Previously, producing video content such as animations, illustrations, or standard videos required a significant investment of time and resources. Accessing a comprehensive library of images and videos was just the beginning. Additional expenses often included hiring voice actors for narration, sourcing background music, and employing illustrators to craft the desired 2D and 3D visuals, among other costs.
It’s not that the option to pay for voice over services isn’t available today, but rather that AI has introduced alternatives of similar caliber that are more cost-effective. Indeed, some of these alternatives can even be accessed at no cost.
In this article, I will share with you how AI has helped reduce the time and cost of video creation today.
Script Writing
The foundation of a video is a well-crafted script. The content and style of scripts differ, reflecting the unique purpose of each video. Although the impact of a script hinges on the writer’s originality, artificial intelligence can assist in honing it to perfection. Often, the intended message is lost due to a lack of clarity and simplicity in language.
Originality remains paramount in content creation, and AI is a valuable tool for elevating your original concept into a polished script.
Artificial intelligence can be incredibly beneficial, especially when crafting a script in English that isn’t your native language. By delegating the writing task to AI, you can avoid grammatical errors as it constructs the script with clarity and simplicity, ensuring it’s easy to comprehend.
Finally, when managing large volumes of content and dealing with extensive scripts, leveraging AI can significantly expedite the scriptwriting workflow. Your role involves directing the AI with clear instructions and meticulously reviewing the scripts to ensure they are crafted to a high standard.
Professional Voice Over Services
Today, you can have a professional voice over that sounds like real human being using AI. Its called voice synthesis. Sadly, this service is not available in African accents. The ones available that you can get are in English – with American and British English accent.
As long as you have your script ready with you, you can get a professional voice over in native English of either male or female online. You just paste the script and the tool will generate the voice over for you. A good example of a tool that creates topnotch quality voice overs is Elevenlabs. One can generate voice overs in more than 10 languages with the tool.
This isn’t to suggest that you should cease compensating your current voice over artist in favor of AI technology. If your budget allows, continuing to employ them is advantageous. Even in today’s tech-driven world, there’s a distinct quality to original, natural voice overs that resonates with human emotion and connection.
Image Illustrations 2D/3D
Are you in the process of making an animated video that needs 3D image illustrations and animations? Utilizing an AI tool akin to Microsoft Designer and ChatGPT, you can easily generate high-quality images tailored to your requirements. Once created, these images can be effortlessly downloaded and incorporated into your animations, aligning perfectly with your script.
Background Music and Sound Effects
As YouTube content creators grapple with copyright infringement claims for incorporating copyrighted music and sound effects, sourcing music for videos is increasingly challenging. This is where artificial intelligence can offer a solution. By providing straightforward instructions, creators can leverage AI to generate custom background music that aligns with their content needs.
You can do this with AI tools online like Huggingface and Soundraw. Just describe the music you want the tool to generate and the AI tool will do the rest.
Moreover, you can generate sound effects like animal sounds, car sounds e.t.c on ElevenLabs.
Your Job is Only Create
Once you have gathered all the necessary assets for your video, the next step is to construct the video using the AI-generated materials. A practical approach is to organize these assets into a storyboard as an initial phase. This will serve as a blueprint for your video, allowing you to assemble the pieces into a cohesive final product.
If you are not seeking video creation approval from anyone, you can go straight to create the video with no storyboard. That’s what I occasionally do. You will be amazed with the results.
This is how AI will save you a lot of time. You only pay small subscription fee for the tools and you can use them as much as you can.
What are your thoughts on creating content with the help AI tools?
Are content created using AI believable? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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