AI Video Tools Are Exploding. These Are the Best

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Tags: AI, Machine Learning, Video Generation, Runway Gen 3, LTX Studio

Summary

This video showcases the capabilities of AI video tools, specifically Runway Gen 3 and LTX Studio. It demonstrates how these tools can be used to create title sequences, transforming between scenes, and generating entire short films. The video also highlights the features of each tool and provides examples of their uses.

Transcript

I've been experimenting with AI video
tools and covering them on this channel
for a long time and right now is the
most exciting and fun time in AI video
yet Runway and Luma Labs have been in
the spotlight and I'll cover some
immediate real world use cases for them
but my personal favorite tool is
actually not one of those making the
headlines I'll get to that a little
later plus some amazing lip syncing
tools and some open source models
there's been a lot of advancements I've
got to start with Runway gen 3 since
it's been dominating my timeline it is
the best textto video model available to
use right now something that's
particularly useful with Gen 3 is text
like these title sequences it is amazing
at this I'll show a few of my favorite
examples I've
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seen this is such a perfect title
sequence for a cooking
channel this one also showcases how good
it is at fluid simulation the physics in
a lot of these is really good adding
some sound design would take these to
the next level for sure and be
production ready title sequences so I'll
try one for future pedia I'm logged in
already and here's a whole Suite of
image and video tools that Runway offers
but for Gen 3 I'll just click right here
then type in a prompt a title screen
with Dynamic movement the scene starts
with intricate neon circuitry patterns
that light up and move on a dark
background suddenly the circuits
converge and form the word future pedia
with a glowing pulsating effect then I
can choose between 5 seconds and 10
seconds I'll lower it to five then click
generate that's all there is to it right
now this is how that came
back and that looks amazing since
futurepedia is a longer word I have
gotten some misspellings but it gets it
right A lot of the time this prompt
structure has worked really well so I
used one of the sample prompts in the
Gen 3 prompting guide and modified it I
modified it a lot really just kept the
basic structure so I'd recommend trying
to use the prompt structure they give
here when you're starting out camera
movement establishing scene then
additional details hopefully that will
help you cut down on rolls they do also
have a lot of solid keywords in this
guide to help give you some inspiration
another thing it's really good at is
transforming between scenes this is
another prompt you can modify for
yourself that comes back with great
results pretty
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consistently I will copy that and paste
it in
here I'll change this to a wormhole and
into an alien civilization
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that's not bad with some rerolls and
modifying The Prompt I'm sure I could
get a better generation here's a couple
other examples using this same prompt
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idea now I've also had a lot of Misses
with runaway 2 that's the biggest caveat
here the amazing results you see posted
are definitely cherry-picked that's the
case with all AI video models including
Sora but Runway can do some amazing
things especially if you have a lot of
credit here's a few more of my favorite
Runway examples this was really hard to
narrow down
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the best image to video right now is
dream machine from Luma Labs you can
also do text to video which gets some
good results but where Luma shines is
image to video and even better than that
is with key frames I'll show a couple
straight image to video examples first
it's easy to use upload an image then
add a prompt volcano erupting contained
within a drinking glass surrounded by
peaceful
Tranquility this was the original image
then here's the result and that looks
perfect I'll show a few more straight
image to video examples then we'll move
on to key
frames these are all within one or two
tries it does weird things on occasion
like this astronaut grows in extra
finger or here's a weirder
one or how about a much weirder
one most of the time they do look good
without having to do too many rolls the
next step is adding an ending frame and
you can start doing some really cool
stuff you upload a starting frame then
also upload an ending frame now add a
prompt for it to use to create the whole
clip in between those frames this works
most consistently between things that
are logical to transition between if
they're not then try to be extra
descriptive of what you want to happen
in between it works great for
transformation shots that are in the
same or a similar
scene but you can also do more out there
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transitions this one looks like it could
legitimately be a Pixar movie
you can extend that out by just taking
your ending frame and using that as the
