Lesson 5.2 — Text to video, start to finish

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Text to video. I am going to paste one sentence and then show you every single step it takes, including how long it takes, because that matters when a client is waiting. Here is what I paste. A thirty second video on why most people quit video editing in the first month. That is the whole brief. Notice I said how long it should be, because that is the one instruction that changes the result most. It renames the project, writes the script, and shows it to you before anything else happens. Read this part. This is where you catch a video going the wrong direction, while fixing it still costs you nothing. Then it works through the plan. Generate the voiceover, plan the B-roll, search and add the clips, generate captions, final check. You are watching an editor work, not a progress bar pretending. And this is what it built. A voiceover track, B-roll covering the entire duration with no gaps, and captions timed to the words. Every one of those is a thing you would have done by hand. Here it is playing. From one sentence to that, without me touching the timeline once. Now, the honest part. This took a few minutes, most of it the voiceover. So start it, go and do something else, and come back. Do not sit and watch it.…