GPT-6 Astra: Just Changed How To Make Viral Map Animations Forever transcript

Since the launch of GPT6 Astra, I've been looking for ways to create videos for faceless channels that are expensive and require a very high skill to make, such as this particular channel called Geoglobal Tales. In case you don't know, they talk about different geography of different parts of the world. This is the number they pull every 7 days and the estimated revenue. Now, looking at these videos, you could see they pull a lot of numbers.

However, to create these videos can be incredibly expensive and timeconuming because you need to know After Effects as well as use a specific geographic plug-in called geo layers which can be pretty expensive. So, I was looking at this video. Let me just quickly play it. The United States sent two diplomats to France to meet with Napoleon and offer to buy just one city, but somehow ended up buying the entire Louisiana territory for almost the same price.

I thought I can recreate this with GPT Astra and the result blew me away. Let me show you my result. Russia sold Alaska to America for $7.2 million. Why give up so much land? To understand the deal, forget today's map and look at Russia's problems in the 1860s. Alaska's sea otter fur trade was declining. The colony was remote and Russia lacked the money to build a strong military presence there. Then there was Britain.

After Russia's defeat in the Crimean War, British power made its North American outpost look even more vulnerable, selling to the United States offered money and a counterweight to Britain's ambitions in the Pacific. Now, you can see it's pretty damn good. I'll show you the rest at the end of this tutorial. Let me show you how this was created. We'll be using Chad GPT for this build. However, you could also use Claude.

The skill I've built works in Claude as well. By the way, you can find the skill for this tutorial in my school community. The link is in the description. Once you come into chat GPT, make sure you're in codeex and open a new chat just like this. There are a couple of things to set up before we start using the skill. Check the approval setting here. Then make sure the model is GPT6 Astralite. Light can handle this task.

There are two other plugins for this because some of the visuals in the reference video need animation. First, click on plugins and search for hyperframes by Hey Genen. Click add. I've already added it here. I'll also add Higsfield to animate this particular video. It's optional, but that's what I'll be using. Search for Higsfield addit and sign into your account. Higfield recently released the ability to connect through its API without a subscription.

I'll cover that in another video. For this tutorial, I'll connect using the normal MCP. Once that's connected, we're good to go. We'll come back to the new chat in codeex. Next, open the folder you downloaded for the skill. Make sure you unzip it. Then, copy the path to that folder and drop it here. Let me get the path. I'll paste it and say setup map story kit. That's all you need to say. Then click send. If anything is missing, it'll check and install it for you.

This skill includes different map sources with up to 12 types of maps you can use. I've also included sound effects and visuals in the library. Everything is in that zip folder to help you put the video together. You can see it says everything passed. Setup is complete and no reinstall is needed. Now it's asking what would you like to create? This is important. When it asks what you'd like to create, you can give it a topic, provide a script you already have, or share a reference video.

I'll give it the topic and a reference. I want to create a video about why Russia sold Alaska to America. I've added the reference video here. Then I'll click submit and wait for it to come back. It's studying the reference and giving us a breakdown of what it'll do. First, it'll review the reference and our brief. Then it'll research the topic, provide sources, and draft a script for us to review. After that, it'll work on the look and the assets, then put the video together.

Right now, it's asking which parts of the reference should guide the video, the storytelling, the visuals, or the sound. It's asking if I have a preferred character or prop style. The options are suitable visuals, illustrations, historical cutouts, or maps and labels only. I said maps as well as suitable visuals. Just like in the reference video, I'll click send. While I'm doing that, it has started reviewing the video.

Here at the side, you can see it opened the reference to study the visuals. We'll wait for it to finish. While it's working, it's looking at the styles. If I open this, you can see it has collected snapshots of the video to identify the map style. In the skill folder, there's a gallery showing all the available maps. I have up to 12 here. Depending on the geography video you're creating, it'll look through the library and choose a suitable map.

I've prepared these for you already. We'll wait for the results, then make our decision. It has created two things. Here's the script, and these are the sources. Click a source to check it. This one comes straight from the United States government website so you can doublech checkck the facts in the script. That's important. It has also proposed the beats and a direction, but these aren't final yet. Next is the visual direction.

It has given us three options and is asking which one we want. It's using the reference as a starting point with a character that looks like this. I'll say this looks okay, but I want us to generate our own character in a similar style. I've added a reference to make it clear. I'll say yes, let's use the first map, the parchment atlas that fits what we're creating for the characters and assets. This is the visual style I want.

