In the past year, I have tried over a hundred different AI video tools, and in this video, I will break down my top 10 favorite free AI video tools for you. Before we dive in, let's clarify what free means here. I am including different levels of free tools. Open-source models, free to download and run on your computer, but complex to set up and you will need a powerful machine to ensure they run smoothly. The next step is cloud options. You can run these open-source models in the cloud, but you will pay for cloud computing. Then there are free web applications that give you unlimited access with optional paid upgrades, and beyond that, there are services with free tiers. These provide you with a renewable daily amount of credits with optional upgrades for more intensive use, but the key with these is that you can keep turning to them. However, I do not include tools that only offer a free trial, so let's dive deeper. Now, if you are a fan of open-source models, then replicate.com is the place to be. There are many interesting models to replicate, and this is one of my favorites. It's called Live Portrait, and it allows you to take an image like the one on the left and animate it like the video on the right. It does this using a driving video, which is a video used to model the animation. As you can see, this was the driving video for this animation, taking this Asian man

Let me show you a couple of examples of this. Here's another one I created using the same driving video but with my own image, and here I am with a different driving video. Now it's extremely easy to use this model, and I will quickly show you the best way to do it. So, first of all, you need to delete the face image input file, and then you can go ahead and upload your own file. Now you can use any file you want. I will use another one of this character. Now I will show you that you can change the driving video, and in fact, there is a library of driving videos provided near the bottom. All you have to do is scroll down and watch example driving videos. Here you will be taken to a GitHub folder, and you can click on any of these to open them, and by clicking on the three dots at the top, you can download them. They offer some different versions, and of course, you can also use your own videos. But let me show you this version. We are looking at this guy, and he is pursing his lips. I will try it, and here are a couple of others. This is D8, a guy moving his mouth from side to side. All you have to do is go ahead and upload it. Now you can leave the rest of the settings as they are and click run; it usually takes about 20 seconds to run. You can run this in

Using GitHub and installing it on your own machine. However, you need at least 16 gigabytes of RAM to ensure it runs smoothly. So here is my method. You see, it came out in 30 seconds and now we have my animated character effectively. You can see it does an excellent job creating realistic facial expressions for your character. So, a use case for this could be recording yourself reading a script and then applying that real voice-over with the movements of your mouth in the video, then combining them with the audio, giving you perfect lip synchronization. But that's not all, there are other fantastic models available for different situations, and one of my favorites is Toon Crafter, which is a new AI animation model specifically designed for animating cartoons. Now, the quality of the animations that come out of this tool is absolutely amazing and undoubtedly the best by far if you are looking for an anime animation tool. You can certainly see that the quality of the animations that come out is on par with professional animation studios. Just take a look at this train moving across the screen and the splashing water. There is absolutely no way you would feel that this is out of place in a beautiful anime cinematic movie. A couple of tips for using this are that you simply need to upload two photos to the platform. You can delete the files here first and then upload two photos. Now, it animates from one shot to another, but what is particularly important is to keep

Maintain consistency with your characters across frames. So, I suggest using a more trimmed-down version of the first frame, and this way you will get the best results from Toon Crafter. I mean, it's an absolutely impressive tool and works particularly well with animation effects that are common in anime movies. It has probably been trained on the entire library of Studio Ghibli films, and the reason it works so well for animation is that it was generated using this very specific animation library and uses a special learning method to focus solely on creating anime videos. So, you can just go for it. I have been using Mid Journey to generate my animations, and what I suggest you do is trim them a bit more. It doesn't even need to be a spectacular cut, just something that provides a bit of difference between these shots. Now you can go back to the replicated model, continue, and upload both images. You can decide if you want to zoom in or out, and when you're ready, all you have to do is hit play. It takes about 30 seconds to animate between two frames, but you have the option to add up to 10 frames, which will create much longer videos and also allow you to animate between different scenes. So, here is our shot, you can see it rendered very quickly, and we have lovely movement in the clothing as well as in the hair, and you can see that the character remains consistent. This is a natural and beautiful animation

I mean, this was generated in just 13 seconds, and the fact that it is free and open source is absolutely amazing. Here you can explore a large number of different AI generation models for different situations and find exactly the tool you will be looking for; for example, you may want to search for a video coloring tool. You can see here that they are taking this old black and white video of Charlie Chaplin dancing and adding colors to it. Next is Crea, which is an AI video generator that allows you to create your own videos with AI for free and works especially well in various creative circumstances. If you are looking for a transformative dreamlike situation, you can create some industry-leading effects, and here is a project I worked on that involves taking a character from their youth to old age. You can quickly display this very advanced visual effect of a character transitioning through time. This can work very well if you have a narrative where suddenly you advance a few years. You can create this visually appealing effect of someone aging rapidly, but it also works well for fascinating changes between scenes where you can keep your character consistent but make them switch between different scenarios. What I love about Crea is that it gives you the ability to define the exact keyframes from which you want to make the transition, giving us a lot of control over how we want our videos to look and function. You can create the keyframes with its

