This AI Agent Builds Full Video Ads For You (Claude Code + Seedance 2.0)
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I just found a way to clone any winning
ad on the internet in minutes. No
writing prompts, no copy-pasting between
chat GPT and your ad tools, and no
hiring creative strategist. I literally
mean grab an ad that you found in the
wild, drag it into Claude code, point it
at your product, and it spits out a
full-blown video ad that matches the
vibe, the pacing, the shots, the
dialogue, all of it. And the craziest
thing is this all exists as a free repo
that I'm going to give you in this
video. Literally, all you have to do is
copy the link, throw it into Claude
code, and it will do all the setup for
you. This Claude code agent connects Arc
Ads AI and SeaDance 2.0 to create
next-level AI content that has never
been able to be done before. In this
video, I'm going to show you some wild
use cases for SeaDance 2.0, which is
arguably the best video model out there
right now, and it just dropped. This
model is so good that it literally got
banned from the US until they could
figure out their copyright issues. They
got into tons of trouble early on making
celebrity videos and deepfakes and
stuff. So, you can imagine all the legal
issues that they've had to work through.
The model is finally live through Arc
Ads, and with this Claude agent, what
you can create will absolutely blow your
mind. I'm going to show you a bunch of
wild use cases inside of Arc Ads.
Unboxing videos, street interviews, real
estate walk-throughs, ASMR videos,
claymation ads, green screen hacks, time
lapses, you name it. Then I'm going to
show you exactly how you can set up
Claude code on your machine to recreate
any ad you can imagine. No more burning
through credits trying to figure out how
to prompt correctly. I've distilled this
entire process down to a perfect science
within Claude. And if you run ads, this
is the video you've been waiting for.
Five creative is here, let's get into
it. All right, so I'm going to show you
exactly how prompting this thing works
inside of Arc Ads. So, I'm in my Arc Ads
account. I've got a project here for
SeaDance 2.0. You can see all the videos
that I've been generating. And on the
bottom here, we've got settings. Right
now, we're selected in video.
And there's all these different models.
You've got Sora 2, Sora 2 Pro, Kling,
Kling 3.0, uh Vio 3.1, uh SeaDance 1.5,
and Grok video. Obviously, today we're
talking about SeaDance 2.0, so you can
select that. There's different aspect
ratios. You can be 9 by 16 or 16 by 9.
Length, it can go from 4 seconds all the
way to 15 seconds. The price varies
depending on how long you make it, so
keep that in mind. Also, the price, I
believe, varies between 480p and 720p.
So, right now, if we do a 10-second,
I'll just say like blah blah blah blah
blah, whatever. Um it's 0.6 credits. And
then if we switch to 480p,
it drops in half. So, if you're making
content for social and for ads, you
really don't always need it to be high
quality anyway. So, quick tip for you if
you're trying to save on credit costs is
generating in 480p because it's going to
be on social media anyway, it's going to
be on mobile devices, it'll look just
that much more realistic and not AI. I
think sometimes if it's like 4K, it's
actually easier to tell that something's
AI versus lower quality. So, anyway,
quick tip for you there. And then, yeah,
as in terms of like how you prompt this
thing, it can take multiple reference
images, multiple audio references, and
multiple video references. So, a lot of
this is brand new. Brand new to how you
can create AI-generated content. We had
with Vio 3 that you could have reference
images, but we couldn't have uh
reference videos yet. I think this is
the first model out that's released that
allows you to have both audio and video
now, which opens up a whole
like
so many opportunities for generating um
AI content, and we'll go over those
later in the video. But, essentially,
the way this works in Arc Ads is I can
include uh like a video here, so I'll
just include a video.
I can include a image, so I'll just
let's find a random image. I guess,
yeah, it doesn't really matter.
I'll include an image here, and I can
include an audio. So, I'll do this
audio. So, I can prompt this and say,
"I want you to take the reference video
in" and then we do slash, and then you
can see here now we can select which
image, video, and audio we're
referencing. So, I can say video one.
So, I want you to take the reference
video in video one as the vibe for the
video we're going to recreate. I want
you to replace it with the product from
image one using the audio from
audio one.
So, in this example, like I didn't
include the right references here. I
just wanted to kind of use this as a
generic example where you can
dynamically reference different
reference images, videos, and audios
throughout your prompt, which makes this
thing so incredibly powerful. Where like
if you had yourself or another
influencer or another video or whatever,
like saying a script you really loved
the way that they they delivered that
script or like like the way their voice
sounded or whatever, you could include
that as the audio for the video you're
creating. But maybe you wanted to swap
them out with a different character or
in a different vibe or holding a
different product or whatever, that's
where you include a different image
reference and say swap out the product.
Or really, there's just like so many
different ways you can slice and dice
those three variables to create unique
videos almost every single time. You can
also use that video reference to expand
or extend videos using this model. So,
within Vio 3.1, you know, they do have
the extend feature where you can extend
a video. That's basically all you can do
with it. But here, I could say, "I want
you to continue {slash} video one and
have the girl in the video saying" and
then you could like, you know, XY you
could include the dialogue that you
wanted them to say in the next section
of the video. Or you can say, "I want
them to move into this room." Or I want
them to pick up this product. Or I want
them to
fly into outer space. Like, you can
change the scene dynamically, um but
have it continue based off of that
reference video so that it keeps the
character, the lighting, the voice, like
everything will maintain consistency
from your reference video. This is
insane. You can also have it edit videos
now, too. So, I could say, um you know,
let's say there was Actually, I'll just
show you on the SeaDance website super
quick a really good example of this. So,
here's a really good example of how you
can actually edit videos within
SeaDance. So, here in the bottom frame,
this is the original. There's like a
camera in it, and the prompt is remove
any visible production mistakes from the
video. So, this is the reference video,
and you can see like kept everything
about the video the same, but it removed
the camera from the video. So, you can
actually edit videos now. Here's another
super cool one where it's using
reference images. So, we've got a
starting frame of an empty kind of like,
you know, concrete room, and then you
include the image of the end frame of
like a super well-designed living room,
and this is creating a time lapse of
that entire transition
in real time, which is super cool, looks
super slick. If you're doing anything
with like real estate or anything like
that, this would be really cool to play
with. This example is super cool.
