Automation short-form videos creation

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Hey everyone,

I’m pretty new to n8n and still learning how things work.

The kind of final result I’m trying to get looks like this:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSIQzsSjaAc/

Basically, I’d like to automate the creation of short vertical videos (Reels / TikTok style).

I have 3 main inputs:

  • a Google Drive folder with Pinterest-style images

  • another Google Drive folder with music tracks

  • and a third input which is just some random text (a list of short sentences or a simple text generator)

I’m okay with the first part: I can already pull the images, pick them randomly, do the same with the music, and select a random sentence.

Where I’m a bit stuck is the video creation itself. I understand that n8n isn’t a video engine, so I guess I need to rely on some external service or API to actually render the video, but I’m not sure what people usually use for this or how they plug it into n8n in a clean way.

I’m not looking for anything super advanced or production-ready yet, just a simple working setup so I can learn and iterate.

If anyone has done something similar or has suggestions on tools or approaches that work well with n8n, I’d really appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance!

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Hey @Fikret_Kucuk !

You are right, isnt a video generator itself, but is the greatest “orchestration” tool , that can easily connect services to achieve that.

Here you can find an example that use Gemini to cretae the videos and how should be handledes to store etc…

Cheers!

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Thanks a lot @Parintele_Damaskin!

For my automation, what I’m trying to do is pretty simple in the end: I’d like to use some kind of video editor or rendering tool that can take all the images I pass as input, randomly pick one song from my input folder, automatically edit everything into a short vertical video, and then give me a downloadable link to the final MP4.

From your experience, what would be the best way to approach this with n8n?
Is there a specific video rendering service or API you’d recommend for this kind of setup, and how would you usually plug it into a workflow?

Thanks again for the help, really appreciate it.

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And it should be with n8n IF first you would take thus 1-3h courses that are officially offered(it will help you grasp the core concept) and build easily like you are explainingyour goal :slight_smile: :

Here ffmpeg is your friend and Execute Command node for a self-hosted n8n instance.

If you are using n8n Cloud version, there are countless services that can create videos(either from your input, or let AI do that ).

Well… I see it a bit different, since there are so many ways that seems “best” … I rather say convenient or depending on skills.

Cheers!

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