Best AI B-Roll Tools

Jupitrr AI treats B-roll as part of the edit, not a separate step. Upload a talking-head video and its AI B-roll generator transcribes it, picks the moments that benefit from a visual, and matches footage to what you mean there rather than to a keyword. Say "most people quit in week three" and it looks for someone giving up, not the number three. Stretches where you are simply talking stay on you.

Stock comes from iStock by Getty Images and Pexels, with web images for real products and charts and GIFs for reaction moments. The result is an editable first cut: every clip can be swapped, trimmed, restyled or removed, as the B-roll guide shows step by step. You can also ask Levio in plain language, for example "replace the B-roll at 0:12 with a city skyline", and keep or undo the draft. Because it lives inside the Jupitrr AI video editor, subtitles, sound effects and styling land in the same pass, which is why it fits coaches and consultants publishing talking-head video on a schedule.

Submagic's Magic B-Rolls feature reads the transcript of a short clip and adds contextually relevant stock footage in one click, alongside its animated captions, auto cuts and zooms.

From the Pro plan the footage comes from Storyblocks, so a raw short comes out looking edited. It is built for polishing clips: video length is capped by plan, at 2 minutes on Starter and 5 on Pro.

OpusClip adds B-roll as part of its main job: turning long recordings into short clips. It adds relevant stock footage from Pexels or generates AI images, either automatically or from a transcript selection you choose, and Pro adds AI-generated video B-roll.

If your workflow is podcast or webinar in, shorts out, getting B-roll during the clipping pass saves a separate editing round. Stock comes from Pexels only for now.

Kapwing's B-roll generator reads your transcript, matches stock from iStock, Pexels and Pixabay, and places the clips on the timeline for you. If you would rather have custom visuals, you can choose to generate them with AI video models instead.

That makes it a flexible middle path: real footage by default, generated visuals when you ask for them, inside a full browser editor a team can share.

VEED's AI B-roll tool takes a different approach: instead of searching stock, it generates custom images from your transcript and places them on the timeline, automatically timed and positioned. You can swap any generated image for stock media from VEED's library.

Because it generates images rather than video clips, the results suit conceptual cutaways more than cinematic footage. It sits inside VEED's general-purpose browser editor, so subtitles, recording and timeline editing are all in the same place.

Descript generates B-roll on request: describe the shot you want in the generate panel, or let its Underlord assistant help write the prompt, and the clip is added to your scene.

Generation draws on monthly AI credits, so it works best as an accent inside Descript's transcript-based editing workflow, with the built-in stock library covering conventional footage needs.

Runway is the specialist option: a generative video platform that creates footage from text or image prompts. When the B-roll you need cannot be filmed or found, such as stylised, conceptual or impossible scenes, it will make it.

It is not an editor and does not place anything: you generate clips, download them and cut them in elsewhere. Generation is metered by credits, clips are short, and results can need several attempts to get consistent, so treat it as a footage source rather than a workflow. If the shot already exists, check the free B-roll footage sites before spending credits.