Basically, it's you up you're uploading
a green screen video of two people
fighting with reference images of the
characters and saying, "I want you to
recreate their motion basically with
these two characters in this setting."
So, you can imagine just like how crazy
you can get with this kind of stuff. So,
now that you know what this model can
do, let me show you some examples of
videos I've already created specifically
for ads. All right, so to kick this
video off, we're going to go through
some of the examples that I've already
put together using SeaDance 2 within
arcads.ai. This first example is an
influencer video of somebody unboxing a
fictional pair of Mr. Paid Social Vans
that I put together. Check this out.
>> know what time it is. It's that time
again for another first look. Today, we
got the Mr. Paid Social sneakers. These
are super dope. I'm a big fan of the
black and white colorway. These are
super clean. I can't wait to rock these.
I'm a big fan of these.
Pretty incredible. I mean, the prompt I
used was literally create an influencer
try-on video promoting these shoes. And
the way you, you know, do this in Arc
Ads, I'll show you,
is you upload your reference image here,
and then you reference your image in the
prompt for Arc Ads. So, this is image
one. If I had a second image in here,
maybe of some, you know, the shoes in
like a street setting or on a bedroom
floor or whatever,
um you can include, I believe, it's up
to nine reference images here.
And then you can say exactly how you
want each one of those reference images
to be used in the prompt, which is
pretty insane.
Um you can also add things like audio,
um video. We'll get into how to use all
of that later in the video, but you can
do some pretty incredible things with
prompting. All right, next up we've got
unboxing videos. Here's the prompt:
Create an unboxing video for image one
having it be a POV style video, ASMR
style, with high gain on the sounds of
the box opening, paper crinkling, etc.
No music, just the sound of the
packaging. Check this out.
You've got the sound of the crinkling
tissue paper,
sound of the plastic. That turned out
pretty awesome, I would say. All right,
this next one is really a cool use case.
So, if you're promoting an app, you can
essentially go to your website, grab,
you know, any screenshots you have of
your app in the phone, and then use that
as a reference image. So, here, I'll
show you in the actual prompt, I have
"Using image one, create a creator style
video of an influencer holding their
phone and showing off this app." And
then I include the URL to the app with a
reference image of the actual app. So,
I'll show you what that looks like. So,
I literally grabbed this like hero image
of multiple screens from the app and
just downloaded that. So, here's what
that looks like.
This app is amazing. It has so many
features that make studying so much
easier. I can highlight important
information, add my own notes, and even
create flash cards to help me remember
everything. Go check it out and download
it to your phone. Like the fact that it
put this the like crappy screenshot even
it wasn't even like a cropped screenshot
or anything. It was a crappy screenshot.
It was able to put that into the iPhone.
It wrote the script for it. It had
bouncing shots from the influencer back
to the phone, back to the influencer,
wide angle, close up. Like it just did
it all like a 15-second clip. And
literally this was the prompt. Use the
image of and create a creator-style
video of the influencer holding their
phone. All right, this next example is
also pretty crazy. Um it's basically
I'll I'll show you how I put the prompt
together and what I used for it. So,
here I don't know if you can tell if I
zoom in. There's like this collage image
here of like a bunch of products.
Basically, I just This is a fictional
collage of photos, but I was like make a
outfit that a Gen Z would wear
basically. And it was like make it Mr.
Paid Social branding. So, I said a
lifestyle ad that looks like something
you might see on Instagram of an
influencer wearing these products, fast
paced, natural lighting, iPhone quality.
Check out how good this turned out.
She's wearing the sweatshirt.
The sunglasses,
the jeans, the shoes.
It added music.
Like it's got
Like that looks like a legit content
creator
put on that outfit and just like put
something together for TikTok.
Insane. All right, this next one's a
cool use case for any real estate folks
out there. So, literally all I did I
went to like Zillow. I grabbed three
images of like here's the kitchen,
here's the living room, here's the front
of the house. Like this is an actual
house on listing right now on Zillow. Um
and I said a real estate walk-through
video of image one, image two, image
three. And here's how that turned out.
Check this out.
Welcome to this 1969 mid-century modern
home in the desirable Lake Wilderness
neighborhood. The main level features a
gorgeous kitchen with stainless steel
appliances and quartz countertops. The
great room has vaulted ceilings and a
gas fireplace. Welcome to So, obviously
like it messed up saying counter taps or
whatever.
Um but like I didn't even include the
dialogue. If I wanted to be really
specific here, I could have included
exactly what I wanted them to say. I
could have included all I could have
included a link to the listing and it
probably would have scraped it for more
info. I could have included the
description from the listing in here,
but I think the takeaway here is like
you can just kind of throw in real
estate photos and say create a
walk-through video and it will turn out
pretty pretty good. Um and an awesome
like hack here with C Dance 2.0 is I
could actually if I wanted to continue
this like if I wanted longer than a
15-second video, I could download this
video. So, I'll show you real quick. I'm
going to download this video and then
I'm going to go to remix here. And then
basically what you can do is you can
include the
video. So, if I remove these images,
select C Dance again.
