[n8n Template] AI Shorts Automation Template with Kie.ai Veo-3 & Perplexity

Product Overview

Scale short-form content without scaling your team. This template turns idea discovery → prompt & text generation → Veo-3 video rendering → vertical formatting → multi-channel publishing into one cohesive pipeline. It’s built natively on n8n, so you keep full control, self-host if you want, and extend every step with your own logic.

What’s Inside (Modular Building Blocks)

• Idea Engine – AI generates concise, surprising facts and a visual metaphor per topic (swappable LLM/provider).
• Prompt & Text Composer – Crafts an 8-second, cinematic Veo-3 prompt + title, caption, description, hashtags, tags in a consistent brand voice.
• Renderer Integration – Kie.ai → Veo-3 (16:9, 1080p) for fast, cinematic clips.
• Vertical Formatter – FFmpeg pipeline converts to 1080×1920, adds top/bottom text bands (15–20 words), and preserves loop smoothness.
• Multi-Channel Distribution – Uploads to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels (via secure public URL), and Telegram for internal review/approvals.
• Scheduler & Orchestration – CRON triggers, retries, and lightweight polling make the system dependable for daily publishing.

Why These Components (and why they work together)

• Veo-3 via Kie.ai provides a sweet spot of quality + speed, ideal for short loops where style coherence matters.
• n8n brings vendor-neutral orchestration: you can swap LLMs, add rate limits, branch flows, or trigger on events—without rewriting your stack.
• FFmpeg ensures platform-native look (9:16, crisp text bands, no blurry hacks).
• Public URL micro-service returns the final MP4 with the correct headers (video/mp4), so Instagram can ingest reliably—no third-party hosting required.
• Separation of concerns (idea → text → render → edit → publish) makes it easy to A/B test any stage independently.

Key Benefits

• Hands-Free Consistency: Daily output with a repeatable creative pattern that audiences recognize.
• Brand-Safe Copy: Titles, descriptions, and hashtags follow a controlled structure—polished by design.
• Time Savings: Replace fragmented tooling with one pipeline; no manual re-formatting, captioning, or re-uploads.
• Creator-Grade Quality: Cinematic loops optimized for watch time and retention on Shorts/Reels.
• Own Your Stack: Self-hosted orchestration and storage; no lock-in.

Reuse & Extension Ideas

• Topic CMS: Feed topics from Google Sheets / Notion and mark each as “published”—perfect for content calendars.
• Multi-Language: Duplicate the text composer for EN/DE outputs; upload the same clip with localized metadata.
• Thumbnail/Preview Track: Add an image generator step for platform cards or YouTube custom thumbnails.
• Analytics Feedback Loop: Fetch video performance, score ideas, and prioritize winning angles automatically.
• Compliance & Fact Trails: Store sources next to each post for quick audits and edits.
• Storage & Delivery: Push masters to S3/Backblaze, serve via CDN for faster IG ingestion.
• More Channels: Add TikTok, X, LinkedIn publishers or a newsletter export.
• A/B Creative: Render multiple Veo-3 seeds, rotate captions/CTAs, and compare retention.

Who It’s For

• Agencies wanting repeatable, branded Shorts at scale.
• Creators & Media Teams who need daily output with minimal overhead.
• Product Marketing looking to convert docs/reports into snackable, evergreen video facts.
• Startups building audience fast without adding headcount.

Technical Notes (at a glance)

• Orchestration: n8n (self-hosted or cloud).
• Video: Veo-3 via Kie.ai (16:9 render → FFmpeg vertical remaster 1080×1920).
• Text Stack: Any LLM provider (swappable); outputs normalized for each platform.
• Distribution: YouTube Data API v3, Instagram Graph API (media → media_publish), Telegram Bot API.
• Security: API keys via n8n credentials/ENV; public URL endpoint only serves whitelisted .mp4 filenames with proper headers.
• Reliability: CRON triggers, bounded retries/polling, and safe fallbacks to avoid stuck runs.

Why Buy This Template

You’re not buying a script—you’re buying a production-ready system with a deliberate creative pattern, best-practice formatting, and shipping-grade integrations. It reduces ramp-up from weeks to hours and gives you a flexible base you can keep evolving.

Questions or custom requests?
📩 suliemansaid.business@gmail.com