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Guides to producing the videos for a YouTube channel with artificial intelligence without losing control: ideas, script, voice, images, editing, YouTube policies and results.
Scripts and ideasStoryboard for a YouTube Video: How to Make One Scene by Scene
The storyboard of a narrated video is the approved script divided into scenes, with the narration, duration, visual and movement of each. What columns it needs, how to do it step by step, an example and the mistakes to avoid.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Video SEO: Title, Description, Tags and Chapters
YouTube search ranks videos by how well their title, description and content match the query and by the engagement they generate; tags barely count. Limits, official tips and what the spam policy does not allow.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Upload Checklist: Thumbnail, Chapters and Subtitles
A list to run through before publishing a YouTube video: title and description limits, custom thumbnail recommendations, chapter rules, subtitle formats, AI use disclosure and audience, according to YouTube's official help pages.
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Scripts and ideasTrivia Videos for YouTube: Fun Facts That Hold Up
A trivia video hooks with the fact and holds viewers with the explanation. How to choose the topic, check the origin of each curiosity, which formats work and what content YouTube does not monetise, with what the Estudio de Canales does and does not do.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube thumbnails: size, design and A/B tests
YouTube recommends JPG or PNG thumbnails in 16:9, at 3840x2160 pixels and at least 640 wide. Beyond size, what matters is that they read when small, that they comply with the thumbnail policy and, with A/B tests, that you compare up to three versions.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Subtitles: How to Make Them and Sync Them
YouTube Studio offers three ways to add subtitles: upload a file such as an .srt, provide the transcript for YouTube to sync, or type them by hand. Automatic captions and AI transcripts are a draft that needs reviewing.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Studio: what it is and what each section is for
YouTube Studio is the dashboard for managing your channel: uploading videos, editing their details, adding subtitles, checking analytics, replying to comments and getting music from the Audio Library. On a computer it opens at studio.youtube.com; the phone app has a shorter menu.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Playlists: How to Create, Order and Use Them
Playlists are created in YouTube Studio or from a video's page, with a title, description, visibility and order. On a channel they gather the episodes of each series and can be shown on the Home tab, on the end screen, in cards and in the description.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Metrics: What to Look at After Publishing a Video
After publishing, look at impressions and click-through rate (whether the title and thumbnail attract) and at average view duration and retention (whether the video hooks people). Official definitions, when the data arrives, how not to fool yourself and cost per thousand views.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Hashtags: Where to Put Them, How Many and What Rules Apply
YouTube hashtags are written with # in the title or description and link to a page with other videos on the same topic. Up to three from the description are shown next to the title; with more than 60, YouTube ignores them all.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube end screens: duration, elements and how to add one
The end screen takes up the last 5 to 20 seconds of a video that is at least 25 seconds long and, in 16:9, supports up to four elements. It is added in the YouTube Studio editor; in a narrated video, those seconds are reserved by writing a closing section into the script.
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YouTube policiesYouTube Copyright: Strikes, Content ID and Fair Use
YouTube enforces copyright with strikes, which follow a valid takedown request and count against the channel, and with Content ID claims, which affect one video. Fair use is a US concept; in Spain the limits in the law apply, such as quotation and parody.
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YouTube policiesYouTube Community Guidelines: Warnings, Strikes and Appeals
The Community Guidelines apply to everything you post on YouTube. A first violation is usually a warning, which expires after 90 days if you complete the training; strikes follow, and three within 90 days can end the channel. They can be appealed for 6 months.
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Scripts and ideasYouTube Channel Names: How to Choose a Name and a Handle
The channel name and the @ handle are two different pieces that are best chosen together. Criteria for a good name, a method for coming up with candidates, the handle rules, what to check before deciding and what happens when you change them.
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Scripts and ideasYouTube Channel Ideas: How to Find Them and Validate Them
Ideas are gathered, not awaited: from your audience's questions, from what people search for, from primary sources and from your own videos. How to choose the channel topic, how to validate each idea before producing it and how to keep a useful idea bank.
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Scripts and ideasA YouTube channel for a business: how to plan and produce it
A business YouTube channel works when it answers what your customers ask themselves, not when it repeats adverts. How to create it in the business's name, write its editorial line, produce it at a sustainable rhythm, look after the people who appear in the videos and measure it.
