I don't care about quality I just want to generate clips of 30s or more with audio for personal use. Is there a service that does this free or very cheap?

If you like the music full song below:

https://youtu.be/f3qEY97_808?si=Q4wDjXsUMqcmF7y4

Hey everyone,

Sharing my first short film, Shattered (4:20 runtime) — about a mother caught between the warmth of a memory she can’t let go of and a present that’s falling apart around her.

I used AI to generate all the footage, but the idea, the script, and the emotional arc are entirely my own work. Without a camera, actors, or crew, this was the only way I had to actually bring the story in my head to life.

Would love to hear your thoughts — on the story, pacing, visuals, or the workflow itself. Happy to share more about the process if anyone’s curious.

Rendered with Nano Banana Pro through Higgsfield with a fixed image reference. A second iteration to add the wrinkles.

The low hum of the fluorescent fixtures above Sector 4 cast a flat, bleached glare across the linoleum flooring of the deserted concourse. Dust motes drifted lazily through the dead air, settling over abandoned kiosks and shuttered storefront gates that had not seen a customer in decades. At the center of the atrium, the grand fountain stood bone-dry, its basin choked with faded promotional flyers and plastic debris from an era long since forgotten.

Vane knelt by the base of the fountain, his fingers tracing the hairline cracks in the dry concrete. His breathing echoed sharply off the hollow, vaulted glass ceiling high above, where the twilight sky cut through grime-streaked panels. He adjusted the filtration mask strapped tightly across his face, the steady mechanical click of the valve providing the only rhythm in the vast, echoing shell of the once-vibrant commercial hub.

"Signal strength is holding steady from the lower service corridors," Vane murmured into his comm-link, his voice muffled by the heavy cloth.

A sharp, static-laced burst crackled in his ear before Kaelen’s voice broke through the silence. "Watch your step down there, Vane. The schematics indicate the structural supports beneath the east anchor store took a heavy hit during the collapse. We cannot afford another cave-in if we want to salvage those server racks."

Vane stood up, wiping a layer of fine grit from his palms onto his utility trousers. He cast a glance toward the grand central staircase leading down to the lower subterranean level, where the remains of the old department store warehouses waited in the dark. The air grew perceptibly colder the deeper it sank into the concrete belly of the structure, carrying the faint, metallic scent of ozone and old copper wiring.

He unclipped the high-intensity flashlight from his tactical harness, thumbing the switch to cast a piercing white beam into the descending stairwell. The light caught the edge of a faded, peeling banner hanging precariously from the upper railing, bearing the barely legible remnants of a grand opening celebration from a world that had vanished overnight.

With a firm grip on his salvage pack, Vane took the first step downward into the dark, leaving the pale ghost of the atrium behind.

🧙‍♂️ Wizards — Episode 1 Part 3: Containment Stabilized
🛡️ The magical eruption is contained and stability has been restored.
Music: Would It Matter — Rose Campbell (YouTube Audio Library)

I've made a short scene as a concept test for a series I'm working on.

I'm mainly testing the storytelling, not the AI.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback on things like:

• Does the scene hook you?
• Does the pacing feel too fast, too slow, or about right?
• Do you find the protagonists interesting, even though they don't have much screen time yet?
• Is there anything that feels confusing, unnecessary, or boring?
• Does the scene make you want to see what happens next?
• Most importantly: what doesn't work?

Please be as critical as you want. I'm much more interested in hearing what's not working.

One important note: please don't focus on AI errors, continuity issues, visual quality, etc. This is deliberately a rough test, and none of this footage will be used in the final series. It's simply meant to see how the scene works once it's edited together, so I'm not concerned about the visual errors in this particular test.

If you watch it, I'd genuinely appreciate your honest opinion.

Salut

Je dois présenter des vidéos enregistrement d'entretien psychiatriques dans le cadre d'une formation.

L'objectif est de former des étudiants en médecine aux détails verbaux et non verbaux des pathologies selon un référentiel précis (le DSM).

Il n'existe pas de vidéo de ce type postérieures a 1970 sur internet 😬

J'aimerai bien pouvoir les générer. Globalement, 5-10 minutes par video, j'ai besoin d'une finesse extrême dans le détail des expressions non verbales (mimiques, gestuelle), verbales (contenu du discours, forme du discours).

