Claude makes videos now: how to make a finished film with Claude Opus 5.5
Key Takeaways (TL;DR)
- ✅Claude can make videos with KitCut: type an idea; Claude Opus 5.5 writes, animates, narrates and scores the whole film, and KitCut renders a 1920x1080 MP4.
- ✅Free to start: 30 seconds of film every month with no card, and an invite link adds 2 more minutes.
- ✅Works inside Claude: add kitcut.ai/mcp as a custom connector and ask for a film mid-conversation - in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT or Grok.
- ❌Not a video generator: no photoreal footage or real people moving - films are hand-drawn, painted or paper-collage animation, in 16:9.
Can Claude make videos?
Yes. On its own Claude writes text and code, not MP4s. KitCut is the missing half: it gives Claude Opus 5.5 a drawing engine, a narrator, an orchestra and a renderer, so an idea comes back as a finished film - script, animation, voice-over and music.
That is a different thing from an AI video generator. Sora, Veo or Runway turn a prompt into moving pixels a few seconds at a time. On KitCut, Claude writes the whole film as a program - every drawing, camera move, word on screen and music cue - and KitCut renders it. So a film can run from 5 seconds to 8 minutes as one planned piece, with the picture, the narration and the music timed to each other, word by word.
A disclosure before the praise: we built KitCut, so read this as the maker's guide. Everything below is what the product does today, shown with real films made on it, and the limits are listed as plainly as the strengths. KitCut is an independent product built on Claude; it is not made or endorsed by Anthropic.
Claude video examples: eight films, three looks
Every film below was made on KitCut from the prompt under it, and none was edited afterwards - KitCut has no edit step. Some prompts are one line, some a paragraph-long brief; both work. Press play; the small kitcut.ai mark on some is the Free plan's.
Prompt: “A 2-minute explainer: how a plain steel box shrank the world - the shipping container. Who it is for: curious adults who like business history…”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “Explain how taxes work in america.”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “A 30-second launch ad for Thatcher's Wine, a wine shop: the Champagne of Emmanuel Brochet has just arrived. The audience is people who love wine and buy it from a good independent shop…”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “A cinematic 2-minute-30 documentary: Apollo 13 - "Houston, we've had a problem." How three astronauts 200,000 miles from Earth, and the engineers on the ground, turned a failed Moon landing into NASA's "successful failure"…”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “A 90-second explainer: what is an AI agent? Who it is for: people who use ChatGPT or Claude for questions and keep hearing the word "agent"…”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “…we recently upgraded all users to gpt 6 Sol model as default model. We need a video about this that explains that it's smarter and faster…”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “The last penalty of a cup final, from the goalkeeper's point of view”
Watch on KitCut with sound →Prompt: “Create a video about major bike brands. Make it interesting, exciting, dramatic. Not boring. Make it fun to watch…”
Watch on KitCut with sound →How to make a Claude video in four steps
Say who the film is for and what it must say. The voice, the music and the drawing style are Claude's choice, but you can ask for them in words - 'a calm female voice, solo piano, clean line art' - and Claude follows when it can.
- Open kitcut.ai and describe the film in the idea box: what it is about, who it is for, the tone, and anything it must say or show. One sentence is enough; up to 12,000 characters are allowed.
- Add pictures or voice notes if you have them - a logo, a product shot, a sketch or a spoken brief. Up to 6 pictures and 3 voice notes a film.
- Pick a look (hand-drawn, painted or collage) and a length, then press Make the film. You sign in the first time, and nothing you typed is lost.
- Watch it being made. The film's page shows what Claude is doing and the stills it is checking, then plays the finished film. A 30-second film takes about 16 to 24 minutes once its turn comes.
