AI News Video Factory: GPT-4o + HeyGen + Postiz
Who Is This For?
What Problem Does It Solve?
Challenge
Daily news posting needs constant manual writing, editing, and uploading across multiple platforms.
Inconsistent tone and branding when multiple people summarize breaking news under time pressure.
No reliable audit trail: teams lose track of which story became which video and where it was posted.
Solution
Standardize a repeatable pipeline where each story becomes a caption plus avatar video, then publish everywhere from one place.
Use an AI captioning step with consistent prompt guardrails and a single avatar voice and style.
Store assets centrally and log metadata so every post can be traced, measured, and reused.
What You'll Achieve with This Toolkit
Ship daily AI news videos with a consistent voice, while keeping an auditable content log for analysis and reuse.
Turn news into a repeatable product
A fixed SOP makes output predictable, enabling daily cadence without heroic effort.
Centralize storage and analytics
Every story, caption, and video is archived and logged, so performance insights compound over time.
Publish everywhere from one control plane
A unified publisher reduces platform friction and keeps cadence consistent even as channels expand.
How It Works
Step 1: Select RSS News Sources
Pick one or more RSS feeds that match your niche and editorial standard. Define simple filters such as language, category, and recency so you only produce videos for stories worth publishing.
A list of RSS feeds selected for a news niche.
Selected for its standardized feed format that makes ingesting news predictable and vendor-neutral.
RSS.app
No-code RSS feed generator with filters, webhooks, Slack/Telegram/Discord alerts, widgets, and API access
Step 2: Extract News Highlights
For each selected article, capture the headline, source, link, and a short summary. Keep the input concise so the next step can produce a tight script rather than a long recap.
A structured record of a news item with title, link, and summary.
Chosen for its text processing patterns that help you reliably structure noisy inputs before generation.
LangChain
LLM app + agent orchestration framework for automation-first workflows
Step 3: Generate Caption Script with GPT-4o
Ask GPT-4o to write a concise, engaging caption and a short spoken script based on the highlight notes. Include a constraint such as maximum length and a rule to avoid unverified claims.
A short AI-written news script and caption ready for video generation.
Selected for its strong summarization and tone control, helping you turn long articles into platform-ready scripts that fit strict length limits.
GPT-4o
Omni-Model Intelligence for Real-Time Text, Audio, and Vision
Step 4: Create Avatar Video with HeyGen
Send the script to HeyGen and generate an avatar video using your chosen avatar and voice. Keep the same avatar and voice IDs to preserve brand consistency across all daily videos.
An AI avatar delivering a short news update in a vertical video.
Chosen for its avatar video generation that keeps a consistent presenter style, which makes daily news feel like a branded show instead of random clips.
HeyGen
Create business videos with AI avatars. No camera needed.
Step 5: Archive Video and Log Metadata
Upload the generated video to a shared folder in Google Drive and record the story link, caption, video URL, and publish status in Google Sheets. This creates a searchable audit trail for performance analysis.
A spreadsheet log mapping each news link to a generated video file.
Chosen for shared-folder access control and simple archiving so assets stay reusable and team-ready.
Google Drive
AI-Powered Cloud OS for Automated Document Workflows and Smart Storage
Selected for lightweight structured logging, making it easy to track publishing status and analyze what topics perform best.
Google Sheets
Smart, collaborative spreadsheets with Gemini AI power
Step 6: Publish via Postiz to Social Channels
A publishing dashboard scheduling one video to multiple social platforms.
Chosen for its unified scheduling and API-driven publishing, which removes the repeated upload and formatting work across channels.
Postiz
Open-source social media scheduler with AI Copilot, RSS auto-post, webhooks, and a public API
Similar Workflows
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Manage your content backlog in Google Sheets, generate platform-ready drafts with GPT-5.1, enrich posts with Unsplash visuals, collect approvals via Gmail, and publish to LinkedIn while keeping every status auditable. Optional: capture your voice and turn it into drafts with Sona.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cost depends on video volume and plan tiers, but many teams start low and scale toward $30 to $120 per month as output becomes daily and multi-channel.
Breaking news can require human verification, and avatar videos may need a quick brand-safety review before publishing.
Yes, as long as your publisher supports the destination or provides an API. The core SOP stays the same: source news, generate script, render video, archive, log, then publish.
Fix a single prompt template, enforce length limits, and keep the same avatar and voice settings in HeyGen so every post feels like one show.
Any avatar-video generator plus any multi-channel scheduler can replace them, as long as you keep the same SOP boundaries between scripting, rendering, logging, and publishing.