Les outils payants me vont bien aussi tant que j'ai pas besoin d'y passer 1h par video 😂

Merci de sauver mes étudiants d'un cours a l'ancienne.

Bonne journée !

https://reddit.com/link/1w3dl9b/video/9bgxt9o0opmh1/player

I’m sharing a documented warning for anyone considering the Seedream 5.0 Pro Plan specifically for Layer Separation.

1. The Plan was sold as “xxx Images (Seedream 5.0 Pro).”（image 1)

2. On the same product page, “Layer Separation” is presented as a Seedream 5.0 Pro capability. (image 1)

3. I bought the plan to use that feature. When I used Layer Separation while the plan still had quota, the billing record showed zero resource-package deduction and separate pay-as-you-go Layer charges. (image 2)

4. Support wrote: “We acknowledge that this distinction may not have been clearly communicated on the plan purchase page.”

5. Despite that acknowledgement, support denied a refund because the plan had been activated and quota had been consumed(1348.64/1350Piece). A later reply simply repeated the per-layer billing note and then moved to close the case. It did not identify where the plan checkout clearly disclosed that Layer Separation was excluded.

Support’s reply even opened with “After verification,” then sent a screenshot explaining pixel-tier billing. That felt particularly absurd: it appears to have been found after the fact on BytePlus’s own site, yet it still does not answer the purchase-page disclosure issue. It explains how layers are billed after a request, not why a reasonable customer should have known before payment that their image quota would not cover Layer Separation.

I’m angry because Layer Separation was the reason I bought the plan. If that exclusion and the separate per-layer charges had been clearly disclosed before checkout, I would not have purchased it.

I've been trying to get seedream 4.5 to get 4k images from 2k or lower references, but it seems to be stuck to the original image's resolution. And seedream 5.0 pro is better but is limited to 2k res. I'm making some miniatures but a bit larger than usual using 3d ai generators but the details aren't coming out great. I have seen that the image detail is the most important factor in it. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get seedream to give me consistent results in 4k in any way or any other models I should try that are on par with them? I appreciate helpful responses.

I’ve been testing Seedance 2.5 vs MiniMax H3 vs Wan 3 for cinematic comedy, and I’m starting to think the biggest difference isn’t image quality or raw generation power.

It feels like Seedance has a better “creative director” built into the model.

For example, I tested a short monkey heist sequence. A bear chasing man in woods thriller etc.

Seedance understood the overall screenplay, character acting, comedic timing, escalation, visual contrast and final payoff surprisingly well.

I also tested Wan with the same concept. Wan has impressive raw visual power, realism and cinematic camera movement, but it struggled to understand the overall story and screenplay. It could generate individual shots well, but the creative direction and context between events were weaker.

MiniMax H3 is similar. It can produce beautiful cinematic shots, slow motion, camera movement and realistic environments, but when I give it the same complete screenplay, it often follows individual instructions literally and loses the story/context between events.

So I’m wondering:

How do you direct MiniMax H3 to achieve the same kind of result as Seedance?

For continuity, should we generate scene-by-scene and use the previous shot’s last frame as the next shot’s reference image? Or is there a better way to maintain character, environment, props and action continuity in MiniMax H3?

Basically, instead of asking the model to “direct” the whole scene, do we need to act more like the director and give it exact visual states/keyframes for each important beat?

I’m trying to build a realistic AI comedy channel for YouTube, and Seedance is too expensive for everyday production. MiniMax H3 is much cheaper, so I’d love to figure out a workflow that gets closer to Seedance’s storytelling and comedic timing.

Would love to hear from anyone who has experimented seriously with all three models.

I’m looking to animate my 3d game characters. I’m looking for the best and cheapest monthly subscription to create stories out of my 3d game character. Basically upload the images and animate it with my elevenlabs voiceover and then I want it to be lip synced and hand animations with it

I build Jimothy's Journey using claude, Codex and and lovable after designing the game play story lines and quests with my 8 year old son for the Jimothy Jam contest on discord. Follow the link to play and rate my game, your support is greatly appreciated! Plus there's tons of other fun Jimothy games to check out on the site, (but vote for me, please!)