Directory
AI video workflows for Shorts, TikTok & YouTube
For solo creators and small teams who ship vertical video. Each page is one recommended path: who it is for, the steps, stage alternatives, and a monthly cost note taken from tool pages that already carry a verification date. This hub does not add a second price list.
Faceless channels
Narrated Shorts, TikTok, and YouTube with no face on camera. The parent page is the stack. The format pages are the series shapes that use that stack.
- Faceless channel workflow
A script, voice, shot, and caption stack for narrated YouTube, Shorts, and TikTok videos that never put a face on camera.
Pick this if: Solo creators and small teams shipping narrated video without appearing on camera.
- Reddit stories (faceless)
A narrated Reddit-style story with on-screen text, generated or stock b-roll, captions, and a disclosure for YouTube, Shorts, and TikTok.
Pick this if: Faceless creators who turn long text posts into narrated verticals without showing a face.
- Horror (faceless)
Original short horror fiction over dark generated shots, a licensed voice, captions, and a disclosure for vertical platforms.
Pick this if: Faceless creators shipping short horror narration without appearing on camera.
- Motivational (faceless)
Advice and quote-style narration over b-roll, captions, and a cover, for Shorts and TikTok without a face on camera.
Pick this if: Faceless creators posting advice, quotes, or short pep talks with generated or stock visuals.
- Top 10 (faceless)
A counted list with a distinct visual beat per item, narration, captions, and disclosure for short-form platforms.
Pick this if: Faceless creators shipping numbered list videos where each item needs its own shot.
- AI news (faceless)
Public AI or tech news rewritten in your own sentences, with narration, simple visuals, captions, and disclosure.
Pick this if: Faceless creators summarizing public news items without putting a synthetic expert face on camera.
- AI music (faceless)
Music-led short videos where the track is the focus, with light visuals, optional captions, and platform disclosure where required.
Pick this if: Faceless creators posting AI music clips or music-led verticals without a talking face.
Repurposing
When a long video or a finished cut already exists. Long-to-short finds the vertical clips. Captions and covers adds type, a cover frame, and a safe zone.
- Long-to-short
A rights-cleared long video, a CapCut 9:16 cut with captions, and a publish step for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels.
Pick this if: Creators who already have a podcast, livestream, interview, course, or long YouTube video and need vertical clips.
- Captions and covers
Burned-in captions, a cover frame, and a vertical safe-zone check for a file that is already cut, on YouTube, TikTok, and Shorts.
Pick this if: Editors who already have a filmed clip, an avatar export, a UGC actor file, or a long-to-short cut, and only need type, a cover, and a safe zone.
On-camera, avatar, and UGC
A presenter or an actor ad, with a disclosure. AI avatar is a talking head, and only for a person who has agreed. AI UGC ads are vertical actor creatives from a product page you can stand behind.
- AI avatar
A checked script, a HeyGen presenter, captions, and a disclosure for talking-head videos on YouTube, TikTok, and Shorts.
Pick this if: Educators, founders, and marketers who need a talking presenter without filming every update, and who will only clone a person who has agreed.
- AI UGC ads
A human script, an AI-actor ad, captions, and a disclosure for vertical paid creatives on TikTok, YouTube, and Shorts.
Pick this if: Shops and app teams who need testable vertical actor ads, with a platform disclosure, from a product page they can stand behind.
Voice
When the paid bottleneck is the voice track: narration, a dub, or a clone of your own voice, and a face is not required by default.
- Voice and publish
A checked script, an ElevenLabs voice, an optional CapCut picture, and a disclosure for narration, dubbing, or your own cloned voice on YouTube, TikTok, and Shorts.
Pick this if: Creators whose paid bottleneck is the voice track: a faceless narration, a translation dub, or a clone of their own voice, and who do not need a face by default.
How to choose
- No face on camera, and the video is narrated from a script: Faceless channel workflow. Open a format page when the series is a Reddit-style story, horror, a motivational quote, a top 10, AI news, or music-led clips.
- You already have a long video: Long-to-short. The file is already cut and you only need type, a cover, and a vertical safe zone: Captions and covers.
- A talking presenter, and only a person who has agreed to be cloned: AI avatar. A vertical actor ad from a product page you can stand behind: AI UGC ads.
- The paid bottleneck is the voice track, and you do not need a face by default: Voice and publish.
Elsewhere on ClipNav
Tools and models are the catalog. Compare holds the side-by-side pages. Features records where text-to-video, lip sync, captions, and text to speech were observed. Stack cost totals one workflow from stickers copied off tool pages.