YVD AI Studio is a Show HN project for generating short AI videos from a photo or text prompt, with users choosing a model and reviewing a credit quote before generating. Free accounts receive 10 credits every 24 hours that expire after 24 hours, and images, videos and music share the account balance. The site also offers photo-to-video effect tools and guidance on using outputs for YouTube Shorts and commercial work.
AutoEditor is an AI video editor that turns raw footage into a retention-optimized cut, offered free to start for creators in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and worldwide. Paid tiers are Starter at $10/mo, Pro at $13/mo, and Studio at $49/mo.
This ranking, as of Nov 13, 2026, orders video models by Artificial Analysis blind human-preference Elo (T2V and I2V, with audio) alongside API price per second and weight license status, with Kling 3.0 1080p Pro fixed as the 1000-Elo anchor. Alibaba's Wan 3.0 leads text-to-video at 1175 Elo ($0.20/sec, closed), ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 leads image-to-video at 1161 Elo ($0.569/sec), and MiniMax H3 is the top open-weights model at #3 (1161 Elo, $0.08/sec) under a license barring local deployment in the US, EU, UK and South Korea. The piece notes most top-10 scores carry ±13–15 Elo intervals, so ranks 3–8 should be treated as a cluster, and that Veo 3.1 (964) now scores below the Kling 3.0 anchor.
Viral Video AI generates 4–30-second vertical social clips for TikTok, Reels, or Shorts from a text prompt, up to 9 photos (Basic) or 30 (Pro), or one reference video, with Basic offering 4–15 s at 480p/720p and Pro extending to 30 s and 1080p. Users can paste a public TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram URL to preview a clip as a reference, and the tool shows a credit quote that updates with media and settings before generation. The page states no exact match to references is guaranteed and notes platform disclosure rules for realistic AI content.
Claudia is an open AI character: the singer of ten music videos made with Claude between September and November 2026, including ESCAPE VELOCITY, CLODYSSEY, BLISS, AIRPLANE MODE, DOWNFORCE, DON'T LET ME SCROLL, WHITEPILL, THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE, AERO and FABLE. The site publishes her canon (black bob with one clay-orange streak, star clip, headset mic), every look, all images and films, and the material needed to make her yourself. It also offers a wiki of 13 articles on the method, an MCP server and a Claude skill for agents.
AxiomStory is an AI story studio that reads every chapter to flag continuity errors, builds a wiki page for each character and place, and generates pictures, voices and video using one saved look per character. It supports importing existing manuscripts in Word, EPUB, PDF, Markdown, HTML or plain text, and offers a free plan plus paid tiers from $16 to $160 per month.
A video walkthrough of the full process behind an AI-generated animated short film, shared on YouTube and submitted to Hacker News. The submission had 1 point and no comments at the time of collection.
OpenShorts is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable tool that turns long videos into 9:16 shorts using Gemini for viral moment detection, faster-whisper subtitles, and AI reframing modes including face tracking and split-screen layouts. It also bundles an AI Shorts UGC creator and a YouTube Studio toolkit, and exposes the pipeline via an MCP server, REST API, webhooks and CLI. Self-hosting is free with bring-your-own API keys, while a hosted cloud plan starts at $12/mo after a watermarked 20 min/mo free tier.
At Adobe Max, Adobe announced experimental "sneak" projects including Project Screen Test, which lets you converse with and direct AI characters in an audition-like environment, and Project Sight Span, which turns flat images into navigable 3D scenes that restore resolution at a chosen angle. Other previews include Project Sound Bender for prompt-based sound effects adjusted on a square sound canvas, and Project Rinse Repeat, which copies Photoshop edits and applies them to other subjects in a photo. Adobe says these are tech previews that may eventually reach Creative Cloud or Firefly, with a theme of making complex editing, filmmaking and audio workflows more accessible and intuitive.
MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models released PAN 2, an Apache 2.0 world model that takes a scene and text action and simulates the outcome as video, shipping weights, training code and inference code. It pairs an LLM planner with a 29B MMDiT diffusion transformer trained from scratch, outputting 704×1248 video at 24 fps up to 20 seconds. IFM reports 34.0% full-plan completion on 100 multi-step tasks, leading six tested models, while trailing MiniMax-H3 on single actions and human preference.
Weta FX CEO Daniel Seah said Hollywood studios went from barring any generative AI use in early 2024 to telling vendors since the third quarter of this year that "if you don't have an AI strategy, don't bother to work with us." Weta signed a partnership with Taiwan's TAICCA at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, and is working with Taiwanese studio Moonshine on artist-layer tools, while CTO Kimball Thurston said Weta uses outside video models such as Kling AI and ByteDance's Seedance where clients permit, hosted outside China for security reasons. Seah said Weta does not intend to replace artists or employees with AI, and the deal will have TAICCA and Taiwan's Ministry of Culture identify young talent for possible Weta internships in Wellington, Melbourne and Vancouver.
