Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com

You can get ChatGPT to write scripts all day long. Hook ideas, product explainers, hot takes. It will generate dozens in minutes. But turning that text into an actual TikTok video? That's where most people stall out. They open CapCut or Premiere, spend 30 minutes per clip, and the "automation" dream dies on the editing timeline.

The bottleneck isn't the writing. It's the video production step. And you can eliminate it entirely with an API call.

The Pipeline: ChatGPT to TikTok in Four Steps

ChatGPT generates a short-form video script via API.