only 2 years ago starting a YouTube channel meant figuring everything out on your own What videos to make how to script them how to film them But today AI tools have honestly completely transformed this process Now despite some of the pitfalls of AI which we will also talk about I am a proud adopter of a few of these tools They have made my life as a creator significantly better And I often find myself thinking gez if only I had this when I was first starting I know it can feel overwhelming to keep up with these
AI tools since they are advancing so incredibly quickly literally changing week to week and that's where I come in So in this video I'm going to show you five very effective actionable ways that you can use free AI tools right now to start and grow a YouTube channel Now honestly this won't just be helpful for YouTubers because the way that I use these tools is super applicable to tons of professions and general life use cases So I would still watch it if I were you I'd also hit the thumbs up and subscribe if I were
you Sorry But especially for YouTubers I have distilled five key strategies that I personally use some of them every single day and that I can guarantee at the very least will save you loads of time improve your content and potentially totally transform your creative process for the better Now let's jump in Okay this first method I am so excited to talk about because it literally eradicates the number one pain point that I hear from people who are looking to start a YouTube channel And it's equally as helpful for YouTubers who are already established and looking
to grow It is using AI tools to help develop video concepts and identify untapped niches So I'll show you exactly what I mean and how to do it Okay Beginning with a use case for someone who wants to start a YouTube channel Something I hear all the time is "I want to start a channel but I don't know what to talk about or what type of videos to make." Or maybe you're one step further along and you know what type of videos you want to make but you feel like that genre is super saturated and
you're not sure how to differentiate your videos and actually stand out in that space Here's what I would do if I were in that position This is so fun I'm so excited Okay so I would open up Claude I'm going to give a lot of free advertising to Claude today because it's just a great tool that I use every single day It's helped me out a lot But no Claude is not sponsoring this But for those who don't know Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic So very similar to chat GBT by OpenAI if
you've used that before To me Claude beats out Chat GBT for most things like ideiation pros creative thinking apparently coding Not that I'm doing any of that But I do also use Chat GBT most days just for quick easy questions since they have a desktop app which is really convenient Both are totally free to use by the way I do use the paid version of Claude but that doesn't give me access to a more advanced model It just lets me use it more because you do reach a limit on how much you can use with
a free version every single day Okay back to business So we're going to use Claude to analyze our unique skills and experiences to generate 30 different specific video ideas Not only that but Claude is going to tell us how to make these videos stand out in an already saturated space based on our unique experiences and background And how is he going to be able to give us all of this with such detailed personalized information it's because we're going to feed him a lot of information And this is where the extreme importance of prompting comes in
In other words what prompt or information do we feed the AI in order to get out the best possible most helpful response in the case of generating video ideas and content strategies some things that would be really helpful to let Claude know are your expertise areas And the more specific that you can be on this letting Claude know what you actually have deep knowledge in and not just a basic understanding of the better he can match video ideas to your actual knowledge base your unique experiences So life experience background specific advantages that you might have
That'll help Claude think of content angles that only you could authentically create Your communication style and personality So are you analytical or humorous or straightforward whatever it is that can also help Claude tailor video ideas to how you naturally communicate And then of course the more tangible things like your content preferences your production capabilities equipment that you might have what your ideal audience is your goals you get the idea In short do not shy away from spending some extra time at this stage because the more detail you give Claude and if you just take the
approach of leaving no stone unturned Claude will give you something really really valuable So now let's just stop talking about it and let's actually do it Claude I need your help generating 30 distinct video ideas for my YouTube channel in the blank space Blank We'll we'll add more detail here in a bit So I'm going to pretend to be a YouTuber named Clementine with 2,000 subscribers making videos about gardening No not gardening Let's choose something that I actually know a little bit more about just for funsies Let's say the health and wellness space which is
actually a great example because that space is very saturated So we'll see how well Claw does and actually coming up with video ideas that are kind of differentiated and unique in the space Okay Specific interest within the genre Let's say it's longevity Big topic right now Let's say that I've gotten some traffic on some videos hence the 2,000 subscribers but I'm feeling like I'm having a hard time standing out in the saturated space and coming up with new video ideas Let's add some detail on my background and unique experiences So let's pretend that my mom
