{"id":53366,"date":"2025-02-28T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T00:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/?p=53366"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:12:22","slug":"how-to-create-a-marketing-video-in-30-minutes-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/how-to-create-a-marketing-video-in-30-minutes-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Marketing Video in 30 Minutes With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Going from a \u201cconcept on a napkin\u201d to a \u201cpolished video on the web\u201d used to take weeks. Now, with GenAI, getting that polished video can take less than a half hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a proof on concept, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/g\/g-67784682584881919690ad4b1a5931d6-ai-video-maker-by-descript\">Descript\u2019s new integration with ChatGPT<\/a> to generate a short marketing video. With these tools, the time to finished video was under five minutes\u2026<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>PROCESS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>I opened up Descript\u2019s marketing email and clicked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/clicks.descript.com\/f\/a\/3g_3h-zIri3JjCjsr5rClA~~\/AAQRxRA~\/eb5umaBKTqwYH0ojsuWJi4D-MdvWMNVqmlteKWhm1JMUPngZ4WqWUMPoZegKM-ZZes_WqMMpatHt31AEFk8EpEw799kD5p9DURJW6L5HV1SbEHcAM5D6EZt1YYlPshQ81ZIo91gsk1j-ixnlbWtQbT8fovMpJszdtc1HBznq5zKReCAq007y6IhShs2hyaKJ\">\u201cTry AI Video Maker\u201d button<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That click took me to ChatGPT where I entered the prompt: \u201cCreate a video about using Generative AI in marketing. Your audience is Director and VP level marketers who have limited experience with GenAI\u201d<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT then generated a script. Though I was offered the chance to edit the script\u2019s \u201ctone\u201d or \u201cfocus\u201d I accepted it \u201cas is\u201d with no edits.<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT then asked me to choose a visual style from the list below. Personally, I enjoy watercolor painting, so I picked the first option.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Watercolor and Ink<\/strong>\u2013 Artistic and expressive, like a hand-painted story.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Whiteboard Doodles<\/strong>\u2013 Simple and engaging, like an animated sketch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Low Polygon 3D<\/strong>\u2013 Modern and sleek, with a geometric 3D look.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plasticine<\/strong>\u2013 Playful and colorful, like stop-motion clay animation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>ChatGPT then generated a preview image to illustrate the selected style in the context of the script.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53367\" src=\"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Watercolor-Style-300x300.png\" alt=\"AI generated image of a professional looking man looking at a computer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Watercolor-Style-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Watercolor-Style-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Watercolor-Style-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Watercolor-Style.png 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<ol id=\"attachment_53367\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px;\">Preview image generated by ChatGPT<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>I accepted the preview image and then ChatGPT opened the Descript desktop app to generate the video.<\/li>\n<li>Two minutes after I updated my Descript desktop app it generated the video at the bottom of this post. The Descript app has full video editing capability, so if I had wanted to, I could have changed the voice, timing, script, imagery, and several other features.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video below is completely unedited and shows just how much progress has been made with GenAI tools over the past two years.\u00a0 Impressive!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practice this video is not something that I would have posted and associated with a brand that I managed.\u00a0 For example, the script needs to be tightened, the imagery made more consistent and relevant to the audience, the fonts professionalized, and a CTA added to the end screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, the creation process was literally a three minute exercise.\u00a0 Imagine what could be done with 10X the effort\u2026 with 30 minutes of work!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give it a try <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/g\/g-67784682584881919690ad4b1a5931d6-ai-video-maker-by-descript\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 870px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-53366-1\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" poster=\"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-21-at-3.11.07\u202fPM.png\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Generative-AI-in-Marketing.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Generative-AI-in-Marketing.mp4\">https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Generative-AI-in-Marketing.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI CONTENT STATEMENT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The written content was 100% generated by me with AI generated editing suggestions provided by Claude 3.5 Sonnet.&nbsp; Any editing suggestions were implemented using my own words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hero image and video were AI generated by Descript, the body image by ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going from a \u201cconcept on a napkin\u201d to a \u201cpolished video on the web\u201d used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3,9],"tags":[40,18,44],"class_list":["post-53366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-marketing","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-marketing","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53374,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366\/revisions\/53374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhunterdigital.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}