Generative video is like having a super creative movie-making robot! You give it some ideas or instructions, like "make a video of an alien planet" or "create an animation of dancing animals," and the AI uses its special computer skills to create the video for you. It can come up with unique and exciting scenes, characters, and animations all on its own. It’s a fun way to make your own movies and animations, combining your ideas with the AI’s creativity to make awesome videos that bring your imagination to life!
Examples (Made with Runway)
Tools
Runway
Runway is like a magic toolbox for making cool videos (and art). You can use it to make amazing videos, animations, lip sync, and voice overs. You can create videos using only a text prompt or use starter image with motion brushes and camera tools for more control over your motion. For example, you can tell it what you want, "first person view of a person driving a car" and Runway will create the video. Generated videos are 4 seconds, but can be extended up to 12 seconds.
Cost: Free 125 credits to start and $12/month after.
My Overall Score: 10/10
Luma Dream Machine
Luma Dream Machine is brand new next-generation video generation model that creates videos at higher-quality than most existing generative video tools. You can start with an image or text prompt or both and generate a video. You need to learn some film and camera angle terminology to create better text prompts, since there are no tools to control motion like you have in applications like Runway. Video are 5 seconds and cannot be extended.
Cost: Free - up to 30 videos per month
My Overall Score: 9/10