Project #7 · High-Yield Production MVP

Faceless Shorts & Reels Factory (Autoshorts)

Automated short-video pipeline: hook generation, speech tempo computation, word-timed kinetic captions, and open-source FFmpeg rendering for faceless YouTube and Instagram channels.

Monetization Reality & YouTube Partner Program Thresholds: Qualification requires 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 valid public watch hours in 12 months OR 10M valid Shorts views in 90 days. Meeting these thresholds does not guarantee acceptance. Never use uncredited copyrighted music or clips.

Short Script PipelineEst. Duration: 34s (Under 60s Shorts Limit)

Visual Template

1. 3-Second Hook (Retention Anchor)

2. Core Value Narrative

3. Call to Action (CTA)

TTS: Kokoro-82M · Whisper Word Timestamps

FFmpeg Production Render Command

# 100% Free FFmpeg Video Render Command (No Remotion license constraints)
ffmpeg -y -loop 1 -i background.jpg -i voiceover.mp3 \
  -vf "subtitles=captions.srt:force_style='Fontname=IBM Plex Sans,FontSize=28,Bold=1,PrimaryColour=&H00FFFF,Alignment=2,MarginV=140'" \
  -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a aac -b:a 192k -pix_fmt yuv420p -shortest \
  output_short_9x16.mp4

Asset Licence Log (Zero Copyright Risk)

Kokoro TTS (v0.19)

Apache 2.0 (Open-Source)

✓ Clear

faster-whisper word timestamps

MIT License

✓ Clear

Ambient Focus Tape

CC-BY 4.0 (Commercial OK)

✓ Clear

Cloud Architecture B-Roll

Pexels CC0 (Royalty-Free)

✓ Clear

9:16 Shorts60 FPS

🔥 HOOK

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9:16 Vertical Video · 89 words · ~34s