Skip to content
Trending.com logo
Login Start free
smart_toy AI assistant Updated 2026-10-04

Create Images and Videos With Your AI Assistant

Connect ChatGPT to Trending.com to create images, short AI video scenes, and complete shorts. Review the prompt and credit cost, then create in chat.

Not technical? Have your chatbot set this up with you.

Copy this page into your AI assistant: https://trending.com/docs/ai-assistant/create-videos-with-your-ai-assistant

Then send: I’m new to connecting tools in my AI app. Read this page and walk me through setup step by step.

Create images, AI videos, and complete shorts in ChatGPT

Describe an image or a short visual scene, review the credit cost, and let Trending create it. You can also start from one idea and make a complete short with a script, voice, visuals, captions, and music.

Trending.com Studio turns your idea into a complete, ready-to-upload short for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or Instagram Reels. It can handle the script, visuals, voices, captions, music, and final rendering, so you can create a polished faceless video with very little setup. You do not need video editing or coding experience.

The app is designed for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, and other vertical video feeds.

Connection settings

Use these settings when ChatGPT asks how to connect:

  • Connection: Server URL
  • Server URL: https://trending.com/mcp
  • Authentication: OAuth

Do not choose a tunnel, and do not paste an API key into ChatGPT. OAuth opens the secure Trending sign-in page so you can sign in or create an account in your browser.

Create one image or a short AI video

Ask for a single image or a short visual video when you want the scene itself to tell the story. You do not need to supply a reference picture.

Make an image of a tiny coral reef growing inside a porcelain teacup. Show me the credit cost before creating it.
Make a six-second vertical video of a raccoon chef carefully flipping a tiny pancake. Include kitchen sounds. Show me the prompt and credit cost first.

Images support square, landscape, tall portrait, and portrait-post shapes. AI videos are vertical and can be 3–15 seconds long. ChatGPT shows the cost and asks you to confirm before creation starts. The progress panel shows your result and download when it is ready, and the result is saved in My Library.

For a video, ask ChatGPT to plan a clear action and ending, with room for characters to move. Review the finished prompt before creating. This chat workflow creates from text; starting-image controls are available in the website's creator.

If a clip's sound is missing or very quiet, its progress panel asks you to review the audio. You keep the original clip and download. A quality warning never starts another generation or another generation charge; another version requires your request and confirmation of its cost.

These creations require a verified account with an active paid plan and enough credits. They use the same credit amounts as the website. The free daily video allowance applies to eligible complete-short formats.

If these choices are missing from an existing connection, refresh Trending in your ChatGPT connection settings and start a new chat.

Connect your account

  1. In ChatGPT, open Settings → Security and login and enable Developer mode.
  2. Open ChatGPT Plugins, select the plus button, and add a connection named Trending.com with the server URL https://trending.com/mcp.
  3. Choose OAuth when ChatGPT asks for authentication.
  4. Select Connect, then sign in to Trending or create an account.
  5. Approve the connection and return to ChatGPT.

Developer mode availability depends on your account and workspace policy. These steps follow OpenAI’s connection guide.

Using dots? Connect and enable Trending for your ChatGPT account, then ask your dot to use it. Dots availability and plugin access depend on your account and workspace. See OpenAI’s guide to connecting apps to dots.

Email signups must verify their email before creating a free video. Google sign-in can continue immediately when Google has already verified the email address.

Check the connection

Start a new chat and send:

Check my Trending connection and tell me which video types I can create.

ChatGPT should confirm that your Trending account is connected and show the video types available to that account. When you only say that you want to create a video, it should explain each available type, give you an example, and ask you to choose a type or share a topic before asking how much you want to customize. It should not show a format that your account cannot use.

If you have unfinished videos, the first reply should also show a short Continue where you left off list. Each item includes its title, video type, current state, and a simple way to continue. Videos that are still being created or waiting for Story review reopen their progress panel directly in ChatGPT when you choose them; ChatGPT should not replace that panel with a website link. Saved drafts and videos that need attention link to the correct Trending.com Studio editor. ChatGPT shows up to five recent projects and tells you when more are available. You can resume one or keep going with your new request.

