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Explainer videos are going crazy viral on YouTube right now in all kinds of niches. In this video, you'll see exactly how to recreate those viral videos that get millions of views step by step.
First, open ChatGPT and go to the explore GPTs tab. Search for a GPT called "Every Explained" and select it. Then, click "Start Chat." When the chat opens, you'll see a "Start" button. Click on that and the GPT will generate a bunch of YouTube titles in different niches for you. Pick one of the titles you like. If you want to see more ideas, just type "more" and it will show you more YouTube titles across different niches. Keep doing this until you find a title you'd like to make a video about.
For example, we choose a title like "Every Ape Type Explained." Type that title into the GPT and it will instantly generate a script for you based on that exact title. After that, the GPT will ask if you also want to create a thumbnail. Answer with "yes" and it will give you three different thumbnail styles as text-to-image prompts: a vector style, a photorealistic style, and a colored illustration style. You're going to try all three.
First, copy the first text-to-image prompt so you can use it in the next step. Now, open Art and go to the create image tab. On the create image page, select the model "Nano Banana Pro." Set the output aspect ratio to 16:9 and the resolution to 2K. Paste the first text-to-image prompt you got [music] from the GPT and click "Generate." Do the same for the other two prompts the GPT gave you. You'll see that Nano Banana Pro creates thumbnails that match the styles you often see on YouTube, like the vector style. Then test the other prompts, the photorealistic style and the colored illustration style. You'll notice that both of these also come out really well.
The GPT has more options, too. You can ask for thumbnails in a circle format or a square format. Just type "circle" and it will give you three new text-to-image prompts which will create circular thumbnails. If you type "square," it will generate prompts for square thumbnails instead, which you also see a lot on YouTube. So you can choose between different thumbnail styles and shapes depending on what you want.
Now it's time for the next step, creating visuals. Go back to ChatGPT and open the explore GPTs tab again. This time, search for a GPT called "2D Cartoon Animations" and select it. Then click "Start Chat." This GPT is very powerful. [music] Based on any input you give it, like the word "chimpanzee," it will generate different text-to-image prompts you can use to create visuals that you'll later animate. At the end, you'll also get three [music] background prompts.
Start with the first text-to-image prompt the GPT gives you. This one is the most important because it's your reference image prompt. Copy that prompt and go back to Open Art. Paste it there and choose how many images you want the model to generate. Pick four images so you can easily choose your favorite. Click "Generate" and Nano Banana Pro will create four reference images of a chimpanzee. Pick the reference image you like best. That's the one you'll use.
Next, go back to the GPT and look at the next text-to-image prompts. There are two prompts you don't need in this specific workflow, so you can skip those this time. What you need now is the sprite sheet prompt. Copy that sprite sheet prompt and paste it into Open Art again. Before you generate, make sure you select your reference image. Click "Upload Image" in Open Art and upload the chimpanzee reference image you chose earlier. Then choose how many images you want. For this step, select one image and click "Generate." Repeat this with the second sprite sheet prompt the GPT gave you and click "Generate" [music] again.
Now you'll have two images, one on a green screen and one on a white background, both showing the chimpanzee in different poses. That's not all the GPT can do. It also gives you three background prompts. You can copy each of these, paste them into Open Art, and generate different backgrounds where you'll later animate the chimpanzee. If you want even more backgrounds, you can just talk to the GPT and describe a new background like "a city scene," and it will give you three more text-to-image prompts. You can generate those in Open Art as well. In this way, you can build multiple scenes for your video. For example, you might end up with three different city backgrounds that Open Art created.
Besides backgrounds, you can also create the chimpanzee in different poses. Let's say you [music] want a visual where the chimpanzee is holding a stick. Type "chimpanzee holding a stick" into the GPT. It will give you two text-to-image prompts you can use again. Paste it into Open Art, generate those, and you'll get a chimpanzee holding a stick.
The GPT can also analyze an existing background image and give you new background prompts that match that style. So, you can upload a background image and it will return three new background text-to-image [music] prompts. Put those into Open Art and you'll get three new backgrounds that match the original image you uploaded.
Now, it's time to create the voice over. Go back to the script that the first GPT, "Every Explained," generated for you and copy the full script. Open 11 Labs and go to the text-to-speech tab. Paste the script there and click "Generate Speech." That gives [music] you a complete voice over for your video.
For the text in your videos, many channels use the "Comics Sans MS" font. That one is available through Adobe. If you don't have access to that, Google Fonts has two free fonts that look very similar and work just as well.
Now, import the voice over you made with 11 Labs into Premiere Pro and place it on the timeline. Then, drag the thumbnail and right-click your clip and choose "Scale to Frame Size" so it fits your sequence. Next, [music] set two keyframes on your clip, one for position and one for scale. Use these to zoom in on the animal you want to start with. In this case, zoom in on the chimpanzee. I use a paid plugin called "Eezy 2 Pro" to quickly create a smooth zoom-in effect.
After that, drag one of the background images onto the timeline along with the character sheet you made of the chimpanzee and again use "Scale to Frame Size" if needed. Go to the effects panel. Search for "Ultra Key" and drag that effect onto the clip with the green screen. In the effect settings, use the key color picker to select the green screen so it becomes transparent. Then go back to the effects panel, search [music] for "Crop," and drag that onto the same clip. Use the crop effect to cut out the part of the chimpanzee you want to see in the animation.
With solid editing and some practice, you can create animated explainer videos that look just like the ones getting millions of views on YouTube.
Chimpanzee. Chimpanzees are one of humanity's closest living relatives, sharing about 98 to 99% of our DNA. Native to the forests and savannas of central and west Africa, they live in large social groups.
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