What Claude Opus 5.5 does inside every film
KitCut does not ask a model to imagine pixels. Claude directs the film, writes it as code and checks its own work; KitCut supplies the voice, the instruments and the renderer.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Direction | Claude decides who the film is for and its mood, then the drawing or painting style, the narrator's voice and the music - and holds the film to looking professionally made for that audience. |
| Narration | Claude writes the script. Gemini's text-to-speech records it, and every word is timed so the picture can change on it. |
| Picture | Claude draws and animates every scene in code on KitCut's sketch engine. In the painted look it has the scenes painted and animates the paintings; in the collage look it has each picture cut out and builds the pages round them. |
| Review | Claude renders stills and a motion check from across the film, looks at them and fixes what is wrong, up to twice. |
| Music and sound | Claude writes an instrumental score and the sound effects; KitCut plays them on sampled instruments and keeps the music under the voice. |
| Render | Every frame is drawn and encoded to a 1920x1080 MP4 - 60 frames a second on paid plans, 30 on Free - with subtitles. |
Because the film is code, the words on screen are typed text, spelled exactly as written. A logo you attach is placed as it is, not re-imagined. And a character Claude drew is kept, so it can come back in your next film with the same look, voice and music.
Three looks: hand-drawn, painted or collage
Hand-drawn: Claude draws every frame in code. The crayon style has lines that boil slightly from frame to frame and paper grain; the clean style is crisp editorial line art with flat fills, like the Thatcher's Wine and Instafill films above. There are ten grounds, from paper and kraft to chalkboard and blueprint.
Painted: an image model paints the scenes from Claude's descriptions, and Claude animates them - camera moves across each painting, cross-fades on spoken words, and words drawn on top. Styles range from 1950s travel poster and ink wash to claymation and cinematic photoreal, as in Apollo 13.
Collage: every picture is a cut-out with a white scissor edge, and Claude builds the pages round them in code - torn paper, print type, tape labels, rubber stamps, marker arrows - with everything shaking slightly like stop-motion. It is the newest look, and the one behind The Box, the taxes film and the bike brands.
You pick the look; Claude picks everything inside it, and your idea can steer it in plain words.
Make a Claude video without leaving Claude
KitCut is also an MCP server, so you can ask Claude for a film in the middle of a conversation and get the link back in the chat.
- In Claude on the web, desktop or phone, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
- Name it KitCut and paste https://kitcut.ai/mcp. Press Connect, sign in to KitCut and press Allow.
- Ask for a film - for example, 'Make a 30-second hand-drawn explainer of how our onboarding works.' Claude confirms the idea, length and look, starts the film and gives you its link straight away.
- Claude checks on the film and tells you when it is ready; the finished film plays on its own page.
In Claude Code it is one command - claude mcp add --transport http kitcut https://kitcut.ai/mcp - then /mcp to sign in. The same address works in ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI.
Films made from a chat use the same credits as the website, and they are link-only unless you ask for them to be public.
Claude video vs AI video generators (Sora, Veo, Runway)
| AI video generators | KitCut (Claude video) | |
|---|---|---|
| What the model makes | pixels, a clip at a time | a program: drawings, animation, text, sound cues |
| Length | usually seconds per clip | one film of 5 seconds to 8 minutes |
| Words on screen | often misspelled or warped | typed text, spelled exactly as written |
| Your logo | re-imagined by the model | the picture you attached, placed as it is |
| The same character | drifts between clips | kept as code and reused in later films |
| Narration and music | usually added with other tools | written, recorded and mixed with the film, subtitles included |
| Style | photoreal or painterly motion | hand-drawn animation, painted scenes with camera moves, or paper collage |
Where a generator wins: photorealistic motion, real-looking people moving, live-action shots. KitCut does none of those, by design.
Where a Claude video wins: explainers whose words must be right, product and brand films that must show the real logo, series whose characters must come back, and anything longer than a clip.
What people make with Claude video
- Launch ads and product updates - a Champagne arriving at a wine shop, a software product moving to a new AI model.
- Explainers - taxes, AI agents, the shipping container - where every number and label has to be right.