is a sports doctor and I grew up around her patients and have always had a love for health and fitness So you can start to see maybe the storytelling aspect coming in here Let's add my qualifications also So again just making this up I studied something very different This is Clementine talking And let's add Clementine's personality and content style Okay great Now channel focus again health and wellness with a special interest in longevity science I'll put down some content of mine or of Clementine's that has performed well so far Just making this up My goals
let's say they are to foster a really engaged community on YouTube grow my subscriber base to 50,000 subscribers within the next 8 months and that I'm willing and able to post two videos per week Audience demographics If I had this info I'd put it here I would base this on the YouTube analytics that I'm given but I would also have to do some qualitative reasoning based off of the comments that I get maybe the questions that my audience asks me a lot production capabilities and then finally let's pop the question What I need 30 different
video ideas and for each of them I want Claude to explain how it will stand out in the space and leverage my own background how I could incorporate my personality and how viewers would engage with the video And finally I want Claude to suggest the 30 different video ideas in an order that alternates between different types of videos that I make to keep some interesting variety going on Please focus on ideas that will help differentiate my channel from other health and wellness creators while building on proven content formats Then we hit enter It's literally magic
Did you see that go back and watch it if you didn't see it It still blows my mind that this tool exists I mean this literally just eradicated the issue of not knowing where to start or where to go from wherever you are And if you're willing to put some time and effort and thought into that prompting process the answer to your problem is kind of sort of handed to you on a platter At the very least it's a great place to start Okay now this section is getting long I want to get to method
number two but I told you we would talk about the AI pitfalls here as well And a very important note that I want to make here is that when you have a tool that's this magical where it almost feels like you're cheating you can imagine that it becomes very easy to over rely on AI In the case of video ideiation and analyzing the market that you're in I think it is essential to do your own elbow grease research first because if you only rely on AI to do this for you you just simply will not
have as strong of a pulse on the market landscape that you're in So an actual tip that I have in the spirit of doing your own research something I still do to this day open an incognito tab on your laptop So it's starting from a blank slate open YouTube type in some broad keywords of the space that you're in Look through the videos see what's performing well and then do your own research watch those videos try to understand why they work so well why does that video have a million views read through the comments see
what questions people are asking This process in my opinion is extremely important to go through yourself Now you can take what you find tell Claude about it and he could probably you know help you think of other ideas based on that information but the sooner and more rigorous you are about becoming a student of your own craft the better off that you'll be You'll also have to fail You're going to have a ton of videos flop before you have one that really pops off This is all very normal It's something you have to go through
and it's part of the creator life cycle So Claude and all of these AI tools are really meant in my opinion to be accessories to your own foundational knowledge But they are great accessories There's no doubt about it Okay next use case for AI tools after you have your ideation kind of figured out also eradicates another huge painen point that I hear from creators a lot and that is content planning To this day I am still iterating on my content planner and my schedule I have tried everything from just using pen and paper to going
ham with notion databases and calendars to quarterly planning and finally to some kind of simplified combination of all of these things Spoiler alert AI can actually help out a lot with this Now there are eight eye tools that are specifically designed for content planning and scheduling These are some of them if you want to check it out afterwards but I'm going to be real with you I actually try to limit the amount of AI tools that I use because if I'm already using notion for all my scripting and kind of calendar stuff using Google calendar
for my actual calendar if I'm already using Claude for help with ideation and kind of some structuring stuff and chat GBT for quick easy questions once I start introducing a whole bunch of other tools to that even though they might technically be a bit more optimized for their specific use case it all starts to feel like too much for me I like to keep it more simple And so once again I actually default to Claude when I do want to use AI's help with content planning Now how I use Claude here is very light touch
And this is actually an example where I really just take inspiration from what it gives me but I still do lots and lots of manual adjusting on the other end of it I'll show you my process So once I have an idea of what my next few videos will be I add them to this master content planner notion page As you can see I keep it quite simple This is simple for me I think that people try to get a little too fancy with how many different fields they add here like a lot of different
