🎆 Video Model Comparison: Text to video There are... a few new models in this comparison, including Wan 2.5, Kling 2.5 & Luma Ray3: → Wan 2.5 → Kling 2.5 → Luma Ray3 → Veo 3 → Seedance Pro → Hailuo-02 → Runway Gen-4 → PixVerse 5 I used the same prompt on each model up to 4 times: First-person POV racing on a motorbike through a mountain road, leaning into sharp turns, wind rushing past, headlights streaking across the dark tunnel ahead. Upscaled with Topaz Labs Astra:show more

The future of AI video creation is almost here.... ByteDance's Dreamina Seedance 2.5 is coming soon, launching globally first on the Dreamina platform. Since Dreamina Seedance 2.5 hasn't launched yet, I created this video using Dreamina Seedance 2.0 to preview what's coming next. Here's what makes Dreamina Seedance 2.5 exciting: ✅ Omni Reference: Support for up to 50 reference assets, including images, videos, and audio, for more accurate and controllable video creation. ✅ 30-Second AI Videos: Generate up to 30 seconds of continuous, consistent storytelling in a single clip. ✅ Professional Editing: Fine-grained refinements, timestamp-based editing, and green screen support for greater creative control. ✅ Multilingual Creation: Create videos in 10+ languages with native language support. Workflow: AI Video → Dreamina Seedance 2.5 → Omni Reference → Upload images, videos & audio → Enter your prompt → Generate Whether you're a content creator, marketer, designer, or filmmaker, Dreamina Seedance 2.5 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting AI video launches of the year. Learn more and get ready for Dreamina Seedance 2.5: #dreamina #dreaminapartner #seedance #dreaminaseedance25show more

This workflow is perfect for creating short fashion-style cinematic... videos. I simplified the original prompts based on willie’s method, and the whole process is now much faster and more stable: 1. Generate a 3×3 keyframe grid (Nano Banana Pro only) Use this simple prompt: “In a 3x3 grid, show this character in different angles, keep the scene the same, random poses. This is far simpler and more efficient than my old prompts. You can generate multiple times and just pick the keyframes you like most. 2. Extract a high-res keyframe (Super stable trick) Take a screenshot of the keyframe you want from the 3×3 grid, send it back to Nano Banana Pro, and simply say: “Give me a high-resolution version.” This method is much more stable than relying on complex upscaling prompts. 3. Generate the video with Kling 2.5 Turbo Upload the first and last frames to Kling 2.5 Turbo and use this prompt: “The camera very slowly and smoothly lowers on a boom.” From my testing, Kling 2.5 Turbo offers the best balance of stability and cost — other models are either less consistent or noticeably more expensive. 4. Final speed adjustment with willie’s tool (Critical step) Use the tool built by willie to fine-tune the playback speed of each clip. This step is essential for getting that premium cinematic feel. I’ll drop the tool link in the comments.show more

Yup, a football video. The World Cup made us... do it Luma rebuilt image generation from scratch — reasoning first, pixels second. And it beats Google's Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 1.5 on reasoning benchmarks All 3 new models are now live on AI/ML API luma/uni-1 plans before it draws. The model generates autoregressively: it works out layout, composition and text placement first, then renders the pixels. $0.052/image luma/uni-1-max — same prompts, same params, max fidelity. 2K output + editing with up to 9 reference images. Built for hero shots and ad creative. $0.13/image luma/ray-3-2 — up to 16 keyframes per clip, 20s, 1080p, native HDR + 16-bit EXR export. The video in this post came straight out of it model ids "luma/uni-1" "luma/uni-1-max" "luma/ray-3-2" Luma cooked. We serveshow more

