The Complete Guide to Viral YouTube Video Creation with AI in 2023
In 2023, the era of artificial intelligence has been bringing the revolutionary way that the creation of grand video content for YouTube success is happening. From the generation of bespoke images and artwork to creating realistic human-sounding voiceovers and ranking critical metadata for visibility, such future-paced AI tools are secret ingredients to many of the biggest top viral YouTube channels that enjoy success with exploding views and subscribers.
This end-to-end tutorial will provide you with a complete blueprint on how to use the four most important AI tools – Midjourney, D-ID, VidIQ, and ChatGPT – to streamline workflow and create captivating, SEO-optimized YouTube videos that hold attention fast and rank highly. With this knowledge, you will have everything you need to integrate artificial intelligence into your video creation pipeline, and you'll skyrocket your views with explosive growth. So let's dive right in and explore and harness the incredible power of AI for creating and promoting YouTube videos for 2023!
Tool 1: Midjourney - Design Captivating Characters and Graphics
Step 1: Getting Started with Midjourney AI Art Generator
Midjourney is one of the leading AI art generator tools for creating fully custom 2D and 3D digital artwork and imagery. The state-of-the-art AI system allows for the creation of an infinite amount of illustrations, scenes, and characters using text prompts only. For content creators, Midjourney sets a new ability to develop unique digital assets such as characters, props, backgrounds, and more to be put into the videos.
If you are absolutely new to Midjourney, you will need to watch first our in-depth tutorial video guide showing how to set up an account, understand prompts, generate images, and navigate the interface. Be sure to include the link in the video description.
Step 2: Use Midjourney to Animate Character Art
Sign up or back into your Midjourney account to take the AI to new, unimaginable realms in creating stunning character art for your YouTube videos. Use as descriptions inspirational text prompts from your video topic or storyline. For example, "A happy cheerful cartoon cat in headphones and singing in a microphone, bright and vibrant colors, highly detailed," or "A wise old wizard with a long white beard and purple robes, holding a glowing staff, award-winning concept art, detailed, 8k resolution".
Let your creative imagination run wild!
Step 3: Up-resolution Images to 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio
By default, Midjourney images are in a square aspect ratio. You'll want to up-resolution the AI artworks for YouTube thumbnails and assets to a landscape 16:9 HD aspect ratio, which is well-suited to video. Use Midjourney's latest Beta Upscaler feature for top-notch results.
Just copy and paste the up-resolution prompt formatting in the video description, paste in your desired image URL, select the best up-resolution result, and save to your PC. Your unique AI-generated character is now perfectly framed and ready to star in your YouTube videos!
Tool #2: D-ID - Animate AI Art into Video
Step 1: Getting Started with D-ID
D-ID is a powerful AI platform that can animate still images into life-like videos based on your custom script and creative direction. It lets you take the amazing digital artwork created using Midjourney and animate it into a vibrant animated character to narrate your YouTube video!
Head to the D-ID website and sign up for a free account via email, Google, or Facebook. The base free plan allows for enough functionality to bring your AI art to life!
Step 2: Animate Your Character
In the D-ID dashboard, click on "Create Video" and then click on "Add" to upload your 16:9 upscaled character image that you made with Midjourney. From here, you can do minor adjustments, such as zooming or repositioning.
Step 3: Voiceover Script & Styling
Choose your language, and then, from the wide variety of voice actors available, choose one and fine-tune the speech style to your liking.
Step 4: Generate Animated Video
When you are done customizing your script, click "Generate Video" and wait as D-ID's amazing AI renders a high-quality animated video of your character! The first generation may take a bit, depending on length.
Step 5: Review & Download Your Video
Once the animated video is ready, watch it and review it as needed to see if the visuals, lip-synching, and voice over are at your creative standards. Once you are satisfied, click download to save the AI-generated video to your device. Your fully customized animated character is ready to tell your story in your YouTube video!
Tool #3: VidIQ - Maximize Video SEO for Traffic
Step 1: Install the VidIQ Browser Extension
The number one tool for SEO and metadata optimization for YouTube and videos in general is VidIQ. The free browser extension provides AI capabilities to increase the discovery factor and the potential growth of your videos.
If you do not have it, install the VidIQ extension for Chrome or Firefox using the link in the video description below. It's quick and easy to install.
Step 2: Leverage AI to Optimize Your Video Title
Open up VidIQ's browser extension dashboard on a YouTube page to get access to the AI tool suite. Begin by using the VidIQ's AI assistant to optimize your video title.
Summarize the overall topic and goal and get a number of suggestions for optimized titles. Choose the most compelling one that reaches the key search term target.
Step 3: Auto Generate an SEO Video Description
Next, take your new awesome video title and ask VidIQ to auto-generate a long-form video description optimized with targeted keywords. The AI will write a multi-paragraph description that will help build some interest.
Step 4: Keyword Tool by VidIQ - Find Best Tags and Hashtags
Use VidIQ's Keyword Tool to research and find the best-performing keyword tags that your audience is visiting often. Additionally, have the AI create a master list of related hashtags to add to your video description.
The tags and hashtags will help get your content to your ideal viewers in search and suggested videos.
Tool #4: ChatGPT - Polish Up Your Video Script
Step 1: Compose an initial Video Script
Before we proceed further, create an initial outline or script of your video in your preferred style of presentation, including key points, talking points, and ideas you want to cover.
Step 2: Craft and Refine Your Script with ChatGPT
With your draft script in hand, it's time to use the natural language power of ChatGPT's AI to refine and sharpen it for a crisp final production script.
Upload your draft text to ChatGPT and enter prompts like "Please rewrite and refine this video script to be more engaging, conversational, and audience-friendly". or "Enhance this video's script for clarity and impact".
Step 3: Fine-tune and Finalize Your Script
Review the version ChatGPT rewrote and tweak it as needed to perfect your final video script. The AI assistance makes your content sharp, grabbing, informative, and targeted for your target viewer.
Tool #5: Audacity - Record and Edit Your Voiceover
Step 1: Download and Launch Audacity
Audacity is a powerful free audio recording and editing software. Download it from https://www.audacityteam.org/ and launch the program on your computer. Audacity gives you all the tools you need to record professional voiceovers.
Step 2: Generate Your AI Voiceover
Go back to D-ID and paste your final ChatGPT optimized script to generate your video's voiceover audio file. Tweak the voice, pacing, and more if needed.
Step 3: Record the AI Voiceover with Audacity
In Audacity, hit record and play your D-ID generated voiceover file. Record the audio in high quality from within Audacity. Stop recording when done.
Step 4: Edit and Export Your Voiceover
Use Audacity's audio editing tools to clean up any hiccups in the recording and ensure perfect pacing. When you are happy, export the final voiceover as an MP3 file.
Bringing It All Together in Your Video Editor
With all the key ingredients produced with the power of AI - animated characters, background graphics, a refined script, voiceover audio, and critical SEO metadata.
Bring these assets into your favorite video editing software—Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro—and composite them together into a neat, polished final output ready for YouTube. Arrange the visuals, synchronize the voice-over, add your background music, and stamp on your branding. With the very foundation so solidly built with AI, you can fully devote yourself to the creative expression of your unique personality and style in the video without having to burden yourself with any single production task.
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