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A complete course
Learn AI Video, Audio and Design from Zero
A complete course
Learn AI Video, Audio and Design from Zero
For creators and educators new to AI tools: work through 20 practical tutorials and finish with a finished video, a narr
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For creators and educators new to AI tools: work through 20 practical tutorials and finish with a finished video, a narr
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Inside the guide
7 chapters, and what each one leaves you able to do.
- 01
Set up your accounts and working method
Choose the free tools you need and set up a folder system for each tutorial's files.
- 02
Write a reusable AI prompt for a script
Draft a short video script by giving an AI chat tool a goal, audience and length.
- 03
Create a promotional graphic with Microsoft Designer
Build a poster for a fictional local event and export it in two sizes.
- 04
Turn a recorded explanation into a short video in CapCut
Cut a five-minute recording to two minutes and add styled captions.
- 05
Test a scene description in Runway and Synthesia
Compare generated footage with a presenter-led clip for the same script.
- 06
Edit an interview by its transcript in Descript
Remove filler and false starts from a recorded interview and export a clean episode.
- 07
Narrate your script with ElevenLabs and caption it in VEED
Produce a licensed voiceover, add captions and correct them before publishing.
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01
Set up your accounts and working method
Choose the free tools you need and set up a folder system for each tutorial's files.
By the end of this lesson you can log in to each of the tools the course needs and file every tutorial's work so that you can find it again in six months. You need nothing from an earlier lesson. The course suits creators and educators who have never opened an AI video or audio tool and who can already move files around on a computer. It assumes you can type a web address, download a file, and rename a folder. Work through it at one sitting a day and the eight lessons take about six hours; this one takes twenty minutes. Complete each lesson before starting the next, because the files pass forward.
You need five accounts: Microsoft Designer, CapCut, Runway, ElevenLabs and VEED. Descript and Synthesia appear in later lessons, and you can sign up to those when you reach them. All seven offer a free tier. Sign into each one today with the same email address so that you can recover all of them from one inbox. Write the five names in a text file as you go and tick each off, because you will otherwise lose track of which account uses which password. When a tool asks you to verify your email, do it straight away rather than leaving a tab open for a week.
The filing system does the quiet work. Make one folder called AI Course on your desktop, then a numbered folder inside it for each lesson: 01 setup, 02 script, 03 graphic, 04 CapCut, 05 Runway, 06 Descript, 07 ElevenLabs, 08 VEED. Put your recording of your own explanation into 04 CapCut before you start that lesson, and name it explanation raw, not IMG_4471. CapCut, VEED and Descript all export video, and three files called export.mp4 on the same desktop will cost you an evening of guessing.