sitcom-simulator 0.0.1

A highly-cusotmizable tool that automatically creates AI-generated meme videos

Sitcom Simulator

A command-line tool for generating bad movies using ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, FakeYou, and FFmpeg

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• ffmpeg (see setup for more details)
• Stability API key (get one here)
• OpenAI API key (get one here)

Getting Started

Setup

1. Download the source code (git clone or download zip and extract)
2. Download FFmpeg. The essentials build should work. Put the ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries in the project directory (same directory level as create_sitcom.py)
3. Open a terminal window in the root folder of the project
4. Install the dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Create a .env file in the root directory
6. Put the following text into the .env file, replacing the variables with your API keys and file paths:

OPENAI_API_KEY='openai api key goes here'
STABILITY_API_KEY='stability api key goes here'

7. (Optional) Make sure the font variable in config.toml is a font installed on your computer
8. You're all set to start making terrible movies!

YouTube API Setup (not finished)

Sitcom Simulator supports automated YouTube video uploads. The process for setting it up is a bit tricky, but here's a broad overview. I'll create a more in-depth tutorial if there's interest in that. Hit me up.

1. Install the Google APIs Client Library for Python: pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-oauthlib google-auth-httplib2 oauth2client
2. In Google Cloud, create a new project that has access to the YouTube Data v3 API. Then download your client_secrets csv, name it client_secrets.json and put it in the social directory
3. Use the -u flag to upload the final result to YouTube (it will prompt you to log in)

Usage

python create_sitcom.py [-h] [-a] [-p PROMPT] [-s STYLE]

After some processing time, the video will be saved to the project directory

Example Command

python create_sitcom.py --prompt "Luigi tells Mario about his service in the Vietnam war" --max-tokens 2048 --approve-script --style "on the sitcom how I met your mother (1993)"

Arguments

• -h, --help show this help message and exit
• -t N, --max-tokens N max number of tokens in generated script
• -a, --approve-script require user to approve generated script before creating video
• -p PROMPT, --prompt PROMPT the prompt for the script that gets send to ChatGPT
• -s STYLE, --style STYLE a string that gets appended to image generation to customize image style
• -f PATH, --script-path PATH use a custom TOML script file instead of generating one (see example script)
• -u, --upload upload the generated video to YouTube
• -m, --manual-select-characters manually select characters instead of using the AI to select them
• -d, --debug skip expensive API calls, generating robotic TTS and blank images instead.

How it Works

Sitcom Simulator is essentially duct tape that combines multiple different AI tools into one unholy abomination.

• ChatGPT generates the video script
• FakeYou generates voices for the characters
• Stable Diffusion generates images for the characters
• FFmpeg connects the images and voices into a movie

Contributions

Want to help work on this project? I'm down! Feel free to contribute. Hit me up if you have any questions 😘