Select 15 seconds. And then I include
this video. So, you can actually include
>> Welcome
videos now. You can include videos now
as references for your prompts. So, I
can rewrite this prompt and say continue
the walk-through
video from and then I can hit slash and
select this video as the reference into
the following
rooms. And then I could say
I could include three more images here
from the listing and say go into this
room and say this, go into this room and
say that, go into this room and say
that. And you could just basically build
out an entire walk-through. It could be
like a minute long and it would be
totally consistent. Like you'd have the
same person doing the voiceover, it'd be
the same style. And you could end up
with like a full-blown walk-through
video for like 40 bucks, which is
insane. Considering normally you'd have
to hire a crew to come to you the
listing with their expensive camera and
gear, pay them to film it, pay them to
edit it. I have videographer friends in
the real estate industry that do this
and they charge thousands of dollars to
do basically this. So, pretty insane.
All right, for this one I want to see
how C Dance would do with a green screen
video. Um it didn't quite get it
exactly, but I'm going to show you a
little hack that I did to get really the
end result that I was looking for with
very minimal effort. Here I said using
image one. So, image one is basically a
screenshot that I took of my private
school community like the about page. Um
I want to generate a TikTok-style green
screen video of an influencer talking
about why you should join my community
on school, points out different parts of
the landing page behind him the
influencer. Um perspective is selfie
style with arm extended towards the
camera, iPhone quality. So, I liked what
it gave me in terms of the influencer,
but obviously it messed up on the whole
like green screen concept of it. It just
kind of like threw it on the wall behind
them. So, what I did was I downloaded
this video from our cats, just tossed it
into CapCut. There's a button that lets
you just remove the background. And then
I just threw my actual what I put here
behind it as a green screen. I just
created the green screen video, but
check out how good this turned out.
Inside the AI Ad Alchemist community.
This is where you can come to leverage
AI and automation to finally scale your
ads. So, you can increase your ROS, save
time, and scale your ad operations. The
influencer's performance here or like
the AI avatar's performance here, it
looks like a real person. Like his hands
are moving. He's looking He looks like
he's talking into his camera. Like if I
didn't know this was AI, Inside the AI
Ad Alchemist community. This is where
you can come to leverage AI and
automation to finally scale your ads.
Like I probably wouldn't know.
Pretty incredible. All right, this next
one's kind of fun and honestly it's a ad
style that I've been seeing work really
really well for folks.
buddy in the industry who's like pivoted
his entire business to literally just
doing street interview creatives for
brands. So, I wanted to see if we could
recreate this with C Dance. So, here's
the prompt. Generate a street interview
style video of two young males
approaching a group of young females and
asking them what they think about Mr.
Paid Social. So, obviously like we could
have prompted this to like ask them
about your product or I could have put
in more dialogue here to ask some
specific questions and you could use
that for your ads. But like just look at
how good this turned out.
>> Today we're asking people what they
think about Mr. Paid Social. What do you
ladies think about Mr. Paid Social?
I think he's really innovative.
I don't think his targeting is as
effective as it could be.
I heard he's a vegetarian.
I'm actually not a vegetarian, so she's
wrong. But yeah, that I mean that turned
out super good. And again like this
prompt was very very simple. Like I
didn't go too crazy with it. You can
create ASMR-style videos with this
model. So, this prompt. ASMR-style
unboxing of image one, which image one
was just a product image of this Mr.
Paid Social Cola. No music, just high
mic gain and influencer whispering. So,
check this out. It's probably going to
make you I don't really like ASMR, so it
makes I don't really like listening to
it. But check this out. slaps. You know
what I mean? Like that's what I'm
talking about. That's what I want to
see.
Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
It's the fingers. like that. Yeah. The
fingers on the can and everything. It
just like it nailed it. So, I've been
seeing a ton of these like Pixar or
claymation-style cartoony ads out in the
wild. Um mainly for like supplement
brands, health and wellness brands,
pharmaceutical companies, um what have
you. Because it's really easy to create
with AI and they're a little bit more
engaging and and whatnot. I think Dara
Denney made some content recently
talking about like the breakdown effect
of like why these actually perform
really really well for brands right now.
But I wanted to see if we could recreate
it with AI using C Dance. So, check this
out. Um create a claymation-style
narrative ad explaining the risks of
heart disease in men and how image one
can make all the difference. So, image
one here is a supplement fictional
supplement that I made with Nano Banana
with Mr. Paid Social branding. So, check
out how this one turned out.
>> Heart disease is the number one killer
of men.
But the right vitamins can make all the
difference.
Introducing Mr. Paid Social, the premium
daily multivitamin that helps support a
healthy heart.
Heart So, that one I mean I thought it
turned out pretty good. The motion was
good. There's like a voiceover, the guy
looks concerned. You bring in the
product. Obviously like we could have
gotten way more descriptive in our
prompt and probably had like some
variances in the cuts and everything.
But also if you wanted to continue this
story, this is where again we can simply
download the video, include it as a
reference for the next prompt, and just
continue the story along. So, there's a
lot you could do with this. Okay, this
one is a really interesting use case and
I think something that a lot of people
can actually use pretty well for their
ads. So, I found an ad in the wild from
a brand called Javy. They're like a
coffee brand or whatever.
And I wanted basically the video was
like a real person. There was posted
notes on it with like callouts. And the
person is just ripping off one posted at
a time and it's revealing like, you
know, it's like real coffee, it's good
for you. Like the feature benefits of it
basically. And so, I was like I feel
like I could recreate this using C
Dance. So, I gave it a try. So, first
thing I did
is this is a screenshot of the video
of just like the vibe and the brand you
know the the the coffee, all that stuff.
