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VidFarm Walkthrough Tutorial

The main course. Explore the platform, run the common workflows, and finish with videos ready to post. Recommended for everyone.

Introduce VidFarm

1All Tutorials List — every video in one place The whole course on one page: every filmed chapter in order, with its video, what it covers, and a link through to the full written guide. 6 min read → 2VidFarm in 3 minutes — the quick demo The fastest end-to-end path: pick a template, chat one edit to the AI editor, render, and post. Includes the one-click agent skill for Claude/Codex. 4 min read → 3Swipe mode — the easiest way to get videos The lowest-effort path: open Discover → Swipe and keep or skip pre-generated, on-brand videos. Set your product description first; VidFarm auto-recuts proven templates into ads for you and makes more in the background. 3 min read → 4Agentic video editing — edit by chatting What it means to edit short-form video by talking to an AI director instead of dragging clips on a timeline, and why it's faster. 5 min read → 5Desktop AI Agents — the best way to use VidFarm Run a coding agent on your own machine — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Opencode, or Kimi Code — to drive VidFarm with free local rendering, all on the flat-rate subscription you already pay. 5 min read → 6Free vs paid & bring-your-own-key perks What the free tier includes, what unlocks on a paid plan, and how bringing your own AI keys (BYOK) changes cost and capability. 5 min read →

Setup

7Register & set up VidFarm Create your account, find your VidFarm API key, add your own AI provider keys, and install the agent skill so an AI can drive VidFarm for you. 6 min read →

Operating Context

8TikTok strategy — every post is a ticket The posture that makes every other chapter pay off: why TikTok rewards audience response rather than effort, why account health is an asset, and how to build viral surface area instead of agonising over one video. 12 min read → 9The viral video funnel — angles, hooks & awareness The operating model behind short-form — awareness stages, angles, and hooks — plus how to run the whole funnel by chatting with VidFarm. 8 min read → 10Strategy & tactical video production The full pro session: do the customer homework, run the consultation, source raws, remix templates, bulk-generate under a cost cap, gate everything on a best-practices regime, and distribute to affiliates on a schedule. 14 min read → 11Copying competitors (the right way) Feed a competitor's winning video to VidFarm, decompose why it works, and fork the structure into your own on-brand version. 6 min read → 12Repurpose any video into your own ad The whole product in one demo: Copy Prompt any Discover video, hand it to a desktop agent, and transpose its winning formula onto your product — then dial the same ad from pure-AI (~$1.50) down to $0 by swapping generated video for clipped footage, and save it as a reusable template. 9 min read →

Edit Demo — Easy Recaption

13Edit demo #1 — easy recaption Fork a proven template and swap only the captions to your message. The gentlest first edit, done entirely by chatting. 6 min read →

Wallet

14Your wallet & credits, explained How credits, cost centers, and rate limits work — what a render actually costs and how to cap spend. 5 min read →

Edit Demo — Product Feature Tease

15Edit demo #2 — product feature tease Combine your brand media kit and a product demo recording into a punchy feature-tease using the AI editor. 8 min read →

Sourcing & Clipping Raws

16The three paintbrushes The mental model for sourcing every shot: raw clips, HyperFrames motion graphics, reusable assets, and AI generation. 5 min read → 17My Files — the directory explorer Where every clip, render, and asset lives: the five file roots, folders, move/copy, and the pop-out explorer. 5 min read → 18Workflow — remixing clips The end-to-end loop of turning a pile of raw clips into a finished remix inside the editor. 6 min read → 19Sourcing & clipping raws with AI Browse the public raws feed, import a video by URL or upload, and let AI mine the best clips — or clip a subrange yourself. 8 min read →

Edit Demo — Easy Remix

20Edit demo #3 — easy remix with raws Drop your freshly clipped raws into a template and let the AI editor cut them to the beat. 7 min read →

Edit Demo — Actor Replacement

21Edit demo #4 — actor replacement Keep a template's timing and captions but swap the on-screen actor for your own person or an AI-generated one. 8 min read →

Edit Demo — Animate Static Book

22Edit demo #5 — animate a static book Turn a flat book cover or page into a living, moving scene with HyperFrames motion and a consistent character. 8 min read → 23Character consistency across shots Build a character sprite card and use reference images so the same face and outfit survive every generated shot. 7 min read →

Edit Demo — AI Drama Series

24Edit demo #6 — an AI drama series Storyboard a multi-scene narrative with recurring characters, lock every beat with cheap images, then generate motion into a cohesive series. 11 min read →

Edit Demo — Clone a UGC Testimonial

25Clone a UGC testimonial ad Re-shoot a creator's winning "talking to camera" testimonial for your own product with an AI creator — Copy Prompt hands it to a desktop agent that builds a character card, a storyboard, then the final AI video, approving each step. 8 min read →

Edit Demo — Product Promotion

26Edit demo #7 — product promotion & demos Turn a product URL or demo recording into a polished promo with hooks, feature beats, and a call to action. 8 min read →

Edit Demo — Motion Explainers

27Edit demo #8 — Vox-style motion explainers Build a kinetic-typography, data-driven explainer where the motion graphics are the message. 8 min read →

Support & Settings

28Terms of Use & Privacy Policy The plain-language version of what you agree to, the analytics and data we keep, and how to have your data deleted on request. 3 min read → 29Cancellation & refunds How to cancel your subscription, what happens to your wallet balance, and the refund policy. 3 min read →

Developer

30REST API & the agent skill (for developers) Every VidFarm workflow is raw REST. Point an AI agent at the skill and it can drive the whole platform for you. 7 min read → 31Install the VidFarm devcli locally Install the command-line director, run it local-first with HyperFrames bundled, and connect it to your account. 6 min read → 32Scripting mode — file-backed flows Drive VidFarm from repeatable, file-backed scripts so an AI agent can build videos unattended. 7 min read → 33Free mode with NVIDIA credits Run the clipping-first free mode on NVIDIA credits — what you can do, and what image/video generation still needs. 5 min read →