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Production with AIColour Palette for a YouTube Channel: How to Choose One
A channel palette works with three or four colours, each with its role: accent, dark, light and perhaps a secondary. How to choose them, check contrast against WCAG thresholds, pick typefaces and keep thumbnails, videos and channel consistent.
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Scripts and ideasThe YouTube channel bible: what it is and how to write one
A channel bible sets out the channel's identity, topics, editorial and visual style, rules and series. What it is for, what parts it has, why every series needs a variation rule, a condensed example and how to write one step by step.
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Publishing and resultsYouTube Banner Size: Safe Area, Profile Picture and Channel Trailer
The YouTube banner needs at least 2048 × 1152 pixels and 2560 × 1440 is recommended; text goes in the 1235 × 338 safe area because the banner looks different on each device and is cropped on some. Also, the profile picture and watermark sizes and how to set the trailer.
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YouTube policiesAltered or synthetic content on YouTube: when to disclose it
YouTube asks you to disclose AI use when content looks real: people saying what they never said, altered events, realistic scenes that never happened or music created as a central element. When it is not needed, how to mark it and what the European rules add.
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Publishing and resultsVerifying a YouTube channel: by phone, and what it is for
Verifying the channel with a phone number gives access to YouTube Studio's intermediate features, such as uploading videos longer than 15 minutes or custom thumbnails. Advanced ones require history or identity verification, and the verification badge is something else: it requires 100,000 subscribers.
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Production with AIOnline teleprompter for recording your voice-over
A teleprompter shows the text you are going to read in large type. For a voice-over, an online one in the browser is enough; with a camera, the text has to sit next to the lens. How to prepare the text, how to record and what the Estudio de Canales teleprompter is like.
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Scripts and ideasMultiple YouTube channels on one account: how and when
One Google account can manage several channels, each with its own Brand Account, and you use one at a time. How to create the second, switch channels, share permissions, decide between one channel or several and organise them so they do not get mixed up.
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YouTube policiesCan you monetise a channel made with AI? What YouTube says
A channel made with AI can be monetised if it meets YouTube's policies like any other. What is not monetised is mass-produced, generic, repetitive or reused content with no input of your own. Eligibility requirements, official examples and how to set up the channel.
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YouTube policiesMade for kids content on YouTube: what it is and how to set it
YouTube requires you to say whether each video is made for kids: it is if children are its main audience or if it is aimed at them. You set it in YouTube Studio, per channel or per video, and doing so switches off features and stops personalised ads.
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Production with AIThe Ken Burns effect: what it is and how to use it in your videos
The Ken Burns effect gives movement to a still photo: you set the starting and ending frames and the software works out the path. How to choose between zooming in, zooming out or panning, how to do it in an editor or with FFmpeg's zoompan filter, and tips so it does not look obvious.
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Scripts and ideasHow to write a YouTube script (and check every fact)
A YouTube script is written for the ear and in blocks: opening, promise, sections and close. Before recording, every checkable claim needs its source. Structure, an example, a verification method, chapters and the use of AI.
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Production with AIHow to Make YouTube Videos With AI, Step by Step
AI can help with research, scripting, voice, images and editing, but the decisions stay with you: what to say, which facts are true and whether the video deserves to be published. The full workflow, phase by phase, and what YouTube's policies say.
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Scripts and ideasHow to Make Explainer Videos for YouTube with Images
An explainer video answers a question with a short answer and explains it in steps, with an image that shows what the voice says. Structure, script, images and use of AI, with what the Estudio de Canales does and does not do.
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Scripts and ideasHow to Make a Documentary for YouTube, Including with AI
A YouTube documentary is an investigation told as a story: a question, checkable material and a narrative that reaches a conclusion. How to prepare and structure it, what AI adds and what YouTube asks for when it is used, and what the Estudio de Canales does.
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Production with AIHow to Make a Video With Images and Voice-Over, Step by Step
A video with images and voice is made in this order: script, voice-over, scenes with one image each, syncing to the voice, movement, subtitles and export. The key is that each image lasts exactly as long as its piece of voice.
