Top Beginner’s Guide to AI Video
from Kling to Sora to Gen-4 to Veo and more. The Text & Image to Video Breakthroughs of 2025 📺
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Today we continue our AI learning guides series. This is our first complete guide to text to video and image to video with a full spectrum of tips, resources and rankings of the top players.
Just like we anticipated, 2025 is shaping up to be a significant year for text-to-video innovation in LLMs. While Google’s latest Veo 2 costs a shocking 50 cents per second of video, which adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour, there are more consumer friendly options. Many new options are emerging in 2025 and we’ll go over all of the best ones.
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of Why Try AI Newsletter to break it down for us. Today’s guide on text-to-video options is one of the biggest guides on visual AI we’ve ever hosted.‘Why Try AI’ Newsletter | By Daniel Nest
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One of the best funded AI startups in the space, AI startup Runway recently announced its Gen-4. Some of the claims of Runway here are super interesting:
Runway claims that it can generate consistent characters, locations, and objects across scenes, maintain “coherent world environments,” and regenerate elements from different perspectives and positions within scenes.
Gen-4 can utilize visual references, combined with instructions, to create new images and videos utilizing consistent styles, subjects, locations, and more, all without the need for fine-tuning or additional training.
What this demonstrates is text-to-video in the 2020s will likely evolve to ending up producing incredible movies, cinema, YouTube content and new kinds of mixed media in the 2030s. If synthetic video is your thing. This is not a sponsor or affiliate, just breaking news and Gen-4 is far from being fully rolled out yet.
Runway AI is backed by the likes of Salesforce, Google, and Nvidia, offers a suite of AI video tools, including video-generating models like Gen-4. So what are we talking about here?
Demos on X
I can certainly appreciate the realism of what AI video is becoming: (People are chaining Midjourney + Magnific + Runway Gen-4 together:)
The facial expressions here are fairly sophisticated:
Or how about combining Suno (music generation) into the mix as well:
As this guide will show, OpenAI’s Sora is clearly not the only game in town. Daniel says of Runway Gen-4 that as of early April it’s just rolling out now, the "consistency" feature isn't live, and it's currently just image-to-video, no text-to-video.
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