And so, what I did is I tossed it into
Nano Banana 2, again with an Arc Ads,
and I prompted it to change the brand
name to Mr. Paid Social, have the girl
be blonde, have the post-it say, "This
is 100% AI." right? Um so, if you had a
completely different product here, you
could have put a completely different
product. If you wanted to change the
appearance more, like there's a lot you
could do with it. But, just check this
out. So, uh this first one I say, "Have
this ad be 100% AI." Then, I continue
prompting it, "But, you would never
know." So, then it creates the next
frame, and this one says, "I'm about to
show you how." right? So, we've got
three images with three different
post-its. This is where SeaDance gets
really, really cool in what you can do.
So, here, I've got a prompt that says,
"The shot start" I should have said
starts, so I had a typo there, but um
with image one, then the woman's hand
pulls off the first post-it note to
reveal image three, and finally pulls
off the next post-it to reveal image
two. So, um here, like image two and
three is just the reference of the way
that they uploaded into Arc Ads. Um but,
check this out. It actually worked.
Like
it did what I wanted it to do. It had
the person pulling off the post-its
notes.
Um you know, if you wanted to, like you
probably I probably could have gotten a
little bit more creative with my Nano
Banana prompting in terms of like the
font, making it look a little bit more
um messy. I think this turned out like a
little robotic or a little like
printed-looking. I think it still looks
great.
Um but, like compared to the original,
it's like, you know, real handwriting is
a little bit
you know, I can tell the difference,
maybe not everybody can.
Um
Anyway, I thought that actually turned
out really solid. So, this next one, you
know, I see these videos all over the
place on like Facebook and Instagram,
but there's these like time-lapse videos
that show people like doing construction
work or doing a home remodel or
whatever. Um there's a lot of use cases.
I feel like you could use this with ads,
like if you were like a home design
company, and you want to show off like
how you can transform a space and have
it be like a
a time-lapse and all that. But, um
so, what I did here is I had a picture
on my phone of like the woods, you know?
Um and so, I just uploaded it, and I
said,
"Nano Banana 2, put a beautiful
treehouse in the woods with a spiral
wooden stair going up." So, I have a
bunch of these to choose from, right?
So, what I did is I took the starting
frame, so basically the picture of the
woods without the treehouse
in the woods. And then, I had the
second reference image be
the treehouse complete. And the prompt
is, "A time-lapse video showing the
constructing of the treehouse, where
image one is where it should start,
image two is where the time-lapse should
finish, and the video with a
walk-through of the interior." Check
this out.
Pretty sweet.
Pretty sweet. And then, um
I wanted to actually see if this would
work. So, there was another one of these
videos in here. So, in this version, I
have it end with this walk-through, and
it kind of like goes in, right? And I
wanted to see if I could continue this.
So, I downloaded this video, uploaded it
back into SeaDance, and said, "Continue
the walk-through of the treehouse from
video one, add dialogue of people
talking about how happy with how the
treehouse turned out." Let's check this
out.
So, it's continuing on where that video
left off.
>> It's so much better than we ever thought
it would be. You think the kids will
like it? I know they're going to love
it.
Like
pretty crazy. Like it's just continuing
on from where it left off, even like had
the same like piano vibe from the music
from the first video. So, you could put
them together, and it would feel like
one fluid, continuous video. All right.
So, now we're going to like switch gears
a little bit here, and I'm going to show
you some crazier use cases here, right?
As you can see with this one I have up
here, this prompt is significantly
longer than the ones I've been showing
you so far. The ones I've been showing
you were kind of like my lazy prompts,
like I wanted to just see what the model
would do, giving it kind of more
creative freedom. Here, I wanted to see
how the model would do with a very
refined prompt. I don't write these
prompts from scratch. Nobody does.
Nobody's sitting here like writing out
paragraphs for prompting. Um so, this is
where Claude Code comes into play. And
I'm going to show you how we can connect
Claude Code directly into Arc Ads AI
through their API, where Claude Code
will write the prompts for you, it will
structure the videos, and it will upload
them into the API to process all the
videos and the creatives for you, so you
can do everything within Claude Code and
not have to be copying and pasting back
and forth and like sending screenshots
back and forth from AI or like the way
we've historically done this is I've put
together like a custom GPT or something,
where there's prompting guidelines, and
then you're kind of bouncing back and
forth between a chat and Arc Ads. Now,
you can just do it all within Claude
Code, and it works so
freaking well. All right. So, the first
step here is you're going to go to this
repo on GitHub. I've published the
entire
Claude Code agent with the skills and
everything in here. So, literally all
you have to do is copy a URL, throw it
into Cod- Claude Code, and it's going to
set everything up for you perfectly. Um
this comes with kind of instructions
here inside of GitHub. If you've never
used GitHub or Claude Code, I promise
you it's not that hard, and this is
probably the use case you've been
waiting for to give it a try. The link
for this is in the description below, so
grab that right now. And then, once you
have the link, essentially all you're
going to do is copy the link. You're
going to go into Claude, and at the This
is Claude Desktop, so you want to
download the Claude Desktop app on your
computer, not go like don't do it
through Claude on the mobile or sorry,
on the web app.
Um there's more power that you get from
the desktop app um
for this use case. Like it'll actually
download things to your drive, and
you'll you'll see why it matters. Um you
don't You could also run this in
terminal. If you're one of those folks
that uses Claude Code in terminal, I
personally prefer using the desktop app.
