I Built an AI Studio That Turns 1 Line of Text Into a 5-Minute Short Drama

Short summary

Developer built Shortify AI, an open-source platform automating China's $70B short-drama market. Full pipeline—LLM scriptwriting, image generation, multi-voice TTS, FFmpeg compositing—produces 1080p videos in 5 minutes versus traditional 1–2 weeks. Uses GLM-4-Flash, Wan2.7-image, iFlytek with intelligent fallbacks for API failures.

• •End-to-end automation: one text prompt becomes 5-minute drama with script, visuals, dubbing, and 1080p video
• •Architecture layers LLMs, image generation, TTS, and video compositing with fallback strategies for each stage
• •Collapses traditional 5–10 person, 1–2 week production cycle into solo builder, ~5 minute runtime

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