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Faceless YouTube video generator for long videos

BakeVideos makes a faceless YouTube video of two to five minutes from one sentence: the AI writes a script in sections (a hook, three to five points with examples, a payoff), a natural voice reads it, every scene gets real licensed footage chosen to show the line, captions sync to the words, music sits under it, and the 16:9 MP4 renders in about ten minutes. Long videos are where a faceless channel earns (YouTube pays 55% of watch-page ad revenue, against a 45% pool for Shorts), so each plan includes them: 4 a month on Creator, 10 on Pro, 25 on Studio.

How a long video is built

  1. Choose Long and the minutes (2, 3 or 5) next to the format pills. The writer gets a word budget of about 2.4 words a second, so a 3-minute video is roughly 430 words in 25 to 40 scenes.
  2. The script has a shape. Unlike a Short, a long video is written with chapters the viewer can feel: a hook that promises the payoff, sections that each make one point with a concrete example, and an ending that delivers it.
  3. Footage per scene. Each scene is searched in the stock libraries and a vision model picks the clip that shows the sentence rather than the keyword. A 3-minute video pulls 40 to 60 clips; this is the slow step.
  4. Edit like a Short. Rewrite a line (only that scene is re-recorded), swap a clip, upload your own footage, reorder. The video re-renders itself after edits.
  5. Download. 1920×1080 MP4, no watermark, with a licence record for every clip and track.

A test run on 2026-10-06, "the real history of coffee" ordered at two minutes, produced a 2 minute 22 second video from 26 scenes in about ten minutes end to end, with no blank scenes.

What long videos are good for

History, finance explainers, psychology, listicles with depth, documentary-style stories, book summaries, "the real story of" pieces. Anything about the real world where filmed footage exists. Fiction and specific named people are not in stock libraries; those briefs become a mood cut and the studio tells you before anything runs.

Shorts and long videos together

Use Shorts to find the angle (five a week, one idea each) and a long video to monetise it (one a week). A Creator plan covers both at $24 a month; see Shorts vs long videos for a faceless channel for the revenue arithmetic. Order a 3-minute video and judge it.

FAQ

Can AI make a long faceless YouTube video? Yes. BakeVideos writes a sectioned script, records it, matches 25 to 60 real footage clips and renders a 2 to 5 minute 16:9 video in about ten minutes.

How long can the videos be? Up to five minutes today. Shorts are up to one minute; anything over a minute counts as a long video on the plan.

Is the footage real or AI-generated? Real: licensed stock footage from Pexels and Pixabay, with a licence record saved per render. No generative imagery, so no AI disclosure label is needed for the footage.

Do long videos cost extra? They are part of every plan: 4 a month on Creator ($24), 10 on Pro ($49), 25 on Studio ($99). Long videos come with a plan.

Can I make it longer than five minutes later? Not yet. Eight minutes (mid-roll ads) is the next step we are working towards; the current limit keeps footage matching and render times reliable.

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