Create a Social Stitch Video
Turn any embroidery file into a stitch-out video for Reels, TikTok and Shorts — with your own logo, in 9:16 or 16:9, rendered on your device.
Drop your embroidery file here
DST, PES, EXP, JEF or VP3 — we read the stitches right in your browser and estimate the video length instantly.
Choose a fileNothing is uploaded — your file never leaves this device.
Video settings
Company logo
Transparent PNG works best. Optional.
Renders on your device — nothing is uploaded.
Your embroidery file and logo are read locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded to a server.
How it works
From design file to posted video in 3 steps
Upload your embroidery file
Drop in a DST, PES, EXP, JEF or VP3. It is parsed in your browser and the stitch count, size and video length appear straight away.
Choose format, speed and branding
Pick 9:16 or 16:9, set the simulation speed, upload your logo and type the design name and any extra text you want on screen.
Create and download the MP4
Hit create and watch the progress bar. When it finishes, preview the clip in place and download it ready to post.
Features
Everything you need to make embroidery content
A stitch-accurate simulation, your branding on every frame, and an MP4 that uploads without complaint.
Real stitch-out simulation
The video draws your design stitch by stitch in the exact order the machine sews it — the same thread engine our viewer uses, not a fade or a wipe.
9:16 and 16:9 output
Render a vertical 1080×1920 clip for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, or a 1920×1080 landscape cut for YouTube, Facebook and your website.
Three simulation speeds
Stitch out at 1×, 0.5× or 0.25×. Slower speeds make a longer, more hypnotic clip that shows the needle path and fill direction clearly.
Your logo, not ours
Upload your own PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG logo and it is drawn at the top of every frame. The finished MP4 carries your brand, with no watermark from us.
Custom name and caption
Set the design name shown on the clip and add a second line — your handle, your website or a call to action — that fades in halfway through.
Instant length estimate
The moment you drop a file in, you see the stitch count, color count, design size and exactly how long the finished video will run.
True thread colors
Formats that store thread colors — PES, JEF, VP3 — render in their real palette, so the clip matches what comes off the machine.
Nothing leaves your device
Your design file, your logo and the finished video are all processed in your browser. No upload, no queue, no account, no storage.
Ready-to-post MP4
Download an H.264 MP4 with a silent AAC track and fast-start headers — the exact container every social platform accepts without re-encoding.
What is a stitch-out video?
A stitch-out video is a simulation of an embroidery design being sewn: the needle lays down one stitch at a time, in the exact order the machine will follow, until the finished design appears. It is the digital equivalent of filming a machine running the design — except it takes seconds to make, needs no hooping, no thread and no machine time at all.
An embroidery file is not a picture. A DST, PES or JEF stores a long list of needle movements, jumps, trims and color changes — instructions, not pixels. That is why a design file cannot be opened in an image editor, and it is also why it can be animated so convincingly: the sewing order is already in the file. This tool reads that instruction stream and replays it, revealing the stitches progressively against a clean studio backdrop.
For anyone selling embroidery — digitizers, custom shops, design stores, machine dealers — that replay is the most effective single piece of content available. It demonstrates the product working, holds attention for the full duration, and ends on the finished design. Short-form platforms reward exactly that combination, which is why stitch-out clips have become the default format for embroidery accounts.
Making one the traditional way meant setting up a machine, lighting it, filming several minutes of sewing and editing it down — an hour of work per design, at best. Doing it in a browser removes every one of those steps. You get a consistent, well-lit, correctly framed clip for any design in your library, including designs you have never actually sewn.
A stitch-out video made with this tool.
Use cases
What people make these videos for
Reels and TikTok that actually stop the scroll
A design appearing stitch by stitch is inherently watchable — it has a beginning, a build and a payoff in under a minute. That is the shape short-form platforms reward, and it is why stitch-out clips consistently outperform flat photos of the same design.
Show digitizing quality to clients
A still image cannot show pathing, underlay or stitch direction. A simulation can. Send a prospective client the stitch-out of their logo and the quality of the digitizing speaks for itself before a single needle moves.
Product listings that convert
Embed the clip on an Etsy, Shopify or website listing so buyers can see exactly what they are getting — the full design, the color sequence and the finished result — without guessing from a thumbnail.
Proof a design before you sew it
Watching the stitch order play out at 0.25× surfaces problems a static preview hides: awkward travel between sections, unnecessary trims and fills running the wrong way, all visible before you waste thread and stabilizer.
Settings guide
Choosing the right format and speed
Two settings decide how the clip reads. Here is how to pick them.
Video format: 9:16 or 16:9
9:16 vertical renders at 1080×1920 and fills a phone screen edge to edge. It is the default because that is where embroidery content performs — Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts all prioritise full-screen vertical video, and a landscape clip posted there sits in a small band with wasted space above and below.
16:9 horizontal renders at 1920×1080 and suits anything watched on a larger screen: a standard YouTube upload, a Facebook feed post, a product page embed, a slide in a client pitch or a loop playing on a screen at a trade stand. Wide designs also breathe better here than in a vertical frame.