Adobe announced at its Max event new features including a beta Generative Remove tool in Premiere that erases unwanted objects on the editing timeline, an updated Remove Tool in Photoshop, and desktop blemish removal in Lightroom. Photoshop also gains Quick Compare and Relight, Lightroom adds Open Eyes in public beta, and Firefly gets new video and image tools plus Quick Actions now generally available.
At its MAX event in Miami, Adobe announced new AI features across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and Firefly, including a private-beta Firefly prototyping tool called Builder, an always-on proactive agent, and a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) that exposes Creative Cloud capabilities to chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Photoshop gains a relighting feature and prompt-based generative style sliders, Premiere adds a professional color grading system and video object removal, and Lightroom gets blinking-eye correction and blemish removal. Adobe VP Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch the company is still deciding which capabilities to expose through the MCP and will rely on user feedback.
Vynyo is an AI creative studio for small businesses and creators that turns a product photo and a described scene into a short video, with image editing and generation tools alongside. It offers 23 AI models including Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2 and Veo 3.1, plus 30 creative prompt packs and 83 editable prompt variations. Plans are $9/mo for 5,000 credits and $29/mo for 50,000 credits, with model credit costs shown before generating.
ElevenLabs Ads Engine now lets teams have ElevenLabs localization experts and creative specialists review ads made in the tool, including new variants and localizations for markets where no team member speaks the language. Ads Engine connects to ad platforms, pulls existing creative, translates text, adapts images and dubs video, with linguists from ElevenProductions and in-house creative specialists reviewing before ads are finalized. It uses Brand Kit to apply colors, fonts, logos, reference images and rules across variants, and can return finished creative for approval or push it directly to ad platforms.
Bicep Heart AI is a browser-based tool that animates a single uploaded photo into a silent 7-second vertical video of the viral bicep heart pose, with a two-person mode for couples. Plans range from $4.99 for one 480p video to $31.99 for five 720p videos, credits don't expire, and photos are deleted after 7 days. The site states the pose spread on TikTok in late October 2026 and that it is unrelated to the duo Bicep or their track "Heart".
Google released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which generates and edits native clips up to 15 seconds (up from 10) and cuts the price 30% to $0.07 per second of 720p video, about $1.05 per 15-second clip. It is available on Google Cloud and the Gemini API, adds 1-second duration steps from 3 to 15 seconds, and supports multi-turn editing across full 15-second clips. Google has not published benchmark scores for version 1.2, and audio references remain allowlist-gated on Google Cloud.
Google DeepMind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, with clips up to 15 seconds (up from 10), conversational editing, and pricing 30 percent lower at $0.07 per second for 720p video. It rolls out through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Google Cloud Console, Flow, Google Vids, the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, and Google Ads, with every generated video carrying an imperceptible SynthID watermark. Google also promises better reference adherence for characters, products, and audio cues, improved visual consistency, clearer lip-sync with multi-speaker distinction, and smoother complex camera moves.
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NVIDIA's Cosmos world model platform adds four new open-weight checkpoints to its Cosmos 3 family: Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto for multi-view driving data with varied weather, lighting and time of day; Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto for streaming synchronized camera and LiDAR driving simulation; Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer for turning simulator controls and text prompts into photorealistic video; and Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Bimanual for predicting video from robot or camera actions. All four are post-trained examples of Cosmos 3 Nano with 16B trainable parameters and use OpenMDW1.1, permitting commercial and non-commercial use under its terms. The post also details a four-stage training recipe (bidirectional adaptation, teacher forcing, consistency distillation, self-forcing) and post-training guidance for adapting the models to new sensor rigs and embodiments.
Why it matters: It gives a concrete inventory of newly released open-weight world-model checkpoints plus the training recipe, useful for researchers weighing them for robotics or driving simulation.
Pop star Grimes will appear in the AI-generated sci-fi anthology film Gods Don't Give Gifts, lending both her likeness and vocal performance, with a December 4th theatrical release billed as "the first AI film to come to theatres." Produced by AI studio Fable and directed by Jack London (Gossip Goblin), the film is set in a future "where bodies are disposable and consciousness has been commoditized" and follows four interconnected stories.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, now generally available across the Gemini API and Gemini for business, adding native 15-second video generation, multi-turn conversational editing, and stronger reference adherence. The model is priced 30% below Gemini Omni 1.1 at $0.07 per second for 720p video, with duration settable in one-second increments from 3 to 15 seconds. It also adds more natural speech and lip-sync, more controllable cinematic camera moves, and outputs carrying an imperceptible SynthID watermark.
