Adventure in Making a Short video & Quick results: Cat Video

I've been teaching courses about how to write and market your book at a nearby adult ed school, and met several local folks who have written or are writing books. One of them, an engineer named Ethan, has published 4 books for young kids and 4 teen/adult sci-fiction novels. He's a talented writer who knows how to tell a story. So we've been talking a lot since last semester and helping each other. Today's blog is about my attempt to use AI and his help.

(An image I created with AI that made a collage instead of a video!)

Ethan and I have been helping each other on our respective books, and he's good at using AI, while I am not. He created two book trailers for two of his novels, and they were really good! So, I tried ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and a few others, and none would create videos, they only create an image. 

Ethan told me about an AI to create videos, and it's a subscription service. I can see subscribing if I were a video producer, but as a layman, who needs a few videos a month, it adds up. Regardless, I told him what I was trying to create and all of the attempts I made failed.

I had written out a short script based on one of the medium readings I did, where a cat kept giving me the name of a living person they liked but did not live with. It blew the mind of the pet parent, because she never expected the cat to call out anyone outside of the family in a medium reading. Same thing happened with a dog during their reading. But pets acknlowedge everyone who shows them kindness.

Ethan surprised me by taking my short script and cat image and creating a short video for me, which is in today's blog. I'm SO thankful to Ethan, and need to figure it out myself! 

QUICK RESULTS: I uploaded the video to TikTok and You Tube. In a couple of hours it was viewed 85 times on TikTok (1 on YouTube) and I noticed that "Pets and the Afterlife 4: Messages from Spirit Cats" - shot up in sales to be the most popular sold book of the day. So, making short 30-60 second videos is apparently the way to go. For YEARS I have been doing still images and blogs with good content. It seems everyone just wants to watch a video now. 

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/MP3mx7_4If4?si=lcjpZpSefUkMND3a

HERE'S THE TEXT I PUT WITH THE YOUTUBE UPLOAD:

Learn how your pets communicate from the afterlife!

Read the "Pets and the Afterlife" series of books by Rob Gutro.

In many readings Rob has done, pets will come through with names of people they appreciate - even outside of the immediate family. **Learn what signs to watch for, and that nothing is a coincidence!**

BUY THE BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Pets-Afterlife-Messages-Spirit-Cats-ebook/dp/B0BMKFVM2R?ref_=ast_author_mpb