How to Make Your First AI Video as a Complete Beginner (Step by Step)

That is my first AI video. I made the person, I made the scene, and I made the sound, and I didn't touch a camera at all. 10 minutes ago, I had an empty account. I'm gonna show you every click from signing up to the finished video, so you can follow along and make one today. If you have never made an AI video before, good, this video is made for you. So you don't have to have a film degree, you don't need editing skills, you don't even have to be good with prompts. I'll give you all three of my prompts. They're in the description too. You can just follow along. If you run a small business or a side hustle, this is a fast way to get a video for your page. You don't want to have to go pay people thousands and thousands of dollars. You can do it yourself. We're going to help you get a video created for your page, your product, or your ads without filming anything. We're going to do it in three steps here. First, we're going to create your character. Then we're going to make a character sheet so that your character looks the same in every shot. It's not a new character when you generate new videos. Then we're going to turn it into a 15 second video that actually has sound to go along with it. And then at the end we'll do a bonus step where you can put your new character into a trending viral video. Real quick, there's two kinds of AI tools that are going to show up in this video. Image models make pictures, they make images. Video models make those images move. So that's the whole difference between them. On the image side, there's Nano Banana, which is great for editing a photo you already have, like changing the outfit or the background. There's GPT Image, which follows really detailed instructions, and it's great for product shots and readable text. There's Soul Cinema, which makes cinematic film-looking pictures. And then there's Seed Dream, which is the all-rounder for people, places, and detailed scenes. On the video side, there's one which fills in the motion between a first frame and a last frame. There's Kling, which is good at action and making people move. And then there's Seed Dance, which takes your character in your scene and makes the movement and the sound together for up to 30 seconds. So today I'm going to be using GPT images for the pictures because it does exactly what the prompt says. And I'll use Seed Dance 2.5 for the videos because it gives the most realistic results. There are a lot of AI sites out there today. The reason I'm using Higgs field is that every model I just named is in one One place, on one plan, with one credit balance. So you're not paying for five different subscriptions that you have to jump around. And I have a link for Higgs Field, so I'm gonna open Higgs Field through my link, which is in the description. New users who sign up with my link, they get 50% off their first purchase with Higgs Field. Sign up here in the top right, and I'm creating a brand new account right now, so just so you can see that it's empty, so put in your email there. Enter a password. So for this tutorial you need the plus plan because SeedDream 2.5 is not on the starter plan. So in plus is 47 euros per month if you are paying monthly or if you pay annually it's 35 euros per month and that comes with 1200 credits which is about 600 images or 80 videos and of course longer or higher quality videos are going to cost more credits but before you hit generate it'll always show you how many credits you're using for that video. Plus also gets you access to all the models so you can use whatever you want. And for 14 days, you get unlimited SeedDream 2.5 at 720p so you can use it quite a bit. And for 60 days, you get a whole bunch of unlimited that they offer for you. You can pay monthly, you can pay annually, and of course you can cancel at any time. Now if you're going to be doing this more professionally, like making videos for other people as well, the Ultra Plan might be a better option for you. Gets you 3,000 credits per month with 1,500 images or 200 videos on SeedDream. But to start, you really just need plus here when you're starting out. And remember, if you sign up through my link, you get 50% off your first purchase. All right, so now you have a paid Higgs field account, and there's a whole bunch of tabs here up at the top. For this tutorial that we're going through, we're just going to be using image, video, and then genjutsu. So you can ignore the other tabs for now. Step one, we're gonna create the character. So we're gonna go to image and create image. Down here is where you select the model and we're gonna be using GPT image 2.6 flare. And this is the one that I would use for a character because it follows instructions really closely. So if you already have an image like of yourself or another, you know, person that you want to create an image for, a character for, you can upload it here. But in my case, I'm going to describe the person that I want to create. You can see it's 2.75 credits and I'm going to go ahead and generate. So my character is a woman who runs a food truck and I just put everything into the prompt that I want in this image. who she is what she's wearing the background the style all that and if writing a prompt like this seems kind of hard to you you can actually work with ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini and work with it to help give you the prompt okay she looks pretty good i'm gonna generate another one a couple more options i'm gonna make it three by four for our character sheet we're gonna make so that's gonna make