Social media has become an essential part of building and promoting a business, and video content is one of the most effective ways to stand out and engage your audience. But creating videos, editing them, and consistently putting out content can take a lot of time and technical know-how.
What if you’re a full-time professional but still working on a side business and trying to create enough traction for your product or service? Veed, one of the best AI video editors, can help you take your content game to the next level without investing a lot of time in front of a screen. And I say that with first-hand experience.
In this article, I’ll explain how you can use Veed to create various kinds of content. And because I believe timing is of the essence here, we’ll be judging everything based on how quickly and effortlessly it can be done.
Getting started with Veed
Let’s quickly get into the thick of things. When you open your Veed dashboard, you’ll see a panel on the left-hand side with all the editing and creation options available to you. Of these, there are two options you’ll need to focus on: New Video and Edit Video.
Create videos with AI avatars
Now, a very peculiar thing about Veed is that when you click on New Video and type a script or topic into the prompt box, the platform generates a character video. This means whatever you type will be spoken by a character of your choice.
However, this option won’t create new visuals or video clips for you beyond the character speaking. That’s it. This could come in handy when you want to give your content a face.
You can also upload your own image if you want to use that, but there are tons of characters to choose from. I like is that there are various ethnicities to choose from. For instance, there’s Kyoko, a soft-spoken Japanese woman, or Cassidy, a Hispanic woman in a homely background.
Similarly, there are various male characters such as Henry, Joe, Ran, and Viraj. All of these are deeply rooted in real-life appearances and could be very difficult for the average viewer to tell that they are, in fact, AI-generated.
Editing is pretty simple, too. Once you create a video with a basic script, you can edit the script scene by scene using a sleek left-hand panel or even change your character if you don’t like the one with which the video was generated.
There’s also a wide selection of voices in various languages, such as English, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, and more. Another highlight for me is that that each language is available in various accents.
For example, the same English voice options are available in Irish, Kenyan, New Zealand, Nigerian, Indian, and South African accents, giving you more flexibility and the ability to create characters that resonate with your target audience.
Where Veed truly shines, though, is its wide selection of dynamic subtitles. You can either choose from business-like subtitles, the kind you see in movies, or you can choose from dynamic subtitles that appear in bold letters on the video as the character speaks. Oh, and you must absolutely add subtitles to your online videos.
Lastly, there’s also a Music option, where you can add background music to your videos. However, in a character-spoken video, this might be of less relevance. Nonetheless, it’s good to have that option.
Edit and generate videos
Then there’s the Edit Video option, where you can edit any videos you’ve created using Veed, or you can upload videos and then edit them.
But what’s hidden behind this panel is the video-generation option. You’ll see a Generate button on the left-hand side panel. When you click on it, you can type a detailed script into the prompt box to create your videos.
There are various models for you to choose from, and keep in mind that each model consumes a different number of credits. For example, the same five-second video might cost only 10 credits with Veed Motion and as many as 310 credits with Google Veo 3.1.
The exact number of credits you spend also depends on the type of video you’re creating, its length, the editing options you select, and so on. That’s why it’s a bit difficult to put a finger on exactly how many credits you would need each month.
If you want to create just 6-7 videos, 1,500 credits might be enough. But anything more than that would likely require a higher-tier plan.
How to generate videos using Veed
Now that you know where to find the basic video-generation settings on Veed, let’s see how you can actually generate videos. We’ll use an example of a woman named Maya, who runs a bakery business on the side while working a full-time corporate job.
Obviously, if you’re juggling a side business with a full-time job, you wouldn’t have a lot of time to sit in front of a screen, type prompts, edit videos, and then wait for them to render. This is where Veed is a step ahead of some of its competitors.
Step 1: Conceptualization
First things first, let’s create a three-video script, which Maya plans to post throughout the week. This script can be created on the go whenever you find some spare time. Even better, you can use other AI tools to help with brainstorming and coming up with content ideas.
- Clip one: Talking-head intro and announcement: Maya says that this week’s bake is ready and invites customers to place their orders.
- Clip two: B-roll process shot: A behind-the-scenes shot of Maya kneading sourdough dough, showcasing the baking process in her kitchen.
- Clip three: Product or hero shot: A close-up focused on promoting the product – in this case, a freshly baked sourdough loaf.