Character Consistency with Google Veo 3 now in Gemini... API! 🤯 Use Images as starting frame to keep character consistency! Here is an python script on how to make consistent viral videos, like you see on TikTok or Youtube shorts: 1. Based on an idea, it generates a series of scene prompts using Gemini 2.5. 2. Generates a Image based on the first scene using Imagen 3 3. For each scene prompt Veo 3 (fast) generates a video clip. 4. Uses Gemini 2.0 image editing to make sure the starting images fits the scenes 5. Combine the individual video clips into a single final video using MoviePy Veo 3 starts at $0.75 / second and Veo 3 at $0.40 / second with audio. ! 📹 🔉 Prompt: “A realistic energy drink commercial for athletes.”show more

Many people have asked how I make my original... videos look so clear, smooth, and polished. For video upscaling and enhancement, I consistently rely on the suite of tools available from Beth Allison Labs. The two models I use most often are Astra 2 and Starlight Precise 2.5. Rather than competing with each other, they serve different purposes. There’s no single “best” model, just the right tool for the specific job. If you're creating content with Seedance 2.0, these upscaling models make an excellent addition to your workflow. Below, you'll find examples processed with Astra 2, and in the comments I'll share results from Starlight Precise 2.5. Astra 2 is Topaz's next-generation creative video upscaling model, featuring adjustable enhancement levels and prompting capabilities. It excels at correcting common AI-generated video issues such as warped details, flickering, and inconsistent textures, helping AI content appear more polished and realistic. Best used for: • AI-generated videos that need significant detail enhancement • Footage with artifacts, distortions, or missing textures • Projects that benefit from additional creative reconstructionshow more

If you need McKinsey-style slides, try this prompt: I... asked Kimi to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the GenAI video model market, focusing on leading players (e.g., Seedance 2.0, Sora, Kling, Veo, Luma). My prompt: Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the GenAI video model market, focusing on leading players (e.g., Seedance 2.0, Kling, Veo, Luma). Compare their core architectures, temporal consistency, and prompt adherence to identify current industry benchmarks. Use the latest information Requirement: A professional, high-density consulting presentation slide, designed in the style of a top-tier strategy firm (McKinsey/BCG) blended with high-end editorial aesthetics. Core Content & Layout: 1. Rich Data Visualization: The slide is populated with complex, precise charts (stacked bar charts, waterfall charts, or line graphs) and detailed data tables with rows and columns. 2. Structured Frameworks: Includes strategic diagrams or 2x2 matrices constructed with thin, clean lines. 3. High Information Density: The layout is sophisticated and multi-column, mimicking an actual business analysis deck, not just an empty cover page. Visual Style: 1. Aesthetic: Tech-minimalist but information-heavy. Clean, sharp, and authoritative. 2. Typography: Serif fonts (like Times New Roman) for the main headlines to give a premium financial report feel; clean Sans-serif for chart labels and data numbers. 3. Color Palette: Clean white background. Text is sharp black. Charts and graphical accents use Deep Royal Blue and distinct shades of grey for data hierarchy. 4. Graphics: Use fine hairline borders for tables and precise vector lines for graphs.show more

SOMEONE GOT TIRED OF PAYING HIGGSFIELD AI'S SUBSCRIPTION SO... HE REBUILT THE WHOLE THING AND OPEN-SOURCED IT 200+ models. text-to-image, image-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video all in one interface you configure a virtual camera in the Cinema Studio. pick the body, the lens, the focal length, the aperture and it writes the optimized cinematic prompt for you. completely in the background you never touch the camera keywords. you just set up the shot like a real cinematographer would Kling v3, Sora 2, Veo 3, Flux Dev, Midjourney v7, GPT-4o, Seedream 5.0, Runway Gen-3 all in there self-hosted. MIT licensed. runs on your machine. your data stays local the only thing you pay for is the model API calls themselves someone built this so you never have to pay Higgsfield AI againshow more

I topped up $5 on an API aggregator ToAPIs... Then I found out GPT Image 2 costs only around $0.015 per image. If you do a lot of testing or batch-generate commercial AI images, that difference adds up fast. I think I just found the secret to generating more, testing more, and spending less. And it’s not just one model. With the same key, you can access 50+ models for image, video, and text, including GPT Image 2, Gemini Omni, Seedance 2.0, Kling AI 3.0, grok-video-1.5-preview, and more. Some models are priced up to 80% lower than official platforms. Just top up and test what you need: Made on ToAPIs with GPT Image 2 + Seedance 2.0show more