AI art generation model within Crea, but what makes it very remarkable is that it updates the image as you write the message so you can start by writing beautiful woman and then you can say with blonde hair and you. We can see in just one second that it gives us this. So you could say cinematic or even full-body dance. So you can continue iterating your message and developing your image very quickly and there seems to be no limitation on the amount of images you can generate this way while using the free version of Crea. So, not only do you get a limited amount of AI videos you can generate, but you also get an unlimited amount of AI images. Then, you can simply define it to set your keyframes and continue to generate the video and in a couple of minutes, you will get your AI video. The next step is the video AI, which allows you to take an idea, put it into a message, and generate a complete video. It will generate a script, the voice-over, the music, the editing, and the footage, and best of all, you get a number of free videos to generate each week. I reached out to NVIDIA to see if they were interested in sponsoring this video and they kindly thanked me for it. So, thanks to NVIDIA for the support on this video. So let me show you how it works. All you have to do is go to NVIDIA AI and enter a detailed message. I'm going to create a one-minute

Now you also have the option to select a full workflow complement that allows you to create a message. You can choose the duration of the complete message and any specific quote or fact you want to include. Choose the type of music you want, select the language and the voice. I will use a British male voice, nothing quite like a pleasant British voice. Hello, this is a British magazine about samurais. You can select the subtitles effect and with the premium version, you can choose the watermark text. Now, with the premium version, you can use stock directly from iStock, while with the free version, you can only use open-source copyright-free stock. And you can select which of these you would like to use in the fourth section. You can also use premium audio stock. Once you are done, click Continue, and all your information will be displayed in a detailed message. Finally, you can proceed and generate. Now let's see how it turned out. What secrets did the ancient samurais keep? Today we unveil the mystique of Japan's elite warriors. interesting features, including the ability to clone your own voice. Now, to use this, all you have to do is create a 30-second recording of your voice. Make sure to mention in the recording that I give permission to NVIDIA AI to use my voice in this workspace. This means that only you can use the voice, it's not that NVIDIA will take your voice and share it worldwide.

Make sure to pause between sentences as you would normally and use a high-quality recording device to get better results. But this can be easily done just by recording it on your phone. Make sure to have your phone close to your mouth, not speaking too loudly, and it works best if you angle your voice away from the microphone to avoid blowing air towards it and distorting the audio. So hold your phone in a similar position, about a fist's distance from your face, and make sure to include the sentence I give permission to NVIDIA AI to use my voice in this workspace. You can also play around with any interesting vocal inflections you have at your disposal in your vocal range. Once this is done, you can simply send it to your computer and drag and drop it in the box. You select This is your voice and continue by saying My sample looks good. Now, for the best results, it makes sense to use a professional recording setup like the one I have here, but I want to show you exactly what your powers are even with a limited microphone setup. Now, once it's loaded, you can go ahead and use it. You can simply add this command, Use my voice, a user's voice in the message bar, and it will generate the video with your voice clone. What secrets did the ancient samurais keep? Today we unveil the mystique of Japan's elite warriors. Now you also have the possibility to generate these videos in

In my own voice. Now I can speak all the languages under the sun, as you can see in this example of me speaking good Spanish. Very well. What secrets do the ancient samurais keep? Today we unveil the mystique of Japan's elite warriors. Now, for the free version, you get 10 minutes a week of AI generation, but you can upgrade to a plus version for $25 a month and get 50 minutes and access to premium stock that really takes your work to the next level, as well as the ability to clone your voice. Next, we have Pixverse AI, which is a video generation tool and one of the best on the market, and it's great because every day it gives you a free amount of credits to generate your own AI videos, so you can make five each day. It also has a very reasonable upgrade plan, and for just five dollars a month, you can get the premium version. Now let's take a look at some of the beautiful videos coming out of Pixverse. I especially recommend working with images you have generated in AI art generators and using them as a base for your animations. The great thing about Pixverse is that it has a new magic brush tool that allows you to select parts of the image and define the exact movement you want for this composition. So, you could define that you want a limb to move like in this Harry Potter example where you can go wingardium leviosa and you can

