# CueTheScene > Long-form YouTube videos from a topic prompt: script, voiceover, footage, captions, and a thumbnail, publish-ready in 15 to 30 minutes. CueTheScene is an AI video production tool for long-form, faceless YouTube creators. You give it a topic and a format, walk away, and come back to a publish-ready video: script, voiceover, footage, captions and a thumbnail, with a publish kit ready for YouTube Studio (video file, title, description, tags, captions, thumbnail). It is built for long-form, faceless channels in niches like history, true-crime, science, explainer and commentary, and ships in two formats, documentary and listicle, not short clips. It is built and run by MARKETEZEAI LTD (UK company, Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16787865). The founder previously produced the YouTube channel "WW2: As It Happened" (https://www.youtube.com/@WW2AsItHappened) with a different tool, so the operator knows the long-form workflow first-hand; that channel is operator pedigree, not output produced by this product. The product is in test and launches July 2026. ## Core pages - [Pricing](https://cuethescene.com/pricing): Four plans for long-form YouTube creators. The whole pipeline on every plan; monthly or yearly, cancel any time. First 100 founding members get 30% off for life. - [FAQ](https://cuethescene.com/faq): Straight answers on what the product does, editing and control, footage rights, data privacy, plans and billing. - [Blog](https://cuethescene.com/blog): Notes from building CueTheScene: how the pipeline works, where it fits, and staying monetised on YouTube in 2026. - [For your niche](https://cuethescene.com/for): CueTheScene tuned per niche: history, true crime and science. Niche-specific footage sourcing, grounded scripts and the right narrator register. ## Features - [Real-time generation status](https://cuethescene.com/features/real-time-status): See every step of the render as it happens — script, voice, footage, captions, thumbnail. - [Per-scene regeneration](https://cuethescene.com/features/per-scene-regeneration): Regenerate any single scene without touching the rest of the video. - [Your YouTube publish kit](https://cuethescene.com/features/one-click-publish): Every finished render comes with a kit: the video file, title, description, tags, captions and thumbnail. - [Multi-source footage](https://cuethescene.com/features/multi-source-footage): Pexels, Pixabay, NARA, Library of Congress, Internet Archive — routed by niche. ## Guides - [A solo creator's guide to staying monetised on YouTube in 2026](https://cuethescene.com/blog/a-solo-creators-guide-to-staying-monetised-on-youtube-in-2026): What the 2026 monetisation rules actually ask of faceless channels, and how to keep an AI-assisted workflow firmly on the right side of them. - [Why we built per-scene regeneration](https://cuethescene.com/blog/why-we-built-per-scene-regeneration): Regenerating a whole video to fix one weak scene is the wrong unit of control. This is why the editor works scene by scene. - [The 15 niches where AI documentary works in 2026](https://cuethescene.com/blog/the-15-niches-where-ai-documentary-works-in-2026): Not every topic carries on archival and stock footage. Here are the niches where it genuinely works, and the ones where it does not yet. - [How CueTheScene writes a 10-minute documentary in 20 minutes](https://cuethescene.com/blog/how-cuethescene-writes-a-10-minute-documentary-in-20-minutes): A walk through every stage between a one-line topic and a finished, publish-ready documentary, and where you can step in if you want to. ## Optional - [Features](https://cuethescene.com/features): The features hub: script, voiceover, niche-matched footage, captions, thumbnails and one-click YouTube publish, each with its own page. - [CueTheScene vs VidRush](https://cuethescene.com/vs/vidrush): An honest, up-to-date comparison of CueTheScene and VidRush for faceless YouTube: pricing, footage, per-scene editing, credit rollover, speed, and who each tool suits. - [Gallery](https://cuethescene.com/gallery): Real videos produced with CueTheScene, by niche and format. - [Roadmap](https://cuethescene.com/roadmap): What we are building next, in the open: feature requests from creators, voted on and tracked from planned to shipped. - [Changelog](https://cuethescene.com/changelog): Everything we have shipped, newest first, with the creator requests each change closes out. RSS feed available. - [Press](https://cuethescene.com/press): Press and brand kit: logos, colours, boilerplate, and the facts about CueTheScene and MARKETEZEAI LTD. - [AI provenance](https://cuethescene.com/spec/ai-provenance): How every CueTheScene video is marked as AI-assisted: the C2PA manifest it carries, what it claims, and how anyone can verify it with open tooling. - [History](https://cuethescene.com/for/history): Long-form history videos from a topic prompt: archival footage from real public archives, scripts grounded in primary sources, publish-ready in 15 to 30 minutes. - [True crime](https://cuethescene.com/for/true-crime): Long-form