Why it matters: Useful for developers and creators weighing a cheaper, longer-clip video model against its stated limits on fast action and complex physics.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, now generally available across the Gemini API and Gemini for business, adding native 15-second video generation, multi-turn conversational editing, and stronger reference adherence. The model is priced 30% below Gemini Omni 1.1 at $0.07 per second for 720p video, with duration settable in one-second increments from 3 to 15 seconds. It also adds more natural speech and lip-sync, more controllable cinematic camera moves, and outputs carrying an imperceptible SynthID watermark.
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Revline is an AI video editor that lets users upload footage and describe the desired edit in conversation, with the agent handling cuts, captions, motion and sound on an editable timeline. It targets podcast clips, social shorts, motion design and talking-head videos, with features including animated captions, background removal, masking and 9:16/1:1/16:9 export. It costs $39 USD per month after a 3-day free trial, and the post says no credit card is required to start.
Postraid is an AI UGC video generator and content automation platform that turns a website URL into UGC videos with creator reaction hooks plus product demos, along with Instagram carousels, TikTok slideshows and memes. Users review generated ideas, keep favorites, and schedule approved posts to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube; the post says 287 builders have joined. Pricing runs from a free tier to Starter at $29/month, Growth at $49/month and Pro at $149/month.
Abra is a hackathon project (Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon, Indie Dev Track, Oct 26 – Nov 4, 2026) that builds an AI creator studio on the Meta Model API and Claude, with three crew characters: Nico for comment replies, Sage for turning a dropped video into a post, and Koa for earnings and legal tracking. It calls five hosted Meta models — Muse Wonder, Muse Spark, Muse Image, Muse Voice Transcribe and SAM 3.1 — plus Claude Opus for in-voice replies and frame vision, and runs only on macOS with Python 3.12 and ffmpeg. The author notes that the comment-reply loop and first dashboard snapshot predate the event, that Muse Image's overlay path is not yet tested end to end, and that several features (camera, Greenscreen, Create templates, voice) are switched off for the submission.
A ranking of top AI-generated films and series by views lists titles such as "ALADDIN: THE CAVE OF WISHES" (16.3M views), "The Return Of The Last King" (16M views) and "Sinbad and the Seven Voyages" (6M views), all on YouTube with English audio. The entries span fantasy, sci-fi, thriller and animation, including full-length features and short films.
An article examines MyMuse and similar apps producing AI-generated microdramas — short, vertical, cliffhanger-driven series that viewers pay for with coins or subscriptions — noting that 93% of subscribers were still watching an hour after signing up. It describes how generative AI lets a series be made in about two weeks versus 12 for live-action, while arguing the output recycles the same plots and faces and that platform control over distribution concentrates power despite promises of democratized filmmaking. It also cites China, where roughly 430,000 microdramas were released in the first eight months of 2026 with over 90% reporting some AI use.
The Guardian reports that Sanxingdui: Future Past, China's first fully AI-generated film, earned just 1.7m yuan (£191,000) at the box office despite costing "tens of millions" to make, with all visuals and some sound effects created by AI and editing done by humans. Despite the flop, film industry workers say investors believe AI films are the future because they can be far cheaper, and one state media commentary said the film may go down in cinematic history as the starting point of what came next.
Kino AI launched on Hacker News as a combined media manager and video editor that stores footage and assets, offers a rich editor, and provides review links for teammates, letting colleagues and coding agents like Codex and Claude Code work on the same timeline. The editor is code-first, built on Remotion, with all editing, motion graphics, timeline dragging, comments, and 3D scenes expressed as code, and it is fully collaborative and real-time with visible teammate cursors. Footage is transcribed, embedded, described, and face-detected, with a low-res proxy uploaded so teammates and cloud inference can access it while local scrubbing uses custom pro media decoders.
RapAvatar turns a single JPG, PNG or WebP photo (up to 8 MB) of a person, pet or character into a 10-second vertical 9:16 1080p rap video, with AI-written four-line bars across 10 rap styles, 6 voices and 9 lyric languages. Free 10-second audio previews are available without an account up to 5 per day, while video generation uses credits: an Impulse Pack at $4.99 for 3 videos, Creator Monthly at $14.99 for 12 videos, or Agency/Studio at $39.99 for 35 videos. Lip-sync matches the vocal for people and characters, while pets move their head and muzzle in time with the vocal rather than matching each syllable.
