Storyboard · Faceless Stock Short
5 Money Habits — built entirely from real stock footage
A captioned vertical short where every shot is a real pre-shot clip from Pexels — no AI video generation, so nothing hung and nothing drifted. Topic → finished reel in well under a minute of GPU time.
reliability 4.8 · no i2v stage
Why this format is bulletproof. Five generic b-roll beats ("coins in a jar", "stock chart", "home cooking") that would each be a 60–300s i2v gamble on fal instead become five ~1–2s stock lookups. The only AI calls are the voiceover and the music bed. There is no video-generation step to hang, time out, or drift.
What it's made of: a warm, trustworthy voiceover (
gemini-tts · voice "Kore", mentor tone), an acoustic instrumental bed (music), burned captions (local ffmpeg), and 5 real licensed clips fetched by stock-footage-fetch.The five beats — 38s · 1080×1920
Pay yourself first · Track every dollar · Kill high-interest debt · Invest early · Live below your means.
The pipeline
| Script + keywords | per-beat VO line + concrete search keywords (the keywords describe the footage, not the narration) |
| Footage | stock-footage-fetch ×5 — real Pexels clips, ranked for 9:16 + duration. ~1–2s each, $0. |
| Voiceover | gemini-tts (voice "Kore", warm trustworthy-mentor tone) — one read per beat; caption + clip trimmed to its length |
| Captions | burned on-screen (faceless shorts are watched muted) |
| Finish | ffmpeg concat → 1080×1920 → instrumental music bed ducked under the VO → ffprobe gate |
Honest notes.
- All footage is real licensed stock (Pexels), credited to its contributors — generic b-roll, not bespoke. For a specific character/product, use AI generation or the hybrid variant.
- This is the
faceless-stock-shortplaybook's flagship run. The same recipe powers the never-fail fallback: when an AI i2v job hangs, the server substitutes a stock clip like these — labeled and reversible.