Video: AI-generated footage and editing
Text-to-video went from novelty to genuinely usable in under two years — here is who is building it.
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The big picture: AI video generation split into two real categories: cinematic text-to-video tools (Runway, Luma AI, Kling, Pika) competing on visual fidelity and physics realism, and avatar/presenter tools (Synthesia, HeyGen) built for corporate training and marketing video at scale. None of these produce true photorealistic long-form footage reliably yet — most output is still short clips (a few seconds to a couple minutes) requiring human editing to assemble into a finished piece.
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