Choose a video type

  • Story: voice-over narration and 12 to 30 illustrated scenes tell a complete story, with a character reference to help the cast stay consistent. Example: Create a funny claymation Story with an original cast and a fresh relatable plot. Choose the details for me.
  • Ranking: choose a broad built-in tag, then select five matching short clips or let Trending choose. Paid users can instead use a My Library folder with at least five uploaded clips. The clips count down from number 5 to number 1 with no narration or background music. Example: Create a funny Ranking video from one of the available tags and let me choose the five clips.
  • Rants: a fast first-person voice-over delivers a funny, emotional, sarcastic, or opinionated take over background clips. Example: Make a funny Rants video about absurd affiliate marketing offers.
  • Did You Know: one literal, obvious, or pointless fact becomes funny because the narrator presents it like an important discovery. Example: Create one funny Did You Know video from an obvious everyday fact, and choose a fresh fact for me.
  • List: a voice-over presents 10 to 15 text-first tips, facts, myths, jokes, or observations with captions, emojis, and supporting background clips. Every item still makes sense from the words alone. Example: Create a 10-item List of workplace habits everyone secretly finds annoying.
  • DM Story: chat bubbles turn a conversation into a paced story with a hook, disagreement or surprise, and reveal. Example: Create a DM Story where two roommates argue over a missing snack.
  • Confession: an emotional first-person voice-over tells a safe but embarrassing secret, mistake, or misunderstanding. Example: Create a funny Confession about accidentally volunteering for everything at work.

You can name a type yourself or let ChatGPT choose the closest match. Verified free accounts can create one video each day from Rants, List, Ranking, Confession, or Did You Know. Story and DM Story are not included with the free account, so ChatGPT should not offer them to a free user.

Ranking uses broad tags instead of arbitrary searches for objects or products. Trending only shows tags with more than 15 usable clips. After you choose a tag in guided mode, ChatGPT lists up to 24 randomly selected clip names with direct preview links. Reply with five option numbers in number-5-to-number-1 order, or ask for another set to see different choices. For a very specific Ranking, paid users can upload at least five short videos into one folder in My Library, then return to ChatGPT and choose that folder.

Reuse Story characters or continue a Story

When you choose Story and your account has earlier Story character sheets, ChatGPT shows up to 10 recent sheets with the Story title, character names, and a link to view each sheet. It asks whether you want new characters, the same characters in a completely different story, a similar standalone episode in the same world, or a sequel that continues where an earlier Story ended. Choose the option and sheet you want, or start with a new cast.

This question comes before quick or guided creation. A similar Story is not a sequel. Continuing a Story creates a new video; it does not reopen an unfinished project. When you reuse a ready character sheet, the estimate reflects that Trending does not need to create another sheet.

If that character sheet has saved voices, ChatGPT next shows which voice belongs to each character and asks whether to keep them for consistency or choose new voices. Keeping them is recommended for sequels and similar episodes. If you ask ChatGPT to choose everything, it keeps the saved voices and the same narrated, monologue, or dialogue delivery automatically unless you asked for a change.

Choose quick or guided creation

Unless your request already says which option you want, ChatGPT should ask: Would you like to answer a few short questions, or should I choose everything and start creating it for you? It should include a few examples that match your video type. Choosing a video type by itself does not choose one of these modes. For Story, ChatGPT first asks whether to start fresh or reuse an earlier character sheet when one is available. It then asks this quick-or-guided question before questions about the plot, style, delivery, or music.

  • Choose everything for me: ChatGPT fills in the remaining creative details and uses safe defaults.
  • Add my own details: ChatGPT asks 3 to 6 useful questions, with one question in each reply.

The suggestions change with the video type. For a Story, you can describe what the characters look like and wear, their personalities, the setting, the plot and ending, how the story is told, the visual style, whether to review the character sheet, which voices sound right, the number of illustrated scenes, the title, and whether you want music. Paid Story reviews can show up to 24 varied voice choices with previews you can play. ChatGPT may point out a few good matches in its reply, while the review panel keeps the full returned set. If you return to a paused Story or refresh the connection, ask ChatGPT to open the voice review panel again. A Rants video can focus on the speaker's personality, examples, jokes, pacing, and closing punchline. Lists and Rankings can include the audience, item count, order, and judging rules.

Story delivery has three choices. Narrated means an outside narrator tells the story. Monologue means one main character tells their own story in the first person. Dialogue means 2 to 4 named characters speak to each other, with an optional narrator between scenes.

