How to Use OpusClip, ChatGPT, and Canva Together to Create a Month of Content in a Day

Imagine this.

You sit down on Monday morning with coffee in hand and a whole lot of good intentions for your content. By Friday, you’ve posted once, maybe twice, and the rest of the week slipped away between client work, errands, and family life.

I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. What finally saved me was learning how to batch my content. Instead of scrambling daily, I block one day, use the right tools, and create everything needed for a full month worth of content.

Three tools that make it work? OpusClip, ChatGPT, and Canva.

Let’s break it down, especially if you’ve never touched any of these before.

Meet Your Content Dream Team

OpusClip

If you’ve ever recorded a podcast, webinar, or even a 20-minute chat to camera, OpusClip is the tool that finds the good stuff for you. It takes your long video, chops it into short clips, adds captions, and crops them so they’re ready for Instagram Reels, TikToks, YouTube Shorts, or LinkedIn clips.

Pricing:

• Free plan: limited number clips (60 minutes of video processing) and includes watermarks

• Paid plans: start around $15 USD/month

ChatGPT

This is your brainstorming partner. No more staring at a blank page. ChatGPT can help you come up with post ideas, hooks, captions, and even video outlines. You don’t have to use it word-for-word, but it gives you a strong first draft.

Pricing:

• Free plan: basic features

• Paid plan: $20/month for “Plus” (faster responses, more features)

  
  

Need help learning how to prompt ChatGPT? Start HERE.

Canva

Canva is the easy design tool that makes your posts look professional. Think social graphics, thumbnails, and carousels. If you can drag and drop, you can use Canva.

Pricing:

• Free plan: tons of templates and designs

• Pro: $15 USD/month for brand kits, resizing, scheduling, and extras

How It All Comes Together in One Day

Here’s how to actually use these three tools together. Think of it like a day-in-the-life of content batching.

Step 1: Pour your coffee and sit down with your bestie, Chat.

Before recording anything, ask ChatGPT to help you brainstorm. For example:

• 10 post ideas on [your topic]

• A 20-minute video outline with 3 key lessons and a closing CTA

• Captions under 100 words with a scroll-stopping first line

This will give you a running start instead of an empty page.

Step 2: Mid-Morning, record one long video

Once you have an outline, record a 20–30 minute video. Don’t overthink it. Sit at your desk, use your phone if you don’t have fancy gear, and talk it out. This one video is going to feed your entire month of content.

Pro tip: If you want OpusClip to grab the right moments, make sure you say your key topics out loud in your recording. For example, “Here’s my best tip for content batching…” The AI listens for those phrases, so when you drop in your video it’s more likely to pull clips around the parts you want highlighted. 

Step 3: Drop your video into OpusClip and go have some lunch

Take that video and drop it into OpusClip. It takes a little bit to process so go grab some lunch while you’re waiting. When you come back, you’ll have short clips with captions and key highlights pulled out. Quickly review them, fix any text errors, and export about 8–12 clips. That’s 2–3 posts per week for the month, already done.

Step 4: Design in Canva (afternoon creative time)

Now you can pop over to Canva. Here’s where you can:

• Create covers for the Reels and Shorts so your feed looks cohesive

• Make 1–2 carousels from the main lessons of your video

• Design a YouTube thumbnail if you’re posting the full video there

It doesn’t take long once you’ve got a template or brand kit set up.

Step 5: Grab an iced tea and write some captions with ChatGPT

Using the clips and Canva graphics, head back over to ChatGPT and ask it to write captions, hashtags, and title options. The heavy lifting of the content is done but be sure to go through and tweak so it sounds like YOUR voice.

Step 6: Schedule and relax (end of day)

Finally, you can upload everything into a scheduler (Meta Business Suite, YouTube Studio, Planoly, or even Canva Pro’s scheduler). By dinner time, you’ll have 4 weeks of content lined up and ready to go.

Why This Works

Instead of constantly scrambling, you’re focusing your energy in one sprint. One long video gives you dozens of posts. One brainstorming session fuels your captions. One design session gives you weeks of visuals.

It doesn’t have to be perfect. The goal is consistency without the overwhelm.

EXTRA BONUS TIP: Before you get started, while your coffee is brewing, pop a frozen roast in the crock pot, cover it with 1 cup of beef stock (or water + beef bouillon) and your favourite seasonings, then set it to low. By the time you’re done your content-creation day, it will be so tender and ready to be pulled apart. Stir in some BBQ sauce and toast some buns to have beef on a bun for dinner.

Or pre-order pizza delivery. Whatever you want lol

If you’ve never used these tools before, start small. Record one short video. Drop it into OpusClip. Post a single clip with a Canva cover and a caption drafted in ChatGPT. Once you see how simple it is, you’ll never go back to creating content the hard way.

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