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Connect Pictory to ChatGPT, sign in with your Pictory account, and describe the video you want. ChatGPT plans the video with you and creates it in your Pictory account. You do not need an API key or an API subscription. You sign in with your Pictory account. Your Pictory plan or eligible Free Trial provides the features and usage available to you.
New: Pictory works in ChatGPT. Add the Pictory MCP server as a plugin in a few minutes. Then ask for videos, stock media, music, and account details right from your chats. Connect from ChatGPT.

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How It Works

Pictory runs an MCP server. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets an AI assistant use tools from another service. You add the Pictory MCP server to ChatGPT once, as a plugin. After that, ChatGPT can use Pictory’s tools for you in your chats. Every request runs against your own Pictory account. Videos and projects are saved there, just as if you had made them in the Pictory app.

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What You Can Do

Ask in everyday language. For example, you can:
  • Check your account. Ask how many AI Credits you have left. On a Pictory 2.0 account, you can also ask about video minutes.
  • Create a video. Start from a topic, a script, or a link to an article.
  • Turn a recording into a video. On a Pictory 3.0 account, upload a podcast, a talk, or a voice memo. Your recording becomes the voice-over.
  • Upload your own images and videos. An upload panel opens in the chat. Pictory uses your files in your scenes.
  • Preview before you finish. Review the scenes and ask for changes before the final video is made.
  • Find media and music. Search Pictory’s stock library and music library.
  • Generate AI images and clips. Pick a model, see the cost in AI Credits, and confirm first.
  • Choose a voice. List the narration voices on your account and pick one.
  • Use your brand. Choose one of your brand kits for the video.
See Use Pictory in ChatGPT for example requests and what happens at each step.

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Pictory 2.0 and Pictory 3.0

Pictory 2.0 and Pictory 3.0 are versions of the Pictory video app. Your account decides the only type of new video you can create through the MCP server: Before a new video, ChatGPT checks your account with Pictory. It then uses the video type your account supports. You do not need to choose between video types. The MCP server rejects Motion Graphics creation requests from Pictory 2.0 accounts.
Moving to Pictory 3.0 is a one-way change. If you use Pictory 2.0 and want Motion Graphics, contact Pictory support to enable Pictory 3.0 for your account. After your account moves to Pictory 3.0, you cannot switch back to Pictory 2.0. New videos you create through MCP will use Motion Graphics only.

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Render Credits

Rendering means making the finished video file. On plans that charge render credits, Motion Graphics videos made through MCP cost 200 AI Credits per video minute. This applies to the project’s first successful render. Before making the finished video, ChatGPT shows your available credits and the render cost. It then waits for you to confirm. See credits and rendering for repeat renders and plan exemptions.

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What You Need

Everything that works in Claude works in ChatGPT. ChatGPT connects to the same Pictory MCP server, so every Pictory tool is available, including the upload panel. The same video types and credit rules apply. The Pictory MCP Server and motion graphics pages use Claude in their examples.

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Get Started

Connect from ChatGPT

Add the Pictory MCP server as a plugin and sign in with your Pictory account

Use Pictory in ChatGPT

Choose Pictory in a chat, ask for what you want, and see what you get back

Pictory MCP Server

Every tool, video type, and option available through your connection

Motion graphics videos

What Pictory 3.0 accounts can create, and how render credits work