How to create short-form videos with AI

Today you’ll learn how to create short-form videos with AI by using OpusClip

How to create short-form videos with AI
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Today you’re going to learn how to repurpose long-form video to create video shorts for social media.
Let’s go🤳

Today’s Task📝

🧱 Project: Create Video Shorts
⏲️ Estimated time: 30 minutes
🛠️ Tools: Opus Clip

Context📄

Today you’ll learn how to create short videos you can share on social media, starting with a simple YouTube URL. How do you do it? With AI of course!
Repurposing video in the way you’ll learn today is a great way to maximise the potential reach of your content. Plus, with engaging captions you can make it easy for people to watch your videos with the sound off, making your content engaging and accessible!
In today’s lesson you’re going to use a tool called Opus Clip. Opus Clip uses OpenAI as the LLM that drives its functionality. For more on how Opus Clip’s AI works, read this.
In this lesson you'll learn:
  • How to generate social media videos with a single click
  • How to edit video shorts

Let's Prep 🥗

Before you can create your shorts, you need the following:
  • Have a long-form video URL to hand from YouTube. With Opus Clip’s free plan you can process up to 90 minutes of video into shorts within a 7-day free trial (no credit card required).
    • Opus Clip’s AI works best with videos that have lots of talking, so interviews, video podcasts or documentaries work great

Time to Cook 👨‍🍳

  1. Choose your video.
On Opus Clip’s free plan you can use YouTube, Zoom or Rumble URLs. Copy your video URL to your clipboard.
  1. Create your shorts.
Follow this step-by-step guide to create your video shorts.
 
 
That’s a wrap, we hope you found this lesson helpful!
  • If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

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Max Haining
Max Haining

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