It's just a little bit cleaner, and
terminal scares me um probably like most
of you watching this video.
So, anyway, here's how it works. You're
going to first go into your computer
somewhere, right? And I want you to just
make a folder somewhere, call it like
coding projects or Arc Ads or AI or
whatever. You just make a folder
somewhere in your computer. I have one
that's called coding projects, and my
folder for Claude and Arc Ads is called
Arc Ads and Claude Code. So, this is the
folder that I work out of whenever I'm
using this tool. So, you're going to
create a folder, and then you're going
to go here, click new session, right?
So, there's nothing in here. At the
bottom within Claude Code, you select a
folder. So, here's where you can select
that folder you just created. So, I'm
going to go to coding projects, Arc Ads
and Claude Code, open. So, now you can
see we've got a folder selected here. We
want it to be local, and don't worry
about this stuff yet. So, here um is
where literally all you're going to do
is paste in that URL from GitHub, and
tell Claude, "Please set up this repo on
my machine."
And then, it will like the the repo
already has all of the instructions and
everything that's needed to set this up
for you, and it's just going to go. Um
I'm going to show you what that looks
like. Just to show you the full example,
I'm going to create a new folder on my
computer and call it Arc Ads
plus Claude
um demo, just so you can see how this
will work in your own computer. Let me
pop back into Claude. I'm just going to
change it to that folder.
Okay. So, we've got our folder open. You
can see like there was no GitHub
connection here because there currently
isn't a repo installed in this folder
yet. Um so, yeah, we've got this GitHub
link. I'm saying, "Please set this re-
repo up on my she- my machine." And I'm
just going to click go. I like running
my Claude Code in bypass mode, um which
basically just means you don't have to
constantly like approve things when it
asks you for them.
It is more dangerous, so just make sure
you understand the risks before doing
that. Otherwise, you're going to have to
kind of sit here and babysit it and be
like approve, approve, approve, approve,
approve. Um so, right now, it's, you
know, it cloned the repo for me,
and we're setting up the instructions on
setting this all up. So, while it's
working on that, pop over back to Arc
Ads, log in or sign up if you don't have
an account, just log in. Now that you're
logged in, you're going to go to
settings, and then here in settings,
there's this public API. So, here, you
would click get new credentials, and
then it would give you a client ID and a
client secret.
So, here, we're back in Claude Code. It
looks like it set everything up for me,
and now it's just saying that we need
that Arc Ads API key, and to add it to
the .env for you. Um normally, it's
supposed to open the .env file for you
and show you where to paste it in. It
didn't this time, so I'll make sure
that's fixed, but if it doesn't do that
for you, just say, "Please open the .env
file on my desktop so I can paste it
securely
in there."
Um by rule of thumb, when it whatever
you're working in something like Claude
Code, you don't want to paste API keys
in the chat windows. It's just less
secure. Okay, so I asked it to open up
the .env file and you can see it all
opened up here just in a text editor and
it has a couple things where it's like
shows you where to paste it in. So, here
is where you would paste in your API
key. Um you can also include your client
ID and all that good stuff here. Um but
once that's done, all you have to do is
close it
and then you're set up. So, it all it
needs is that API key in that .env file
and then it can basically structure all
the calls for you to upload everything
into Claude or into Arcads. This Claude
Code agent is loaded with the prompting
guidelines as well as multiple templates
for everything I'm about to show you
where you can recreate it just by simply
asking it to create a video with your
product. So, here's an example of what I
was able to create using the Claude Code
connection here. Check out this video.
Bro, these finally came.
Look at this. The details are crazy.
Suede on the front, the blue pop on the
back. Come on.
The fit is perfect, too. Not even going
to lie.
These are not leaving the rotation. Like
it had multiple shots. I didn't write
the dialogue. I didn't do anything. All
I did was popped over into Claude Code,
added a reference image of my product,
and said, "I want you to create a UGC
style video for me." And then it went
and
crafted this prompt,
fired it off into Arcads for me.
Like I didn't even have to copy paste
anything. Insane. All right, here's
another one with that same pair of Vans
like Mr. Paid Social branded Vans. Check
this out. Bro, these finally came.
Look at this. The details are crazy.
Suede on the front,
the blue pop on the back. Come on.
Fit is perfect, too. Not even going to
lie.
These are not leaving the rotation.
Also, if you want if you think I should
make Mr. Paid Social branded Vans, let
me know in the comments cuz I kind of
want those.
All right, so here is where this can get
really, really cool using Claude Code
and Arcads. So, I found this ad in the
wild and I wanted to see if I could just
have Claude Code recreate it for me.
Check this out.
>> Classic crew tricks by Mott & Bow. By
far my favorite tees. So comfortable.
They hide my belly and my man boobs and
enhance my pecs and shoulders. They have
a super sturdy binded neck that will
last for years. So, So, you get the
point. It's like a bunch of shots of
people like touching the fabric and
there's like dialogue over it, voice
over, music, all that good stuff. So,
what I did, and this is something I just
added to this repo and you can use it
right now.
Um if I scroll up here,
I had it create a new skill
where it will analyze the video for you.
Like I'll I'll show you exactly what it
did. I wanted it to So, I I referenced
the
the like video that I just showed you
and then I wanted to see how it would
work with this Mr. Paid Social T-shirt
that I This again, this is fake. I just
used Nano Banana 2 to put this together,
but I wanted to see if it would
basically recreate that video but with
my product and have it look and feel
almost exactly the same. So, first, it
analyzes that source video. So, it's
like 39 seconds long, eight beats, 118
words. So, Claude Code is able to
transcribe the video. It uses something
called FFmpeg
to extract multiple frames from the
video so it can actually like
understand what's going on visually.
