How to use AI to create YouTube Shorts
Here’s how you can take inspiration from creators using AI in YouTube Shorts to enhance their videos and develop content on YouTube.
AI is becoming a bigger part of our lives. Creators are starting to find ways to use it to enhance their content and create bigger, better, and more videos. YouTube have shared how creators are using AI on YouTube Shorts.
The debate over AI and its place in our lives is complex. Whilst musicians are fighting for laws to be put in place to protect their rights against AI content, AI is also demonstratively a large part of our lives now – and can be used to help us.
Here are some creators’ experiences and how they’re using AI. Explore their stories and find inspiration for how you could potentially use AI to enhance your shot content on YouTube.
AI for editing videos
One way creators can use AI to aid their video creations is in speeding up the editing process. LA based creator Rumi uses AI to aid the content on their channel imUrgency.
They use an AI program that is capable of automatically cutting out snappy short snippets from their long-form videos. This is a massive time-saver, allowing them to release engaging short-form content without having to distract too much time from their primary efforts in creating longer videos.
Rumi said: “Generative AI helped save time with my editing process for YouTube Shorts. For example, I used AI to help edit down a segment of a video I made about the show, The Idol, where it quickly cut the clips together and added captions. The process was simple and it sped up my creation process!”
Creating images with AI for videos
You’ll have seen AI images around. They’re everywhere now and they also offer loads of content opportunities. With AI you can generate any image you can imagine within seconds – so much potential!
The channel Los Wagners has used AI to take images from their video and recreate it in a sequence of crazy art styles. When edited into the video with the original live action clip it has the powerful effect of transporting you into an alternative reality.
Thanks to the power of AI they were able to create hundreds of evolving images, something that would have taken a massive amount of time to illustrate by hand.
Using AI for video effects
Visual effects are a difficult thing to get good at, but you don’t need to spend months learning how to play with videos to add a little spice to your content. Just ask creator Guinutil who has used the power of AI to add audio/video editing effects that expand their vision more than they could with their own video editing skills alone.
Guinutil said: “To make the video environment more immersive, I use Generative AI to add or remove elements or expand the scenery in the videos according to the theme. In all my videos I use it in some way, you might not even notice.”
Enhance visuals with AI
You can ask AI to try by itself to enhance images and videos, or you can speed up your process by getting it to automate a workflow you have already defined. Like TheDanocracy who has used AI to power lots more content for a brand new art series than they could have created alone.
In their new series of shorts, TheDanocracy updates vintage photographs with modern colour grading and clarity. Using AI they’re able to automate the process to create much more content than if they were manually working on each image.
They said: “Through the series, I use generative fill to ‘correct’ and modify the photographs into something new and refreshed. Sometimes I remove people from the shots or just expand the scene a bit more to fit a more suitable aspect ratio.”
Add professional graphic design and titles
Artificial Intelligence can enhance your content and speed up your workflow by automatically providing text in your videos. These titles can be designed to look good and give your content a visual boost with context for viewers.
Turkish creator Ozan explains how he uses this method: ” I use AI-based text editors and graphic design tools in my content production and editing processes. Thanks to these tools, I can prepare my content in a more professional and interesting way. Thanks to audio AI models, I can convert texts into audio in situations where I cannot do a voice-over and this helps me make my videos more impressive.”
Do you use AI to create content? Would you? Let us know in the comments below!