Can ChatGPT make videos? Here is the workaround

The short answer

ChatGPT and video: who does what

Updated October 24, 2026

ChatGPT is a text and still-image tool: it writes scripts, plans and lyrics and can make pictures, but video rendering is not what it is built around, and what it offers can change, so check OpenAI's current product pages. The practical workaround is to split the job. Let ChatGPT write one fun line about you and a friend, then paste it here. Add two photos and RapVideo renders a 12-second vertical AI rap video for 6 credits at 480p or 10 at 720p.

The short version: ChatGPT is where the idea starts, not where the video is rendered. It writes scripts, captions, lyrics and outlines, and it can create and edit still images. The tools that actually render moving pictures are separate video models, and which ones are inside which chatbot keeps changing. If you need a definite answer today, check the vendor's own help pages rather than a blog post, including this one.

That split is useful. A video model needs a short, concrete prompt and a good photo; a chatbot is good at producing exactly that kind of line. So the cleanest recipe is ChatGPT for the words, a video maker for the picture.

RapVideo is the video maker half for one specific format: a music video of two people. It runs in the browser with no app and no account, renders with Grok Imagine Video, and turns your two photos and your line into an original rap, performed in an orange booth with one hanging mic.

Other chatbots and video tools exist too, and plans and limits differ by country and subscription. We are not affiliated with OpenAI or any app named here, and we only describe what RapVideo itself does.

Set up here: Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (xAI), 480p, 12 seconds, 6 credits. Read the full guide