Create 32-second AI video Shorts from RSS posts with Claude and Shotstack

## Turn new blog posts into AI video Shorts The newest articles from any RSS feed in, a 32-second vertical Short for each out: animated cards and diagrams that explain the article, two photos, AI music, a voiceover and matching subtitles. Claude Opus 5.5 designs each video. Self-hosted n8n only for now: it saves the MP4s on disk. On n8n Cloud, save them to Google Drive instead. ### How it works 1. Reads Shotstack's guide and agent rules, then the newest articles in your feed, one at a time. 2. Claude writes the edit from the brief in Claude makes the video: 8 scenes, one voiceover sentence each. 3. Check the edit fixes small things and sends anything else back to Claude. 4. Shotstack makes the voiceover and transcribes it, and Time the slides moves each scene to its sentence. 5. One render makes the pictures and music and the Short. A refused edit or failed render goes back to Claude, up to twice. ### Setup steps 1. Add an Anthropic API key to Claude and Claude (fixes). 2. Add a Shotstack API key to Make the voice, Transcribe the voice, Check the transcript, Make the video and Check the render. Free trial: https://shotstack.io/?utm_source=n8n&utm_medium=template&utm_campaign=article-shorts&utm_content=workflow_note 3. Put your feed and how many articles to make in Your feed. Make an empty article-shorts folder in n8n's files folder (/home/node/.n8n-files in Docker). On an npm install, change that path in Save the short. 4. Click Execute workflow. ### Good to know - A Short costs about 6 Shotstack credits plus Claude, so a first one fits the free trial. Each takes 5 to 15 minutes. - Use a production key: the transcript step calls the v1 Ingest API. - Change the look or length in the brief in Claude makes the video.