deck, get a film backDrop a PowerPoint, a PDF or a logo into a chat with your AI assistant and PageToVid can now use it: your slides, your pictures, your notes, in your order. · 3 min read
- Film qualityNumbers that speak your film's languageA French film now counts to 7 030, not 7,030; its closing QR code opens your website; and a vertical film never shows the same phone screen twice in a row. · 4 min read
- ProductTeammates can now make films right on the websiteTeam members could work only through an AI assistant. Now the website shows them the team's sites and films, with their role and their own spending cap. · 3 min read
- ProductBring your whole team, keep one walletWorkspaces let an agency invite editors and clients without sharing a password: six roles, access per website, one shared balance and review links. · 3 min read
- Film qualityFilms that repair themselves before you see themEvery film now passes a repair step before delivery, keeps numbers whole in its captions, trims dead air, and can be held until it meets the score you set. · 4 min read
Film qualityPick any voice, get the length you asked forEvery AI voice reads at its own speed. PageToVid now learns each voice's real pace from the films it has already read, so 30 seconds means 30 seconds. · 3 min read
InfrastructureReleases that guard your data before they startEvery new PageToVid version checks its database changes on start and refuses anything that could lose a row, while the version you use keeps serving. · 3 min read- ProductYour film, now in six more languages at onceOne request turns a finished film into up to six languages, re-filmed on the translated site when it exists, with quotes, pauses and figures kept right. · 4 min read
- ProductA presenter in the corner of your screen tourA generated presenter now talks from a corner while your product fills the screen, clear of captions and buttons, and the editor previews the exact film. · 4 min read
- Film qualityAI clips that fill the screen, and finally speakGenerated clips now fill the whole frame, captions sit on the footage, and the sound Veo creates is kept, so a character can say their line on screen. · 3 min read
- Film qualityFilms where the people on screen do the talkingAI clips can now carry a whole film with no voice-over: every shot holds as long as you wrote it, and the speaker is heard at full voice, not as a whisper. · 4 min read
- AIThree video models, chosen scene by sceneSeedance and MiniMax join Veo: each scene names the model it wants, every request is checked before it is sent, and a clip is always as long as its shot. · 4 min read
- EngineeringChecks that warn you, and never stop your filmOur script checks now flag a doubtful sentence in your film's warnings instead of halting the render, and French written with tu reads as French. · 3 min read
- Film qualityThe photos on your site now make it into your filmWhen your page shows product photos, your film now builds at least one scene from them, and the card's words live on as the picture's caption. · 3 min read
- ProductEvery look in your film, now one click awayA new Style panel puts colour grades, fifteen transitions, caption animations, callouts and a scannable QR end card within reach of every film. · 4 min read
- DesignFive looks, so no two of your films feel the sameEvery film used to share one voice, one caption style and the same music. Now each film gets a look, a fitting voice, its own sound and type that moves. · 3 min read
- InfrastructureRenders a fifth faster, by measuring instead of guessingThe last step of every render was held back by a memory limit nobody had measured. Measuring it gave us a bigger machine and films ready about 20% sooner. · 3 min read
- Our storyOur home-page film now speaks four languagesThe film on pagetovid.com is a PageToVid film of our own home page, in four languages. Four versions in four days, and every fix went into the product first. · 3 min read
- EngineeringSix AI agents, one release, checked twiceWe split a list of improvements across six AI coding agents working side by side, merged their work one branch at a time and checked the whole release twice. · 3 min read
- InfrastructureYour work backed up daily, every credit explainedDaily backups with point-in-time recovery, a ledger that explains every credit, and errors that reach us at once: the safety nets added on 22 September. · 3 min read
- AIChecks that stop a flawed film before you pay for itA film in the wrong language or a figure from nowhere is now caught on the storyboard, before any credit moves, with a plain note on exactly what to change. · 3 min read
- Film qualityDead air, and why the words set a film's lengthThirteen silent seconds in a 31-second ad taught us the rule behind every narrated film: the script decides its length. Here is what we built around it. · 3 min read
- AIMCP tools that tell an AI agent what they meanAn AI agent read 'it is metered' as a warning and skipped a feature that cost nothing. We rewrote our MCP server so agents read the right fact first. · 3 min read
