4 best AI movie trailer generators for creators in 2026

The best AI movie trailer generators in 2026 are ClipNova for a finished trailer of your own story, with the same hero in every shot, a narrator, your score and captions, followed by Revid, Frameo and Luma for narrower jobs. ClipNova starts at $19/mo; the other three start between $25 and $39 a month.

A trailer is the cheapest way to find out if a story idea has legs. Post a 90-second teaser for the series you are planning, the novel you are writing or the short film you cannot afford to shoot yet, and the comments tell you whether to make episode one. The catch is that a trailer is harder than it looks: twenty shots that have to feel like one film, a hero who cannot change faces between cuts, and a voice that sells the premise in three lines.

This roundup compares four AI movie trailer generators on how much of the trailer they make for you, how well the hero holds up across shots and what each one costs.

The 4 best AI movie trailer generators at a glance

• ClipNova: best overall for trailers of your own stories and series. A logline becomes a finished trailer of up to 5 minutes with establishing shots, a consistent hero, a narrator, your score and captions.
• Revid: best for turning footage or a link into a quick trailer cut. It takes text, a URL or your own clips and returns a trailer with voiceover and epic music.
• Frameo: best for refining a trailer by chatting with it. A script or synopsis becomes a trailer-style video you adjust through conversation.
• Luma: best for hero shots you cut into your own trailer. Premium cinematic clips from its Ray models and others, no narration or edit.

What a trailer generator has to get right

Trailers are judged in seconds, and the weak spots are always the same:

• The hero has to survive the cut. A trailer jumps between twenty moments. If the main character's face, hair or coat changes between shot 3 and shot 14, viewers read it as two different people and the story falls apart.
• The voice sells the premise. Three narrated lines usually carry the whole pitch. A tool that writes or reads them well matters more than one more model.
• Rhythm, not runtime. A good trailer speeds up: slow establishing shots, faster cuts in the middle, silence before the title. Look at how a tool paces the last 20 seconds.
• Your music, your rights. You will want your own score or a licensed track, lowered under the voice.
• Original stories only. Fan trailers for films you do not own are the fastest way to lose a channel. YouTube cut ad revenue from, and later terminated, big channels that posted AI-made fake trailers for real franchises (more on that below).

A quick test before you commit: write a three-line logline for your own story and give the same text to two tools. Judge only shot 1, the hero's best close-up and the title card. If the hero in the close-up does not match shot 1, keep looking.

1. ClipNova, best overall AI movie trailer generator

ClipNova turns the premise of your film, book or series into a cinematic trailer in one render. You write the logline (genre, hero, conflict, tone), pick a length and format, and the AI Movie Maker plans the trailer as a storyboard and renders it shot by shot, with establishing shots, a hero who keeps the same look from the first frame to the last, a narrator and burned-in captions. Upload your own score and it sits under the voice automatically.

A trailer is a short promise of a long story, and that is what ClipNova is built for: finished long videos with consistent characters.

• Long: a trailer, a full teaser reel or even the pilot itself, up to 5 minutes per render, built as a sequence of shots rather than one stretched clip.
• Consistent characters: the hero keeps the same face, wardrobe and setting across shots, and saved characters and Series bring that same cast back when you make the episodes the trailer promised.
• Finished: narration written from your logline (or your own lines), captions, your score and the shots arrive together; change a line or the voice and generate again, and fix a single scene in Studio before you post.

The ClipNova movie trailer maker page walks through one trailer from logline to final frame.

Key features

• Logline to finished trailer: storyboard, shots, narrator, captions and your music
• The Prompt Enhancer expands a two-line logline into a detailed description
• 16:9 for a cinema feel or 9:16 for Shorts, TikTok and Reels, chosen per render
• A built-in cinematic look: motivated lighting, a consistent colour grade, an anamorphic feel
• Narration in 18 languages, so a trailer can go out in Spanish or Portuguese as well

How to make a trailer in ClipNova

1. Open AI Movie Maker and write the logline in two or three sentences, for example "a farm girl's father vanished under a light in the corn; twelve years later, the ship comes back for her".
2. Choose the length (most trailers run 60 to 150 seconds) and 16:9 or 9:16.
3. Switch on narration and let it write the voiceover, or type your three lines yourself.
4. Upload your score, pick the voice and generate.
5. Watch it once on a phone with sound off: captions should carry the pitch on mute. Adjust a line and generate again if needed.

Pricing

• Plans from $19/mo: Hobby $19 (1,000 credits), Starter $49 (2,600), Growth $99 (5,750), Ultra from $199 (12,000); 20% off yearly
• The app shows the credit cost before you generate, and every plan includes every feature, watermark-free export and commercial rights

Pros

• The whole trailer in one pass, from the opening wide shot to the title card
• The hero holds up across shots, which is what makes a trailer feel like one film
• The same tool makes the series or short the trailer is selling

Cons

• No auto-posting; you review and upload each trailer yourself
• With Moving AI Images, character locking needs the Pro or Ultra image quality; on Base a recurring face may drift, so pick AI Video or a higher tier for character-led trailers

2. Revid, best for fast trailer cuts from text, links or footage

Revid's AI Movie Trailer Maker covers two routes. If you already have footage (a short film, a series episode, a YouTube video), upload it or paste a link and it assembles a trailer with dramatic cuts and music. If you have only an idea, write a story or a scene-by-scene script, with directions in brackets if you want specific shots, and it generates the visuals, voiceover and soundtrack.

That flexibility is its strength: a creator with an existing episode can cut a promo in minutes. Character continuity across separate videos is not a published feature, so for a recurring hero across a whole series you will do more checking.