I’ve used all the recent GenAI video models extensively... & here’s my 2¢: 🎬 Runway Gen3 Alpha - best image quality & motion for text-to-video & embedded words. Great at prompt travel changes over the course of 10 sec. And I’m super bullish on how gen3 will evolve, hopefully adopting the features listed below. Kling - best quality for image-to-video with prompt control, like eating food. Great clip extension that accounts for character (ie walking stride) & camera movement (speed & angle), rather than just using final frame. But it’s limited availability & Chinese native language is limiting. Used for Spider-Man video below (via Midjourney). LumaLabs - best for keyframe start & end control (it can not be overstated how important this is. other services should add it ASAP!) and their high dynamic action movements are really fun. Luma was used in my viral Multiverse of Memes video. PikaLabs - they haven’t gotten as much attention as others lately. But they did update their video model a few weeks ago and it looks great. Also, they are notable for their unique & AWESOME features, like video in-painting & out-painting. My perfect AI video platform would have the following features: 1) Gen3’s quality, prompt control & text embedding. 2) KLing’s image-to-video quality, prompt control & clip extension quality. 3) Luma’s multi-keyframe control & dynamic movement ability. 4) Pika’s inpainting & outpainting ability. And a video-to-video (aka next-gen Runway gen1) could be a game changer, too. It’s an exciting time to be alive 🫶 Who will get there first? 🔉🔉show more

Contact sheet prompting is the hottest AI video technique... right now 🤯 If you've seen this technique blowing up, here's why it works: You feed AI one image, and it generates a grid of consistent shots—same face, same outfit, different angles and poses. Instant storyboarding. Full creative control. No reshoots. But doing it manually is brutal: → Write the prompt from scratch → Generate the contact sheet → Crop each frame by hand → Feed frames into a video model one at a time → Repeat for every single product That's hours of work per campaign. This n8n automation handles everything: → Upload a character image + product image → AI analyzes both and writes the contact sheet prompt → Nano Banana Pro generates a 6-frame grid → System extracts each frame automatically → Kling 2.5 creates smooth transitions between frames → 5 video clips land in Airtable ready to use No manual cropping. No frame-by-frame prompting. No tedious busywork. What you get in Airtable: - AI-generated creative prompt - Hero image (model + product) - Full 6-frame contact sheet - 5 cinematic video clips - Approval gates before each step All inside n8n + Airtable. Contact sheet prompting on complete autopilot. I recorded a 20-minute Loom showing exactly how I built this. Want the walkthrough + the full n8n workflow + Airtable base? > Like this post > Comment "CONTACT" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)show more

Contact sheet prompting is the hottest AI video technique... right now 🤯 One image in → 6 consistent frames out → cinematic video ads in minutes. But everyone's doing it manually. I automated the entire workflow in n8n + Airtable. Here's why contact sheet prompting is blowing up: You give AI one reference image, and it generates a grid of consistent shots — same face, same outfit, different angles. Instant storyboarding, full creative control, no photoshoots. The problem? It's super tedious: → Write the prompt manually → Generate the contact sheet → Crop each frame by hand → Feed frames into a video model one by one → Repeat for every product This n8n automation handles all of it: → Upload character image + product image → AI analyzes both and writes the contact sheet prompt → Nano Banana Pro generates a 6-frame grid → System extracts each frame automatically → Kling 2.5 generates smooth transitions between frames → You get 5 video clips ready to stitch Approval checkpoints at every stage, no surprises. What lands in your Airtable: → AI-generated creative prompt → Core hero image (model + product) → 6-frame contact sheet → 5 cinematic video clips → Full control before each generation step Contact sheet prompting on autopilot. I filmed a 20 minute Loom video showing you exactly how I set it up. Want the Loom + the complete n8n workflow + Airtable base? > Comment "SHEET" > Like this post And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)show more

