Canva Meets ChatGPT: Content Revolution

Transform Podcasts with AI Efficiency

Okay, so taking a break from some of the longer form content, and creating something fairly short, but EXTREMELY useful for lots of people.

Many of you will be familiar with Canva. But did you know that it comes with a 'bulk upload' facility? And if you did, I bet you were scratching your head, trying to figure out what to do with it?

Well, if you have a podcast, it turns out I have some game changing advice for you that's going to save you HOURS of work.

I'm throwing in some alternative ideas too, so bear with me if you don't have a podcast!

First up, we need to analyse that long form text from the video, or wherever you're pulling it from... maybe a white paper, a blog or something else. If you've got it in text format, and you want to do something with it to generate social media content, then you're in luck.

Using the SuperPower ChatGPT plugin you can literally copy an entire transcript or long form text, and paste it into your chatGPT interface, with no problems at all. It'll neatly divide up the content into chunks that are the right size, and post it in, telling GPT that it's all one document.

Now that you're in the GPT interface, you can use a simple prompt (if you're part of my email newsletter crew, this will be in your inbox waiting for you!!) to pull out all the interesting quotes for you.

Ask it to output them in a table, with column 1 referencing the person who's quote it is, and column 2 referencing the quote. I also ask it to remove quote marks encasing the quote, to make it easier to copy and paste.

Now that you've got some content, wouldn't it be great to have all these quotes entered into graphics for you, without having to copy and paste them all one at a time?

Good news. You can.

Open up Canva, and create a new square post project... custom size for it would ideally be 1080x1080 pixels.

On the left hand side, look through the 'designs' section, and filter into the 'quotes' designs. Find a design that you like, and modify it to match your brand, colours, font and preferences.

Remember, less is more, sometimes. Ensure the font is bold, and there is plenty of space around the edges to draw the eyes in to the quote in the centre.

Add some more text underneath that is slightly smaller, not bold, and italicised - this will be the name of the person being quoted!

Next, scroll down the menu on the left, and find the Canva 'Apps' option. Hit it, and search for 'Bulk' and hit enter. Only one app will come up, click into it.

You'll now be presented with three options. For now, we're going to choose 'enter data manually'(later it's easier to paste your table information into a CSV sheet and use it that way).

Paste the table from chatGPT into the table in front of you - it should expand to the size of your needs.

Right click on the first text box to hold the quote, and select 'connect data source' in the drop down menu. Click the relevant column heading, and Canva will add a placeholder.

Repeat with the 'person name' column and text field.

On the left hand side, you should now see that the two fields have a tick beside them to indicate it's all set up. Click 'continue'.

It'll now ask you to confirm the data it's applying. At the bottom, you can click 'Generate Designs'.

Voila.

You've now got a pre-made design with all of the quotes pre-populated in for you. The above may sound a little complex, but once you've done it a couple of times, it's incredibly easy.

If you wanted to do this across two designs, you can simply create quotes split in half across four columns, with half the quotes in each pair of columns - and then in design 2, simply link them to column 3 and 4.

If you're using Descript to transcribe video and you'd like to do something similar, you can click into the new 'Ask AI' box in the Actions tab, and input the following prompt:

"Analyse the transcript, and segment up the conversation into sub topics. Create markers for these sub topics, and title them according to the content. Do not add markers closer than 120 seconds from the previous marker."

When the AI has run this, you then get the option to 'add to transcript' - creating markers for you with no work at all. Double check them to make sure they're contextually correct - AI isn't perfect.

If you then use these markers to export your long form video as short form content, you can now paste the transcript (including the markers) into chatGPT, ask it to find them (again, I'll include the chatGPT prompt for this in the email newsletter), and turn them into a bullet point list.

Now, all you need to do is set up a template for the thumbnails for these videos in Canva, and import the information as we did the quotes above.... BOOM. All your chapters now have thumbnails - something I'd personally shied away from doing due to the amount of work involved.

Words of advice here - Make sure to check for Americanised spellings if you're in the UK - chatGPT loves to use these, even if instructed otherwise!

Also, make sure to proof-check your bulk output in Canva before exporting - sometimes longer titles etc might throw the formatting out - Better to go a bit smaller on the font sizes to catch-all.

Lastly, in order to 'download as separate files' in Canva, you currently need to be using the website, rather than the desktop application - I've no idea why that is, but Canva are working on importing it across into the app, so watch this space.

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