Yesterday, I had an interesting idea.
I had written a blog post on AI123.ca called “I Let AI Talk About My Own Blog — And I Was Blown Away.”
After writing about AI reading and talking about my own blog, I thought:
Why not let AI turn the same article into a video?
So I decided to try it.
This time, I used Pictory.
I wasn't trying to make a professional YouTube production. I simply wanted to see what would happen if I gave Pictory my blog post and asked it to turn the article into a video.
And the experiment turned out to be quite interesting.
I Started with My Blog URL
I opened Pictory and entered the URL of my article.
At first, I wasn't even sure whether it would work.
It did.
Pictory read the article and generated a video script from it.
I could see the script on the screen, along with several AI editing options such as Optimize, Rephrase, Shorten, Length, and Change Tone.
For the moment, I left the script alone.
I wanted to see what Pictory would do with my original article.
Then I clicked “Next: Video Preferences.”
Let AI Do the Work
Pictory gave me several choices.
For the visuals, I selected Auto Select.
For narration, I selected AI Voice.
Then I clicked Generate Video.
And I waited.
A few minutes later, the video was ready.
I was curious.
What would my little blog article look like as a video?
Then Came the Interesting Part
I previewed the video.
The AI voice was there.
The video had images and video clips.
Everything looked like a real video.
But as I watched, I noticed something.
The story didn't feel quite like my original article.
The individual shots were interesting enough, but they sometimes felt loosely connected. One scene would be followed by another, but the connection between them wasn't always obvious.
In other words, Pictory had made a video about the general subject, but I wasn't sure it had really captured the story I had written.
And that distinction caught my attention.
My original article was personal. It was about my experience of letting AI talk about my own blog and being surprised by what happened.
The video was more like a collection of visual scenes accompanying the subject.
That made me think.
But I Don't Want to Judge Too Quickly
I'm not writing this post to tell you that Pictory is good or bad.
That would be too easy.
I only tried one article.
I used the automatic visual selection.
I used the AI voice.
I didn't spend time adjusting individual scenes or rewriting the script.
Someone else might use the same tool differently and get a much better result.
Maybe the automatic version is only the starting point.
Maybe with some editing, the story could become much stronger.
Or perhaps another type of article would work much better with this kind of automatic video creation.
I don't know.
And that's exactly why I found the experiment interesting.
What I Really Wanted to Find Out
My question wasn't:
“Can Pictory make a video?”
Obviously, it can.
My question was:
“Can AI take something I wrote and turn it into a video that still feels like my story?”
That's a much more interesting question to me.
Because as someone who enjoys writing, I don't simply want words converted into moving pictures.
I want the idea, feeling, and story to survive the journey from writing to video.
Maybe that requires more human involvement.
Maybe AI will get better at it.
Maybe both.
So What Do You Think?
I'm sharing my experiment because I think many of us are going to face this question more often.
AI can now write.
AI can read.
AI can speak.
AI can create pictures.
And AI can turn an article into a video.
But how much of the original human story survives when AI does most of the work?
I have my own thoughts after watching my video.
But this time, I won't give you my conclusion.
I'd rather let you try it yourself.
Take one of your own articles, put it into an AI video tool, watch the result, and see what you think.
Maybe you'll be impressed.
Maybe you'll be disappointed.
Or maybe, like me, you'll find the experiment itself more interesting than the final video.
And that, I think, is one of the most enjoyable things about experimenting with AI.
We don't always know what we're going to discover until we try.
