Making of Aantraa

Making of Aantraa aantraa.site — AI audio & video translation, caption generator, and viral shorts cutter. Under the Hood I run a small YouTube channel. I'm not a full-time content creator, but YouTube is a solid platform to gain traffic for your online work, business, project, or idea. Aantraa is what I built in a week. The main concept is simple: Video translation into multiple languages Audio translation — including text-to-audio, with MP3 output for Premiere Pro Long-form to shorts — convert YouTube long-form video into short clips At that time, only three features were needed, so website development wasn't the heavy lift. The real work was building APIs, backend infrastructure to integrate AI into video, and dealing with heavy storage. Breaking the execution into steps: How I made Aantraa AI LLM layering and provider Aantraa is heavily dependent on AI APIs — we need reliable infrastructure for LLM providers. OpenRouter, Portkey, Vercel AI SDK labs, and individual APIs for Anthropic, Deepseek, and OpenAI are solid options. I prefer OpenRouter for Aantraa for one reason: multiple model support — it's easy to pick the cheapest capable model for each job. Easy to integrate, strong community support, free model access, and more. AI LLM APIs are needed at almost every stage in the backend: Understanding video context and creating a script Translating the script into target languages Recording the script into MP3 or WAV format Summarising the video Generating captions Cutting videos into shorts Building APIs and servers Each layer needs heavy AI context and prompt engineering. Loop engineering is the trend here — and it's required for aantraa. For example, video translation works in multiple connected steps: Video translation API breakdown AI understands the video, fed into the LLM via the ffmpeg module AI generates a script/caption from the video AI translates the script into the desired language AI generates audio (MP3 or WAV) of the new translation AI glues audio a