Step 2: Generating the videos
Let’s create our first video with Veed. This will be an introduction video where a character talks about what’s coming up, with Maya telling customers what they can expect this week.
I created a short script, around 10 seconds long, where she announces that she’ll be making roasted garlic and rosemary sourdough and invites customers to place their orders for Saturday.
I simply entered the entire script into the “New Video” prompt box, and Veed got to work. It took around 3 minutes to generate the 10-second video. The platform automatically added the character and subtitles.
Of course, you can edit both if you want. Each character comes with its own voice, but you can tinker with the settings and select a voice of your choice.
The subtitles, as has often been the case, seriously impressed me. Veed added subtitles that were perfectly synced with the video, and I didn’t feel the need to change them in the slightest. However, if you want, you can choose from other subtitle styles as well.
You can also create your own AI avatar by uploading your own images. However, I went with the pre-designed characters for the sake of this example.
One important thing to keep in mind is that the video was noticeably out of sync during the preview, but Veed said that lip-sync will be applied to the final version, and that's what happened.
Once I was satisfied with the results, I clicked on Done. It took Veed another 1 minute and 40 seconds to render the video with perfect lip-sync and cost me 230 credits. Next, I clicked on Download, and the video was ready to be posted.
For the second video, I used the prompt: “Close-up of hands kneading sourdough dough on a flour-dusted wooden countertop, soft morning light, slow motion, warm and cozy atmosphere.”
In this case, I chose the Kling 2.6 Pro model, which cost me 40 credits. Veed took exactly 1 minute and 25 seconds to create the five-second video. As soon as it was ready, I clicked on Add to Project to start editing it.
The video didn’t include any background music, so I selected Audio and added some. I noticed that while the video itself was only five seconds long, the music track ran for 2 minutes and 14 seconds, making the video unnecessarily long.
To fix this, I simply dragged the music bar down to five seconds using the editing panel at the bottom.
After this, I added text to my video by selecting the Text option from the left-hand panel. Just adjust the text box to match the length of the video and enter whatever you want. I chose “Behind the Scenes.”
Once I was satisfied, I clicked on Done, and my video was ready to be downloaded or shared. I simply clicked on the Download button, selected the MP4 format, and it was done. Creating the entire video took me less than five to six minutes.
For the third and final video with Maya, I entered this prompt: “A golden-brown sourdough loaf on a rustic wooden board, steam gently rising, camera slowly rotating around it, soft natural lighting.”
Once again, I used Kling 2.6 Pro to generate a five-second video. However, this time I also uploaded an image of a freshly baked sourdough loaf for the AI to use as a visual reference for the video.
This video took by far the longest time to generate out of the three – 6 minutes and 30 seconds. That's probably because I had uploaded a reference image for the AI to work with.
However, the results were pretty satisfying. It effortlessly transformed a still image into a rotating close-up video of a freshly baked sourdough loaf.
As usual, I added text saying Order Now and added background music to complete the video.
So, in total, I was able to create three ready-to-post videos in under 15 minutes of hands-on work, all within my lunch break. And while Veed was busy generating the videos, I still had plenty of time to sit back and enjoy my delicious lunch.
What more can you do with Veed?
So far, we’ve covered only the basic video generation and editing you can do with Veed during a quick lunch break or within 30 to 45 minutes. However, Veed is a much more powerful tool, and there’s a lot more you can do with it.
- AI editing tools: You can use Veed’s AI for tasks such as reducing background noise, removing filler words like “um” or “ah,” trimming silences, and removing backgrounds. These tools also work with uploaded footage, not just AI-generated clips.
- Brand kits: You can save your brand colors, fonts, and logos as a kit and then apply them across every new project instead of adding them manually each time.
- Collaboration and editors: Depending on the plan you choose, you can invite editors to a project for real-time collaboration. This can come in handy if you want to expand your side business’s content operation.
- AI image generation: Along with videos, Veed can also generate AI images and lets you choose between models such as Google Nano Banana Pro and FLUX.1 Pro.
- Custom AI avatars: As mentioned earlier, you can upload your own image or face to create a custom AI avatar. You can even swap characters in an AI-generated video without having to re-record the script from scratch.
Overall, I found Veed to be a very beginner-friendly, no-nonsense AI image and video generator.
Once you have your account and subscription ready, you can create your first video within 10 to 15 minutes.
All the options are clearly laid out on the dashboard, making the entire production and editing process very straightforward.