DEAL AI videos from your VDP; paste a URL, get a finished video. Try it on your own inventory.

[Alexander.R]

I've been working on something I think a lot of you would actually use, and I wanted to put it in front of dealers before going wider.

It's called CatalogReel. You give it a VIN's photos, or just paste your VDP URL, and a few minutes later you get back a finished walkaround video. Voiceover, captions, music, motion graphics, color grade, end card with your dealership name on it. The kind of video you'd normally pay a freelancer or a vendor a chunk of money to make every month, except you don't have to hire anyone or sit in front of an editor.

Easier to just show you. Four real videos straight out of the tool:

2018 GMC Yukon Denali — widescreen, 24s. Used premium SUV, the kind of unit you actually need to sell with motion.

2025 Tesla Model Y Long Range AWD — widescreen, 24s. For the VDP, YouTube pre-roll, your homepage hero.


2022 Ford Transit 250 Medium Roof — widescreen, 16s. Commercial van, shorter pacing, clean spec callouts.


2024 Ford Ranger Raptor — vertical, 16s. Reels, Stories, TikTok, Marketplace.



More on the demos page — there are real estate and product versions too if you do anything outside vehicles.

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Try it on your own inventory​

The fastest way to see what this looks like for your store is the playground. It's a regular web page — no developers, no integration, no code. You sign up (about 30 seconds, Google or email), and then:

1. Paste one of your VDP URLs. It'll pull the photos and the vehicle info — year, make, model, trim, price, mileage, the works — straight off your listing page automatically. You can also upload photos and type the specs in by hand if you'd rather.
2. Pick a style. Walk-around, mountain drive, open road, luxury hero, street energy, night drive — or just leave it on the default and it'll pick for you.
3. Pick a format. Widescreen for the VDP / YouTube / Facebook, or vertical for Reels / Stories / TikTok / Marketplace.
4. Hit render.

A few minutes later, you've got a finished MP4 you can download and post anywhere. That's the whole loop. Run it on a unit you've had sitting too long and see what you think.

What it costs​

Prepaid credits, no subscription, no contract, credits never expire. Packs are $20 / $90 / $400 — the Starter pack ($20) is enough to render a few vehicles end-to-end so you can see what comes out before you spend more. If a render fails or you cancel it, the credits go straight back to your account automatically, you only pay for video you actually receive.

Happy to answer anything in the thread. What I'd really like to hear from you all:

• Does this look like something you'd actually publish on your VDP / social?
• What's broken about the video you're getting from your current vendor or in-house?
• What styles or formats are missing that you'd want?

And if you send me over a DM here after registering, I'd be happy to give some free credits to the community so that you can try it out!

 

[Mitch Gallant]

Great concept but misses on a few levels. Will only get better from here! I've been messing with similar concepts and its not easy, nice work.

• Does this look like something you'd actually publish on your VDP / social?
  No.
  
  
• What's broken about the video you're getting from your current vendor or in-house?
  It doesn't sell us cars.
  
  
• What styles or formats are missing that you'd want?
  The script and voice over to be tighter and speak to in market shoppers and things they care about and that tease the real next steps. Same for the layover content. This isn't dealership level content that in market shoppers looking at a 1/1 used car really gain a ton of value from IMO.

 

[Alex Snyder]

AI video generators love EVs. I swear, those tools put the extra effort in for their cousins

You've got something cool for adding a little flavor to a vehicle page. I agree with Mitch on his last point that in-market shoppers are too deep down the funnel. They have already seen the stock imagery and model videos, and these look like that. They're looking for the real-world images and story about a specific VIN.

This kind of video would do well as part of a landing page for generic model ads or possibly for those leads who didn't submit on a specific car.

P.S. DealerRefresh is going to hit you between the eyes with the toughest feedback. It is the feedback you want. The advice you get here will get you to a winning product.

 

[Alexander.R]

I appreciate all of the feedback, thank you Mitch and Alex. At the end of the day, this has to be a tool that increases sales for cars and if it doesn't do that, then it fails at its job. I'm going to create some more fine-tuned examples after making some tweaks ands come back with some more samples to post here. Longer generated videos around 40ish seconds tell a better story which I'll give some samples of as well. I'm also going to think of what more I can do to increase the end goal of selling that car and telling that story, thank you again!

 

[MattCopley]

We’ve been skunkworking video for 2+ years and never released a product… (Just because you can doesn’t mean you should).

AI video is getting roundly rejected by humans and bots… (thanks Sora).

Yes it will get better but when everyone can automate it nobody is unique.