Add the Pictory MCP server to ChatGPT as a plugin, sign in once with your Pictory account, and start creating videos in your chats.
This page adds the Pictory MCP server to ChatGPT as a custom MCP server. You do this once.
After you sign in, Pictory appears in your installed plugins, and you can use it in your chats.
Use the Pictory account where you want your videos and projects to be saved.You do not need an API key or an API subscription. You sign in with your Pictory account.
A Pictory account. You sign in with it when you connect the plugin.
An active subscription or eligible Free Trial. Available video minutes, voice-over
usage, and AI Credits depend on the account or team you connect.
A ChatGPT account that can add custom MCP servers. In a work or school workspace, your
admin may need to allow custom MCP servers.
In the sidebar on the left, select the Plugins icon. It looks like an @ sign.
The Plugins icon in the ChatGPT sidebar.
2
Start adding a custom MCP server
The Customize page opens with Plugins selected.
Select the Personal tab. Plugins that you add yourself appear here.
Select Add in the top-right corner.
Select Add custom MCP server from the menu.
The Add custom MCP server dialog opens.
The Plugins page. Select Add in the top-right corner.
The Add menu. Select Add custom MCP server.
3
Enter the server details
Fill in the dialog as follows:
Field
What to enter
Icon
Optional. Select Choose icon to add a PNG image up to 10 KB. If you skip it, ChatGPT shows a default icon.
Name
Pictory. This is the name you see in ChatGPT when you pick the plugin in a chat.
Description (optional)
Recommended. A short note about the plugin. For example: Create videos from text, URLs, audio, AI generated videos and images. It appears next to the name when you choose Pictory in a chat. This helps you tell the plugin apart from other Pictory entries.
Connection
Select Server URL, then enter https://mcp.pictory.ai/mcp. Do not use Tunnel.
Authentication
Select OAuth. You sign in with your Pictory account in a later step.
Then finish the dialog:
Leave Advanced OAuth settings as they are. ChatGPT finds Pictory’s sign-in settings
by itself.
Read the warning. ChatGPT shows it for every custom MCP server.
Check that the URL is exactly https://mcp.pictory.ai/mcp.
Select the I understand and want to continue check box.
Select Create as a plugin. You do not need Upload plugin archive.
The Add custom MCP server dialog, filled in for Pictory.
4
Connect Pictory
ChatGPT asks you to connect Pictory. The dialog explains what ChatGPT may share with
Pictory while you use it.Select Connect Pictory. The Pictory sign-in page opens in a new window.
Select Connect Pictory to open the Pictory sign-in page.
5
Sign in to Pictory
Choose one way to sign in:
Select Continue with Google.
Enter your Pictory email and password, then select Sign in.
Sign in with Google, or with your Pictory email and password.
6
Close the sign-in window
When sign-in succeeds, the window shows Authentication complete. You may close this
window. Close it and go back to ChatGPT.
Sign-in is complete. You can close this window.
7
Check that Pictory is installed
Pictory now appears in two places on the Plugins page:
Under Installed, in the panel on the left.
Under Created by you, on the Personal tab.
If Pictory does not appear, select the refresh button in the top-right corner, next to the
search box. ChatGPT reloads the list of plugins.Select … next to Pictory to open its menu. Select Try now to start a chat with
Pictory.
Pictory is installed. Its menu has Try now, Manage, and Uninstall.
Which account is billed. Usage comes from the Pictory account or team you signed in with.
Your plan sets the available video minutes, voice-over usage, and AI Credits.
Choose Pictory in a chat, ask for what you want, and see what you get back
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