- Film qualityA camera that frames the part you can readZoom too far into a button and a headline reads 'uality video in minutes'. Ten fixes taught our virtual camera to frame what a viewer can actually read. · 3 min read
- ProductFree films that follow the website, not the inboxOur free allowance now belongs to the website being filmed, a failed render costs nothing at all, and only films a site really received ever count against it. · 3 min read
- AIOne frame at a time: a film grader you can trustThe same clean film scored 85, then 50, then 100. We rebuilt our AI grader to look at one frame per question, and its verdicts started matching the film. · 3 min read
- Our storyOur home-page films, made by the product itselfWe re-shot the films on our own home page through PageToVid, as any customer would, and every fix along the way went into the product. That was 1.0. · 4 min read
- DesignEight transitions that never shift a single wordScenes now arrive with whips, crossfades and zoom punches in a house cutting style, and not one effect moves the voice or the captions by a millisecond. · 3 min read
- AIAnimated films that move, with characters who returnAnimated scenes can now be Veo 3.1 clips, named characters keep their face from scene to scene, and every scene can carry its own font and colours. · 3 min read
- InfrastructureDownloads that start at once, whatever the film's sizeThe Download MP4 button now sends your browser straight to the stored film, and a finished film tells you plainly if any scene is missing a visual. · 3 min read
- Film qualityEvery scene now lasts as long as its wordsA scene now stays on screen until its narration ends, thanks to measured speech, silence added only where it is safe, and a proof that reads the final MP4. · 3 min read
- ProductYou pay only for the AI visuals that reach your filmAI visuals are now priced before the render, retried when a generator stumbles, and refunded automatically when they never make it into the film. · 3 min read
- Film qualityCaptions that listen to the narratorA speech recogniser now runs inside every render, so the lit caption word follows the voice, and caption lines change on a breath, not every fifth word. · 3 min read
EngineeringEvery film now carries a label of how it was madeEvery PageToVid film now ships with Content Credentials: what was filmed, what AI made, where each fact came from, and a check anyone can run. · 3 min read- ProductEvery video now has a page worth sharingEach finished film gets its own page, with a player, captions, a share bar and comments, and a link that plays right inside chats and social posts. · 3 min read
- EngineeringRecurring films with numbers you can trustVersioned formats keep a series' shape steady, every figure carries its source, and an integrity gate refuses a bad episode before it is rendered. · 4 min read
- Film qualitySubtitles that land on the word, every timeOur captions now take their timing from the voice recording itself, scene changes from the narrator's pauses, and old films resync in one click. · 3 min read
ProductYour code editor is now a film studioPageToVid Studio for VS Code sets up Claude Code in one command, keeps your key out of files, and films your product behind its own login. · 3 min read- AIA bigger model wasn’t the answer. One sentence wasWe benched several Gemini models on our real storyboard prompt before switching. The win came from rewording one instruction, not from a new model. · 4 min read
- ProductA video series that runs itself, after you approve itShows turn a feed into a recurring video: one storyboard, a new item each episode, and nothing spent until you have seen and approved what it makes. · 3 min read
- EngineeringOne press, one click: footage that feels hand-madeWe measured our screen recorder frame by frame: now each click lands once, clips last as long as their words, and the frame shows the whole page. · 3 min read
Film qualityVertical films that feel made for the phoneOur 9:16 films now keep the whole phone layout in frame, mix footage and cards for a phone screen, and show the site as a phone above the captions. · 4 min read- AIA narrated animation from what your assistant knowsAn assistant can now turn a table it computed or an idea it wrote into a narrated animated film, with no web page to start from and no browser. · 4 min read
- InfrastructureRoom for everyone who arrives at the same timeWe counted what one page view really costs our servers and resized the site to match: many more requests at once, and a database that keeps up. · 3 min read
- AIYour AI assistant can now make the video itselfPageToVid now speaks MCP: an assistant can sign in, create a film, read its storyboard, edit it and render it again, all from a chat. · 3 min read
- Film qualityAsk for 60 seconds, get 60 secondsPageToVid now times the real voice-over and corrects the script until the film lands on the length you asked for, within a few per cent. · 4 min read
- Film qualityWhy our camera cuts instead of creepingPageToVid films now cut long scenes into shots on the spoken word, aim at the parts of a site worth seeing, and keep page text perfectly still. · 4 min read
