Make Your First AI Video in 3 Hours: 5 Steps with Codex (No Experience Needed)

Without any video editing background, I made my first AI video in only 3 hours with codecs. And so can you. And through

the whole thing, I didn't write a line of code or do any editing by hand. Hi, welcome to Jelly Pop Labs. You found

my very first video. Come along and I hope my mistakes save you a few of your own.

In this video, I'll walk you through five steps to make a video like this one with codecs or anything equivalent.

Let's get started. Step one, install. You need codecs or cloud code. I used both only because hit

its usage limit halfway through. Then install the skills. A skill is basically an instruction manual for one

job. a text file that tells Codeex when to use it and what to do. You don't need to open it yourself. Codeex picks the

right skill based on what you ask it to do. Skills come in packages and some

packages are huge. The social media one, for example, has 106 skills. I only installed seven. So, don't just tell

Codeex, "Install this package." Tell it what you're trying to make and have it pick the skills you actually need.

Everything I used for this video is on screen. That's the whole list. Step two, the script.

Most AI video tutorials go straight to the tools. Hey Genen, fish audio, hyperframes, all these shiny things to

play with. But halfway through my first version, it hit me. What am I even trying to say?

So honestly, don't use a skill just because it looks cool. Wait until you have something to say, then build.

I had never written a video script before, so this one went through 16 versions.

I had a few different skills review each other's drafts, then read everything myself.

Some drafts were too corporate, some buried the point, some just didn't sound like me. I cut all of that, and slowly

it became what you're hearing now. Step three, the voice. The voice you're hearing right now is a clone made by

Fish Audio from about two minutes of my own recording and it almost didn't work. By version two, I almost gave up. Then

version three came back and it sounded a lot more like me. And that thing I said half out of frustration generated

sentence by sentence turned out to be the method. Codeex used a skill called fish audio API. Every sentence became

its own MP3 named after its sentence ID. So we could control the pauses. And if I changed one sentence, only that file got

rebuilt. Nothing else changed. Step four, the storyboard. I had never made a storyboard before, so

I asked codeex with this prompt. It used general video from hyperframes and gave me a sketch for each scene

first. I didn't like the colors much, but I had no idea what I wanted either. So, I

asked Codeex to give me a few options, and I chose the palette that matches my logo.

What you're looking at now is the version after that. So, working with AI really comes down to three things. Say

what's wrong, say how you want it changed, and if you don't know, ask for options. And it's not just for video. It

works the same way for a website, an app, anything you build with AI. Step five, build. This is where the

video actually gets made. I hit one big problem in my practice version. Codeex never asked whether I

wanted landscape or portrait. It just built a 45se secondond vertical draft. I only found out when the whole thing was

done. Redo. So this time build one segment, play it, give feedback, then move on to the next

one. Keep the feedback small and concrete, then add captions, export, and watch the

whole thing from start to finish. That's where I caught the last problems. A caption showing up early, a scene that

hadn't fully cleared, one narration line with its ending clipped off. Only then is the video actually done.

So, that's the first finished video I made with these five steps. Thanks for watching all the way to the end. If

you'd like a more detailed walkthrough of any one step or there's another project you'd like me to try with AI,

tell me in the comments below. This is Jellyop Labs. If you want to see what I try next, like and subscribe.

Let's learn together. See you next time.