edge-tts + ffmpeg + Pexels
Turn a script into a captioned long-form video plus three vertical Shorts and a thumbnail, with a free local stack and no subscriptions.
✓ Real production code · ✓ Drop-in · ✓ Setup guide included · ✓ Single-project commercial use · ✓ 30-day money-back guarantee
A real render from the kit: word-synced captions, real b-roll, an animated overlay, and a thumbnail. No watermark.
Each scene is one short object: a template, a headline, and the voiceover line. Write it by hand, or have an AI write it from a prompt.
Prompt (the scene schema is in the kit docs):
Write a 45-second faceless YouTube Short as the kit's scene JSON:
a hook, two focus tips, and a CTA to the Faceless YouTube Kit.
Keep each voiceover line under 20 words.
It returns a scene file like this:
{
"slug": "focus-showcase", "format": "portrait",
"scenes": [
{"template": "hook", "h1": "Can't focus at home?", "bg": ["typing-laptop.mp4"]},
{"template": "tip", "badge": "1", "h1": "One screen rule", "lines": ["Close every tab but one"]},
{"template": "cta", "h1": "Which will you try?", "card_title": "Faceless YouTube Kit"}
]
}
The kit renders the video above, plus three vertical Shorts and a thumbnail, from that one file.
Getting edge-tts word timings into ffmpeg ASS captions, deriving three Shorts from a single long-form render, and fetching b-roll without burning an API budget takes days to wire up correctly. This kit has it working, documented, and tested.
Write one scene JSON, run one command, and get a 16:9 deep-dive with chapters and up to three vertical 9:16 Shorts ready to upload.
edge-tts word timings feed directly into an ffmpeg ASS subtitle burn, so every word highlights exactly when it is spoken.
make_thumbnail.py renders a branded still from your scene JSON using the same headless-browser pipeline as the video.
fetch_pexels.py and fetch_pixabay.py pull royalty-free clips to your local assets/ folder; the renderer picks them up automatically.
setup.py walks through API keys, fetches starter CC-BY music with attribution, and runs a smoke-test render so you know everything is wired before you write a scene.
GUIDE.md documents every field: hook, tip, dialogue, cta, music bed, broll, Ken Burns, chapter markers, and the retention method behind the scene order.
The exact, working implementation, generalised so you drop it into your own project and move on.
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