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Scripts and ideasHow to Create a YouTube Channel Step by Step and Get It Ready
A YouTube channel is created with a Google account in a few steps. What matters is choosing first between a personal channel and a brand account, completing the name, handle and profile, and deciding on the bible, series and pace before the first video.
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Production with AIHow much does it cost to make a video with AI, and how to measure it
The cost of an AI video is the sum of text, voice, images and editing, which are paid for by use, plus your time and redos. How each item is charged with examples of official rates, how to measure it video by video and how to compare it with results.
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Publishing and resultsHow Long Should a YouTube Video Be: Limits and How to Decide
YouTube gives no ideal length: it advises that the length suit the content and be fine-tuned with audience retention. The limits are fixed, though: 15 minutes unverified, 256 GB or 12 hours at most, 3 minutes for a Short and 8 minutes for mid-roll ads.
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Scripts and ideasHistory YouTube channel: how to make one with rigour
A history channel needs a specific angle, sources for every fact, images that do not pass off a recreation as a document and, on subjects like war, context inside the video itself. Here is how to approach it, and what the Estudio de Canales does and does not do.
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YouTube policiesAI images and copyright: who is the author?
Spanish law considers the author to be the natural person who creates the work, and YouTube says copyright generally protects human creations. What the provider's terms say, what the European AI Regulation requires and how to use AI images on YouTube with care.
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Production with AIYouTube Channel Without Showing Your Face: How to Do It Well
A faceless channel is sustained by narration, images and a distinct angle in every video. Which formats fit, how to choose the voice and the images, what YouTube's monetisation policy excludes and when you must disclose the use of AI.
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YouTube policiesCopyright-free photos for videos: where to find them and how to use them
A “copyright-free” photo is in the public domain or has a licence that lets you use it. What Spanish law says about photos and terms, what each Creative Commons licence allows, what to look for in a stock image library, how to use Google's filter and how to record each licence.
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YouTube policiesCopyright-free music for YouTube: the Audio Library and licences
“Copyright-free” usually means music under a licence that lets you use it. The YouTube Studio Audio Library is the most direct route: its tracks are not claimed through Content ID and some ask for attribution in the description. With Creative Commons or other libraries, the licence rules.
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YouTube policiesContent ID claim: what it is and what to do in YouTube Studio
Content ID claims a video when it finds a rights holder's audio or video. It is not a strike: it affects that video. From YouTube Studio you can leave it, trim the segment, change or mute the song, share revenue or dispute it if you hold all the rights.
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Publishing and resultsBest Time to Post on YouTube: What Your Own Data Says
YouTube says there is no evidence that posting time affects long-term performance; it does matter for live streams and premieres, and at first it can help to publish when your audience is active (the active hours report tells you). For YouTube, the key is a consistent, sustainable schedule.
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Publishing and resultsBest format to upload videos to YouTube: MP4, H.264 and resolution
YouTube recommends uploading MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio at 48 kHz, at the recording frame rate and, in landscape, at 16:9 (1920×1080 for 1080p, 3840×2160 for 4K). The bitrates it gives are a reference, not a limit.
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Production with AIAutomating a YouTube Channel with AI: What You Can and Cannot Automate
With AI you can automate ideas, script drafts, voice, images, editing and the publishing package. Fact-checking and approvals should stay in a person's hands, and YouTube's policies single out mass production of similar content.
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Production with AIAI voice-over or your own voice: how to choose for your channel
Your voice fits if the channel rests on your judgement and personality; an AI voice, if consistency matters most and you cannot record every week. In both cases, never imitate or clone another person's voice without their permission. Criteria, rights, YouTube and practical tips.
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Production with AICreating AI images for videos: format, scenes and style
AI images for a video need to come out in 16:9, with plenty of resolution so they can be moved, one per scene based on the narration and with a common style. Text goes in the edit, and if the result looks real, YouTube asks you to disclose it.
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Production with AIPrompts for AI images: template, guidelines and examples
A good image prompt describes the subject, the context and the style with concrete details. Google's guidelines for Gemini, a fill-in template, six examples of weak versus worked prompts and the mistakes that spoil the result.
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