How are people making these AI-generated vids?

[Cdiddy]

Hey yall! I am trying to learn to make a news-type youtube channel where it goes over recent/daily news, with commentary and videos/pics in the background.

Does anyone know what tool people are using to automate the generation of videos like these/have recommendations? I have tried kapwing for a 1-minute video, and it is decent apart from a few irrelevant pictures (which I would guess are quite easy to replace), but my main problem is that it is quite expensive for very limited credits. Capcut seems decent too and maybe a bit more reasonable price-wise, but the pictures and text-to-speech narration quality were pretty bad.

 

[Deleted member 2146493]

Hey yall! I am trying to learn to make a news-type youtube channel where it goes over recent/daily news, with commentary and videos/pics in the background.

Does anyone know what tool people are using to automate the generation of videos like these/have recommendations? I have tried kapwing for a 1-minute video, and it is decent apart from a few irrelevant pictures (which I would guess are quite easy to replace), but my main problem is that it is quite expensive for very limited credits. Capcut seems decent too and maybe a bit more reasonable price-wise, but the pictures and text-to-speech narration quality were pretty bad.

I'm not an expert at all but I know Pictory.ai and HeyGen are pretty solid and I know some ppl that use them. Dont know if you can generate such videos with them tho

 

[Venusaur]

They are manually editing it, a bunch of images, some effects...the AI part is the voice and those auto generated subtitles.

That's it, if you try to replicate removing the human touch, your video will probably sucks, at leat that's the current situation in 2025, without human edition, just relying 100% on AI to pick random images, it will not pick relevant images in many cases. I think in a few years it will be possible to do that automatically, but for now, it still sucks

 

[Cdiddy]

I'm not an expert at all but I know Pictory.ai and HeyGen are pretty solid and I know some ppl that use them. Dont know if you can generate such videos with them tho

Appreciate the suggestions, pictory seems to have better pricing/credits than kapwing so I'll try out the free trial. Still trying to figure out whether it's more cost-effective to buy chatgpt + cheap TTS + edit manually vs. paying one service that covers it all, but still have to manually fix things at the end anyways lol.

 

[Cdiddy]

They are manually editing it, a bunch of images, some effects...the AI part is the voice and those auto generated subtitles.

That's it, if you try to replicate removing the human touch, your video will probably sucks, at leat that's the current situation in 2025, without human edition, just relying 100% on AI to pick random images, it will not pick relevant images in many cases. I think in a few years it will be possible to do that automatically, but for now, it still sucks

Agreed, I would have to manually edit anyways even with the ai generated ones since a lot of pics are totally wrong. Would just be kind of nice to have an end-to-end software to make it easy to churn out NPC content, you know? One thing I liked about kapwing was the background music & transition/slow zoom effects. But I should probably just work on my editing skills to be faster ngl

 

[Venusaur]

Agreed, I would have to manually edit anyways even with the ai generated ones since a lot of pics are totally wrong. Would just be kind of nice to have an end-to-end software to make it easy to churn out NPC content, you know? One thing I liked about kapwing was the background music & transition/slow zoom effects. But I should probably just work on my editing skills to be faster ngl

My suggestion was already mentioned by you, Capcut, it is my personal choice. Canva is also decent, but don't have many features

 

[imccafey]

Honestly, go for custom AI video generators especially if you know your way around that sort of thing since a custom pipeline is more scalable and cheaper long term. That said, it could just be because I have a heavy preference for proprietary software vs commercially available ones. Who knows.
Anyway, OpenAI's Sora and Runway ML are both quite good but for what you need, consider Runway or maybe Pika.

Also for video editing, I also second Capcup. Or for more options, the Adobe one specifically made for Shorts and such is also worth looking into. If all else, Premiere Pro is pretty solid.

 

[Cdiddy]

Honestly, go for custom AI video generators especially if you know your way around that sort of thing since a custom pipeline is more scalable and cheaper long term. That said, it could just be because I have a heavy preference for proprietary software vs commercially available ones. Who knows.
Anyway, OpenAI's Sora and Runway ML are both quite good but for what you need, consider Runway or maybe Pika.

Also for video editing, I also second Capcup. Or for more options, the Adobe one specifically made for Shorts and such is also worth looking into. If all else, Premiere Pro is pretty solid.

Thank you for the recs boss

 

[deeva2]

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