starting frame for a new generation then
adding a new ending frame you can do
really long sequences this way there's
been these long mashups of memes that
people have been posting which are fine
I am definitely more interested in the
creative stuff this with this girl and
the Wolf is one of the coolest I've seen
using that
it's amazing to keep that all consistent
and there's a ton of possibilities for
this you can do this for free but the
generations take a long time like
multiple hours when I tried before
signing up paying will get you to the
front of the line and a lot more
Generations there's one more out of
China that's similar in quality to these
two called cling however there is a huge
weight list for it and the process to
sign up is difficult without a Chinese
phone number so I'm going to cover that
one at the end moving on to LTX Studio
they they have the most control out of
any of these platforms and the fastest
speed they can build out an entire short
film in a few minutes how it works is
you can start from scratch input an
entire script or start from a simple
prompt I'll go with the prompt option
for this example I will paste this in
it's about a futuristic city controlled
by AI entities and a hacker that can
communicate with them he joins a
resistance they battle all that good
stuff hit next and it starts
working it will show the basic story and
the cast then you can select a style so
this is Cinematic but let's say I want
an anime I can direct it more with words
as well I'll add
cyberpunk there's all sorts of other
styles here to
try I like comic book it will use these
as consistent characters throughout the
story which is amazing because that's
usually a struggle and I can change
anything about them that I want I think
this will be better without a last name
I could change the essence appearance
the clothes I can test out different
voices if I want as an organizer I start
from where the world is as it is not as
I would like it to be you can even face
swap these with a face you upload I want
to change the title to how about Neon
Flux see how many people know that
reference to the anime not the movie
they made from it this looks good here
so I'll click Start and just from that
it builds out an entire short film with
fully editable
scenes this whole thing was generated in
less time than it took either of the
others to generate a single clip and I
want to show the style reference feature
again now that this is open because it's
even cooler to do it in here I'll try
uploading my own style reference so this
is a mid-journey image when I upload
that style every shot across every scene
regenerates in the new style that's
super helpful and doing it here will
give you a much better idea of how it
will look and that looks awesome I'm
actually going to run with that style
now these are just static images
currently I could generate them all into
videos at once or open each one to
customize it that gives you the most
flexibility so I'll do that I can
regenerate the image or upload my own
even generate or remove objects from the
image I'll just get rid of this little
blob
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here I can choose from four types of
motion and adjust how much of it most of
the options are pretty straightforward
but this one is really amazing when you
switch to custom then orbit then you can
have total control over the start and
end of the shot and it will generate the
motion in
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between you can also adjust how long the
clip is I want this to be like a movie
trailer so 3 seconds will be
plenty you can also add music sound
effects it generates a voice over all of
that can be customized as well if it
hasn't hit home yet everything can be
customized I'll actually change the
voiceover a little because this ended up
telling the entire story I didn't
mention in the prompt that it was for a
trailer I don't want to spoil the ending
the track it used is awesome so I'll
keep it that's a lot of the features
probably enough for this showcase so I'm
going to go through and generate each
scene how I want it then come back all
right finished all the scenes it's
really nice that you can export all the
files so I can bring it into premiere
for more fine grained editing the other
really cool option is to export it as a
pitch deck I'll do that as well first
here's the pitch deck it has the story
all of the characters and their
backgrounds the mood board and color
palette then the full story board people
have already made some amazing things
this way where they storyboarded a short
film with LTX then actually filmed and
produced the entire thing they posted
this one called winged on X where this
turns into this like human head with
bird wings it's pretty good you should
go watch
it then with this premere option it
gives me the project file that I can
edit further I already opened that and
synced things up to the music a little
more and made just a couple other simple
edits here is the final result in the
neon lit City I discovered a secret
power the ability to communicate with AI
Spirits joining the resistance I became
a spirit Guardian fighting alongside
comrades unique Tech
Powers we Face a rogue AI threatening
