Generate short-form social videos with Claude, ElevenLabs, Creatomate and Google Drive

Description

Overview
Stop recording, editing, and posting manually. This workflow takes any topic or idea as input, uses Claude to write a punchy short-form script, ElevenLabs to generate a natural voiceover, and Creatomate to render the finished video with captions and your brand visuals and then stores it in Google Drive and alerts your team.

Built for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

How it works

Submit a video topic via the built-in form or replace it with a Schedule Trigger to pull topics from a Google Sheet automatically

Claude Sonnet writes a 45-60 second script with a strong hook, clear value points, and a call to action

ElevenLabs converts the script to a natural-sounding MP3 voiceover in your chosen voice

The audio is uploaded to Google Drive and sent to Creatomate, which renders the final video with animated captions and your brand template

The workflow waits for Creatomate to finish rendering, then retrieves the completed video file

The finished video is uploaded to Google Drive for team access

A Slack alert is sent with the Drive link and every run is logged to Google Sheets


Setup steps

Settings node — Open Configure Brand Settings and fill in your brand name, niche, tone, ElevenLabs Voice ID, Creatomate Template ID, and Drive folder name. This is the only node you need to personalise

Claude AI — Add your Anthropic API key to the Claude Sonnet sub-node from console.anthropic.com

ElevenLabs — Get your API key from elevenlabs.io and replace YOUR_ELEVENLABS_API_KEY in Generate Voiceover. Find your Voice ID under Voices in ElevenLabs

Creatomate — Sign up at creatomate.com, create a short-form video template with Voiceover, Caption, Title, and Brand elements, then add your API key and Template ID

Google Drive — Connect your Google account in Upload Audio to Drive and Upload Video to Drive. Create two folders and add their IDs to each node

Slack — Connect Slack in Notify Team - Video Ready and set your channel. Right-click and Disable if unused

Google Sheets — Create a sheet called Video Log with columns: Timestamp, Video ID, Topic, Platform, Script Preview, Status, Drive Link

TEST : Submit a test topic through the form to verify the full pipeline end to end