How to Create Viral Motivational Shorts Using Canva and ChatGPT | Step-by-Step Guide

this channel publishes motivational shorts and has an impressive 3.8 million subscribers one unique aspect is its use of a dark theme in the videos also in the motivational category animal themed shorts tend to get more views on Tik Tok a similar Channel uses a dark theme for its videos interestingly two their videos which use cinematic footages in a popular voice over receive significantly more views than the others we will also use cinematic clips for our shorts remember this you'll be alone in the most difficult times of your life these times will make you wise mature

and Fe I just want to remind you that nothing is permanent in this life don't stress yourself too much because no matter how bad the S all right let's get to work first go to chat GPT to ask for motivational quotes I requested 20 quotes that are more creative and specified a minimum word count also ensure they are suitable for cinematic footages you can ask for as many quotes as you want these are the quotes I received I also asked for animal-based motivational quotes with a minimum of 20 words because this is another effective way

to to create motivational videos in this video I'll show you how to create both cinematic footages and animal themed motivational shorts see the quotes I have received now let's go to canva and search for YouTube shorts there are a few templates suitable for motivational videos but I choose a blank one to start with a clean slate you can also find templates here next go to elements since I am creating a short using cinematic footage search for cinematic and then go to videos there are a lot of videos available so filter the orientation to Vertical from

here now you can find vertical videos this is the first quote which is about a journey I am going to create a video for this quote choose suitable videos for the quote this video matches the quote pretty well so I'll pick it right click on the video and set set it as the background I added two clips for the short let's check this clip no we'll pick another [Music] one okay I choose this one click the plus icon to add a new page then add the video to it rightclick and set it as the background

this is a landscape video but it fits nicely to the page with the [Music] human now let's make these videos darker Click on each video go to edit then adjust adjust the brightness highlights and saturation As You [Music] Wish play with the adjustment bars to get the desired theme next I want to add a voice over to the videos go to the app menu choose AI powered tools and you will find many AI tools there are a few tools to add voiceovers Mur AI is one of them here it is another tool it but I

choose this one because it has pretty decent voices for motivation click on it open first you have to sign up with your Gmail once signed up connect to the app you only have 500 tokens for free if you run out you can try other voiceover tools or you can use 11 lab which also has pretty decent voices select the speaker let's try a few mail speakers what are the main impediments to a restart a powerful and effective online text to speech editor is here create your account and generate realistic text to speech audio using online

artificial intelligence speech generator hi my name is is Brian I will read any text you type here this one seems most suitable for motivational videos so I'll pick it and set the speed to medium now enter the quote go to chat GPT and copy the first quote then paste it here I've added some commas to the text to give more control to the flow of the voice click generate let's play it every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look back okay it sounds better now make suitable adjustments and arrange

the video to fit the voice over finally go to share and download the [Music] video it will be saved in the downloads folder let's play it every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look back now we need to add captions and background music to add captions I use cap [Music] cut br and drop the video into cap cut then drag it into the timeline I am going to add a transition effect between the two clips of our video first I'll split it from here then go to Transitions [Music] I'll

pick this transition and drag and drop it between the two clips like this from here you can change the duration of the transition okay this is better now we're going to add captions go to captions choose autoc caption and click generate this will generate captions according to our voice over let's play it every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look back it shows the captions as lines or paragraphs so we need to split those click on a caption and from the right side menu choose captions you can easily split

from here just click on the caption where you want to split then press enter do the same for all the captions every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look back now it's better I made slight adjustments to the captions like this this every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look back now it perfectly fits from the text menu you can edit the text of the caption I increase the font size which will apply to all captions if you select this tick here I bolded

and italicized the text [Music] if you want to change the style of the text you can do it from [Music] here I kept the previous style as it is Journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look back now I want to add background music to find copyright free music go to pixabay filter the search to music and then choose motivation you'll find several motivational tracks I chose this one and downloaded it from here to see the license click here and you can view the license agreement okay now add it to cap

cut and drag drag it onto the timeline I want this peak part to fit into the transition let's cut the track from here keep the cursor where you want to cut and select the track then from here click on left split and it will cut the left part of the track drag it so the peak part fits into the transition now I adjust the track by dragging the left side handle cut the right part of the track from here [Music] let's play it every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never

look [Music] back the music volume is high compared to the voiceover so click on the track and reduce the volume from here every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look [Music] back okay now it's better go to export select the resolution location and other settings then export it this is the exported video every great journey begins with a single step keep moving forward and never look [Music] back okay it looks awesome now I am going to create an animal motivation video using the same procedure the first quote is about

an eagle the second about a lion and the third about a hummingbird likewise each corresponding to an animal let's head over to canva in elements you can search for videos for each animal there are plenty of options available find a video for the eagle then for the lion and so [Music] on I've picked the videos for the first quote which is about the eagle okay then this is the final video be like the eagle soaring high above the storms using the challenges of life to lift you higher than ever before see it looks awesome and

the procedure is very easy to follow like the video subscribe my channel click the Bell icon and stay tuned with me [Music]