Your First Video
VidRush turns a text prompt into a fully produced YouTube video: script, voiceover, footage, music, and editing in a single generation. This page walks through the whole creation flow, from blank prompt to finished video.
What changed from older versions
If you learned VidRush on an earlier build: the Auto/Manual mode split, the format selector, the duration selector, and the reference video step were all removed. Your prompt and your Brand Profile drive everything now, and a single review screen, the Quote Statement, confirms it all before generation.
The flow
- Select (or create) your Brand Profile
- Select your model and reasoning effort
- Write your prompt, or attach a Custom Script / Custom Voiceover
- Pass the AI Prompt Checker
- Pick a thumbnail (or skip)
- Review the Quote Statement, confirm the credit estimate, approve
- Generate
Step 1: Select your Brand Profile
The Brand Profile carries your defaults: video language, voiceover provider and voice, backgrounds and theme, and your compliance settings (blacklisted sources, footage sourcing tiers). Pick the profile for the channel you are producing for, or create a new one in under a minute. Full guide: Brand Profile.
Step 2: Select your model and reasoning effort
Choose Deep Video v1 Mini (image-based, cheapest, good for testing) or Deep Video v1 Pro (video B-roll, the full experience), each with Low, Medium, or Experimental reasoning, selected right next to the prompt field. See Generation Models for costs and the bootstrap strategy. A stronger Deep Video V2 model is coming later at a higher credit cost.
Step 3: Write your prompt
Your prompt is the creative blueprint for the entire video, and in V2 it also carries your production settings.
Requirements: minimum 200 characters, maximum 10,000 characters.
Put these directly in your prompt:
- Format: “make me a documentary” / “make me a top 10 video”.
- Length: “make me a 30-minute video”.
Then cover the Four Pillars:
- Director’s Brief: the core story, conflict, or angle in two to three specific sentences.
- Style Guide: the tone, energy, and stylistic devices you want in the narration.
- Target Audience: who is watching, and which titles they already click.
- Key Facts: dates, statistics, names, details. The more concrete material you provide, the less the AI improvises.
To skip AI writing, click the + button and paste a Custom Script or upload a Custom Voiceover. VidRush analyzes the text or audio and infers the format and length from it. A documentary script gets the documentary treatment; a top-10 script gets the listicle treatment.
Step 4: The AI Prompt Checker
Every prompt, and every custom script, passes through VidRush’s AI Validator before generation. It flags low footage availability, hyperspecific visual requests, and formatting issues that could break the generation. The check takes a moment to run; if no error appears, you are clear to continue.
Step 5: Pick a thumbnail
VidRush presents thumbnail options for your video. You can pick one of the generated options, skip the thumbnail step entirely, or paste a custom thumbnail URL to use a specific reference style.
The thumbnail is designed around your video title. If the title is still wrong at this point, that is fine: you can fix it in the next step and the thumbnail will follow it. See Thumbnail Generator.
Step 6: Review the Quote Statement
This is the new confirmation step. Before generation starts, VidRush shows you exactly what it is about to produce:
- Format (“Your script is a documentary about…”) and duration. With a Custom Script you can leave the duration blank; it is inferred from your text.
- Video language, model, and Brand Profile
- Voice: your Brand Profile default, overridable right here
- Title: editable. Fix it here if the AI invented a title that is wrong or off-brand, because the thumbnail is generated around it.
- Attached custom script or voiceover, if any
If anything is off, change it directly in the Quote Statement, then press Approve & Continue. One final screen shows the estimated total credits for the generation (around 1,430 credits for a long documentary, for example). The final figure can be slightly higher or lower. Approve, and you are in the queue.
Step 7: Generate
Your request enters the queue. During high-traffic periods it can take a little while before the progress bar appears. Generation runs in the cloud and typically takes 50 to 60 minutes. Close your browser if you like; the video appears in Projects when done.
What Happens Next
After your video generates, review it in VidRush’s built-in editor: replace footage, adjust timing, add text overlays, and fine-tune every element. See Editor Overview.