How to make YouTube Shorts using Lewis
Discover how to use Lewis to create engaging and viral YouTube Shorts that captivate your audience.
Step 1. Conceptualize Your Short
Choose an idea that aligns with your audience’s interests and your channel’s theme. Ensure it has the potential for high engagement and shares.
For example, creator KakuDrop uses photorealistic AI-generated images to create an interesting short music video:
We’ll take a similar approach but make a compelling short AI film instead of a music video.
Step 2. Script Your Short with Lewis
You can get everything you need to create a Shorts or Reels video from Lewis.
Input your concept into Lewis to generate the world and scenes from your story. I chose this vampire adventure story I had generated earlier for the purpose of this tutorial.
Refer to this article on how to create a story using Lewis if you’re new to this series.
Now back to the video:
You can find all your projects in your dashboard, which you can access from anywhere on Lewis by clicking your profile module.👇
You can publish the project if you wish to share the link with others or keep it private in your dashboard — it’s your choice!). 👇
If you want to add voice-over to your movie, make sure you generate a script while you’re generating scenes. 👇
Don’t worry if you’ve already published your story without a script because you can always update your published story by hitting the ‘publish this project’ button once again.
Step 3. Export your images to a video editor
Select the images you want to use in the video from your project page and hit the download button. Your image will be saved to your local folder in PNG format.
You can use the images as-is, or head to Runway ml to turn your image into 4-second video clips. It’s as simple as creating a free account and dropping your image into the image box. Adding a description is an option.
Next, we’re moving on to video editing. I am using Canva for this tutorial, but you can use any video editor with a basic animation feature. The great thing with Canva is that you can access cinematic templates like these. 👇
Follow these steps:
- Create a mobile video format
- Select a template (optional)
- Upload the scene images from Lewis
- Add animation effect to each image
- Add a background music
We already have a great video, but I really recommend that you follow the next step to generate a narrative voice for the video.
Step 4. Add narrative voice
Return to your project page and jump to the ‘scenes’ section. You will find the script module at the bottom of each scene box if you have already generated a script. 👇
If you have generated scenes but not scripts, you can always use the ‘edit’ feature at the top of the scenes section and then scroll down to the scene you want to add a script to. 👇
Select three to four sentences you want to use for the narration and copy them to your clipboard manually. 👇
To create realistic voices, go to Elevelabs. Using the free plan, you can generate up to 10,000 free characters worth of speech generation. 👇
Download the file and drop it in your video editor. Sync it to flow well with your video. Adjust the volume of the background music, if necessary, to ensure you can hear the narration clearly.
The final result should look like this:
Build your story now on Lewis 👇
