Hi! I run a small beauty business and don’t have a big budget for professional photoshoots/videos.
Can anyone suggest free AI apps/tools where I can create realistic, slightly cinematic product photos/videos for my Reels and posts? I don’t want them to look overly AI-generated, and preferably something that doesn’t require a subscription.
Would love recommendations from people who’ve actually used them for their business/content!

i'm looking to start making motion animation videos similar to TED-Ed and trying to find a free ai animation generator that could save more time with the process.

i've seen a few animation tools, but i'm not sure which ones are actually good for this kind of explainer-style content. ideally i'd like an ai motion graphics generator that can help with animated scenes and visuals without having to create everything manually.

has anyone found a good free option for this?

I'm a affiliate marketer and I want to convert my normal camera videos into slightly ai looking videos because recently my insta account videos started getting copyright tags and it lowers both my followers count and views, so I decided to change my videos to ai videos. Please suggest me some (video to video) generator for it🥺

I want to generate short 5 seconds videos that have a cartoon or anime like style. I am trying to make a youtube channel which has story videos which such simple animated videos and a story behind it. These clips will be joined together to make a short 5 minute short with a voiceover

I have an rtx 4050 laptop with 16gb ram

I tried wan 2.1, ltx 2, some ltx 2.3 distilled model

They all either just don't work well or take too long

I also don't want to have offloading to the ram since I have very little ram and it also takes very long

I want chunks of each 5 minute video to take a maximum of 4 hours to generate

I thought that, it won't be too much of a task since I'm fine with a slightly basic anime style too but it's just not working

When this didn't work, I tried animagine xl the. Switched to anima turbo and just played each picture for 3 4 seconds each with the voiceover but I really want video gen version to workout since it's going to make the production quality way better

Please guide me, I'm so lost.

I'm looking for the best current option for a pretty specific workflow.

I want to record a short video of myself on my phone, then use a reference image of a photorealistic AI character to replace me in the video.

The important part is that I want to preserve as much of my original performance as possible — facial expressions, lip movements, head tilts, hand gestures, body movement and timing — while making the person in the final video consistently look like the same AI character.

I'm not looking for a basic face swap or a talking avatar from a still image. I want my real recorded performance to drive the AI character.

Ideally I'm looking for something cloud/web based rather than a complicated local ComfyUI setup.

For anyone actually doing this currently: what model/platform are you getting the best results with?

I'm especially interested in:

•photorealism

•character consistency between clips

•facial expression/lip movement preservation

•how many rerolls it usually takes to get a usable result

•actual cost per usable clip

Recent experiences/examples would be really appreciated since these models are changing so quickly.

I am applying for a job and one of their requirements is to make an AI Video promoting a brand. I do not have enough money to get a subscription since that's why I am looking for a job. What AI sites do you recommend me to dive in making AI Videos for free?

Been running open-weight video models locally for some time now, and managing the hardware limits is honestly a pain. Feeding complex generation stuff into local node setups crashes my graphics card sometimes. Moving to standard cloud platforms is just as annoying tho cuz of the constant uploading and juggling heavy reference files across different tabs.

Trying to see how people run it without overloading their GPUs. Some mentioned the MiniMax Design desktop thing, lets you do your production workflow inside it while offloading the heavy H3 generation to the cloud so it stops blowing up your local GPU. Gave it a shot to see if I could get my workflow outta the browser. It worked to a certain extent but definitely has its own issues.

What it does is packaging things into a full production workflow and handles local reference images and audio on your machine like a normal desktop app. H3 then generates video with audio in one pass.

However theres some real tradeoffs to running a mixed setup like this. UI is pretty limited so you lose the fine control youd get from a node-based interface. Basically trading off control for a more streamlined thing. Also gotta watch costs cuz even tho the pay per use is cheaper than a dedicated cloud VM it still adds up. Liberally testing random ideas will end up costing you.

For me its still a decent middle ground if you got hardware limitations which a lot of us do.

Title. I'm using runway, and I need to make something that's 10 minutes long. $180USD for a 10 minute video with no retakes seems steep.

Is there a clean way to offramp from Runway onto a cheaper provider, retaining all the assets and workflow? Or is it baked into their software?

What's the best and cheapest way, and is there a cheaper alternative?

I’ve been comparing AI video generators lately and realized how difficult it is to answer a pretty basic question:

How much is this video actually going to cost me?

Different models price by seconds, credits, resolution, generations, etc., which makes comparing them unnecessarily painful.

So I built this:

https://instavideocost.com/

It’s meant to give you a quicker way to estimate AI video generation costs and compare options without digging through a bunch of pricing pages.

I’m still figuring out what would make it genuinely useful rather than just another calculator, so I’d love input from people who actually generate AI video.

What would you want to see added?

Model comparisons? Cost per finished minute? Failed-generation estimates? API vs subscription pricing? Something else entirely?

Happy to hear what I got wrong too.

Hey yall, I want to try story time content creation, the only problem being there is SO MUCH SOFTWARE that I can't decide what to choose. For context, I'm on PC and I want a art program that lets me do frames per second, barely any ads (if possible in today's standards I guess), and basic tools someone could use and pick up.

Any recommendatoins?

Thanks Reddit,

Sincerely from a flowery larper

Alibaba is already up to wan 3.0 and none of the previous models have gone open source.

Can any one help me?
I searched and try a lot of agents that generate ai video but all of them are lying💔
I need a good ai video generator for free or cheap subscription
Pleaaase help me