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AI agents can now take a raw video and turn it into a finished YouTube video, shorts, thumbnails, descriptions and social posts, without anyone opening a video editing app.
We used GrokBot to do this with one conversation from our Google Photos. Here’s each step, so your agent can do the same with your footage.
Point your agent at your raw footage
Most businesses already have hours of video sitting on phones and in cloud storage. That’s your raw material.
We told GrokBot to look in our Google Photos for a conversation that wasn’t on our YouTube channel yet. It found one filmed at a kitchen island about personal branding and local SEO.
Give your agent access to wherever your footage lives, whether that’s Google Photos, Google Drive, Zoom or a shared folder. Let it find the video itself instead of downloading and uploading files for it.
Write your rules before it edits
The first cut came back with dead air at the start, captions burned into the long-form video and filler words still in.
The agent wasn’t careless. It just didn’t know our standards.
So write yours down first. Ours are simple. No captions on long-form. Cut the filler words. Open on the first sentence that matters.
Brief your agent the way you’d brief a new team member.
Let it find the shorts
From the same conversation, the agent picked three moments that stand on their own. It trimmed each one, cropped it to vertical, added captions and made a cover.
Tell it to keep the frame on whoever is speaking. One of our shorts stayed on the wrong person until we added that rule.
Show it your style instead of describing it
Our shorts have a caption look people recognize, with the spoken word in green, an italic font and the text sitting low on screen.
When we described it in words, the agent got close. When we gave it one of our old shorts to match side by side, it got the font, color and position almost exactly.
Give your agent a finished piece you like and tell it to copy it.
Have it deliver to the destination
After we approved the edits, GrokBot uploaded everything to YouTube as Unlisted for review. It wrote the descriptions, made three thumbnail options, added tags and playlists, updated our content sheet and posted the shorts to Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.
Nobody downloaded or moved a single file. Your job is to review the result.
Watch the full video before you publish
Sampling a few frames isn’t a review.
Have your agent check its own work first. Then have a person watch and listen to the full video from start to finish, and write down every issue with its timestamp. Filler words, long pauses, clipped endings and framing on the wrong speaker are easy to miss otherwise.
Turn every fix into a rule
Every correction you give becomes a line in your SOP. Next time, the agent reads the SOP before it starts.
Then have someone else on your team run the SOP without your help. If they can’t get the same result, the documentation isn’t done.
The final result
Here’s the full video and the three shorts our agent made from that one conversation.
What would you have your agent edit first?
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Dennis Yu
Dennis Yu is the CEO of Local Service Spotlight, a platform that amplifies the reputations of contractors and local service businesses using the Content Factory process. He is a former search engine engineer who has spent a billion dollars on Google and Facebook ads for Nike, Quiznos, Ashley Furniture, Red Bull, State Farm, and other brands.
Dennis has achieved 25% of his goal of creating a million digital marketing jobs by partnering with universities, professional organizations, and agencies. Through Local Service Spotlight, he teaches the Dollar a Day strategy and Content Factory training to help local service businesses enhance their existing local reputation and make the phone ring.
Dennis coaches young adult agency owners serving plumbers, AC technicians, landscapers, roofers, electricians, and believes there should be a standard in measuring local marketing efforts, much like doctors and plumbers must be certified. He has appeared on 353 podcasts with 619 credited episodes — see the full list of his podcast appearances.