xAI isn't playing around. They just released the Grok... Imagine API, a unified video + image generation toolkit, and it's already sitting at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena for both Text-to-Video AND Image-to-Video. It's beating: ● Google's Veo 3.1 & Veo 3 ● OpenAI's Sora 2 ● Runway Gen-4.5 ● Kling 2.5 Turbo The Numbers Don't Lie: ● 64.1% win rate against Runway Aleph in blind human evaluations ● 57% win rate against Kling o1 ● Best-in-class latency. Sub-20 second generation for 720p, 8-second videos. (up to 15-second video) ● Native audio generation baked right into video output (dialogue, music, sound effects, all synced) What Makes It Different It's built for real creative workflows: ✅ Text-to-video AND image-to-video in one API ✅ Video editing with prompt-based controls (add/remove objects, restyle scenes) ✅ Camera controls: zoom, pan, timelapse, pull-back ✅ Style transfers: cyberpunk, watercolor, anime, you name it ✅ Performance animation: map your movements onto characters ✅ Native audio-video sync (no post-production needed) Why the focus on speed and cost? The partner feedback that shaped this: "Quality alone isn't enough if latency and cost make iteration painful." So xAI optimized for all three. Speed. Cost. Quality. Already Integrated With: ● fal. ai ● ComfyUI ● InVideo ● Flora ● HeyGen xAI went from underdog to chart-topper. The Grok Imagine API is fast, affordable, and genuinely production-ready. If you're building anything with AI video, this just became the one to beat.show more

POV: You just won an argument in your head... while in the shower. Want to create video like this Instructions: 1. Open Kling On ImagineArt 2. Select Donald Trump Image 3. Paste the prompt 4. And Click Generate Prompt: { "kling_v2_6_config": { "model": "kling-video-v2.6", "mode": "professional", "prompt": { "text": "Cinematic wide shot, photorealistic 4k. Donald Trump dancing energetically in a bright white high-key studio with polished wooden flooring. He wears a sharp navy blue suit and long red tie. Performing energetic Michael Jackson 'Bad' style choreography. Moves include sharp arm whips, aggressive rhythmic strut, high leg kick into a freeze pose, and a fast fluid 360-degree spin. Professional agility, perfect suit physics. Bright even studio lighting.", "negative_prompt": "cartoon, illustration, animation, morphing, distorting, blurring, extra limbs, bad hands, missing fingers, messy background, dark shadows, low resolution, shaky camera, static, boring, watermark, text" }, "parameters": { "aspect_ratio": "16:9", "duration": "5s", "cfg_scale": 0.5, "camera_control": { "type": "dynamic", "movement": "orbit_right", "zoom": "slight_zoom_out", "description": "Camera orbits to capture the spin dynamic" } } }, "scene_breakdown": { "subject": "Donald Trump in navy suit, red tie", "action": "Michael Jackson 'Bad' choreography (arm whips, strut, kick, freeze, spin)", "environment": "White studio, wooden floor, bright lighting", "tech_specs": "Photorealistic, 4K, high agility" } }show more

🚨 JUST IN: THIS FREE TOOL JUST REPLACED FOUR... AI IMAGE AND VIDEO SUBSCRIPTIONS AT ONCE. Midjourney. Krea. Higgsfield. Openart. One repo. 200+ models. Zero dollars a month. Here is what it actually does. It is a full image and video studio that runs in your browser or as a desktop app. Text to image, image to image, text to video, image to video, lip sync, cinema mode with real camera controls. All of it. 4,500 people already starred this. What you get for free: → 50+ image models including Flux, Midjourney v7, Ideogram, GPT-4o, Seedream → 60+ video models including Kling, Sora, Veo, Runway, Wan, Hailuo → lip sync studio with 9 dedicated models. upload a portrait and audio and it talks → cinema studio with real camera controls. lens, focal length, aperture, film stock → feed up to 14 reference images into one generation → self-hosted. your data never leaves your machine The crazy part is there is also a hosted version that needs zero setup. Just open the link and start generating. Now the math. Midjourney Standard: $30/month Krea AI Pro: $30/month Higgsfield Plus: $49/month Openart AI: $15/month That is $124 a month. $1,488 a year. This repo does everything all four do. With more models than any of them. For free. Forever. No subscription. No vendor lock-in. MIT licensed. Download it in one click on Mac or Windows. Someone should have told me about this sooner. I feel like an idiot. ( save this )show more