Every guided question also lets you answer Choose the rest for me and create it. ChatGPT will keep the details you already gave, choose the remaining safe details, and start without asking for another confirmation. If you give several details in one answer, ChatGPT keeps all of them and then asks one different question. Unless you ask ChatGPT to choose the rest, it also asks whether you want background music. Three answers do not make ChatGPT assume you are finished. It keeps asking until you say you are done, there are no useful questions left, or six questions have been answered. Then it summarizes your choices and asks you to confirm them.

Understand the cost before creation

If your account uses credits, ChatGPT should show the estimated cost for your chosen video, your current credit balance, and about how many credits should remain before it starts. Trending checks the estimate and balance again when creation begins. During creation, the progress view can show credits already used for each completed step, credits held for the current step, your available balance, and the estimated cost still remaining.

Free accounts use the daily free-video allowance instead of credits. ChatGPT should tell you whether today's free video is available without showing made-up credit amounts. If it has already been used, ChatGPT should show the exact next reset date and time in the best available timezone for you, or clearly label the time as UTC when your timezone is unavailable. Free accounts use five standard voices. Paid accounts use the premium voice catalog, and a guided Story review can return up to 24 varied choices at once.

Create your first video

Send a direct request such as:

Create a funny Rants video about friendship drama. Use the normal defaults. If it is still rendering after a short check, remind me to check my email in about 10 minutes.

More examples:

  • Make a funny rant about how absurd affiliate marketing offers have become.
  • Create a 10-item List of workplace habits everyone secretly finds annoying.
  • Create a funny Ranking video from the Cursed tag and show me the available clips.
  • Make one funny Did You Know video from an obvious everyday fact, and choose the fact for me.
  • Turn a roommate group-chat argument into a DM Story.

Include the subject, angle, and tone you want. Add Choose everything else for me for the fastest path, or say Walk me through the details when you want more control.

What happens after you create

  1. Trending accepts the creation request.
  2. ChatGPT waits briefly to make sure the first creation stage started successfully.
  3. Trending writes and checks the script, then creates the voice, visuals, timing, captions, and music.
  4. Story videos also create a consistent character reference and 12 to 30 illustrated scenes.
  5. If you chose Story character review, Trending pauses before the scenes, shows the character sheet and up to 24 playable voice samples for paid accounts, and waits for your decision.
  6. You can approve the character sheet at no extra cost. Before making another sheet, ChatGPT tells you its exact current credit cost and asks you to agree.
  7. The same panel changes from voice review to scene progress after approval, so ChatGPT does not need to open a second preview panel.
  8. A live progress view shows the Story title, characters, character reference, completed scenes, narration, and music as they become ready.
  9. Final rendering starts only after those parts are ready.
  10. Trending emails the download link when the video is finished.

Most videos take about 7 minutes. Illustrated Story videos usually take about 10 minutes. The progress view updates about every 10 seconds while the video is being created or waiting for your Story review, then shows the finished video and download link. If one update is briefly delayed, the progress view tries again automatically and you can also select Refresh progress. You can still check the email connected to your Trending account in about 10 minutes, and you do not need to keep the chat open.

ChatGPT should say the final video is rendering only after that stage actually begins, and it should say the video is finished only when it has a real download link. Quick creation stays automatic. A guided Story pauses only when you chose to review its character sheet before the scenes were created.

Disconnect the app

Open Account Settings in Trending.com Studio and use Connected apps to disconnect ChatGPT and other approved apps. You can also disconnect the Trending.com Studio app from ChatGPT settings. Signing out of the Trending website alone does not disconnect an approved app.

If the connection does not work

  • Make sure the server URL is exactly https://trending.com/mcp.
  • Make sure OAuth is selected instead of no authentication.
  • Finish email verification if Trending asks for it.
  • After Trending changes the app tools, open the app in ChatGPT developer settings and select Refresh, then start a new chat.
  • Disconnect and reconnect the app if ChatGPT is using an old authorization.
  • Start a new chat after reconnecting, then run the connection check again.

For developers and automation tools

The ChatGPT server above intentionally keeps the tool list small and does not accept API keys in tool inputs. Developers who need preview-only runs, uploads, webhooks, detailed template controls, or API-key automation should use the advanced endpoint https://trending.com/mcp/automation with the Video API documentation.

Keep scripts suitable for ages 13 and up

Trending is a general-audience service. Prompts and scripts with sexual content, self-harm, violent stories, hate, threats, or similar unsafe material are refused.

We check the idea before writing, check the finished script, check saved edits, and check again before creating the voice-over. If a request is refused, try a different, non-graphic idea that is suitable for a general audience. A refused generation does not use generation credits.