TextToDeck

**TextToDeck turns written updates into short vertical videos using reusable templates.** It’s built for people who already publish written content and want a quicker way to create simple, polished promo videos without opening a video editor every time. The workflow is straightforward: choose a template, fill in structured fields, preview the animation, render the MP4, and download the finished video. TextToDeck is especially useful for blog posts, product updates, changelogs, launch notes, build notes, announcements, quote highlights, practical tips, newsletters, and other written updates that can be turned into short visual summaries. The product is template-based rather than AI-generated. There’s no AI making the video, designing the layout, or controlling the render. The templates are prebuilt and structured, so the user stays in control of the message while TextToDeck handles the repeatable rendering work. The goal is to remove the awkward manual workflow of creating an HTML animation, recording it with OBS, trimming it in another tool, exporting the MP4, and checking it again before posting. TextToDeck turns that into a cleaner render job with template previews, render status, history, protected downloads, and reusable formats. It’s not trying to be Canva, CapCut, or a full video editor. It’s a focused tool for turning text-based updates into vertical MP4s that can be downloaded and posted manually wherever needed. Current features include: * reusable vertical video templates * structured template fields * browser previews * server-side MP4 rendering * thumbnail generation * render history * protected downloads * credit-based rendering * template categories for different update types A WordPress companion plugin is planned so publishers can create promo videos directly from posts and pages. The plugin will use post data like title, excerpt, body, categories, tags, publish date, and featured image to prefill the video fields, then send the render job to the hosted TextToDeck service. TextToDeck is live now and already has paying users. The current focus is tightening the core workflow: from written post to downloadable vertical MP4 without OBS, Clipchamp, or repeated manual editing.