this effect is all over tiktok right now and... nobody's explaining how to actually do it properly... the 3d balloon character thing. where someone turns into a shiny inflatable version of themselves that still moves and talks. looks pretty smooth in feeds. the workflow is stupid simple once you see it. step 1: take any photo. drop it into an image gen tool (nano banana pro). prompt it with something like "make the person in the photo a plastic blow up balloon character with a shiny surface. keep the face details as 3d balloon details including the person in the background. don't change background" that's it for the image. don't overcomplicate the prompt. shorter = more consistent results. (learned this after wasting like 2 hours trying to get "perfect" prompts that kept giving me garbage) step 2: take that balloon image + your original video and drop both into kling motion control. prompt: "turn the motion and detailed mouth movement of the video to the setting of the image" that's literally it. kling maps the motion from the real video onto the balloon character. mouth moves. head turns. expressions transfer. the whole thing renders in a few minutes. the result looks like a $500 custom animation and costs you maybe $0.30 in kling credits. people are getting 500k+ views with these because the scroll-stop factor is insane. nobody expects to see a shiny inflatable version of someone giving a real speech or doing a product review. the play here is obvious btw. run this for client content (mix with the hook and real body, check the results yourself) or use it on your own faceless channels as a hook pattern before the algo catches up...show more

✨ Grok Imagine Video is now live on Photo... AI It's hard to explain how impressive this is because of the speed that xAI got itself from literally nothing to the top of the leaderboards Six months ago Grok's video model was a joke, it wasn't even close to any of the video models out there, it looked cartoony and wasn't there and nobody took it seriously Now it's here and it's instantly the #1 video model out there now, it shot above Kling (which I used before on Photo AI and usually my favorite) and above Runway Gen 4.5 which was just launched 6 days ago! Mmore importantly it's now above xAI's biggest competitors' models: Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora 2 Being the best video model doesn't mean it's flawless: video is incredibly hard and actually because it looks so realistic now when it does make a mistakes it's even funnier One thing I noticed is that it still has a hard time with is voice, it does it well for a majority of the video but then slips up and produces unintelligible blabbering (which is really funny to hear) in both English (video 1: "it's where I find my naim", what's a "naim"?), and tested it in Portuguese too (video 3 at the end is unintelligible Portuguese I believe) In many ways Grok Imagine Video also reminds me of Sora, it has that weird but funny Sora conversation style But guys it's REALLY really really really close to getting perfect, we're so close to having full video productions being to be able done in AI, actually you already can if you just cut out the bad parts already Very exciting and I'm grateful I can experience thisshow more

🤯 I didn’t expect Depth to track rooftop parkour... this cleanly! Used a fast climbing clip as the motion reference, then swapped in a student with twin tails and a backpack on a coastal school rooftop. The running path, wall contact, jumps, landings, and full-body continuity all hold together surprisingly well. 🌟 Workflow: 1. Pick a reference clip under 15 seconds 2. Convert it to Depth with Depth Anything V2 3. Generate a new character + scene 4. Feed everything into Seedance with the prompt below 🌟 Depth video conversion: You can build a local Depth converter with Codex — prompt in the comments. Depth opens up a lot more possibilities for parkour, climbing, martial arts, dance, and other complex full-body motion. Workflow + Prompt below 👇show more