So I might have gotten a little carried away with this one. 😂 I just finished a 12-and-a-half-minute YouTube video featuring AI robots, cinematic comedy scenes, recurring characters, and an AI sidekick named Tally who apparently exists just to insult me. And 100% of the AI-generated video footage was created using ShortPulse. No other AI video platforms. Just ShortPulse, ChatGPT, Final Cut Pro, and a ridiculous amount of back- and-forth. I wanted to share the process because I think there's a big difference between generating a cool AI clip and using AI video to tell an actual story. 👻 It started with a Ghostbusters joke. I was working on a project using ChatGPT and Claude together when I randomly thought: "Man... I'm crossing the streams." And then I started wondering why I thought of it that way. Why do we treat different AI tools like we have to choose one or the other? What happens when you combine their strengths with your own experience and creativity? That became the concept for the video. ChatGPT and Claude became two different robots. I became the idiot standing between them. And the whole thing turned into a ridiculous Ghostbusters-inspired production. 🎥 Step 1: Record the actual video first. I started by writing a tentative script and recording my talking-head footage. "Tentative" is doing some heavy lifting there because once the camera's rolling, I tend to go off-script. 😂 I brought everything into Final Cut Pro, trimmed the footage, and organized it into seven scenes. Each scene became its own little production. 🧠 Step 2: Use ChatGPT to plan the visual storytelling. This is probably the most useful trick I discovered. I'm using the regular $20/month ChatGPT plan. For each scene, I gave ChatGPT three things: - The rough-cut video. - Closed captions exported from Final Cut Pro, including timestamps. - My original tentative script. The script showed what I intended to say. The captions showed what I actually said and exactly when. And the video provided visual context.