true crime videos from a topic prompt: scripts grounded in court records, a calm factual register, atmospheric footage, publish-ready in 15 to 30 minutes. - [Science](https://cuethescene.com/for/science): Long-form science videos from a topic prompt: accurate scripts with calibrated uncertainty, NASA and ESA footage, clean diagrams, publish-ready in 15 to 30 minutes. - [Docs](https://cuethescene.com/docs): Workflow walkthroughs, editor reference, prompting strategy, and answers to the questions creators ask most. - [Quick start](https://cuethescene.com/docs/quick-start): Sign in, write a one-line brief, watch the pipeline assemble a publish-ready video in about twenty minutes. - [Account and sign-in](https://cuethescene.com/docs/account-and-sign-in): Sign-up, sign-in, settings, where account stuff lives, and how to delete your account if you ever need to. - [Dashboard](https://cuethescene.com/docs/dashboard): A walkthrough of every surface on the dashboard, from the top rail and banners through the projects list. - [Auto vs Manual mode](https://cuethescene.com/docs/auto-vs-manual-mode): When to let the pipeline run end-to-end and when to step in at the brief, the outline, the footage, or the publish surface. - [Your first video](https://cuethescene.com/docs/your-first-video): A guided run through the eight choices that shape your first video, from the brief and format to tone, voice, footage style and the thumbnail. - [Brief writing strategy](https://cuethescene.com/docs/brief-writing-strategy): The practitioner guide to writing briefs that produce videos worth publishing, with worked examples per niche. - [Format and length](https://cuethescene.com/docs/format-and-length): Documentary or Listicle, 8 / 12 / 20 / 30 minutes, when each combination suits which kind of video and what each costs. - [Niche selection](https://cuethescene.com/docs/niche-selection): How the 31 niches differ behind the scenes, what each is good for, and how to pick the closest match when nothing fits exactly. - [Custom script](https://cuethescene.com/docs/custom-script): When to write the script yourself instead of using the brief path, how to format it, and what runs differently. - [Custom voiceover](https://cuethescene.com/docs/custom-voiceover): Uploading your own narration, the alignment indicator, ElevenLabs voice-clone import, and how the pipeline runs differently. - [Editor overview](https://cuethescene.com/docs/editor-overview): How the post-generation editor is laid out, what each panel does, and where to start when a scene looks off. - [Editing your video](https://cuethescene.com/docs/editing-your-video): The working manual: scene-by-scene script edits, finding resolution, per-stage regenerate, search-more, captions, music, save and Magic Reset. - [Rendering and troubleshooting](https://cuethescene.com/docs/rendering-and-troubleshooting): Job statuses, paused-for-review gates, what to do when a job fails or stalls, cancellation refunds, and YouTube publish errors. - [Cadence: how often to publish](https://cuethescene.com/docs/cadence): Why pace usually pays better than push on YouTube in 2026, and how to read the dashboard advisor when it surfaces. - [Frequently asked questions](https://cuethescene.com/docs/faq): The short answers to the questions creators ask most, covering generation, the editor, voice, billing, and content policy. - [Plans and pricing](https://cuethescene.com/docs/plans-and-pricing): How the plans work, what a credit buys, when to consider pay-as-you-go, and the founding-member offer. - [Pay as you go](https://cuethescene.com/docs/pay-as-you-go): The metered rate, the monthly cap, the deliberate friction points, and when PAYG is or is not the right shape. - [Credits explained](https://cuethescene.com/docs/credits-explained): What one credit is, the per-video cost formula, the ledger reasons, and how rollover and expiry behave. - [Billing, receipts and invoices](https://cuethescene.com/docs/billing-and-receipts): How billing works through our merchant of record, where to download your receipts and invoices, and the VAT position. - [Refund policy](https://cuethescene.com/docs/refund-policy): When refunds apply, how to claim them, the 14-day UK Consumer Rights Act cooling-off, and founding-member implications. - [The ultimate guide](https://cuethescene.com/docs/ultimate-guide): A single sequential walkthrough from sign-in to first published video, the long-form companion to Quick start. - [Prompting in depth](https://cuethescene.com/docs/prompting-in-depth): Advanced brief-writing: structural patterns, tone references, constraint patterns, and the anti-patterns to avoid by niche. - [Building profitable channels](https://cuethescene.com/docs/building-profitable-channels): Using CueTheScene as a business: niche selection for monetisation, cadence economics, multi-channel operations, CTR levers. - [Niche examples](https://cuethescene.com/docs/niche-examples): Six worked examples showing brief and outline shape and key script moments and footage choices for different niches.