And then it does this whole like
analysis of that video. We're basically
going to clone it. So, what transfers to
my product, it's going to keep the
hands-on face, the beat structure, the
physical proof, jump cut, per beat
pacing, all this good stuff. It's going
to change the Mott & Bow tees to my Mr.
Paid Social. The future claim's going to
be different, all this good stuff. Um it
asked me like to approve the dialogue,
so I could have put in my own dialogue.
I just had it write dialogue, so it
handled that handled that all for me.
But part of this is you actually like
get presented with a full like script
and dialogue to approve. Um I approved
it all and then it fires it all off into
Arcads for me. So, it creates a new
folder here and you can see like all of
the different um video clips that it
made for me.
And then what I had it do is I tested
and this is what's crazy.
I wanted it to create a 15-second
version that was just kind of like the
essence of it but like a shorter
version. And then I wanted to it to
recreate the entire video with multiple
clips and then also as a last step,
stitch every single video back together
for me into a folder. Long story short,
went through all this stuff and it did
it all and let me show you the final
result. Okay, so it opened the folder
for me so I could see everything that it
made. So, I've got all of those assets
finished right here on the left. This is
Claude Code on the right. I'm going to
show you the fully stitched version
first. So, this took the three different
videos that it generated for me in
Arcads, stitched them together. Check
this out.
This is the Mr. Paid Social T by Gen Z
Threads. By far my favorite graphic T.
Vintage wash, super soft, heavyweight
cotton.
Look at this collar. It's thick. It's
binded. No bacon neck ever. 100% organic
cotton. This thing is built to last.
Row AS emoji, master of the algorithm,
driving clicks and conversions. If you
run ads, this is your T.
Goes with everything. Jeans, joggers,
layer it under a hoodie. It's a So,
we've already gone through two separate
clips and you probably didn't even tell
that we switched to new clip. It was
flawless. Vintage wash, so it looks
broken in from day one. Size medium fits
perfect. Not too slim, not boxy.
If you run paid social, you need this T.
Link in bio. So, it put together a whole
script. It generated all the videos. The
vibe I would say was like pretty spot-on
in terms of what it was able to do from
that reference video that I gave it.
There's a couple little things, right?
Like the the tag or you know, that text
got kind of jumbled. Um
you know, I might have Like if I wanted
to solve for that, probably what I would
do is include a reference image of the
starting frame
and approve that first so that you're
happy with the way like all the text on
your products looks before the like the
full video gets created.
Um that's one way that you could kind of
safeguard against that. And that's
something that you could tell Claude
that you wanted to do. Like you could
literally just say like, "I want you to
generate the starting scene images using
Nano Banana 2" and it would just do that
for you. Um I'd fire those off into
Arcads, give them back to you to uh so
you can review them. This is basically
like vibe coding but instead of vibe
coding, you're vibe AI creative-ing.
Vibe creating. Like it's just so crazy
now how far we've come from like having
like custom GPTs to now having
full-blown like AI agents that learn
with you. Like as I use this, if there's
something that I'm like, "Oh hey, um
commit this to a skill." It'll just save
it as a skill and then it will do that
exact same thing again for me. So, now
if I if I after all this, if I was like,
"Okay, I want you to save this exact
like creative template as a skill that I
can call back and use again." And I've
done this. I'll show you exactly. Like
in the project files, there's all of
these skills and like I have one for a
feature walk-through, a premium reveal,
a product hero, a studio look back, a
UGC video. Like anytime you clone a
video with this, you can have it commit
that clone to a skill and then call back
to that skill as a template, which is
pretty incredible. I'm going to show you
a couple more examples here. All right,
so here's another example where I found
this video ad in the wild. It's like
very like studio quality.
You know, there's like shots of someone
trying on the product in front of a
studio backdrop with studio lighting and
there's audio and all that good stuff.
And what I did, same process we just
went through, I took this video, I
tossed it into Claude Code and was like,
"I want to recreate this video and I
want it to be a template that I can use
again." So, it did that and then all I
had to do was have it
recreate this video but for this brand
of Mr. Paid Social hat. Again, fictional
product that I just created, but like
I'm going to play both here, but I'm
going to play this one without sound so
you can get a sense of like how well
this nailed the vibe. So, here's the
reference. Here's the new one.
I've been looking for a hat that
actually has some character. The
corduroy, the color blocking, the patch,
the Mr. Paid Social camp cap just hits
different. I've been looking for a hat
that actually has It's so good. It did
such a good job with everything. The
lighting, the pacing, the multiple
shots, like the zoom on the actual
product. Like look how good that Like it
looks like a real hat. You can see the
stitching.
This was a image. This was like an image
that I just made on Nano Banana 2. This
This doesn't even exist. This product is
not real. And it made it look so
freaking good. All right, here's another
example where I found this like um Solo
Stove ad in the wild, it was like super
cinematic and I just tossed it into
Claude code, asked it to recreate it
with my
hat.
Check this out.
Like did a pretty freaking good job at
making a cinematic
high-quality looking product shot style
ad. Okay, so here's another one that I
had Claude code clone for me. Um,
essentially this is like an influencer
talking about like all of the different
product features and benefits of a
product while demoing it out. Um, so
here's the Claude code Arc ads clone
with C Dance 2.0. If I could only wear
one hat for the rest of my life, this is
it, no question. Three-tone corduroy,
woven patch, and this adjustable strap,
so it fits anyone.
Absolute staple.
