How to Make an AI Video in ChatGPT: A Guide to a Video Plugin, From Install to an Edited Film

ChatGPT can run real video engines through a plugin, and return a finished video to the conversation. How to install it, what to write, how you see the price before anything runs, and how to get from one clip to a whole film.

ChatGPT is already where many videos begin: the idea, the script and the ad copy are written there. But the moment you need the video itself, most people open a new tab, sign up for another site and paste everything in again. A video plugin saves all of that. It gives ChatGPT access to video, image, voice and music engines, so the video is made inside the same conversation where the idea was born. This guide shows how to install one, what to write, and what to watch out for.

Can ChatGPT Make Videos?

ChatGPT can make images on its own, but cinematic video with motion, voice and music needs dedicated engines. That is exactly what plugins are for: add-ons from ChatGPT's plugin directory that give it new tools. Cadabra AI is one such plugin. Once installed, ChatGPT can run video engines such as Seedance and Kling, make pictures, read text aloud in a human voice, write and compose a song, and join shots into an edited film.

Install the Plugin

• In ChatGPT's side menu, open Plugins and search for Cadabra AI
• Click Install plugin
• Cadabra AI's access screen opens: sign in with Google and check that access is delivered to chatgpt.com
• Click Allow and return to the chat. In a new chat, start the request with @Cadabra so ChatGPT hands it to the plugin

Worth knowing: Without @Cadabra at the start of the message, ChatGPT sometimes answers on its own instead of running the plugin, and you get a script instead of a video.

What to Write to Get a Good Video

The simple formula has four parts: who or what is in the frame, where it happens, what happens within a few seconds, and how the camera moves. Add the format, vertical for Reels and TikTok or wide for YouTube, and the length. You do not need technical terms, but "the camera slowly moves in" works better than "something dynamic".

@Cadabra a 10 second vertical video: a cup of coffee on a wooden table by a window, steam rising, soft morning light, the camera slowly moving in

Before anything runs, a card appears in the chat with the full prompt that will reach the engine, the price in credits, and an approve button. Only after you approve is the video made, and within one to three minutes it comes back to the chat. It is also saved in your private gallery on the site, so you can download it or keep editing from there.

With Your Own Photos and Files

Want a video of your product, your dog, or yourself? Ask to upload a file, and an upload button appears inside the chat. It takes several files at once and keeps the originals untouched, with no loss of quality. A video that starts from a real photo stays faithful to it: the same face, the same product, the same place.

From One Clip to an Edited Film

• Ask for several shots, one after another, approving each before the next
• Add a voiceover from a script, in the voice you chose
• Add music, or a full song with your own lyrics
• Ask for captions, in another language too
• The editor joins it all into one film, and you ask for fixes in words

What It Costs

The price of every creation is on the card before you approve, and if a creation fails and no file is made, the credits come back by themselves. Credits come from a pack you buy on the Cadabra AI website, with no monthly subscription, and they work across every engine, in the chat and on the site. The packs, and what each one is enough for, are listed on the connector page on the site.

Common Mistakes

• Forgetting @Cadabra, and getting a written answer instead of a video
• Asking for a long video in one go. Start from one shot and build from it
• Describing your face in words instead of uploading a photo
• Asking for text inside the video. Titles and captions are added in the edit, where they come out sharp

Get Started

The "Cadabra inside Claude and ChatGPT" page on the site has real examples with a button that opens each one straight in ChatGPT, the packs, and the install steps with a picture of every screen.

Where to go next

• 105 image codes, and here they run
• 61 codes that turn a picture into a clip
• More guides on the blog