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From Script to Published YouTube Video in Under 30 Minutes A Complete AI Workflow

Most creators waste hours bouncing between a writing app, a recording setup, a stock photo site, and a video editor. This workflow eliminates all of that. Here's how to go from zero to a finished video using only AI โ€” in one session.

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The problem with the traditional video workflow

Here's what producing a single YouTube video used to require:

01 Research and write a script (1โ€“2 hours)
02 Record voiceover (30+ minutes, multiple takes)
03 Edit out mistakes and background noise (30+ minutes)
04 Find or create visuals โ€” stock footage, photos, illustrations (1+ hour)
05 Assemble everything in a video editor (1โ€“2 hours)
06 Add subtitles (30+ minutes)
07 Export and wait

That's 5โ€“7 hours of work for a single video. The AI workflow below cuts that to under 30 minutes โ€” and produces a result that looks just as good.

The full AI video workflow โ€” step by step

1

Plan the video (2 minutes)

Type your topic, pick a style and an aspect ratio, choose the narration language and click "Plan Video". One AI pass writes the whole plan for 5 credits.

There is no length setting. The planner decides how many shots the topic needs, and each shot lasts exactly as long as its own narration take โ€” so the video runs as long as the story takes to tell.

Pro tip: Be specific. "The Roman Empire" is too broad to build a narrative on; "Why Roman soldiers were the most effective military force for 500 years" gives the planner a story to structure.
2

Check the publishing details (1 minute)

The same pass that wrote the shot list also wrote what you publish with: a title, a description ending in hashtags, the hashtag list itself, and a hook line. A title chosen while writing the story fits it better than one extracted afterwards.

Edit any of it inline, or click "Rewrite" to have the metadata written again from the existing shot list for 5 credits โ€” the story itself is left untouched.

Screenshot of the project page: a Publishing Details panel with the generated title, description, hashtags and hook text, above a Shot List of 11 shots each showing its image, narration line, image prompt and take duration

Title, description, hashtags and hook are planned alongside the story, not after it.

3

Generate the images (5โ€“10 minutes)

The shot list already describes every image, so there is nothing to set up. Click "Generate Images" and the queue works through the shots in order, one request each, at 5 credits per shot.

One seed is drawn for the whole project and reused by every shot, so the same character stays recognisable from shot to shot. Any single shot can be redrawn on its own afterwards.

Time saver: Let the queue finish, then review. A shot that already has an image is skipped without charging, so re-running it only pays for what is genuinely missing.
4

Record the narration (2 minutes)

Pick a voice โ€” you can preview each one before committing โ€” and click "Generate Narration". Each shot is recorded as its own take, one after another, at 1 credit per shot.

Recording is a separate step from exporting on purpose: burying dozens of text-to-speech calls inside an export button puts a slow, failure-prone stage exactly where you are not expecting it.

Every take reports its real duration, and those durations become the video timeline. The subtitles are cut from the same timings, so they cannot drift out of sync.

5

Export your video (2โ€“3 minutes)

Open the Export tab and set your subtitle style โ€” font, size, colour, plate, and whether each word lights up as it is spoken. Play the preview to check it in motion, then click export. Your browser assembles the MP4 from the images and takes and downloads it.

The aspect ratio is fixed to the one your shots were drawn at, so there is nothing to choose here โ€” exporting at a different ratio would only letterbox them. Square projects are the exception and can be cropped to landscape or portrait.

Screenshot of the export preview: subtitle styling controls above a preview canvas showing a storybook fox illustration with a karaoke-highlighted caption and a circular avatar overlay, a play button with a scrub bar reading 0:00 / 1:35, and an Export MP4 button

Play the preview to check the subtitles and timing before spending time on an encode.

Your quick-reference checklist

  • โ˜ Describe a topic, pick a style and ratio โ†’ Plan Video
  • โ˜ Review the shot list; edit any narration line or image prompt
  • โ˜ Check the publishing details (title, description, hashtags, hook)
  • โ˜ Generate the images โ†’ redraw any that miss
  • โ˜ Pick a voice and record the narration
  • โ˜ Set subtitle style, play the preview, export MP4
  • โ˜ Upload to YouTube with the AI-generated title and description

Bonus: Export the same content as a blog post too

Once your shots have images, you can also export the whole project as a formatted article. The "Export Article" tab lays the narration out alongside each shot image, and you can copy it as Markdown or export a PDF.

This means one session can produce both a YouTube video and a blog post at the same time โ€” two pieces of content from the same workflow.

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