properties and it's just not necessary It kind of makes me not want to use it to be honest So I only have the essential fields here The genre I like that helps me visually see how I'm balancing the different themes on my channel and so on So this is fine and dandy but to pull this schedule off within specific deadlines and not just posting deadlines but if the video has a sponsor that sponsor usually has to review the script a few days before and review the video draft a few days before They might even ask
for edits It requires more planning than meets the eye A lot of parallel processing usually has to happen here In other words working on multiple videos at once So in order to get this planning figured out I could add extra fields here myself like finish script or outline by this date film on these dates edit these days but wait I'm traveling that weekend or I have an event that day so I won't really be able to film I could back into all of that myself But guess who else could do it in a fraction of
the time hey Claude these are the next eight videos I'm planning on making Once again I'm Clementine not Taylor Bell Here are the details deadlines and constraints for each The details here will include if there's a sponsor how many days each video will take to write film edit and prepare for upload where I plan to film each video and deadline just my ideal post date for each Constraints will include how many days the sponsor needs to approve the script or the video draft ahead of the posting date and other constraints if I'm traveling for some
weekend or prefers to not work on the weekends if possible What I need can you help create a daily planner/calar of what tasks have to get done each day to make this upload schedule work as a lot of parallel processing will need to happen here Matter of fact while you're at it could you also help optimize the titles for better search engine optimization and clickability if they're not already and enter magic Come on That's what I scream in the middle of my quiet co-working space whenever Claude comes in Clutch Okay now this is where some
manual assessment inevitably will need to come in So I'll take this info and give it a nice thorough audit It helps to get a visual So sometimes I'll input the structure into a notion calendar see how it feels and adjust it if it's not feeling doable Here's an example from about 6 months ago where there was a lot of parallel processing that I needed to do So having this visual really helped me stay on track In theory yeah it should feel fine since you're the one who gave Claude all of the information that it has
here and he really just helped you do the math to see what needed to happen when In reality though more often than not I at least definitely need to do some adjusting But as Cal Newport says it is so much better to have a plan ahead of time and then adjust it later on than to have no plan at all which I have found to be very true So that is where I have landed with my content planning Again I've kind of tried everything but what seems to work best for me is a combination of
pen to paper to specifically write down that day's highest priority to-dos a few notion pages that I really try to keep as simple as possible and some help from AI here and there especially when I have a lot of parallel processing that needs to happen And to be honest I actually usually don't use AI here I've been doing this for 5 years and so I have a pretty good sense in my head of what needs to happen when But sometimes it is very helpful So finally if you're like me and try to keep things pretty
simple I think that this is a nice approach But if you're down to really optimize and use the tools that are most suited for content calendar planning and scheduling Claude told me that these ones are supposed to be pretty good So there you go Okay we've got our ideas We've got our content calendar planner situation Now it's time to make the videos So some videos might require no script at all Like my vlogs I don't script those I think that some videos are definitely better suited for how they would naturally play out in real life
For other videos like these talking head ones or ones that require a lot of research I absolutely write a script ahead of time or at least bullet point outlines Before I even show you how AI can help out with this and I think you've seen enough at this point to know that it can in theory save you a lot of time at this step allow me to say that I think this method out of all of the five that we're talking about today is the one where you have to be the most careful to not
over rely on AI But let me tell you why scripting is such a personal thing for most creators Now will there one day be an AI tool that scripts something exactly in your voice just how you would do it yourself i'm sure But even Claude and Chat GBT and Perplexity and all these other models that are really really advanced in my opinion still cannot do this It just can't capture the little idiosyncrasies that we all have in the way that we express ourselves So even though Claude can write scripts I really do think that viewers
can seriously sniff out when something doesn't feel authentically you So all of that being said of course it's still a very helpful tool and I will show you how I use it in my scripting process if at all and how I would recommend avoiding certain pitfalls so you don't sound like a robot in your videos and include incorrect information Okay first thing it is really great for is turning a rough ideas into a structured outline Sometimes I'll have a rough idea of a couple things that I want to talk about in a video but I'm