You'll use GPT image 2 or GPT image 2.5 to create the images. This is the style I'm choosing. I'll submit that and it'll move to the next step. We've chosen our references, map, and style. Now, it's finalizing the script and creative direction. It has generated color options for us. That's why I love this skill. We've got classic, muted, ink, and bold contrast. Let me expand this. You can see it's matching the text and captions with the visuals.

Let's try the options. This is classic. This is muted. No, muted is out. This is bold. We'll go with classic atlas. I like these colors, but I'd make them slightly brighter. I'll submit that to move to the next phase. Now, it's asking how I want to supply the narration. You can provide your own voice over for the script. For this build, I already have 11 Labs connected on my system. So, I'll ask it to use a particular voice.

I've given it the voice name and it'll generate the narration. You can also generate the voice over on another platform and upload it here. If 11 Labs is already connected, just give it the name of the voice you want, including your own voice. >> Russia sold Alaska to America for $7.2 million. Why give up so much land to understand the deal? >> That's the voice over. I'm happy with it. So, I'll say approved. It'll use that voice and start generating assets around the narration.

So, it knows when each asset should appear. Even though I gave it a reference, you can see it still looked up an original picture of the person. That's smart. Let's wait for it to finish. It has generated the characters and assets for the video, and it's checking that we're happy with them. These look good. I'll ask it to animate the right assets before putting the map animation together. While that's running, I want to point out that the skill is set up to animate characters using Miniax H3.

It gives good quality and uses fewer credits. Sidans 2.5 is the backup, but Miniax H3 helps keep the cost down. Here it has animated the characters and assets we'll use in the video. This looks good. Now we have the assets, map, and voice over. I'll ask it to create the map animation and finish everything except the background music. We'll review the result first, then add the music. The result is ready. Here's the timeline with the callouts, images, map, and sound effects.

Let's watch the result. Russia sold Alaska to America for $7.2 million. Why give up so much land? To understand the deal, forget today's map and look at Russia's problems in the 1860s. Alaska's sea otter fur trade was declining. The colony was remote and Russia lacked the money to build a strong military presence there. Then there was Britain. After Russia's defeat in the Crimean War, British power made its North American outpost look even more vulnerable, selling to the United States offered money and a counterweight to Britain's ambitions in the Pacific.

The American Civil War delayed negotiations. But in 1867, Secretary of State William Seward and Russia's envoy agreed on a price, $7.2 $2 million, roughly 2 cents an acre. Alaskan native peoples weren't consulted. For Russia, the sale was a strategic retreat. Cash for a vulnerable colony and a stronger America to balance Britain. This turned out really well for a first pass, right? As with anything you create using AI, you might want to tweak it.

There are a few places where I'd add more elements and make things move faster. You can ask Astra to do that, but this is a solid first try. I'll ask it to layer in the music. I'd add a few more assets if I were refining it further, but this works for the tutorial. I'll say this turned out really well. I'd like more assets in a few places to make it more engaging. But for now, add the music and render it as an MP4. While that's running, let's watch the rest of the video I showed at the beginning.

The American Civil War delayed negotiations, but in 1867, Secretary of State William Seward and Russia's envoy agreed on a price, $7.2 million, roughly 2 cents an acre. Alaskan native peoples weren't consulted. For Russia, the sale was a strategic retreat, cash for a vulnerable colony, and a stronger America to balance Britain. So, let's watch another video that I also created about Alaska, but a different script. Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million.

One reason, it feared Britain might take it for nothing. But why was Britain involved? By the 1850s, Russia had a distant colony it struggled to defend. Then, it lost the Crimean War, and Britain, one of its enemies, controlled territory right beside Alaska. Another war could put the colony at risk. So, Russia looked for a buyer, preferably one that would also get in Britain's way. Enter the United States. Russia offered to sell in 1859, but before the deal could happen, America plunged into civil war.

The sale had to wait. When the war ended, Secretary of State William Seward took up the offer. He wanted American influence to stretch across the Pacific. Alaska could help. Russia wanted cash. Seward wanted territory. Now both sides had a reason to move. In March 1867, they agreed. $7.2 million for nearly 600,000 square miles, less than 2 cents an acre. Some critics called it Seward's folly. But that October, Russia's flag came down and America's went up.

For Alaska's indigenous peoples, their homeland had changed colonial rulers. and Britain. It got neither the territory nor the deal. Russia got its money. America got its future largest state. That turned out really well. The other version is currently exporting as an MP4. That's the whole process. You saw the first map I built, but the second one was better because of the extra details I added. You can find the skill in my school community.

The link is in the description. If you want to see how I edit my videos using GPT6 Astra, check out this video right here and I'll see you