Understand the project
Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when a topic or source article needs to become a structured short-form video with generated narration, visual beats and karaoke-style captions.
Who it is for
- Creators automating short-form social-video production
- Teams turning article URLs or research topics into narrated reels
- Developers exploring multi-agent content-creation workflows
Documented uses
- Turn an article URL into a short vertical reel
- Generate a reel from a topic through a research and selection cascade
- Produce captions, visuals, motion and narration in one downstream workflow
- Reuse the orchestration concept for another media-production pipeline
Before you choose
Requirements & limits
The project is publicly available on GitHub and displays an Apache 2.0 license. The documented technical context includes CLI, server and self-hosted use, with Python 3.10+ identified.
- Input can be either an article URL or a topic
- The output format is vertical 1080×1920 video, typically 20–25 seconds
- Ken Burns motion is documented as the default, with a Veo 3.1 Lite image-to-video option
- OpenRouter is the documented model-provider integration
- The evidence does not document enough implementation detail to assess independent pipeline components or provider portability
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Evidence and transparency
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 30 September 2026
- Original website title
- Agent-Field/reels-af · Official homepage title · retained in its source language