not really sure how to put it all together So similar to how we used Claude in the beginning for ideiation he is also really great for helping with the general structure of videos So let's take one of Clementine's videos and ask Claude to give us an idea of how we can structure this video This one's cool Let's do that Okay Claude based on this video concept can you give an idea of how I could structure this video enter Once again pretty awesome But this is actually where I would stop if I were you I know
it's tempting to be like "Oh Claude could you also help me out with the first draft of the script?" Spoiler if you ask that he'll probably give you something that sounds pretty good But the second you start reading it out loud I would bet my bottom dollar that it does not sound like something you wrote And if you're thinking "Well I'll just have Claude script it and then I'll adjust it afterwards to sound like something I wrote." Mm-m Here's why I wouldn't For the same reason that I asked for double chicken at Chipotle after getting
my first full serving of chicken because their knowledge that I want double chicken from the get- go would totally influence the portion size Similarly I would not start with a fully written script and expect yourself to go in uninfluenced by what's already on the paper Much better in my opinion is to take that structure and then get to work writing it all out by yourself in your own voice This could take hours or days or weeks depending on what types of videos you're making But fun fact Ali Abdal who is a doctor turned entrepreneur huge
productivity YouTuber and author has said in multiple videos and interviews that I have watched that the one stage of his creator process that he has not been able to successfully outsource is scripting He tried It is just so personal Okay final point in the section Something I do do to reinccorporate AI after I have fully written my script Once I write it sometimes I'll paste it into Claude and ask him "Claude do you think that I could make this video more valuable in any way or more personal whatever it is I'm looking for?" And even
still with this prompt I try to keep it pretty high level so that Claude's response is not so pointed that it influences my own thought process You know what I mean and this has honestly been super helpful So some of the things that he's said before is this is a great start but I think you could include a few more personal examples here to make it feel more tangible or this particular insight is unique Consider expanding on that Consider including some extra data points here to strengthen your argument So again pretty highle things that I
can choose to incorporate or not But the point is I write it in my own voice I sometimes do sometimes don't use claw to ask how it could be improved afterwards And then I make the adjustments myself And the same goes with research I actually try to do that all by myself because I have found Claude can definitely make mistakes with numbers Okay we've got our ideas we've got our content calendar we've got our script Now we got to film that sucker Now obviously AI can't do the filming for you Or can it no it
can't Not yet anyway But it can do something really really cool that is kind of similar And this is where AI video generation comes into play So there are tools out there that can act as an AI assistant for your video projects kind of like Claude but for actual video generation And we're talking videos that include visuals music sound effects voice over in your own voice if you want it All based on a simple text prompt So I'm going to show you how to do this using Invido who is kindly partnering with me on today's
video So similar to the prompting that we've already done in this video you can give Invido a text prompt on what type of video you want it to generate Here we'll actually do something that I would make and not something that Clementine would make I think we're done with her today but she's been great Okay let's take the ideas from my 21 habits video And let's say that I want to make a little YouTube short or Instagram reel about three of my favorite ones on that list I can feed in video a text prompt It
doesn't have to be this detailed but since I have the script on hand might as well And if you have a full script you can actually paste that here Otherwise just bullet points would be totally fine So these three habits practice progress not perfection with the basic idea Think about exercise the way you think about brushing your teeth In other words it's just something you do and walk after eating Good for metabolism blood sugar energy levels all that good stuff Okay now we hit generate And it will take a bit to analyze the script And
then we're given these options Okay let's say we want to use generative media which is a very cool new feature with V3 Invido's latest version That'll take a bit longer since every single pixel is generated from scratch using AI Let's do realistic visual style 30 seconds to keep it nice and fast-paced and platform Let's make it Instagram reels actually See what happens Okay this takes a few minutes So I will have it notify me when it's ready Okay while this is cooking it is absolutely worth noting that AI video generation is a great place to
start if you're feeling overwhelmed about being on camera It is notoriously scary to start putting yourself out there And in video can give you that foot in the door that you need to get started Okay let's take a look at what it's made Okay so I've been on this health kick lately and it's literally changed my life First practicing progress not perfection Boom Just like that Created from scratch using AI just from my text prompt And I could publish this but I want it to feel a little bit more personal So if you want to
