How to Create AI Videos: A Practical Workflow for YouTube Shorts and More

AI video tools are everywhere, but most tutorials stop at 'type a prompt, get a clip' — which is why most AI videos look like disconnected clips in a trench coat. What actually separates watchable AI videos from forgettable ones is workflow.

This guide lays out a practical end-to-end process: starting with a script built for short-form attention spans, generating a voiceover that carries the pacing, creating visuals scene by scene with consistent style, and editing it all together with captions, music, and cuts tuned for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, or Reels. Each stage feeds the next — the script shapes the voiceover, the voiceover sets the timing, the timing dictates the visuals.

It also covers the unglamorous parts that determine whether your video gets watched: hooks in the first two seconds, caption styling that people actually read, aspect ratios and safe zones for vertical video, and a realistic sense of how long each step takes once you've done it a few times.

If you've played with AI video tools but haven't shipped anything you're proud of, this workflow is the missing piece. Follow it once and you'll have a repeatable system for turning ideas into finished videos.

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