I was sick of the daily grind—open the editor, line up the lyric track, export, then hop over to the server and finally copy the URL into a Sheet. It felt like a loop I couldn't break. Using n8n I wired a Cron node to fire at 3 AM, an HTTP Request node that calls my FFmpeg render service, a Download node to pull the finished MP4, and a Google Sheets node to drop the link into the publishing queue. A tiny Telegram alert catches any failures. The result? One hands‑free run per day and roughly two hours saved per video.