Help with Free AI video

[SH73]

Greetings everyone, I would like to create a shirt 1.5 mins music videos song is done. I'm looking for a free AI app where I can upload photos that then converts it onto a video. Any suggestions please, something that works and is decent (ISH)? Thank you

[binky_bass]

I don't think there are any... most 'free' ones are limited to 6-10 seconds due to how ridiculously compute intensive it is to create an AI video from images. I'd also raise the question (my personal opinion) of the point of doing so? Why have your original music that YOU created superceded in people's memory by a video AI created? Don't diminish your work by tarnishing it with AI. 

[SH73]

Hello binky_bass,

Time constraints, simple..it's a short video I need to create from photos , and add my written  sing to it.

[Woodinblack]

You can get a service where you would only pay a few quid for a video, but it would take probably a few iterations to get it how you want, so it might be better getting a subscription.

This is assumign you wanted to animate the  photos and make an AI video, unless you just meant one of those videos where you just have the pictures fading into each other that any photo service should be able to do free

 

[Wombat]

I looked into this recently and I couldn’t find anything ‘free’. Any with a free trial still needed a credit card number and I’m too sceptical to do that.

I ended up using copilot to make some images (typed in the lyrics and went through a lot of questions as to ‘what I wanted it to look like’) and used a vid edit program to stitch them together… Happy with the results, especially as none of the people involved had time to be in it 😂.

 

 

[Woodinblack]

48 minutes ago, Wombat said:

I ended up using copilot to make some images (typed in the lyrics and went through a lot of questions as to ‘what I wanted it to look like’) and used a vid edit program to stitch them together… Happy with the results, especially as none of the people involved had time to be in it 😂.

 

ok, thats why I asked the question of whether people meant AI or just standard video effects - your one there, any normal video editor can do that quite simply, but if someone asks for AI I assume they mean a generative AI video, where you have virtual people doing things etc, like the hyper realistic videos of people who aren't real.

[Wombat]

Yes, if you want ‘that’ as far as I can see you have to pay. ChatGPT was asking for a subscription of £30 a month and I couldn’t find any way to ’test’ how good it might be. It took three days to get the images out of copilot. It mostly produced ’even crapper and very unrelated images’ apologising profusely, then told me I’d run out of credits and had to wait 24 hrs to do more!

I’d be very interested if there is tool that can do what you say for a reasonable cost. As far as my (modest) research took me you have to be Disney to do hyper realistic vids of people who aren’t real…

When we released the last album, using Distrokid, they did a few promotional vids as part of the ‘service’ but they were basically actual video (one had Wednesday Adam’s in it) cut & changed to work to the bpm of the track. No ‘people who aren’t real’ involved.

[binky_bass]

As I say, AI video creation uses huge amount of compute and therefore energy. 

 

To put it in perspective, to create a 2 minute video using generative AI, with only a number of photos being used as a prompt, uses approximately 200kWh of energy. The average UK household uses 7.4kWh of energy per day, so to do what you want would take the equivalent of nearly a month's worth of energy consumption for the average household. 

 

200kWh will also do my Ford Capri 3 full charges, that'd power me for over 900 miles. 

 

So, what you are asking is hugely energy intensive and will never be free.

 

People really don't realise how incredibly energy intensive and damaging the use of AI is, many just assume its this new magic thing with no downside. The carbon emissions produced in just the exercise you're wanting to do is huge. 

 

 

[Dad3353]

1 minute ago, binky_bass said:

As I say, AI video creation uses huge amount of compute and therefore energy. 

 

To put it in perspective, to create a 2 minute video using generative AI, with only a number of photos being used as a prompt, uses approximately 200kWh of energy. The average UK household uses 7.4kWh of energy per day, so to do what you want would take the equivalent of nearly a month's worth of energy consumption for the average household. 

 

200kWh will also do my Ford Capri 3 full charges, that'd power me for over 900 miles. 

 

So, what you are asking is hugely energy intensive and will never be free.

 

People really don't realise how incredibly energy intensive and damaging the use of AI is, many just assume its this new magic thing with no downside. The carbon emissions produced in just the exercise you're wanting to do is huge. 

 

Can we see the sources of the figures given..? That's an awful lot of energy (approximately...). Please..? 

[binky_bass]

@Dad3353 - Some stats from... AI...

 

Creating a 2-minute realistic video using AI with photos as a guide requires significant energy, but exact figures are hard to pinpoint. However, here's a rough estimate:

- A 5-second AI video generation consumes around 2.9 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy, equivalent to running a microwave for over an hour.

- For a 2-minute video, energy consumption would be substantially higher, likely in the range of 100-200 kWh, considering the complexity and processing power required.

- To put this into perspective, training a large language model like GPT-3 uses around 1,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity, equivalent to the annual power consumption of 130 homes in the US ¹ ².

 

The energy consumption varies greatly depending on factors like:

- *Model Complexity*: More advanced models like Google's Veo 2 or OpenAI's Sora require more energy.

- *Video Resolution*: Higher resolutions (e.g., 4K) demand more processing power.

 

The average UK household uses around 2,700 kWh of electricity per year. To break it down to a weekly estimate:

 

- Average weekly energy consumption: 2,700 kWh/year ÷ 52 weeks/year ≈ 52 kWh/week

- Average daily energy consumption: 2,700 kWh/year ÷ 365 days/year ≈ 7.4 kWh/day

 

Keep in mind that energy usage varies greatly depending on factors like:

- House size and insulation

- Number of occupants

- Appliance efficiency

- Heating and cooling systems

- Lifestyle and habits

 

For a more accurate estimate, consider tracking your own energy usage or checking your energy bills.

[Burns-bass]

You can use Fiverr (an online marketplace). I’ve used it for some cheap branded animations for a charity and it was fine. The prices are low, but many of the people there are fantastically well qualified. Use reviews as a guide and offer a generous tip if they do good work. You’ll likely be surprised at what you can get for your cash!