AI tools for directors & filmmakers
Updated 2026-10-11
Video generation
AI video and model platform offering Gen-4.5 for creative work, a developer API, and research into interactive GWM-1 world models.
- The official site positions Gen-4.5 around motion quality, prompt adherence and visual fidelity.
- Runway describes GWM-1 as a general world model for interacting with environments and developing simulation workflows.
- Runway Dev added WAN 3.0 on August 26, 2026, supporting up to 30 seconds of video with native audio from text or a start-frame image. [docs.dev.runwayml.com]
Google DeepMind's video generation model (currently Veo 3.1) that generates cinematic clips with native audio including dialogue, sound effects and ambience.
- Veo 3.1 generates audio natively, including sound effects, ambient noise and dialogue.
- Provides character consistency via reference images, camera movement controls (zoom, pan, dolly), scene extension, and output up to 1080p/4K.
- Available through the Gemini app, Google Flow, Google AI Studio and Google Vids.
Google Labs' AI filmmaking tool built for creatives and powered by the Veo video models, combining video and image generation. Regional availability is limited.
- Google describes Flow as a dedicated AI filmmaking tool that provides access to Veo 3.1. [deepmind.google]
Kuaishou's AI video generation platform. Kling 3.0 supports multimodal inputs, clips up to 15 seconds, and native audio across multiple languages.
- Kuaishou announced the Kling 3.0 series on February 5, 2026, describing video generation up to 15 seconds and native multilingual audio; the announcement attributes 2K and 4K output to the Image 3.0 models. [prnewswire.com]
- Kuaishou also announced Kling O1, described as a unified multimodal video model. [prnewswire.com]
Luma's AI creative workspace built around its Ray video models, combining image, video and audio generation on an infinite canvas, with storyboard development and image-to-video animation with camera motion.
- Runs Luma's own Ray3-series video models and Uni-1 image model, and also hosts third-party models such as Veo 3.1 and Kling.
AI creative platform for video, image and audio generation, with applications for motion transfer, video extension, image editing, speech and sound effects.
- The model catalogue includes Pika 2.5 alongside other video models; the product navigation also lists image and audio workflows.
- Video applications include motion transfer and video extension; image and audio applications include editing, speech and sound effects.
MiniMax’s creative platform with video, image and audio creation surfaces and cinematic presets such as CineScope.
- The official interface lists video, image and audio creation tools, with CineScope among its cinematic presets.
Video-generation model family and platform from Alibaba. Public Wan model documentation covers text-to-video and image-to-video generation.
- The official Wan2.2 repository documents text-to-video, image-to-video and hybrid text/image-to-video models. [github.com]
AI creative platform with image, video, audio, cinematic and visual-effects workflows, plus API and MCP entry points.
- The official site lists image, video and audio tools, with Cinema Studio, Effects and Ads Studio among its workspaces.
- Its product navigation provides API and MCP integration entry points.
AI video creation platform for advertising and performance teams, turning scripts or existing creatives into new videos and product, character or voice variations.
- The official site describes brief/script-to-video generation and product swaps within existing video creatives.
- It also describes replacing characters or voices and localizing existing videos with adjusted lip-sync.
AI video creation and editing suite with script writing, storyboarding, video generation, and a multitrack timeline editor for filmmaking and other video workflows.
- The official site describes script writing, shot-by-shot storyboarding, and a timeline editor that can be controlled with natural-language editing instructions.
- The platform offers video generation alongside image, voice, and music tools; model and feature access depends on the selected plan.
Pay-as-you-go creative workspace combining video, image and audio generation with tools such as character consistency, camera-angle changes, upscaling and background removal.
- The official navigation offers video, image and audio generation, plus consistency, camera-angle, upscale and background-removal tools.
- The pricing page states there is no subscription and users confirm the exact generation quote in the app. Example costs are not fixed prices for future generations.
Storyboarding & previs
Web-based AI filmmaking suite that turns scripts into scene breakdowns, storyboards and video sequences with persistent character profiles, camera direction controls and a timeline editor.
- Launched by Lightricks in February 2024 as an AI-powered filmmaking studio for visualizing stories from script to screen. [techcrunch.com]
- Includes an AI storyboard generator that breaks a pasted script into scenes and shot-by-shot visuals. [ltx.io]
Collaborative storyboarding platform for video and animation teams with AI image generation for frames, timed animatics with audio, and client review/approval workflows.
- Includes AI image generation that produces storyboard frame variants from scene descriptions.
- Converts boards into timed animatics with audio and tracks versions, comments and sign-offs.
A research framework for geometry-guided short-drama generation that turns a global plot and local context into grounded multi-shot video plans and outputs.
- DramaDirector decouples each shot into static visual and dynamic narrative conditions, retrieving depth-pose references from real short-drama shots to guide first-frame generation and image-to-video synthesis.
- The paper introduces DramaBoard, a benchmark built from 35 live-action dramas, 2.8K episodes, and 81K shots with structured storyboards and multidimensional evaluation protocols.
Script & pre-production
AI pre-production platform that automatically breaks down scripts (cast, props, locations, VFX, wardrobe), generates shooting schedules and budgets, and runs an AI Production Agent that flags production risks.
- Automatic AI script breakdown tags cast, props, locations, VFX and wardrobe, and generates stripboards, schedules and budget templates.
- Its AI Production Agent analyzes scripts to detect production risks and optimize shooting days.
