Best AI Filmmaking Tools (2024)

AI has a big impact on how to create films, and many tools have emerged. Here's a list of the best AI tools for filmmaking, including idea generation, screenwriting, music, image, and video generation.

AI Image Generation

Midjourney

is one of the first AI Image Generation for generating very realistic images and is being developed by an independent research lab.

An interesting feature of Midjourney is that it allows to zoom in, zoom out, or pan on the generated image which could be useful to simulate camera movements.

Midjourney used to be available from Discord but it seems they now offer a web app (alpha).

Stable Diffusion

from Stability AI is an AI Model that generates images from text prompts. The most advanced model is Stable Diffusion XL which can generate a broad range of images.

DALL-E

is the image generation tool from OpenAI. While

DALL-E 2

is available as a standalone tool,

DALL-E 3

is only available via ChatGPT.

Leonardo AI

is another AI image Generation

AI Video Generation

Sora

from OpenAI is a text-to-video AI model. It can generate very realistic videos up to a minute-long starting from a text prompt.

Sora was revealed in February 2024 but is not yet publicly available.

However, the first videos generated by Sora are impressive, and almost indistinguishable from real-life footage.

Runway

is a controllable video generation model that can generate highly realistic videos from text prompts.

Runway Gen-3 Alpha was released in June 2024. It is publicly available and requires a paying plan (144 USD / year / user)

Runway Gen-2 gives less impressive results but is available on free plans.

Runway also a very complete set of tools beyond text-to-video such as generative audio, lip sync, frame interpolation, ...

Stable Video Diffusion

is an image-to-video model that can generate 2 to 5 second videos.

Luma

Luma Dream Machine

allows you to generate video from a text or an image.

VideoFX / Veo

Veo

is a text-to-video model created by Google Deep Mind.

Pika

is an AI video generation platform that allows you to generate and edit videos from a text prompt, from an image, or another video.

Combined with the other

AI Image Generation tools

mentioned before, Pika can help you animate still images you generated.

Kling

Kling Video Model

is a Video generation AI model developed by the Kuaishou AI Team. It can do text-to-video, image-to-video and video extension.

AnimateDiff

is an open source (Apache license) model to generate animation from images for Stable Diffusion.

HaiperAI

is a AI video generator that can generate videos in a range of styles from realistic to animations.

HaiperAI allows your to create videos from a text prompt, animate images, repaint videos or extend them.

Kaiber

can generate images and videos from a text prompt.

On of the interesting feature of Kaiber is the ability to pick one of their curated artistic styles.

This works well for an artistic feel, but won't create very realistic videos.

Voice Generation & Sound Effects

ElevenLabs

is one of the most advanced Text-to-speech and AI Voice generators, that allows you to generate AI voices from text. One of the most interesting features is you can clone any voice and have control over it.

Here's for example a voice you'll probably recognize from the movie Her:

ElevenLabs also allows you to generate sound effects:

AI Music Generation

Suno

is a very impressive tool to generate music from a text prompt. Suno generates a wide range of music style and most are really listenable. You can also have complete control over the lyrics, or generate instrumentals.

Here's an example of a music generated with Suno 3.5 and the following prompt "

Epic music film about space exploration

" :

Udio

is another AI music generator similar to Suno.

The great thing about Sudio is you can extend, remix or inpaint sounds.

Here a jazz music I got with the prompt A detective story solving the mystery of missing socks, film noir jazz which would make a perfect soundtrack for a Film noir.

Aiva

is another AI Music generation tool. However it does not currently offer text-to-music generation, but you can pick from a style and have control over the composition (duration, specific key, ...)

Here's an example generated from a Solo Piano in C Minor :