adjust it in any way you can easily do so just using another text prompt So I want it in my own voice So cool Just wait I want to change the music to be a little bit more fun and upbeat less of this like Celtic vibe I want to shorten the intro a bit and I could even ask it to translate this to French but I don't speak a lick of French So also if I wanted I could go in and make edits myself whether it's who's narrating it the music if I wanted to generate
all new media to replace a specific chapter of the video All right let's take a watch through the second version Okay so I've been on this health kick lately and it's literally changed my life Okay love it It's in my voice That is kind of eerie but really really cool The intro is shorter That's great And yeah now that it's publish ready I can download it in higher quality and that's it Some other really great use cases for Invido to create faceless videos That's actually a question I get a lot People who want to start
a channel but don't want to be on camera You can use Invido to visualize scenes before you actually go film them Or you could have Invido completely create your shorts for you from scratch using visuals that you could not film in real life because they don't actually exist The world is kind of your oyster and it is such a great tool for creators entrepreneurs thought leaders who have always wanted to create videos but expressing yourself on camera has not felt intuitive In video is a great solution to get over that barrier So if you want
to try it for yourself you can click the link in my description and start using Invido totally for free Or if you want to use the generative plan that I use in this video that starts at $96 per month which could save you a lot in the long run with potential production costs Thanks again to Nvidia for partnering with me on today's video All right ideas content plan script video What else could we possibly use AI for at this stage i'll show you Admittedly this is something I should I should definitely do more I don't
do too much of it but I know how to do it so I'm going to show you And it is content repurposing In other words using AI to help transform one piece of content into many more pieces of content This is especially helpful for folks who are looking to grow their YouTube channel by using short form content newsletter posts etc to help funnel people to your long- form videos So there are a lot of ways you could do this The first most obvious way to do it is through video repurposing Again I should probably do
this more My short form game is pretty much non-existent But to do it we could use a tool like Opus Clip There are a lot of other ones out there Ah number one video clipping tool Very good All right let's do my arrowan video which you guys are loving by the way Thank you for watching Okay and we can adjust the settings a bit Very similar to in video Let's do less than 30 seconds Yeah we'll see And that'll take about 7 minutes to cook Okay while that's cooking how else could we use AI to
help repurpose our content hey buddy Getting lonely get in here Okay so this is a fun one using our good friend to help repurpose long- form video scripts or outlines into blog posts or newsletter content You guys know how to do this at this point You're experts Let's paste in our script and ask Claude to give us some ideas on how we could take some of the main ideas or most interesting points from this script and write a little newsletter piece Again something I should probably do more So similar with the scripting pitfalls like we
discussed I would also recommend actually doing the writing yourself But Claude can definitely help with the packaging piece Example time Claude based on my video script pasted what are some concise newsletter ideas I could write about this topic would love to market it to my newsletter subscribers with the goal that they also head to my long- form video about the topic Enter Boom Multiple pieces of content ideas here Could also use these on Instagram stories You name it you can get creative All right Opus clip Are you done cooking yes you are And just like
that Opus has cut my 16-minute video down into 6 12 13 distinct pieces of content Let's check one of them out here Okay very cool This is just using the free version which cuts the clip and adds automatic captions which is cool But you have the watermark here You can't edit it on the free version You know what just for you guys let's upgrade to the pro plan Okay with the pro plan it gives us a virality score That's pretty cool I can actually go in and make edits I can add B-roll Not sponsored by
Opus I'm just showing you one of the many tools that can cut down long videos like this in just a couple of minutes and help you really kickstart your YouTube channel since these days so many creators are first discovered through their short form content So using AI to help start and grow a YouTube channel or using AI at all really is not about cutting corners Yes of course you're saving a lot of time using it in some cases but in my opinion it is really about enhancing the skills that you already have as a creator
It's something that we all have access to So you might as well learn how to use it to your advantage That's my take If you found these methods helpful at all let me know first of all in the comments which one you think is the coolest And please hit the thumbs up and subscribe It helps my channel a lot And many more videos to come Until next time turtle out Hey buddy I'm talking to my bed nonetheless Hey buddy thanks for all your help today Oh by the way do you like the earrings they are
fried eggs on toast Spunky huh all right I think we got the job done I'm going to go eat some food