AI writing partner for novelists and screenwriters with Story Bible for outlining-to-draft workflows, rewrite/expand/describe tools, and plugins including screenplay conversion.
- Story Bible guides writers from concept through outlining, chapter planning and draft generation in their own style.
Screenwriting and pre-production platform with industry-standard script editors, beat sheets, script analysis, scene breakdowns, shot lists, scheduling and budgeting, plus real-time co-writing.
- Provides multi-format script editors, story development tools including beat sheets, storyboards and script analysis, and scene-by-scene breakdowns.
Editing & post-production
Text-based video and podcast editor: editing the transcript edits the video. Includes the Underlord agentic AI co-editor, Studio Sound audio cleanup, filler-word removal and translation.
- Core workflow is text-based editing — modifying the transcript updates the video automatically.
- Underlord is an agentic AI co-editor that can write or revise scripts, apply layouts and transitions, and execute edit requests.
Industry-standard editor with Firefly-powered generative AI features: Generative Extend adds frames and room tone to clips in 4K, Media Intelligence enables semantic footage search, and captions auto-translate.
- Generative Extend, powered by Adobe Firefly, extends video clips in 4K (up to ~2 seconds of video and up to 10 seconds of audio) and marks clips with Content Credentials. [helpx.adobe.com]
- The April 2025 release added Generative Extend generally, Media Intelligence semantic search, and automatic caption translation. [news.adobe.com]
All-in-one edit, color, VFX and audio post-production suite whose DaVinci Neural Engine powers AI tools such as Magic Mask, Voice Isolation, facial recognition, smart reframing and IntelliSearch.
- DaVinci Resolve 21 includes Neural Engine AI tools: Magic Mask, Voice Isolation, facial recognition, smart reframing, IntelliSearch and CineFocus.
- A free version is available; DaVinci Resolve Studio ($295, one-time) adds the Neural Engine and advanced features.
Online and desktop video editor with free access and paid features, including AI captions, background removal, text-to-speech, noise reduction and video generation.
- Offers AI auto-subtitles in multiple languages, video/image background removal, text-to-speech and an AI video generator.
AI-assisted clipping tool that turns long videos into short vertical cuts, with moment detection, reframing, captions, and a visual editor for reviewing the final cut.
- The official site describes AI moment detection, editable vertical reframing, precision trimming, and automatic transcription with styled captions.
- The current free plan covers two long videos in total, not two per month. The site advertises a no-credit-card start and monthly paid plans.
Video and audio transcription workspace for footage research, interview review, and subtitle preparation, with editable timestamped transcripts and document or subtitle exports.
- Accepts supported public video links and uploaded media, and provides editable timestamped transcripts with TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, and DOCX export options. Private and local-network links are not accepted.
- The pricing page describes pay-as-you-go transcript credits without a required subscription; editing and exports do not consume extra credits.
Voice, dubbing & music
AI audio platform with text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects and music generation, plus speech-to-text and developer APIs.
- ElevenCreative covers speech, music, sound effects, voice cloning, dubbing and video-related creative workflows.
- Its speech-to-text offering supports speaker diarization and timestamps alongside APIs for speech and music.
Enterprise voice cloning and speech synthesis service used in film and TV production, with engineer-supervised custom voice cloning, a real-time TTS API and a marketplace of AI voices.
- Credits include recreating young Luke Skywalker's voice for The Mandalorian and accent enhancement for Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist.
- Also used in Emilia Pérez (singing enhancement) and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (preserving a deceased actor's voice).
AI music generation platform producing complete original songs (vocals, lyrics, full production) from text prompts, with stem separation, audio uploads and a web-based editing workstation.
- Generates complete original songs from a single text prompt across genres; commercial rights come with paid plans.
AI music composition assistant that generates original tracks in 250+ styles, supports MIDI/audio influence uploads and custom style models, with licensing tiers up to full copyright ownership.
- Generates music in more than 250 styles with editing and multi-format export, including MIDI workflows.
- AIVA states that its Pro plan provides copyright ownership of generated compositions. Commercial use remains subject to the current plan and licensing terms.
Concept art & look development
Image generation and editing service for concept art and look development. V8.2 is the documented default, with personalization and an Edit Model; reference features depend on the selected version.
- V8.2 became Midjourney's default version on July 24, 2026; the release includes the Edit Model, which replaces Omni Reference, Character Reference and Retexture workflows. [docs.midjourney.com]
- V7 was released April 3, 2025 and introduced Draft Mode and Omni Reference, per Midjourney's official version documentation.
AI creative suite for concept and look development: real-time image generation, video generation via integrated models, text-to-3D and image-to-3D object generation, upscaling, and LoRA fine-tuning for custom styles.
- Real-time rendering converts simple shapes into photorealistic images; supports LoRA fine-tuning on user data.
- Integrates third-party video models including Veo 3, Kling and Runway.
- Offers AI 3D generation workflows for text-to-3D objects and image-to-3D objects.
Historical entries
Historical entry — discontinued. OpenAI's Sora 2 was a video-and-audio generation model for clips from text or images, but the Sora 2 models and Videos API were shut down on September 24, 2026 and are no longer available; OpenAI says there is no one-to-one replacement API.
- OpenAI shut down the Sora 2 models and Videos API on September 24, 2026; the company says there is no one-to-one replacement API.
- Before shutdown, Sora 2 generated richly detailed video clips with synced audio from natural-language or image inputs, including portrait 720x1280 and landscape 1280x720 outputs.