Playing with AI video #3

Making a trailer for my short story.

Oh man, where do I begin?

I live in the UAE, so Veo 3 isn’t accessible easily.

I’ll leave you the details on how I finally got it, but I did.

So, the tools used:

Video: Veo 3

Editing: CapCut

Some in-between shots: Midjourney images made into a video

Theme - Indian Wedding going wrong.

Story - I had my entire story written out, so I just threw the entire thing into Google Gemini and I asked it to give me a few shots.

It started easily, and I was getting good videos, but consistently creating characters was a challenge, so I asked Gemini to rework the entire thing to convey the mood of the wedding, rather than the actual characters.

I gave it the shots I needed and asked it to come up with the prompt.

Key themes: happy, mysterious, chaotic, sad faces, happy bridegroom, etc.

And once I finally got them all to a place I needed, I stitched them with CapCut.

It’s not hard, but it’s not easy either.

Editing to achieve fluidity took oodles of time (ensuring music matched, etc.).

I wasn’t happy with the result, but in the end, I want to get something out, as perfection is the enemy of progress.

Here’s the story:

And here’s the final trailer:

No way to get better other than getting those reps in.

I plan to.