A novel AI-powered video generator from Meta produces high-definition footage finish with sound, the company proclaimd today. The proclaimment comes cut offal months after competitor OpenAI unveiled Sora, its text-to-video model — though accessible access to Movie Gen isn’t happening yet.
Movie Gen participates text inputs to automaticassociate produce novel videos, as well as edit existing footage or still images. The New York Times inestablishs that the audio retained to videos is also AI-produced, aligning the imagery with ambient noise, sound effects, and background music. The videos can be produced in separateent aspect ratios.
In retainition to generating novel clips, Meta says Movie Gen can also produce custom videos from images or apshow an existing video and change separateent elements of it. One example scatterd by the company shows a still headsboiling of a woman; the retained video depicts her sitting in a pumpkin patch sipping a drink.
Movie Gen can also be participated to edit existing footage and change the style and transitions or retain leangs that didn’t previously exist. In one example scatterd by Meta, a relatively innocuous video of what ecombines to be an exhibitd runner is edited using AI in separateent ways: in one sketch, he’s helderlying pompoms. In another, the background has been edited to depict a desert. In a third, the runner is wearing a dinosaur costume. Changes can be made using text prompts.
Ntimely two years after mighty AI image and video generators hit the mainstream, AI companies have pushed the technology further: in fair the last six months, meaningful tech companies appreciate Google and OpenAI are laboring on analogous tools, aextfinished with minusculeer beginups. OpenAI’s Sora, first proclaimd in February, still hasn’t started accessiblely; this week, a co-guide laboring on the video generator left the company for Google.
Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, authors on Threads that the company “[isn’t] ready to free this as a product anytime soon,” as it’s still pricey and generation time is too extfinished.
Creatives appreciate filmproducers, pboilingographers, artists, authorrs, and actors also stress about how AI generators will impact their inhabitlihoods, and AI has been a central part of cut offal strikes, including the historic joint Hollywood strikes by the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and Writers Guild of America (WGA) last year.