Stop overthinking a video from a blog post you already wrote
A practical, opinionated way to use Pictory for a video from a blog post you already wrote, with the step I always forget.
The version I'd tell a friend is shorter than the marketing version.
The task: a video from a blog post you already wrote. Pictory helps here because turns a script or article into a rough video.
The bit that matters is the boring one people skip: clean the input before the tool touches it. Garbage in is still garbage out.
What I do differently, give it one job, not five. The moment you pile on asks, the output splits its attention and you get a polite nothing.
Step three is to set a limit. A timer on the task keeps the tool from becoming a thirty-minute rabbit hole.
The part people skip: check the output against one real example before you trust it. One check beats a hundred promises.
The catch is that it's only as good as the example you feed it. A weak example gives a weak result, and that's on you.
I use it now without thinking, which is the highest praise I give a tool.