Simulation speed: 1×, 0.5× or 0.25×
Speed controls how fast the stitches appear, and therefore how long the clip runs. 0.5× is the default and the right answer for most designs: slow enough that the eye can follow the needle through each section, fast enough that the design completes before attention drifts.
Drop to 0.25× for small or simple designs — a monogram or a single-color outline finishes too quickly at 0.5× to feel like a real stitch-out. Move up to 1× for dense, high-stitch-count designs where the slower speeds would push the clip past what a feed will hold.
Putting your brand on every frame
Three fields control the branding, and all three are optional — but a clip that gets shared without them is a clip that markets nobody.
Company logo is drawn centred at the top of every frame, scaled to fit without stretching. A transparent PNG gives the cleanest result against the white studio background; a solid-background JPG will show its rectangle. If you leave it empty, the top of the frame stays clear and the design simply sits higher.
File nameis the design title shown in the lower corner, and it is also used to name the downloaded MP4 — so “Sunflower badge” becomes sunflower-badge-stitch-video.mp4 in your downloads folder rather than an unidentifiable string. It is pre-filled from the file you upload, and you can overwrite it.
Extra textis a single free line below the stitch count. It fades in at the halfway point rather than sitting there from the first frame, so it lands as a deliberate beat once the viewer is already watching. Use it for your handle, your website, a price, or a call to action — “@yourshop · custom digitizing from $15” does more work than a bare domain.
Alongside your text, every clip automatically shows the stitch count and color count read from the file. That detail is worth keeping: it is the information other embroiderers actually want, and it signals that the video came from a real design file rather than a mock-up.
Supported files
Works with every major machine format
Tajima
The universal commercial standard. Stores stitches and color changes but no thread colors, so the clip uses a default palette.
Brother · Babylock
The most common home-machine format. Embeds real thread colors, so the video renders in the design's actual palette.
Melco · Bernina
A compact stitch-only format widely used on Melco and Bernina machines, read here directly from the raw stitch stream.
Janome
Janome's native format, including its thread palette, so color blocks appear in the video exactly as designed.
Pfaff · Husqvarna
The Viking and Pfaff format, with embedded color information and full stitch data for an accurate simulation.
Tips
Getting more out of every clip
Post it as a loop
Stitch-out clips loop cleanly because they end on the finished design and restart on an empty frame. Platforms count a replay as extra watch time, which helps the post.
Add sound in the app
The MP4 ships with a silent track so it uploads everywhere. Add a trending audio in Instagram or TikTok after uploading — native audio is favoured over baked-in music.
Batch a week in one sitting
Because each clip takes under a minute, you can run a whole folder of designs in one session and schedule a fortnight of posts from a single afternoon.
Lead with the busiest design
Multi-color designs with lots of fill read better in the first second than a sparse outline. Save the minimal designs for 0.25×, where they get room to breathe.
Keep it under 30 seconds
Completion rate matters more than length on short-form platforms. If a design runs long at 0.5×, render it at 1× rather than letting it drift past the half-minute mark.
Check the pathing first
Watch the clip at 0.25× before posting. Long travels, odd fill directions and stray trims are obvious in motion and invisible in a still — fix them and re-render.
FAQ
Questions about stitch videos
Formats, privacy, browser support and what to post where.
Yes, it is free, and no account is required. Upload a file, configure the video and download the MP4 — there is no sign-up wall, no credit system and no watermark stamped across the output.
DST (Tajima), PES (Brother / Babylock), EXP (Melco), JEF (Janome) and VP3 (Pfaff / Husqvarna Viking). Each is parsed directly in your browser, so the stitch data is read from the actual file rather than a converted approximation.
No. The embroidery file, your logo and the finished video are all handled inside your browser using WebGL for the stitch rendering and WebCodecs for the MP4 encoding. Nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored and nothing is used to train anything.
Length scales with stitch count and the speed you pick, and the estimate appears the moment you upload. A typical design runs roughly 8 to 35 seconds; 1× produces the shortest clip and 0.25× the longest. Videos are never shorter than 5 seconds, so even small designs are postable.
Choose 9:16 vertical for Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts — it fills a phone screen and is the default here for that reason. Choose 16:9 horizontal for YouTube, Facebook feed posts, website embeds and anything viewed on a desktop.
0.5× is the default and suits most designs: slow enough to follow the needle, quick enough to hold attention. Use 1× for dense designs that would otherwise run long, and 0.25× for small or simple designs that need more screen time to feel substantial.
A transparent PNG looks best, because it sits cleanly on the white studio background. JPG, WebP and SVG also work. The logo is scaled to fit the top of the frame without distortion, so both wide wordmarks and square badges land at a sensible size.
Video encoding needs the WebCodecs API, which is available in recent versions of Chrome, Edge and Opera on desktop, and in Chrome on Android. Safari and Firefox can still open and preview the page, but may not be able to encode the MP4 — the tool tells you up front if your browser cannot.
Yes. The file is H.264 video in an MP4 container with a silent AAC audio track and fast-start headers, at 1080p — which is what every major platform expects. You can add your own music in the platform's editor after uploading.
Yes. The video is made from your design file and your branding on your own device, and we claim no rights over it. Use it for client work, paid ads, product listings or anything else, provided you have the rights to the underlying design.
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