our City's balance blending ancient
wisdom with cuttingedge technology as
the battle intensifies the fate of our
world hangs in the
balance I've been having a ton of fun
with LTX studio and side note I did
actually meet some people from the team
at the Imagine AI conference a while
back at one point they were just giving
a little demo at their booth and like
everyone crowded around to watch they
really stole the show make sure to sign
up for the weit list they're letting
lots of people in the link is in the
description and thank you to LTX for
sponsoring this video the platform I've
been having the most fun with out of all
of these is Korea and with this one you
can do quite a bit for free it's a lot
different than the other ones we've
covered it's more for abstract stuff not
so much for realism so it focuses more
on these like trippy morphing type
animations which I like a lot personally
I like to use AI to create things that
would be impossible to create any other
way to open up entirely new creative
Avenues rather than replace EX in ones
so I have a ton of fun in Kaa I'll go up
to generate then video they also have a
creative upscaler that's really useful
I'll show that one next these are the
three images I want to use they're these
translucent kind of bioluminescent
flower jellyfish and dragon I think they
look cool together so I'll click add key
frame select the flower then I'll add
another key frame for the
jellyfish and another for the dragon you
can make these longer or shorter I'll
lengthen it a little bit
then you can add a text prompt I just
want these to morph into each other so I
don't need any longer prompt I'll just
say what they are then drag the length
of the prompt and that's where the
transitions will start at least that's
where they're supposed to it's not
perfect there's a couple other settings
for the aspect ratio motion intensity I
like it around 60 usually then you can
switch the looping on or off it defaults
to on where the end will morph back into
the first frames so it can just
endlessly Loop then you have four styles
to choose from I'll start with film then
click generate video and I'll generate
one at each of those for comparison in a
second this will do a first pass at
generating then give a preview at a low
quality that'll give you a good idea
what it will end up looking like if it's
not going in the direction you'd like
you can go to where it says enhancing
and select click to cancel that will
save you some generation
time now I actually think it's moving
away from the jellyfish too fast so I
will cancel I'll add another key frame
and select the jellyfish again so it
hangs out on that for longer then we'll
generate again that cancel option is
especially helpful if you're on the free
plan since your Generations are more
limited I am on the basic plan which
gets plenty of time for me in about a
minute it's all done and here's what I
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got I think that looks really cool now
I'll generate with render animation and
experimental so you can see the
difference
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I think these are amazing really fun and
unique here's another quick example I
did with these
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images I am working on some longer stuff
with tracks from suo but they're not
finished yet so here's one more weird
one I did
I love this style I know it's not for
everyone but it's really great for
something like a music video or an
opening sequence but these are a couple
of my favorite examples I found on x
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now I also want to demo their video
upscaler this is not like a traditional
upscaler where it resembles the original
video as much as possible just at a
higher resolution it does a creative
upscale similar to how magnific works
but for video it stays really close but
kind of reimagines everything with AI so
I'll use a clip from LTX video I made
this one has a face that was just
completely warped we'll see if it can
fix
that I don't need it upscaled that much
I'll leave that at 1.5 frame rate 30 FPS
write out a prompt of what it thinks is
in the video that looks good so I'll
leave the strength and resemblance at
the defaults first and start with
cinematic turn Loop off and enhance this
took around 30 seconds and here's the
result you can see that there's a face
on here now that's pretty amazing it was
able to fix that I ran one at each of
the different presets so you can see the
difference cinematic and render are
fairly similar then animated makes it
more of an anime style I'll show that
with a few clips from that LTX video
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I hope to see them expand that into more
Styles because it is very useful overall
I think Kaa is a ton of fun and there's
some additional options to play around
with in here as well lip syncing has
made some big improvements recently
there's tons of impressive demos that
have come out that we don't have access
to use but there's two platforms I want
to show that we do have access to one
that's completely free and one that's
free for five uses per day it's hedra
and live portrait hedra has some of the
most expressive talking avatars I've
seen it's pretty easy to use so either