And that was only a 10-second long
video. Like, we could have done a
15-second long video, we could have done
multiple of these where like it
continued on with like I think this
video what is like
36
seconds long.
Um, so like we could have had this, you
know, continue on with more of the
feature call outs. I could have lit had
it list all of them. Um, but you know,
like I mean, in this video you saw how
he takes the hat off, he like stretches
the band, like talks about the features
as he puts it back on.
Flawless. All right, so let's run
through an example of using Claude code
with Arc ads live so you can see the
entire process from end to end. And to
get the examples that we're going to use
and where I often look for like good
inspiration for ads is I'll pop into
Motion. Uh, if you've never checked it
out, Motion and Analytics, they've got
this um, Inspo tab here and it's so
insanely helpful. They've got this
visual format here. So if like I want to
find examples of any of these styles of
ads, I can just click on one, so I can
click on like testimonial and it'll show
me all these testimonial style ads. So
for this, I want to be doing video since
that's what we're doing for this video.
Um, I can filter by days active. Let's
say it's been active for 3 months, so
that's, you know, more likely to be a
top winner. Product type, we can choose
between all these different styles. I'll
leave it open for now. Okay, so I just
found this ad from Motion. It's for like
a anti-wrinkle face mask.
You're not just losing your smooth
I like the vibe. It's like, you know,
voiceover, she's talking about the
problem, demoing the product, all that
good stuff.
Um, so I'm going to download it and
we're going to try and clone it. So I've
downloaded it onto my desktop. Now all I
have to do is drag it into Claude code
and I'm going to ask it, please clone
this video for my product. And for this
one, I'm going to use my Mr. Paid Social
Collagen Peptides powder. So I'm going
to drag that image
back over to Claude code, drag it in,
and so I'm So I'm saying literally just,
please clone this video for my product.
I'm going to press enter. So you can see
it's starting to extract the frames.
It's going to transcribe the audio with
Whisper, analyze the frames, and present
a summary, decide the mode, adopt the
prompt dialogue gate. Um, it's going to
tell us the audio it's going to use, an
estimated cost. So you can see look,
it's like
taking
screenshots of all of the frames to
understand the video dynamically. And
this process might take a couple minutes
in Claude code, but here's the beautiful
thing. I you can have multiple agents
doing this for multiple videos for me in
parallel within Claude code. What does
that even mean? It means that I can
create a new session, have my folder
selected for Arc ads in Claude, and I
can just whip up a whole new session
where it's creating a new ad for me in
this session. So I could have really
unlimited number of different instances
of Claude code all creating different
clones of different ads for me in real
time. So it literally
Yeah, this is wild.
It literally extracted 12 screenshots
from the video so it could better
understand the context. Now it's done
that, you can see it's kind of like put
all this information up here, but it's
prompting me, how should we handle 26
seconds to 15 sec- seconds compression?
It's asking me if I want to create a
15-second clip or if I want to do two
clip series problem payoff or both
versions. Um, for this, since we're
doing some show and tell here, let's do
both versions where it's going to create
a 15-second version and it's going to
create a two clip series for me.
This is wild. It shows like the entire
beat map of the video defining traits.
There's a problem problem solution
narrative arc, mixed media cuts,
voiceover narration, and we've got
handheld phone, multiple locations from
the bathroom, bed, couch, white wall,
mixed framing, face close-ups, overhead
lifestyle shots. The tone is empathetic,
confident, aspirational. Starts with I
feel your pain, shifts to here's the
answer, ends with you deserve this.
Like
it's putting that video into a formula.
Like it is recreating
how that video works and like
I'm I'm really excited to see what it
comes up with. Okay, so we've got both
versions. Version A, here's the
15-second clip. It gives us the dialogue
to approve. So problem, your skin is
losing collagen every single day. Um,
and again, I just include a product
image of my like Mr. Paid Social
Collagen supplement thing that I made
up. Like, you could include so much more
context. You could include the website
URL, you could include like the
description of your product, you could
include like so much context so that it
could write even better dialogue that
would be like specific. Right now it's
kind of making assumptions based off of
just the image that I gave it.
Uh, the pain point, expensive serums,
treatments not cutting it. Silent scoops
collagen powder.
Uh, one scoop a day,
visibly healthier skin in weeks. Mr.
Paid Social Collagen, your skin back.
Cool.
So 30 words, going to be 15 seconds,
fits at natural pace. Cool. Then we've
got the two clip version, which is
basically just longer with more
dialogue. I'm going to go ahead and say
yes that I approve the dialogue. If I
didn't, I could just say, hey, change
this, actually I want to say this. Like
you can go back and forth with it.
That's another thing that's I think
really awesome about using Claude code
for this is there's it's like you're
working with an employee, like a
creative strategist, really. Like an AI
creative strategist that you're just
like
iterating on in real time to get
hopefully what will be
the perfect output here. And like I
don't know how this is going to turn
out. This might be a complete failure
and I might be like really embarrassed,
but we'll find out soon. It's
firing off all three clips into Arc ads
right now. So if I go, it makes like a
new folder for the API calls. So let's
see. Okay, it's giving us an estimated
credit cost now saying like what each is
going to cost within Arc ads so that
you're not just getting surprised with a
crazy amount of credits being taken from
your account. I accepted, so let's take
a look at Arc ads. All right, so here we
can see it's generating the media in Arc
ads. We've got the whole prompt here. So
take a look at. Yeah, this is something
like you could also ask Claude to give
you before if you wanted to review like
the entire prompt. If you've ever done
any like vibe coding or any then or
anything like that using APIs, you know
like they can be kind of a pain in the
ass sometimes and this is another thing
that's just so awesome with Claude code
is like
it ran into an issue where like the
image it was using as the reference
expired in the API and so now it's just
like retrying for like it's just going
to keep iterating and re- trying until
it gets you to what you're looking for.
