AI Video Bootcamp: what the Skool course teaches about AI ads

What does AI Video Bootcamp teach, phase by phase?

AI Video Bootcamp moves from still images to video to paid ads, then to social growth, short films, AI clones and client work. The table counts what Phases 2 to 11 held on 30 September 2026, when we saved every lesson page, transcript and attached PDF from a paying member account.

Phase 3 has the most PDF guides (25) and 115 example images across its lessons; Phase 7 has the most lessons (23). Phase 5 is the one for anyone making ads.

What the AI advertising phase teaches

Phase 5, “AI Advertising & UGC”, teaches a full avatar-ad pipeline in 16 lessons, from the brief to the CapCut edit. Its lessons include Insane Avatar Adverts, Avatar Ads on Autopilot, Podcast Ads and Claymation Ads. Two more build complete brand ads, one for Nike and one for a car.

Five methods from Phase 5, as the lessons teach them:

• Strategy comes before prompts. Each ad starts from three answers: who it is for, what they already know, and what the ad must do (awareness, conversion or retargeting). One audience, one desire, one message per ad.
• The reference photo decides realism. The lessons call the avatar’s reference image “by far the most important thing”, and regenerate it until it no longer reads as AI before any video is made.
• An avatar ad takes four steps. Make the character image in GPT Image 2.0 or Nano Banana Pro. A chat model writes the Seedance prompt from a master prompt. Seedance 2.0 generates 15-second clips, and CapCut cuts out the glitches; a later lesson repeats the method on Seedance 2.5.
• Long ads are built from 15-second parts. A 30, 45 or 60-second ad is written as separate parts with one job each. The hook comes first, then the product in use, a proof or an objection, and last the payoff with a soft call to action.
• The script is sized to the clip. Veo 3.1 takes about 22 words per 8 seconds, and the premium voiceover in PromptWise’s UGC Factory 36 to 40 words per ad. Too many words and the voice speeds up; too few and the model fills the gap.

The podcast-ads lesson builds on what it calls “overheard authority”. The clip looks cut from the middle of a longer talk between a host and an expert, with fast cuts and one locked reference photo per speaker.

The phase’s UGC and B-roll master prompts close on the same list of musts. It asks for 9:16, a handheld phone, natural light, pores and skin texture, and the product kept exact. Music and on-screen text go in at the edit.

Phase 5 shows finished ads and no performance data. Every claim about what converts is the instructors’ view.

What the image and video phases teach

Phase 3 teaches photo-real AI people, the base of every avatar ad in the course. Its lessons cover AI avatars, product images held by avatars and a Realism Cheat-sheet. Then come edits in Nano Banana and Canva, lighting and camera angles, and three prompt banks, one of them for UGC avatars.

Phase 4 turns those stills into video. It compares video models and covers lip sync and voice changing in ElevenLabs. It gives a camera-movement vocabulary, then ends with editing and sound in CapCut.

Lessons carry update notes where a newer model replaces an older video. The archive mixes 2026 lessons on Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, GPT Image 2.0 and Nano Banana Pro with 2025 videos on Midjourney, Kling 1.6 and Hailuo. Phase 3 marks Midjourney as optional.

What the Phase 3 methods produce

The author of this page made the five images below after working through Phases 1 to 3, using the methods those lessons teach. Each prompt names who holds the camera and from how far, sets a place and a time of day, and names one light source with its direction.

• The car snapshot is written as a mother’s 35 mm photo from the driver’s seat of a car parked on the seafront at Bora Bora, French Polynesia, about a metre from the boy, dated 26 December 1998, which gives the date stamp, the film colour and the steering wheel soft in the corner.
• The farm walk is written as a family member’s phone photo in low sun, with the eyes, skin and hands of a six-year-old and a man in his nineties described feature by feature.
• The old man’s windblown hair was a second pass that edits one thing and keeps “every other pixel in the image kept exactly as it is”, the one-change edit pass the Phase 3 image-editing lessons teach.
• The grandmother is shot from the open doorway, lit only by a floor lamp and the television, with the room dated by her own furniture: a 1970s sideboard, a carriage clock, a riser-recliner.
• The boulderer is written as a sports photograph at the far point of a swing, both feet off the wall, every hand position placed hold by hold.
• The dim sum shot places the phone twenty centimetres above the table, the food in the lower two thirds and the street soft in the top third.

