🎥 How to Create a Video Using Sora (OpenAI)

Sora is OpenAI’s groundbreaking AI that turns text into high-quality video, based on your description. It can generate up to 1080p video clips with realistic motion, lighting, and scenes – all from a prompt.

🧰 What You Need

• A ChatGPT Plus or Pro account (Sora is available via ChatGPT with GPT-4 Turbo).
• An internet browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, etc.).
• A creative idea or script!

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

1. Go to Sora

• Visit https://chat.openai.com and log in.
• Use GPT-4 Turbo (Sora is integrated into it).
• OR access directly at https://openai.com/sora if enabled in your workspace or account.

⚠️ Sora is currently in limited preview — if you're part of the test group or a Pro user, you'll see access options.

2. Write a Great Prompt

Think of your video as a movie scene. Sora works best with detailed, cinematic prompts.

🧠 Prompt Tips:

• Be visual: Describe settings, lighting, actions, and mood.
• Include camera movement (if needed).
• Mention characters, animals, objects, colors, style (realistic, claymation, anime, etc.).

🎯 Example Prompts:

• “A futuristic Tokyo street at night, glowing neon signs, flying cars passing overhead, rainy atmosphere, cinematic view.”
• “A cozy cottage in the forest, smoke rising from the chimney, snow gently falling, wide-angle shot.”
• “A corgi surfing a huge ocean wave in slow motion, in the style of a GoPro commercial.”

3. Submit the Prompt

• Paste your prompt into the GPT-4 Turbo chat.
• Add: “Create a video with Sora based on this prompt.”
• Sora will generate and display your video preview (takes seconds to a few minutes).

4. Preview & Fine-Tune

• Watch your generated clip.
• If it’s not quite right:
  • Ask for changes (“Make it daytime”, “Change the animal to a cat”, “Zoom in slowly”).
  • Or revise your prompt and resubmit.

Sora lets you:

• Extend the clip
• Loop a segment
• Change scene style
• Combine or "blend" videos

5. Add Effects (Optional)

In some cases, Sora offers:

• Storyboard Mode (organize multiple clips in a timeline)
• Remix Tools (re-cut or reframe scenes)
• Style Presets (e.g., Film Noir, Claymation, Sci-fi, Papercraft)

6. Download Your Video

Once you're happy:

• Click Download.
• Choose resolution:
  • 720p for ChatGPT Plus
  • 1080p for ChatGPT Pro
• Watermarks are removed with Pro.

7. Edit or Share

Optional final touches:

• Import into CapCut, Canva, iMovie, DaVinci Resolve, etc. for sound, music, transitions.
• Upload to YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, or embed in presentations.

🎬 Bonus: Creating a Short Film or Story

Want to build multiple scenes?

1. Write your script broken into scenes.
2. Generate each scene as a separate video.
3. Use a video editor to stitch them together with music and voice-over.

🧠 Extra Creative Prompt Ideas:

• “An astronaut floating above Saturn’s rings at sunset”
• “A paper-cut style animation of a fox running through the forest”
• “A slow-motion splash of paint in 3D, abstract background”

❗ Good to Know

• Videos are currently limited to ~20 seconds per prompt.
• Cannot yet generate voices/dialogue – but you can add voice-overs in an editor.
• Sora videos include metadata tags to mark them as AI-generated.