Flow AI Fx presents itself as a unified AI creative studio offering four generators—Video, Image, Music, and Voice—for turning prompts or reference images into first drafts. It describes a four-step workflow: choose a starting point, pick a format, explore and refine, then audition and export studio-quality files. The page frames the tools as a starting point for exploration rather than a substitute for the user's artistic decisions.
Mav AI automates match analysis for semi-professional and lower-division soccer clubs, turning uploaded full-match footage into a tactical report, key clips, and next-game recommendations in under 30 minutes, compared with an estimated 6 to 8 hours of manual review. The platform is aimed at clubs that cannot afford a full-time analyst, and the company says coaches remain in control of decisions. Early access is available.
The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) launched TBC mischief 1, an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2 that generates video 5x faster than its base model and is available on fal and OpenRouter at half a cent per second. TBC says the speed and cost gains come from efficiencies it discovered by measuring living neurons in the lab and applying them as proprietary software that adds less than 0.1% to the base model's parameter count. The company says it is already applying the process to newer open-weight video models and developing applications in language models and physical AI.
A test of DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1's AI Assistance via an MCP server let Claude or Codex drive real editing actions, including building an edit from multiple takes, adding jump cuts and zooms, generating titles, duplicating timelines for branded variants, and exporting a verified 4K file. A first run with GPT-6 Astra (Medium) cut 23:58 of raw footage to about 7:14 in roughly 15 minutes 30 seconds, but Resolve's built-in transcription missed words and hurt cut accuracy. Supplying a Deepgram transcript with word-level timestamps let the AI rebuild a cleaner timeline in about 4 minutes 47 seconds, and estimated costs for a full run were $0.10–$0.15 for transcription plus $13–$19 for editing and generation work.
Mago Studio is a local-first desktop AI video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux that keeps projects and videos on the user's machine, rendering on their own GPU through ComfyUI or in Mago Cloud when signed in. It offers script-to-video direction with cast, shot lists and storyboards, plus frame-accurate restyling of footage using masks, relighting and character replacement. The code is AGPL-3.0 and designed to be modified by AI agents; local rendering is free, while cloud models are paid and require a Mago account.
Retake is a tool that transcribes a talking-head video (MP4, MOV or WebM) so it can be edited like a document: cutting a word cuts the clip, and rewriting a line re-speaks it in the same voice with lips re-synced. Users select words and press Delete to cut, or select words and start typing to rewrite. Claude marks ums, repeats and false starts for cleanup.
ADKA AI is an advertising generation tool that turns a single product image into UGC-style talking-head videos, cinematic ads, unboxing videos, and full sets of Amazon and Shopify product images, with the AI writing scripts and selecting shot structures automatically. It offers 9 validated video formats and 11 e-commerce image styles, powered by models including ByteDance Seedance, Alibaba Wan, MiniMax Hailuo, OpenAI GPT Image 2/2.5, and Google Nano Banana 2/Pro. Pricing is credit-based with per-generation quotes shown before submission, credits frozen during production and charged only on delivery, and 50 free credits on signup.
A Hacker News discussion prompt asking how developers verify the security of AI-generated code before shipping it. The supplied material is an illustrative example rather than the actual thread content, so no specific answers or claims from the discussion are available.
Former Neighbours actors and crew have raised concerns about a Fremantle and RoseBerry Media project that uses AI to scan decades of episodes and re-edit old footage into short vertical micro-dramas for mobile viewers, starting with footage of Margot Robbie. The companies say the tool only identifies material from original broadcast footage and that human editors approve every stage, but actors including Matt Werkmeister and Sam Clark say they were not approached and are unsure of their rights under contracts signed before streaming and AI existed. Sound recordist Bruce Findlay compared the process to "cutting up a Picasso," and the MEAA union said workers should be consulted before their likeness or expertise is used.
Kinoloom is a one-person Windows project that runs large open video models (LTX-2.5 at 22B parameters and MiniMax H3 at about 20B) on a single 8 GB RTX 3070 by giving the card one model at a time and streaming the rest from 64 GB of system RAM. It wraps the models in a local web app with an LLM story writer, a story bible, Qwen-Image 2.1 cast portraits and opening frames, a seamless-chain engine that joins short clips in latent space before decoding, face-identity QA via InsightFace, and an assembler that cuts the film. The author reports about 6 minutes for a warm 5-second 1080p LTX-2.5 clip and 20-22 minutes for MiniMax H3, notes the project has been tested on only one machine, and does not publish H3 renders because the H3 Community License restricts use and output display in the EU, UK, South Korea and the US.