Fully automated AI video generation & multi-platform publishing

Description

This comprehensive n8n automation template orchestrates a complete end-to-end workflow for generating engaging short-form Point-of-View (POV) style videos using multiple AI services and automatically publishing them across major social media platforms. It takes ideas from a Google Sheet and transforms them into finished videos with captions, voiceovers, and platform-specific descriptions, ready for distribution.

Who Is This For?

• Content Creators & Agencies: Mass-produce unique short-form video content for various clients or channels with minimal manual effort.
• Digital Marketers: Automate video content pipelines to boost online presence and engagement across multiple platforms simultaneously.
• Social Media Managers: Schedule and distribute consistent video content efficiently without juggling multiple tools and manual uploads.
• Businesses: Leverage AI to create branded video content for marketing, reducing production time and costs.

What Problem Does This Workflow Solve?

Creating and distributing high-quality short-form video content consistently across multiple social networks is incredibly time-consuming and resource-intensive. This workflow tackles these challenges by:

• Automating Idea-to-Video Pipeline: Generates video concepts, image prompts, scripts, images, video clips, and voiceovers using AI.
• Streamlining Video Assembly: Automatically combines generated assets into a final video using a template.
• Generating Platform-Optimized Descriptions: Creates relevant descriptions for posts by transcribing the final video audio.
• Automating Multi-Platform Publishing: Uploads the final video and description to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn simultaneously.
• Reducing Manual Workload: Drastically cuts down the time and effort required for video production and distribution.
• Centralized Tracking: Updates a Google Sheet with results, costs, and status for easy monitoring.

How It Works

1. Trigger & Input: Runs on a daily schedule (configurable) and fetches new video ideas from a designated Google Sheet.
2. AI Content Generation:
   • Uses OpenAI to generate video captions and image prompts based on the idea.
   • Uses PiAPI (Flux) to generate images from prompts.
   • Uses PiAPI (Kling) to generate video clips from the images (Image-to-Video).
   • Uses OpenAI to generate a voiceover script based on the captions.
   • Uses ElevenLabs to generate voiceover audio from the script and uploads it to Google Drive.
3. Video Assembly: Combines the generated video clips, captions, and voiceover audio using a Creatomate template to render the final video.
4. Description Generation: Uploads the final video to Google Drive, extracts the audio using OpenAI (Whisper), and generates a social media description using OpenAI (GPT).
5. Multi-Platform Distribution: Uses upload-post.com to upload the final video and generated description to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
6. Tracking & Notification: Updates the original Google Sheet row with output details (video link, costs, tokens used) and sends a completion notification via Discord.

Setup

1. Accounts & API Keys: Obtain accounts and generate API keys/credentials for:
   • n8n
   • Google Cloud Platform (for Google Sheets & Google Drive APIs + OAuth Credentials)
   • OpenAI
   • PiAPI
   • ElevenLabs
   • Creatomate
   • upload-post.com
   • Discord (Webhook URL)
2. Google Sheet: Make a copy of the provided Google Sheet Template and connect it in the Load Google Sheet node.
3. Creatomate Template: Set up a video template in Creatomate (use the provided JSON source code as a base) and note its Template ID.
4. Configure Nodes:
   • Enter all API Keys/Credentials in the Set API Keys node and other relevant credential sections (Google nodes, upload-post nodes, etc.).
   • Configure Google Drive nodes (Folder IDs, Permissions).
   • Configure the upload-post.com nodes with your user identifier and necessary platform details (e.g., Facebook Page ID).
   • Customize AI prompts within the OpenAI nodes (Generate Video Captions, Generate Image Prompts, Generate Script, Generate Description...) if desired.
   • Set the Discord Webhook URL in the Notify me on Discord node.
5. Enable Google APIs: Ensure Google Drive API and Google Sheets API are enabled in your Google Cloud Project.

Requirements

• Accounts: n8n, Google (Sheets, Drive, Cloud Platform), OpenAI, PiAPI, ElevenLabs, Creatomate, The social media api Upload-Post, Discord.
• API Keys & Credentials: API Keys for OpenAI, PiAPI, ElevenLabs, Creatomate, upload-post.com. Google Cloud OAuth 2.0 Credentials. Discord Webhook URL.
• Templates: A configured Google Sheet based on the template, a configured Creatomate video template.
• (Potentially) Paid Plans: Some services (OpenAI, PiAPI, Creatomate, upload-post.com) may require paid plans depending on usage volume after free trials/credits are exhausted.

Use this template to build a powerful, automated video content factory, scaling your production and distribution efforts across the social media landscape.