See these ships moving across the screen and then the magic brush covers it. Now you can also use this to adjust the facial features of the individual. Here we have this old man smiling and simply to use the Pixverse Brush tool, you access the image to video section, upload an image, then you can proceed and select the Magic Brush tool and you can continue and draw the areas you want to animate. So we can take this lip and then make it go up, then we will select another brush, a second brush, draw the direction we would like it to go, and select the second lip and make it go down so we have the mouth opening. Now we can also select the eyebrows with a third brush and draw them going up to get a slightly surprised expression. There is also an automatic selection function that automatically outlines your image in sensitive sections so we can simply go ahead and select the sky here with our fourth brush and we can give it some movement in the background for the sky. As you can see here, the sky is automatically identified so we can animate it while keeping the background stable. Once you are satisfied, you can proceed and click confirm and press create, and this is how this video came out. Now, what I love about Pixverse is that it also has a scale enhancement tool available within the service that allows you to enhance your videos up to 4k in definition, which is absolutely huge. Next, I would like to introduce you.

PikaArt and this is great because every day you get 30 free credits to create AI videos and it has a very specific tool that I am a big fan of, which is the lip sync function. So you can take your text, your audio, your dialogue, and allow your characters to say what you are designing. So this is very important if you are really looking for something for free with Pika. The OPA clip is an intelligent video tool with AI that can take your long-format content, automatically select the most interesting clips, and edit them. Then it will add subtitles and give you a suggested title. This is an incredibly smart tool that is a short-format video editor. Here is an example of a video it created for me from one of my recent long videos. Imagine taking your AI art and turning it into full animations in seconds. We introduce you to ToonCrafter, a new free open-source AI animation tool. So, the fantastic thing about this tool is that it speeds up the process of reusing your content and you also have the option to create and download a Premiere file to edit it in your favorite editing software or you can edit it in their online application. Now, a tool that particularly interests me is the additional material generated by AI and, unfortunately, this does not come with the free offer, but if you upgrade, you can get excellent additional material generated by AI for your videos. So, with the free plan, you get 60

You only pay $9.5 per month with your current offer, you get access to 3600 minutes of processing per year, as well as AI archive material. There is also the option to schedule them directly from the application. The next step is an unexpected way to use GPT chat for video. I often change locations and need to create professional filming locations in hotel rooms and Airbnbs. So, I use GPT chat to optimize my studio setup for video production, and here's an example. It helped me go from this to this. We did this by gradually improving my setup, taking a picture of it, sending it to GPT chat, and asking for suggestions to make my filming setup more professional. It then suggested incremental changes like adjusting the free space, balancing the symmetry of the background, and adjusting the warmth and brightness of the lighting. As you can see, it definitely had a great impact on the professionalism of my studio. Now, GPT chat can also guide you through similar tasks by offering a new pair of virtual eyes so you can send any still image from your videos to get instant objective feedback. Next is Filmora, which is a powerful AI editing software, and the best part is that it also has a very generous free option that is more than enough to start and meet all your project editing needs. So, if you are just starting out and don't need to edit hundreds of videos, you can do all this for free on Filmora and then

Once you have some traction and are ready to devote more time to this, you can upgrade it for a very reasonable cost. Their lowest entry level is only $50 per year, which compares very favorably to Adobe Premiere, which costs about six or seven times more. Now, I want to show you some very interesting AI features they have included in Filmora. There is the AI Co-Pilot editing that allows you to interact intelligently with an AI robot that can then edit your video on your behalf. So, in this example, you send a short chat message to your AI robot and ask it to help you enhance the video, and it automatically applies this color grading to your footage. Now, a feature that I love is the text-based AI editing, where you get a long transcription of the video, and as you delete words from the transcription, it automatically updates the editing of your footage. The good thing about this is that it can automatically identify long pauses, and you can quickly remove those parts where you don't speak as fluently as you would like. Therefore, it performs one of the most boring and repetitive tasks of editing and speeds up the whole process. They also have an AI thumbnail creator that allows you to take a screenshot of your footage and automatically add some quite advanced text effects that extrapolate layers of your image and allow you to place text between the background or foreground. Like you could put a text snippet here. And there is even an AI music generator.

Within Filmora, there is a feature that allows you to generate your own unique background music for your project. Now it includes a large number of other excellent artificial intelligence tools to help speed up the editing process. Everything from enhancing the quality of your audio to intelligent masking so you can cut yourself out in case you want to do some green screen work with your subject. Today's quote comes from Charles Darwin and says that it is not the strongest or the most intelligent that will survive, but those who can best manage change. And I believe that in the AI revolution, this is more true than ever. Those who adapt and change their ways of thinking and using tools will be the ones to emerge most successfully. So, if you want to stay updated on the latest wave of AI news and developments, why not subscribe and join me on this AI adventure? What do you think of these free video tools with AI? Let me know which one is your favorite in the comments below and thank you very much for watching. Thank you for being here, and above all, I wish you a lovely day.

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