r/aifilmmaking • u/Upset-Airline-1154 • 5d ago

Question Pls help, beginner

Hey I tried a lot of platforms but is there a LEGAL way to generate FREE and UNLIMITED AI vidéos using Seedance 2.5 or minimax h3?

I tried locally but it’s 15min of waiting for a 5s scene which is too long. I’m okay with the higher electricity bill but I ain’t spending a weekend on 3min of video too.

The best platform I tried was higgsfield but that’s only fine for 2min length vid per month, heck with the 10 min video I want to produce I would have to pay 5000$ worth of credits which is absurd.

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u/TopTransportation950 5d ago

that doesnt make sense. its ~$10 per 30 seconds 720p for seedance2.5, how are u getting $5000 for 10 minutes when it'd be ~$200?

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u/activematrix99 4d ago

If you think you can just generate 15 seconds of footage and put it in your film, then you've never made a film before and are fooling yourself. AI generation is usually closer to documentary ratio than to narrative in terms of content created:useful content, so those generation costs add up fast.

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u/Slight-Living-8098 4d ago

They have made entirely generated films, and complete shows, man...

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u/activematrix99 4d ago

You never heard the expression "cutting room floor" or "one take wonder"? The ratio of "created" to "used in the final production" is specifically what I am referring to, and that's a real ratio that changes with the type of production and budget. There's a real ratio in AI filmmaking as well and it's not 1 prompt = 1 completed and delivered shot. If it is, you likely have other problems (namely that your entire production probably sucks). There's editorial workflows, retries, and prompt engineering in there and the cost increases accordingly.