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This workflow follows the Airtable → HTTP Request recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.
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"name": "Long Video to Short Clips \u2014 Opus Clip + Airtable + Cloudinary + Buffer",
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"name": "Weekly Content Creation",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
"notes": "Runs once a week and starts the clipping pipeline. Change day and hour here.",
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"notes": "Creates a clip project at Opus Clip. IMPORTANT: replace the webhook url in the JSON body with the production URL of the 'Wait for Opus' node. Edit brandTemplateId and clipDurations to change the look and length of the clips.",
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"notes": "Turns the API's data array into one item per clip.",
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"notes": "Lists the finished clips. The project id is taken straight from the Opus callback, so nothing needs to be filled in here. Uses the same Header Auth credential as 'Send to Opus'.",
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"name": "Post TikTok",
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"notes": "Click this to process a video immediately instead of waiting for the weekly run.",
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"type": "n8n-nodes-cloudinary.cloudinary",
"notes": "Social APIs need a public URL, not a file. Cloudinary hosts the video and returns that URL. Any public file host works here.",
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"notes": "Waits one hour before fetching the clips. Opus reports 'done' before every export file is actually available.",
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About this workflow
This workflow pulls queued long-form video URLs from Airtable, sends them to Opus Clip to generate short clips, uploads finished clips to Cloudinary for public hosting, stores them back in Airtable, and posts one clip per slot to Instagram Reels and TikTok via Buffer. Runs…
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