Turn long videos into social shorts with RenderIO and OpenAI

by RenderIO ✓ · 210 views · created 2026-04-18 · Content Creation, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 34 nodes and runs on Google Drive events (file created). Along the way it connects Google Drive, OpenAI, Google Sheets and Renderio (community). It also calls api.openai.com and renderio.dev over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On Google Drive events (file created).

1. Set Configuration Parameters (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 9 fields: clipCount, outputParentFolderId, sheetId…
2. Download Video from Drive (Google Drive): download
3. Upload Video to RenderIO (Renderio): upload (file)
4. Retrieve RenderIO File (Renderio): work with file
5. Create Google Drive Folder (Google Drive): work with folder
6. Extract Audio with RenderIO (Renderio): uses Renderio
7. Wait: waits 10 seconds
8. Verify Audio Extraction (Renderio): get
9. If: checks a condition and branches into true / false
10. Download Extracted Audio (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API

…plus 23 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Google DriveOpenAIGoogle SheetsRenderio (community)

HTTP calls to: api.openai.com, renderio.dev

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Nodes used (11)

• Google Drive Triggern8n-nodes-base.googleDriveTrigger
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• Google Driven8n-nodes-base.googleDrive
• Renderion8n-nodes-renderio.renderio
• Waitn8n-nodes-base.wait
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Mergen8n-nodes-base.merge
• OpenAI@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi
• Google Sheetsn8n-nodes-base.googleSheets

From the author

Who is this for Content creators, YouTubers, and social media managers who want to repurpose long form videos into short clips without doing it manually. Works on self hosted n8n instances. What it does Monitors a Google Drive folder for new videos. When a…

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