- Documentaries up to 8 minutes on Pro - Apollo 13, eleven bike brands, a company's history.
- Stories and series - a cup-final penalty through the keeper's eyes; Pip the fox came back for three films with the same scarf, look and voice.
- Versions in other languages - the narration follows the language of your idea; words on screen cover Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
How much does a Claude video cost?
| Plan | Price a month | Film a month | Longest film |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 30 seconds | 1 minute |
| Standard | $12 to $319 | 2 to 60 minutes | 1 minute |
| Pro | $45 to $849 | 10 to 240 minutes | 8 minutes |
One credit is one second of film, and a film uses at least 30. Credits are held when a film starts and charged only when it is finished; a failed or stopped film gives them back.
Paid films are 60 frames a second and carry no KitCut mark. Pro makes films up to 8 minutes and goes first when the studio is busy.
Get 2 extra minutes of Claude video
Sign up through a KitCut invite link from our board and your first finished film adds 2 minutes of film for you - and for the person who shared it. No queue: every link is shown in full.
What KitCut doesn't do (yet)
- No photorealistic motion or real people moving: films are hand-drawn, painted or collage animation.
- 16:9 only for now - no vertical Shorts, Reels or TikToks.
- No editing a finished film: make a new one, and its characters, look, voice and music can come back.
- Instrumental music only - no songs or sung vocals.
- No camera footage or video uploads: pictures are the only visual material a film takes.
- No web research: Claude makes the film from your idea and your attachments.
Saying this plainly is the point. A Claude video is a film written and drawn by Claude, not a clip from a video model - which is exactly why its words, logos and characters stay right.
Claude video: frequently asked questions
- Can Claude make videos?
- Not on its own - Claude writes text and code, not video files. With KitCut, Claude Opus 5.5 writes, draws, animates, narrates and scores a film, and KitCut renders it as a 1920x1080 MP4. You can use it on kitcut.ai or from inside Claude through the KitCut connector.
- Is there a Claude video generator?
- KitCut is a Claude video maker rather than a video generator: Claude Opus 5.5 writes the whole film as a program - drawings, camera moves, words on screen and music - and KitCut renders it. That is why words are spelled right and characters stay the same, and also why it does not make photorealistic footage.
- How long does it take to make a Claude video?
- Once its turn comes: about 9 to 14 minutes for a 10-second film, 16 to 24 minutes for 30 seconds, 26 to 39 minutes for a minute, and 1.5 to 2.4 hours for 8 minutes. The film's page shows what Claude is doing the whole time.
- Is KitCut free?
- To start, yes: 30 seconds of film every month with no card, which makes one 30-second film. Free films are 30 frames a second, carry a small kitcut.ai mark and end with a 3-second closing. An invite link adds 2 minutes.
- How long can a Claude video be?
- From 5 seconds up to 8 minutes, in steps of 5 seconds. Free and Standard make films up to 1 minute; Pro makes them up to 8 minutes.
- Which AI models make the film?
- Claude Opus 5.5 does the direction, the script, every drawing and animation, the music and sound-effect scores, and the review of its own frames. Gemini's text-to-speech is the narrator, Meta's Muse paints the scenes of painted films, OpenAI's GPT Image paints the cut-outs of collage films, and Whisper times each spoken word. There is no video-generation model and no stock footage.
- Can I use Claude videos commercially?
- Yes. KitCut's terms allow commercial use of the films you make.
- What languages can the narration be in?
- The narration follows the language your idea is written in, or the one it asks for, and the narrator speaks many languages. Words on screen are limited to Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
- Can I make vertical videos for TikTok or YouTube Shorts?
- Not yet. Films are 16:9 landscape, 1920x1080.
- Is KitCut made by Anthropic?
- No. KitCut is an independent product built on Claude by the people who run ClaudeCoupons. Anthropic does not make or endorse it.
Make your first Claude video
Type an idea and watch Claude Opus 5.5 make the film. 30 seconds free every month.