Shortform-Video-Generator

This project creates shortform videos (like TikTok, Reels) from plain text using AI tools.

Demo link

✨ Features

• 🔊 Text-to-speech using TikTok TTS
• 🧠 AI-generated, word-level subtitles using OpenAI Whisper
• 🎥 Automatic video composition with background video & music
• 💬 Burned-in, styled subtitles (font size, position, bold)
• 🧪 One command = complete video with synced captions

🛠 Tech Stack

• Node.js + TypeScript
• OpenAI Whisper API
• FFmpeg via fluent-ffmpeg
• TikTok TTS (unofficial API)

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/Ali-Onar/shortform-video-generator.git
cd shortform-video-generator
npm install

Create a .env file:

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key_here

Usage

Add video and music into src/assets folder.

npx tsx src/index.ts

Your final video will be saved in /output/output.mp4

Acknowledgements

Inspired by the egebese/brainrot-generator repo that Ege created with Python codes.

from  https://github.com/Ali-Onar/shortform-video-generator