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我试着让 Pictory 把我的博客文章变成视频——结果怎么样？
昨天，我突然有了一个挺有意思的想法。
我刚刚在 AI123.ca 写了一篇文章，题目是：
《我让 AI 谈谈我自己的博客——结果让我大吃一惊》
既然我已经尝试过让 AI 阅读和谈论我的博客，那我就想：
为什么不再试试看，让 AI 把同一篇文章变成一个视频呢？
于是，我决定试试 Pictory。
我并不是想制作一部专业的 YouTube 视频。我只是想看看，如果把我的博客文章交给 Pictory，让它自己把文章变成视频，最后会是什么样子。
没想到，这次实验还真的挺有意思。
我先从博客网址开始
我打开 Pictory，把这篇文章的网址输入进去。
说实话，一开始我也不知道它能不能成功读取我的文章。
结果——可以。
Pictory 很快就读取了文章，并根据文章内容生成了一份视频脚本。
屏幕上还出现了一些 AI 编辑选项，例如 Optimize（优化）、Rephrase（改写）、Shorten（缩短）、Length（长度） 和 Change Tone（改变语气）。
不过这一次，我没有修改。
我想先看看：
如果完全按照我的原文，让 Pictory 自己做，它会做出什么？
然后，我点击了 “Next: Video Preferences”。
接下来，让 AI 自己做决定
Pictory 给了我几个选择。
视觉素材方面，我选择了 Auto Select（自动选择）。
旁白方面，我选择了 AI Voice（AI 语音）。
然后，我按下了 Generate Video（生成视频）。
接下来就是等待。
过了一会儿，视频做好了。
我有点好奇。
我的一篇小小博客文章，变成视频以后，会是什么样子？
接下来才是最有意思的部分
我开始播放视频。
AI 的声音出来了。
画面也出来了。
看起来确实已经是一部真正的视频。
不过，看了一会儿，我发现了一个问题。
这个视频的故事感觉和我原来的文章并不是完全一样。
每一个画面本身看起来都还不错，但是不同画面之间的联系，有时候比较松散。
一个镜头接着另一个镜头，可是我有时会想：
这个画面为什么会出现在这里？
换句话说，Pictory 确实做出了一个关于这个主题的视频，但我不确定它有没有真正抓住我原来文章里的故事。
这让我觉得很有意思。
因为我的原文章其实是比较个人化的。
它讲的是我自己的一次经历——我让 AI 谈论我自己的博客，然后被 AI 的表现惊到了。
而 Pictory 做出来的视频，更像是根据文章主题，把一组相关的视觉素材组合在一起。
这两者之间，其实还是有一点距离的。
不过，我也不想太快下结论
我写这篇文章，并不是要告诉大家 Pictory 好不好。
这样下结论可能太简单了。
毕竟，我只试了一篇文章。
我选择了自动寻找视觉素材，也使用了 AI 语音。
我没有花很多时间逐个修改画面，也没有重新编辑脚本。
如果另外一个人使用同一个工具，采用不同的方法，也许会得到完全不同的结果。
也许自动生成的视频只是一个起点。
经过人工调整以后，故事可能会变得好很多。
也许另一种类型的文章，更适合这种自动视频制作方式。
这些，我现在都不知道。
而这恰恰是我觉得这次实验有意思的地方。
我真正想知道的是什么？
我真正想问的，其实不是：
“Pictory 能不能制作视频？”
这个问题已经有答案了。
当然可以。
我真正想知道的是：
“AI 能不能把我写的东西变成一个视频，同时仍然保留我的故事？”
对我来说，这才是一个更有意思的问题。
因为作为一个喜欢写博客的人，我并不只是想把文字变成会动的画面。
我更希望我的想法、感觉和故事，能够从文章一路走到视频，而不会在转换过程中消失。
也许这需要更多人的参与。
也许 AI 会越来越擅长这件事。
也许两者都需要。
那么，你怎么看？
我把这次实验分享出来，是因为我觉得以后我们可能会越来越经常遇到这样的问题。
AI 现在可以写文章。
可以阅读。
可以说话。
可以生成图片。
甚至可以把一篇文章变成一个视频。
可是，当 AI 做了越来越多的工作以后，
原来那个属于人的故事，还能保留多少？
看完自己的视频以后，我其实已经有了一些想法。
但是这一次，我不想替你下结论。
我更希望你自己试试看。
找一篇你自己写过的文章，把它放进一个 AI 视频工具里，然后看看最后出来的结果。
也许你会觉得很惊艳。
也许你会有点失望。
也许，就像我一样，你会发现：
实验本身，比最后的结果还要有意思。
这也是我喜欢尝试 AI 的原因之一。
我们永远不知道，在真正动手尝试之前，自己会发现什么。