- Film qualityFrom a list read aloud to a film with a threadEach scene of a PageToVid film now picks up where the last one ended, every number has a headline, and no screen of the site is ever filmed twice. · 4 min read
- InfrastructureReleases that walk the site before you doEvery new version of PageToVid now opens real pages in two languages, checks a 404 and a redirect, and only then serves its first visitor. · 3 min read
- AIFilms that land on the length you asked forEvery storyboard is now reviewed before filming, and a measured word budget makes a 25-second brief come back at 24.8 seconds. Here is how it works. · 4 min read
August 2026
- Film qualityYour recorded flows, cut straight into the filmFilms now use the flows you recorded with our Chrome extension, matched scene by scene and cut to the second, with a fresh shot only when nothing fits. · 4 min read
- EngineeringVS Code plans the shots, Chrome films themClaude Code reads your codebase in VS Code and writes what to film; our Chrome extension plays each flow back with a lifelike cursor and banks every step. · 4 min read
- Film qualityScreen recordings that move like a personCurved cursor paths, cuts that flow, captions pinned to the frame and typing at a human pace: today our films stopped moving like a machine. · 4 min read
- InfrastructureEvery release that passes its checks now goes liveEach deploy now ends by pointing traffic at the version it just shipped, and our safety net steps in only when a live release truly fails its check. · 4 min read
- ProductOne website, forty film ideas and a ready shot listEach website now gets its own page: forty video ideas in four formats, the shots each one needs, and a brand scan made in a real browser, all automatic. · 4 min read
- ProductOur Chrome extension becomes a capture studioRecord screencasts, full-page shots, single elements and a brand kit from a Chrome side panel, and find every capture waiting in your media library. · 3 min read
July 2026
- EngineeringYour site on screen, not its cookie bannerOur recorder now clears consent banners in more languages, inside iframes too, with a safe fallback, so every shot shows your page instead of a pop-up. · 3 min read
- Film qualityYour website stays the star of its own filmFrom today, at least half of every site film is real footage of the site, with one recording in the first two scenes. Here is the rule and how it holds. · 3 min read
- Film qualityCaptions that hold still while the words light upKaraoke captions now light each spoken word without moving the line, and brand-coloured words stay readable on dark sites. Here is what we changed. · 3 min read
- EngineeringReleases that check themselves before you see themWe ship several times a day. Each release now proves it is serving the exact new code with a working database, and steps back on its own when it cannot. · 3 min read
- DesignSeventy-three ways for a scene to enterOur first animation catalogue was nine layouts in seventy outfits. In one day it became a real library of 73 motions, each checked to land on a clean frame. · 4 min read
- ProductA demo should show the product at workA demo filmed on a homepage is an advert. Our demo films now walk the real app, zoom into the text being narrated and reach the screens behind a sign-in. · 4 min read
- Film qualityA French voice now gets a French screenA film in French now films the French version of the site: we follow its translations, ask the browser for the right language and freeze embedded videos. · 4 min read
- AIEvery film now gets a second pair of eyesFrom today, each finished film is watched by an AI vision judge that scores it out of 100 and names what it saw: cut-off text, blank screens, low contrast. · 4 min read
- AIPictures for the moments a website cannot showA site can show its features, not the headache before them. Films can now generate an image or a Veo clip for those beats, and keep every asset in a bank. · 4 min read
- InfrastructureRenders that no release can interruptEach film now renders in its own isolated job, with a large machine to itself, so a new release or a second film can never cut it short. · 4 min read
- AIA storyboard that directs, not just describesOur planner learned an editor's craft: a hook in three seconds, shots that alternate, real quotes only, and every word on screen in the film's own language. · 4 min read
- Film qualityClips that start on the action, not the warm-upA calmer voice and a calmer scroll: we trimmed every browser recording to the scripted action and made the video toolkit part of every film. · 4 min read
June 2026
- InfrastructureFootage that is ready the second it is recordedA film is recorded, voiced and rendered within minutes. On day two we gave every clip, voice track and MP4 one home: uploaded to storage, read back by URL. · 3 min read
- Our storyThe day we taught a website to film itselfPageToVid starts with one field: paste a web address, a real browser films the live site, an AI voice tells its story, and an MP4 comes back. · 4 min read