it kind of a taller picture and take out the sides a little bit generate this one Images generate really, really quickly. Alright, so this is our food truck lady. Full body, the face is clear, the outfit exactly like I asked for. Now the next step is something that beginners usually skip, and it's why their videos look kinda off, is we want to make a character sheet for this character, so that when we're generating videos, it always looks the same. So a character sheet is basically just a person, but from different angles, so that you get all the views of this one person. So for this prompt, we're going to go to references and generations, and we're going to use this lady as the reference, and I'm going to switch to GPT image 2.6 sunburst, and sunburst is the version for like precise edits, so it'll keep the person the same. The aspect ratio for this one, we're going to do a 16 by 9, so that's like a normal, you know, computer screen. And then what we're doing is we're asking to use the picture as a reference and then make a character sheet of that exact same woman in three panels, side by side, full front view, Full, both sides and a closeup of the face wearing the same clothes and then we will generate. All right, so we've got the same woman, but we got her from the front, we have her from the side, and then we have a closeup of her face. So this is our character sheet. This is all ready to go. So now it's time to make her moves. We're gonna go over to the video lab. The model's already set to C-Dance 2.5, so that's correct. For references, you can just go back to image generations and we can use our character sheet there saying image one is the main character. She slides open the service window of a small teal food truck. Her face, hair, glasses, and clothes the same. And up here where it says image one, I just type at and then it'll pop up my image here and I can just click that and that's where that image one comes from. But the prompt says four things. Who's in it? What happens? How the camera moves and what we hear. That's really what videos are looking for. Duration, let's go to 15 seconds. Does go all the way up to 30 if you're wanting something longer, but we'll do 15. We're gonna make the aspect ratio 16 by nine. So that's like a YouTube video. We'll turn the quality down to 720. We don't need it, 1080. You can see it saved some credits. And again, you can see the cost is right there. So it's 105 credits to generate this video. All right, we'll click generate. One thing I really love about AI is that you don't have to sit here and wait for it. You can go work on something else and then when this is ready, it'll be here for you. So when it's, so when the video is done, here's what I check. Is it the same person? Is it the same face? Does anything look off? Does anything look AI generated? If it does, I just have to change the prompt a little bit and regenerate. But actually this one looked really great just, you know, first run here. But the beauty of AI generation is I can change the prompt just a little bit and get a completely different result. Let's say instead of at sunrise, let's say at night with string lights and then instead of birds and light morning traffic, let's say a lively evening crowd. So I changed the prompt just a little bit and watch this. We'll get something completely different. All right, so let's see what it came up with this time. See, so we just changed the prompt just a little bit and you can get a completely different result. That's the beauty of AI generation. I'm going to go ahead and download this one so we can use it. All right, so we got our character. We got our character sheet. We got our first video generated. Congratulations. Now the bonus. We're going to go to Genjutsu, but you can take a video that is trending on Higgsfield and put your character into it. So here are some of the trending videos. You can pick whichever one you would like. I'm actually, I'm going to do this soccer one. I think this would be it. I'm going to hit recreate. I'm going to hit the trash can icon. We'll use our character sheet there. We're going to switch to 720 quality and plus actually comes with free genjutsu generation so we're going to use one of those so this is free this doesn't cost anything all right let's generate see how our character looks in that soccer video You said, love me, take me in your arms, and I have no one left. And don't let your smell impregnate my arms, and if you abandon me... So there is our food truck lady playing soccer in that video. So think about where you were 10 minutes ago. So you'd never made an AI video. Now you've watched one come together from an empty account. You made a character, a character sheet, a 15-second video with sound, and a bonus trend video. And this skill is only getting bigger. Grandview Research expects that AI video generating market to be more than quadruple by 2033. So growing about 20% per year. So this is a skill that you definitely want to learn and get good at. And the good news is that anyone can learn this, even without a background in video, even without a background in tech. I just walked you through, it's pretty easy. So if you want to try it, sign up through the link in the description. As a new user, you'll get 50% off your first purchase on Hicksfield. Start with plus, and then use your first week of Unlimited Nano Banana 2 to experiment as much as you can. My three prompts will be down in the description as well. So you can copy them, swap them in, Experiment a little bit. Thank you so much for watching. God bless you all and have a great rest of your day.