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I was curious if video generators have gotten any better. Searching for video ai brings up A LOT of websites. It seems that everyone has an ai startup nowadays.
Maybe it doesnāt belong on this list but Videobolt looks quite cool for creating promos from templates. They donāt advertise as AI, but clearly some of their templates use it. But not all. Some are just simple add your text/logo/image to a template.
Generating previews is free and unlimited as far as I can tell, but to get the quality download, you have to get a paid plan.
Iām a bit torn if I would invest in it. While their templates look really cool, there are limits how you can customize them. I think if I looked to spend money, Iād like something that gave me more control.
I found one AI tool that shows a lot of potential.
Superstudio/Kaiber (I donāt know why all of these have multiple names).
This one is pretty incredible. It combines multiple tools in one and gives you a canvas to keep track of your workflow. From image generations to style transfer to video and branding - it has it all and itās easy to use. Sadly, there is no free tier - it says that there is but I created an account and got no credits soā¦ In any case, there isnāt much you can do with 50 credits since one video consumes at least 35ā¦
So I havenāt been able to test the quality of its models. But itās one to keep an eye on.
Minimax/hailuo is one of the video generators that Superstudio uses so I wanted to try it directly. They give a good number of credits to play with for free so I was able to test a bit. Generating from text is no good so I tried a few old mj images as starting points.
I put a few of the best videos I created with it in this Canva video (warning: thereās a bit of blood and disturbed looks).
Pretty cool but takes a lot of tries to generate something of good quality. Some of them were creepy (not in a good way) or ridiculously funny. In the Canva video, see the last creepy/demented clip? Thatās the mildest of the weird ones.
And it seriously struggled to create good vampire fangs, resulting in grotesque visuals but that seems to be a general problem with all models.
I tried Runway again. I wasnāt impressed with their early video models, but that was a while ago, and I was curious how itās progressed.
I used the same starting images I tested in Minimax, and whoa. Runway quality is far superior.
I donāt know if Runway image generators are good but if you feed it a good quality image, the video stays true to it (most of the time).
Hereās a simple runway clip (started from an mj image). The face and the style remain perfectly consistent.
I was curious how it would handle a real photo so I used my Taboo as the test subject.
Not bad. Itās almost real. Unfortunately, it didnāt generate the movement I asked of it (I tried a couple of times to get her to blink her eyes or for the pupils to contract).
This was using their turbo model. They have another model thatās for paid subscribers only. Maybe that one delivers an even better quality.
They also have a lip sync feature. The voices are limited, unfortunately. I tried to get Taboo to say āDid you sayā¦ chicken?ā 
but it failed so I guess cat closeups are not good for it.
But the human videos generated with it work.
I ran out of credits, but so far, I definitely saw potential to create something cool.
