html2video

Produce a 1920x1080 H.264 video from a web article. Chinese output by default; English sources get translated during the reading stage.

The hard part is not rendering. It is deciding what deserves to be on screen — and the thing that separates this from a slideshow is treating a page's figures and figure captions as primary material rather than decoration.

The pipeline

HARVEST ──→ READ ──→ STORYBOARD ──→ RENDER
 scripts     you     storyboard.json   library

Four stages, and the middle two are where the quality comes from. HARVEST and RENDER are deterministic and already written; READ and STORYBOARD are editorial judgement, which is your job.