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AI Video Automation Engine - Generate & Publish Yt Shorts with Veo-3 or Sora 2

BySuS @sulieman-said on n8n.io

Scale short-form content without scaling your team. This template turns idea discovery → prompt & text generation → Veo-3 video rendering → vertical formatting → multi-channel publishing into one cohesive pipeline. It’s built natively on n8n, so you keep full control, self-host…

Cron / scheduled trigger★★★★☆ complexityAI-powered21 nodesYouTubeGoogle Gemini ChatOutput Parser StructuredPerplexityAgentHTTP RequestRead Write FileExecute Command
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This workflow corresponds to n8n.io template #8429 — we link there as the canonical source.

This workflow follows the Agent → HTTP Request recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.

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About this workflow

Scale short-form content without scaling your team. This template turns idea discovery → prompt & text generation → Veo-3 video rendering → vertical formatting → multi-channel publishing into one cohesive pipeline. It’s built natively on n8n, so you keep full control, self-host…

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/8429/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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