Quick Start Guide

VidRush turns your topic or script into a fully edited, YouTube-ready video. You provide the idea; VidRush handles the script, narration, visuals, and editing. This page gets your first video out without wasting credits.

What changed from older versions

If you learned VidRush on an earlier build: the Auto/Manual mode split, the format selector, the duration selector, and the reference video step were all removed. Your prompt and your Brand Profile drive everything now, and a single review screen, the Quote Statement, confirms it all before generation.

The 7 steps at a glance

1. Set up your Brand Profile and Editing & Script Style (once)
2. Pick a model and reasoning effort (Low, Medium, or Experimental)
3. Write your prompt, with the title, format, and length right in the text
4. Pick a thumbnail, skip the step, or paste a custom reference URL
5. Review the Quote Statement, check the credit estimate, approve
6. Wait roughly 50 to 60 minutes while VidRush generates
7. Fine-tune in the editor, render, publish

Step 1: Set up your Brand Profile (do this once or per Channel)

Your Brand Profile holds everything that stays the same across your channel: video language, voiceover provider and default voice, backgrounds, theme, and compliance rules such as blacklisted footage sources.

Click your Brand Profile selector, choose New Brand Profile, give it a name, set your video language, and pick your voiceover. Configure Creative Assets and Compliance if you want; the defaults are fine to start.

A profile can also learn your channel’s editing and writing style from one of your own videos. That is worth setting up after your first test video rather than before it, and it only takes effect on Experimental reasoning. See Editing & Script Style.

Every video you generate uses the active Brand Profile, so you never re-select a voice, theme, or language again. Full guide: Brand Profile.

Step 2: Pick a model and reasoning effort

• Deep Video v1 Mini (images plus motion graphics): cheapest, good for testing topics.
• Deep Video v1 Pro (video B-roll plus images): the full visual experience.
• Reasoning effort: Low, Medium, or Experimental. Medium is the recommendation for most videos. Experimental runs the newest pipeline and belongs on test videos first.

Both selectors sit on the dashboard next to the prompt field. Start cheap, validate the topic, then scale up. See Generation Models.

Step 3: Write your prompt

Everything goes in the prompt now. The format, duration, and mode menus from earlier versions were removed.

Make me a 20-minute documentary about how the small town of
Kojima became the world's denim capital.

Main talking points:
1. ...
2. ...

What you can put in your prompt:

• The Format. “Make me a documentary” or “make me a top 10 video”. VidRush recognizes it and sets the format.
• The length. “Make me a 30-minute video.”
• Research instructions and links: what to research, which sources to use, and which part of the story to build the video around.

To skip AI writing entirely, click + and attach a Custom Script or upload a Custom Voiceover. VidRush infers the format and length from your script or audio automatically.

Two more options sit in the same place, either as a tab above the input box or under +. Upload Talking Head takes a recording of yourself speaking to camera and edits it into a finished video. Use AI Avatar puts a presenter on screen without filming anything. You can use one or the other, not both. See Talking Head and AI Avatar.

The AI Input Validator reviews whatever you supplied before generation: your prompt, a Custom Script, an uploaded Custom Voiceover, or a Talking Head recording. The check takes a moment to run. If no error appears, you can continue. Talking-head and avatar projects are held to stricter rules than an ordinary prompt. See Input Validation.

Full prompting strategy: Prompting and In-Depth Prompting.

Step 4: Pick a thumbnail

VidRush offers thumbnail options for your video. Pick one you like, skip the step entirely, or paste a custom thumbnail URL to use a specific reference. The generator designs around your video title, so give it the title you would actually publish with. See Thumbnail Generator.

Step 5: Review the Quote Statement

VidRush now shows the Quote Statement, its understanding of your request. Check the format, duration, language, model, Brand Profile, and voice. You can override any of them right there, including the video title. Fixing the title is worth a few seconds, because the thumbnail is generated around it.

When everything looks right, hit Approve & Continue. A final screen shows the estimated total credits for the generation; the real cost can end up slightly higher or lower. On an avatar project the avatar’s own cost is not included in that estimate, so check your allowance on the Custom Avatar page before you approve. Approve once more and generation starts. Full guide: The Quote Statement.

Step 6: Wait (you can close the tab)

Your video enters the queue. During high-traffic periods it can take a little while before the progress bar appears. Generation runs in the cloud and typically takes 50 to 60 minutes. The finished video lands in Projects.

Step 7: Edit, render, publish

Open the video in the editor: swap clips, fix text, adjust audio, then hit Render Video.

Render won’t always start. It’s refused if a render is already running on that project, if recent renders have failed, or if your balance can’t cover it, either because you’re out of credits or because an invoice is outstanding. The two are different problems: see Credits & Billing for the first and Failed Payments & Account Recovery for the second. Full detail: Rendering & Troubleshooting.

Rendering is the step that turns your edited timeline into a single finished video file, with the narration, footage, captions, and effects all baked in. Your generation cost already covers the first one, so the video waiting in Projects is a complete file you could publish as-is.

If you change anything in the editor afterwards, those changes only reach the file when you render again. Each re-render costs about 10% of the original generation, so it is worth making all your edits in one pass rather than rendering after each one.