What do members say about AI Video Bootcamp on Skool and Trustpilot?

AI Video Bootcamp held 5.0 from 248 member reviews on its Skool about page on 2 October 2026. On Trustpilot it held 4.8 from 82 reviews, 94% of them five stars and 2% two stars.

Skool prints each reviewer’s membership length under the review. On 2 October the newest ones read “Still a paying member after 10 months”, “after 10 days” and “after 1 day”. One reviewer of 10 months wrote that they “LOVE how it stays up to date with the newest and latest model deployments”.

On Trustpilot, praise centres on how practical and active it is. A 24 July 2026 reviewer wrote “I don’t expect something this decent in this price”.

Two of the 82 Trustpilot reviews give two stars. The two (1 and 16 April 2026) call it basic and say similar material is free online.

What to know before you join

Three facts about AI Video Bootcamp shape what you get for the price.

1. Many lessons run on PromptWise. The lessons present PromptWise as the team’s own platform, and its homepage links the bootcamp. The AI Insider Edge review places both under ZeroTen Media Inc. The methods carry over to Kling, Seedance or Veo bought direct. Tool picks and price comparisons in the lessons come from a company that sells one of the tools. Our PromptWise profile has its plans and terms.
2. Some courses open by level. Courses for levels 2 to 9 stay locked until a member earns points from likes on posts and comments, the standard Skool mechanic.
3. A few lessons are titles only. On 30 September 2026, three of the six Phase 10 lessons had no video or text: starting an agency, client acquisition and community ideas. Two Phase 7 niche lessons, Stadium Cam and Live Filmset, were empty too.

Is AI Video Bootcamp worth it?

AI Video Bootcamp suits someone who wants a set route from zero to finished AI ads. It gives prompts to copy and a community that answers questions, for less a month than PromptWise’s cheapest plan. Following the lessons inside PromptWise adds $19 a month a month on its Starter plan.

Best for:

• Media buyers and freelancers adding AI UGC and avatar ads to their offer, through Phase 5
• Beginners who want an order to learn in, from still images to video to ads
• Anyone choosing between Seedance, Kling and Veo who wants the trade-offs explained with examples

Skip it if:

• You already ship AI video ads every week: both two-star reviews call it basic and say similar material is free online
• You want performance data on AI ads: the course shows finished ads and no results
• You want nothing to do with PromptWise: much of the step-by-step is filmed inside it

Join AI Video Bootcamp on Skool Paid link at $9 a month while the group is under 28,900 members (28.8k on 2 October 2026).

Questions about AI Video Bootcamp

How much does AI Video Bootcamp cost?

$9 a month on 2 October 2026. Members who join before the group reaches 28,900 keep it “for life”; after that the about page says new members pay $50 a month. A Golden Ticket card in the classroom sells lifetime access for $89.

Who runs AI Video Bootcamp?

Daniel Riley, named as the owner on the Skool about page, with co-founder Matt hosting the recorded live calls in Phase 10. The group lists 8 admins.

Do you need to pay for AI tools as well?

Yes. The course teaches paid tools (Nano Banana Pro, Seedance, Kling, Veo, ElevenLabs), most of it inside PromptWise, whose plans start at $19 a month a month.

Is AI Video Bootcamp good for beginners?

Yes. Phase 2 starts with tools, credits and prompt structure, and Phase 3 builds AI avatars from there. The about page calls it “Perfect for complete beginners or experienced creators”; both two-star reviewers found it basic, so a working editor may find Phases 2 to 4 familiar.