All right, so we have one of the
versions done. Looks like it's still
working on some of the like multiple
variation ones, but let's check out this
one.
Your skin is losing collagen every
single day and you can Damn.
>> Expensive serums, treatments, creams
not cutting it. We found a better
solution. Mr. Paid Social Collagen
Peptides powder. Your skin
That I mean, I feel like it nailed the
vibe pretty well. Like there was a
couple things I noticed like
all of these products said Mr. Paid on
them. Um, so like
you know, maybe I would have included a
reference image
of a counter or something um, that we
could have used. But the actress looks
UGC. She's on her couch, you know, she's
in her bathroom, like she's got
blemishes, shadows under her eyes, like
she's flipping us off.
The phone she's holding looks like a
real iPhone. It's not like weird.
Overall,
very, very impressed with how well this
did at at cloning that original vibe.
Okay, so now it's taking this version.
This is like the B1
and it's uploading that as a video for
the second one for B2.
So cool. It's so cool it's just doing
that. So if I refresh Arc ads now,
I should see the second video
starting to generate. And yeah, here it
is. You can see it's starting to
generate.
You can see the prompt that's with it.
Um, it includes the video as the
reference and now we're just waiting for
the second video to generate.
And it's going to pull it, download it,
stitch it with the first one, and give
it to us to review. While we're waiting
on the last video to finish generating,
I wanted to quickly highlight that I do
have a private community on school
called the AI ad alchemist. This
community is up to 459 members as of
filming this video and we are currently
nerding out on all things generative AI
for advertisers. This is a vibrant
community full of media buyers, agency
owners, CEOs, and AI enthusiasts. I've
got hours and hours of content in here
as well as guides and templates to help
you scale your ads with AI. If you want
to check it out, the link is in the
description below. All right, looks like
the second video finished generating.
Claude code automatically saw that and
is downloading them and stitching them
together for us. All right, let's see
how it turned out. So we've got all of
the files here in our computer that
Claude downloaded from Arc Ads for us on
its own and then we have this stitched
version that's 30 seconds long that had
like the multiple shots. Let's see how
it turned out. Your skin is losing
collagen every single day and you can
see it. Expensive serums, treatments,
creams,
not cutting it. We found a better
solution, Mr. Paid Social Collagen
Peptides Powder. No more guessing, no
more overspending. This is the second
video.
>> in your coffee or smoothie.
Bioavailable,
type one and three, visibly healthier
skin in weeks. Your time, your money,
your skin back.
Dang.
Um
that's wild. It like made a full-blown
ad for us on its own from giving it a
reference. Just think about like how
little we had to do to make that happen.
Found a video we liked, threw it into
Claude code, said, "Hey, clone this ad
for me." Gave it the reference, gave it
the product. Like literally all I gave
it was this image
and it created that video. I could have
given it so much more context if this
was a real product and I had like
Ah, I'm just I'm blown away by how well
that worked. So anyway, if you want to
use this with Arc Ads, the repo's in the
description below. Super easy to set up,
you'll be up and running probably in
like 10 minutes and then again, yeah,
you can run multiple agents, have
multiple projects going. This works with
um not just C Dance but also VO 3.1. You
can generate images with Nano Banana
Pro, Nano Banana 2. Really any of the
features that are available in Arc Ads
right now are pretty much you can use
this for once you give it your API key.
So, yeah. This is like the ground floor
for you to use an AI agent to do all of
your AI creative work inside of Arc Ads.
All right, one more crazy example of how
you can use this model is including
reference audio. So, I can record myself
saying something, uploaded it as a
reference, and then have an AI character
say exactly what I said. So, here's an
example. I just recorded myself saying
something stupid but check this out. So
this is my original voice. Holy
you guys. This is my real voice and I'm
recording it.
But this AI avatar is holding this
product while using my voice.
I what?
Holy Okay, so I included that as
the reference audio with this image of
the Mr. Paid Social um like Vans
sneakers. Listen to the voice on this
character.
>> Holy guys. This is so crazy.
I don't This is my voice. Like I'm
talking here. Holding my voice.
Wow. Okay.
I don't really know what else to say.
Holy When I laughed, it laughed.
He laughed. Whatever. Like
what? So crazy. All right, that's all I
got today for this video but if you got
anything out of it at all, consider
subscribing to the channel because I
make a lot of content showing you how
you can level up your advertising with
AI and automation. Also, be sure to
check out that private community on
school. I'm dropping a lot of awesome
stuff in the community right now
including this repo that we just talked
about. I have a bulk ad system that I'm
dropping in the community shortly and so
much more fun stuff. As you know, the
world of AI and automation right now is
changing literally daily so there's
always something new dropping in that
community. As always, thanks for
watching. It means the world to me. I'll
see you on the next video.
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This video demonstrates a powerful workflow for automating the creation of high-quality video ads by cloning successful ads found online using a combination of Claude Code and Arc Ads AI. The creator introduces a free GitHub repository that enables a Claude Code agent to act as a creative strategist, analyzing source videos and automatically generating new, consistent ad content for different products using models like SeaDance 2.0. The process covers everything from setting up the environment and API credentials to using advanced features like reference images, audio, and video for consistent character and product representation. The video showcases various practical use cases, including unboxing videos, real estate walk-throughs, and time-lapse transformations, highlighting how this AI-driven approach significantly reduces the time and cost associated with traditional ad production.
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