Key features

• Text, script, URL or uploaded footage in, finished trailer out
• 124+ AI voices or your own uploaded voiceover
• Automatic trailer music and cuts timed to it
• 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 output; scene swapping and timing edits afterwards

Best for

• Creators promoting an episode or short they already made
• Quick 9:16 teasers for TikTok, Reels and Shorts

Pricing

• Growth: $39/mo billed monthly ($32/mo yearly) with 2,000 AI credits and direct publishing to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
• Elite: $89/mo with 5,000 credits

Pros

• Works from existing footage as well as from text
• Publishing tools built in

Cons

• Entry plan costs about twice ClipNova's
• Recurring characters across separate trailers and episodes are not a published feature

3. Frameo, best for refining a trailer by chatting with it

Frameo is an AI video studio with a dedicated movie trailer generator. You give it a script, a synopsis or a story idea (or clips and photos), and it builds a trailer-style video with AI scenes, pacing and transitions, audio, text animations and title cards. Frameo highlights character continuity across scenes, and its edits are conversational: you ask for changes in plain words instead of working on a timeline.

It runs on a long list of third-party models (Seedance, Kling, Veo 3.1 Fast and others), so it suits creators who like to try different looks for the same teaser.

Key features

• Script, synopsis or idea to a trailer-style video with title cards
• Character continuity across scenes
• Conversational edits instead of a timeline
• Many third-party image and video models in one workspace

Best for

• Writers who want to iterate on a teaser by describing changes
• Testing several visual styles for the same story

Pricing

• Starter: $25/mo with 1,750 credits; credits valid for 180 days
• Pro: $100/mo with 8,000 credits

Pros

• Trailer-specific tool with continuity built in
• Unlimited workspace members on every plan

Cons

• Maximum trailer length and output resolution are not published on the trailer page
• Narration in many languages is not stated for the trailer tool

4. Luma, best for hero shots you cut into your own trailer

Luma is a creative platform built on its Ray video models (Ray3.2 at the time of writing) plus third-party models such as Veo 3.1 and Kling. It is where you go for one unforgettable shot: the slow push-in on a face, the city at the end of the world, the ship breaking the clouds.

It does not write a voiceover, pace a trailer or add captions. Think of it as a shot library you generate yourself, then cut in CapCut or Premiere with your own voice and score. Many creators pair it with a story-first tool: Luma for two or three hero shots, the rest of the trailer elsewhere.

Key features

• Ray models plus third-party models under one subscription
• Strong camera motion and lighting for spectacle shots
• Commercial use on paid plans

Best for

• Editors building trailers by hand who want premium shots
• Title-card backgrounds and single "money shots"

Pricing

• Plus: $30/mo billed monthly ($25/mo yearly) with 10,000 credits and commercial use
• Pro: $90/mo with 40,000 credits

Pros

• Some of the most cinematic single shots available
• Several models in one place

Cons

• Clips only: no narration, captions, pacing or story structure
• Keeping one hero consistent across many separate shots is up to you

Trailer rules to know before you post

AI makes trailers easy to produce. The platforms are strict about what you do with them:

• No fake trailers for real films. In 2025 YouTube suspended ad revenue on, and later terminated, channels that posted AI-made "trailers" for real franchises, citing its spam and misleading-metadata rules (Deadline report). Make trailers for your own stories, with your own titles and characters.
• Disclose realistic AI footage. If a realistic trailer could be mistaken for real events or real people, YouTube asks you to label altered or synthetic content.
• Use music you have the rights to. Your own score, a licensed track or a library made for creators; a famous film score will be claimed.
• Do not borrow faces. No real actors, no celebrity look-alikes in a "dream cast" trailer.

For a step-by-step build of one teaser, from logline to title card, read our guide on how to make an AI movie trailer.

How to choose the best AI movie trailer generator for your channel

1) What are you starting from?

• An idea, a logline or a script, and no footage: ClipNova, which makes the whole trailer, or Frameo if you prefer to refine by chatting.
• An episode or short film you already made: Revid, which cuts a trailer from your footage or a link.
• A trailer you will edit by hand: Luma for the hero shots.

2) Does the hero come back?

• Yes, the trailer sells a series with a recurring cast: ClipNova, where the hero keeps the same look across shots and saved characters and Series carry the cast into every episode.
• No, it is a one-off teaser: any tool here works; choose on style.

3) Who writes and reads the voiceover?

• Let the tool write it from your logline: ClipNova.
• Pick from a big voice catalogue or upload your own read: Revid.
• You record it yourself: Luma plus your editor.

4) What does one trailer cost?

• ClipNova Hobby: $19 a month; the app shows the credits for each trailer before you generate, so you can test a 60-second teaser before a full 2-minute cut.
• Frameo Starter: $25 for 1,750 credits that stay valid for 180 days.
• Luma Plus: $30 for shots only; budget extra time for voice and editing.
• Revid Growth: $39 for 2,000 credits.

5) Teaser, trailer or episode promo?

• Teaser (15 to 45 seconds): one image, one question and the title. Best weeks before launch, in 9:16 for Shorts, TikTok and Reels. ClipNova and Revid both handle vertical teasers well.
• Full trailer (60 to 150 seconds): the world, the conflict and the stakes, usually in 16:9 on the channel a few days before episode one. This is where a narrator and a consistent hero matter most, which favours ClipNova or Frameo.
• Episode promo (20 to 30 seconds): what happens next week. If you already have the episode, Revid can cut it from your footage; if the episode is made in ClipNova, render a short promo from the same characters.

Plan two renders if you need both a vertical and a horizontal version: tools that make one format per render give cleaner results than a crop.

If the trailer works, you will need the story itself: our roundup of AI story video generators compares tools for the episodes, and ClipNova pricing shows the credits on each plan.