generate the audio or upload some of
your own I'll use the classic Fight Club
line now I'll upload a character you can
also generate one here if you need now I
just generate the video it works pretty
quickly and here's what I
got the first rule of Fight Club is you
do not talk about Fight
Club second rule of Fight Club is you do
not talk about Fight
Club that looks great super expressive
let's do another one but with a
non-human character this time I'll use
the line from
Taken what I do have are a very
particular set of skills skills I have
acquired over a very long career skills
that make me a nightmare for people like
you so that one looks great but it can
definitely struggle with non-human
characters and the less human they look
the harder it is a dog just didn't work
at all or even some of those gnomes
especially the ones with a beard it was
having a hard time with you do not talk
about Fight Club Runway also has a lips
syncing feature that they implemented it
works really well very high quality but
it's much less expressive the first rule
of Fight Club is you do not talk about
Fight
Club second rule of Fight Club is you do
not talk about Fight
Club live anime is also amazing but
takes a different route you upload a
reference video and it will map that
onto the Avatar this allows you to have
more control over the expressiveness
it's on hugging face so you can use it
for free upload a source portrait I'll
give my face a try then upload a driving
video it works best with a straight on
shot like the ones they have in these
examples I'll just use one of those
here's a pretty classic one although I
won't be able to use the song that goes
along with it on YouTube now click
animate and in under 30 seconds here's
the
result that worked pretty perfectly I'll
show an example that didn't work this is
a CLI clip from Breaking Bad it shows
his face the whole time but he does move
a bit so with that it's just not able to
map that onto my face at all so there's
limitations here but you can still do
some pretty great stuff with it things
you would never be able to get through
other methods currently and really quick
here I want to shout out the open source
community and the tools and workflows
they've been developing and pioneering
those have really been the foundation of
some of these other tools that will
mimic or outright take those workflows
and Implement them into a paid model the
things you can get from Korea and some
of these other video models are possible
with open source tools most notably
comfy UI and animate diff that method is
significantly more complicated although
it offers more customization and control
the paid platforms tend to offer a nice
UI and ease of use so far all of these
examples are from James G not sure if
that's how you say his last name he has
so many amazing Creations on Instagram
I'm only showing short clips from them
they're all much longer and have music
to them as well so I have been following
his work for a while and it is some of
my
favorite this marble statue dance was
one of his really early ones to go viral
his Instagram is full of amazing stuff
but I'll show some other people too this
dancing spider is
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awesome these have all been from driving
these animations using real footage but
that's not the only way to use this at
all this one by Fab dream going through
the evolution of money was
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great or these weird frog animations
from boltron I love these
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to learn more about how to do this I am
not the person to be teaching it but if
you want to do a deep dive to install
and run it locally and learn how to do
all of that I'll have a couple resources
in the
description cling is the platform that's
as good or better than Runway and dream
machine with text to video and image to
video but the weight lless is huge and
the process is more complicated if you
don't have a Chinese phone number so I'm
going to link to a thread by tile AI he
walks through the process of downloading
a couple apps and getting a burner
number to use I was able to sign up for
the wait list using my own number on
their mobile app but then the new
website doesn't have an option for a
non-chinese number to sign in so it is
probably best to use his method and fair
warning I signed up for the wait list
about 2 weeks ago it said there were
around 500,000 people on it I still
don't have access and now the wait list
says it has around a million people on
it so it is free to use right now but I
imagine that will change by the time
people that are just now signing up for
the wait list get access so it may not
be worth the hassle that's why I didn't
want to spend all time going over that
here follow that thread if you want to
try but the quality coming out of cing
is amazing
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we are finally to a point where you can
use AI to make video that's usable in
the real world outside of memes not
usable for everything of course there's
still plenty of limitations these tools
have come a very long way and are a ton
of fun right now if you want to keep up
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