Pre-Publish Checklist for AI Short Videos

An AI video pipeline will occasionally produce a mispronounced name, an image that contradicts the sentence, or a caption that wraps badly. None of these is rare enough to ignore if you publish daily. The review below is designed to take about two minutes and to catch the failures a viewer would notice in the first play.

Watch the whole video once, on a phone if possible, with the sound on. Then go through the six groups.

1. Audio

• Every name, place and unusual word is pronounced correctly. See writing scripts for text-to-speech for the common traps.
• Numbers, dates and abbreviations are read the way a person would say them.
• The voice stays level: no sudden speed-ups where the script is crowded.
• Background music never competes with the narration.

2. Captions

• The words on screen match the words spoken.
• Lines are short enough to read at a glance and do not collide with the app’s own interface. The safe zone guide explains where interface elements sit.
• Contrast and size follow the principles in the caption readability checklist.

3. Visuals

• Each image matches the sentence it accompanies.
• No garbled lettering, extra limbs or obviously wrong objects in the foreground.
• Consecutive scenes look different; nothing repeats within a few seconds.
• Nothing resembles a real person, brand or logo in a way you did not intend.
• Motion and brightness changes are not harsh. See the flashing and motion safety guide.

4. Facts and claims

• Names, dates, numbers and quotations have been checked using the fact-checking checklist.
• Health, finance, legal and news topics have had the extra care described in the sensitive topics guide.

5. Metadata

• The title and description say what the video is about without overpromising. See titles and descriptions for faceless shorts.
• Any required AI or synthetic-content label is set. The disclosure guide explains the rules as of its publication date; always check the platform’s current page.

6. Format

• The video is vertical and plays full-screen. Kineclip exports at 1080x1920 with captions already burned in.
• The length fits the platform’s current maximum. YouTube Shorts allow up to three minutes at the time of writing (YouTube Help); check the Help Centre for the current figure.

Deciding: pass, fix or skip

Skipping is a legitimate outcome. One missing post is cheaper than one video that misleads viewers or damages the channel’s reputation.

One-off flaw or series problem?

Keep a tally of what you find. If the same problem appears in three videos, stop reviewing individual results and change the cause: the voice, the art style, the caption style, the video format or the niche description. Changes to a series should be made before the next video is generated. The troubleshooting guide maps common symptoms to likely causes, and the series health check covers the larger decision of when to change a series.

Where this fits

The checklist works whether you publish by hand or approve videos before they are delivered. If you run a pipeline that posts without review, read auto-post versus manual review first. To see what Kineclip produces before you build a review habit around it, look at the gallery.

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