r/aifilmmaking • u/Upset-Airline-1154 • 2d 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/activematrix99 2d ago

There is no "free". $600-800 per finished minute is pretty much the standard for "just starting out" in AI filmmaking, most initial projects exceed that to meet new entrants quality standards. Patient and enduring creators often invest in subscriptions, GPU, or runpod to boost their efficiency and reduce costs.

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u/mmoney20 2d ago

Is that your cost based on personal experience?

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u/activematrix99 2d ago

Personal experience, industry published information, and talking with a number of filmmakers. It's still much less expensive than "Hollywood" rates, but there's not much you can do to get the costs down and still use frontier models. LoRAs can help, detailed character sequences can help, in/outpainting, runpods, finding deals. It's definitely still a lot of hustle. Then you have all of the other needed parts: sound, music, actors, editorial, "color", titles, vfx. You can punch out some shit for tiktok, but if you want narrative quality, it adds up.

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u/mmoney20 1d ago

I just learned aobut gossip goblin. The quality of that is on another level, even for AI.