📽️ 3 AI video generators you can use today!

Hey AI Puppies, 

Happy official start of spring! Are you loving the extra burst of energy in the air these days? 

We are too – it’s the perfect fuel to keep chugging along on our AI training journey 🌷🐕

This week, we’re revisiting a topic we’ve explored before, but a recent announcement from OpenAI re-sparked our interest 👀

Remember Sora, the too-good-to-be-true but also completely real video generator? 

It was announced by OpenAI last month, and although it won’t be ready til 2025 (at the earliest), we can’t get the example clips out of our heads:

If you, like us, have been dreaming up how you’ll put Sora to work, we’ve gathered 3 AI-powered video generators (with text-to-video prompting) you can play with in the meantime:

📹 Pika

📹 Kaiber.AI

📹 RunwayML

Ready to transform your ideas into reality? Lights, camera, let’s get into it 🎥

Pika: the idea-to-video platform

Pika is one of the top AI video generators because there are so many ways to use it with a very low learning curve. You can:

🐾 Generate videos with text prompts, image prompts, or video prompts from existing footage

🐾 Make entire videos, or simply add sound effects to existing ones

🐾 Edit specific portions of shots or entire sequences

Pika does best with animated-looking creations, but the results are far from childish! Everyone gets 250 free credits, and we used ours with this prompt:

“cinematic, dolly shot of a dog learning how to use a computer”

And got…

We wanted to add a computer to the shot, so we reprompted with this:

“cinematic, dolly shot of a dog learning how to type on a computer”

The results were much better:

Like any other AI, it takes some back-and-forth with the tool to get what you’re envisioning. Luckily, Pika’s super sleek design makes editing easy! Here’s what the interface looks like:

When Pika users go all out, the results are stunning, like the clip made from the prompt “Unreal engine, a wizard in an enchanted forest, looking at camera”:

If you’re determined to make full-length videos customized exactly to your vision, Pika will make all your directing dreams come true 🎞 🎬

Kaiber: discover the artist in you

For artistic creations that spark your imagination, it’s hard to beat the beauty of Kaiber 🎨

Like Pika, there’s a lot you can do with Kaiber, including:

🐾Turning songs into images and videos

🐾Transforming existing videos into entirely new creations

🐾Animating still images into smooth, stunning gifs

If you’re already an artist and want to explore different facets of the art world, Kaiber is sure to please!

Once you sign up for your free trial, you can choose between flipbook animation, smooth animation, or editing existing video. We went for smooth and started with a prompt (you can also start by uploading images as a prompt). 

You’ll also notice that the prompt field is unique, as it asks for a subject, details, and splits it up by scene:

We entered ‘I want to create a video of a puppy learning how to use a computer in the style of oil panting,’ hit >video settings, >generate previews, and got this page where you can select your favorite preview:

We chose the bottom right image, then >create video, and after a few minutes, received:

Not bad for a free trial run that took 2 minutes to make! With practice and editing, you’ll be able to express your most artistic self with ease 🖌️

Runway: end-to-end artwork generation

RunwayML has the highest credentials on today’s list thanks to its users at major corporations like Ogilvy, CBS, Google, New Balance, Nvidia, Microsoft, and more 💪

What makes Runway so special? 

It offers a comprehensive suite of creative tools to produce and enhance any type of visual and audio media, including:

🐾Text to video, video to video, text to text, and text to image prompting

🐾Frame interpolation, erase and replace, backdrop remix, and infinite image

🐾Scene detection, remove silence, clean audio, face blurring, add color, and upscale image

Despite its many incredible features, you can still try it for free! After signing up, you’ll be directed to this editing field:

We entered the same puppy learning how to use a computer prompt, selected ‘impressionist,’ and left the camera settings like this:

The resulting clip was the best one yet:

For AI media generators you can implement at a business level, Runway sweeps the competition 🎦

Your Next Assignment

This week’s assignment is exactly what we just did: make clips using your free trials at Pika, Kaiber, and Runway, and compare the results 🧑‍🎨

Don’t forget to share your creations with a tag on any of our socials: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok 📲

📫If you have any other questions or topic suggestions, our inbox is always open at [email protected] 📫

That’s it for this week’s newsletter! Enjoy your weekend, and we’ll be back in two weeks with more 👋🐾

Talk soon,

The AI Puppy