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A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
User-friendly photo and video editing suite with AI features.
AI clipping tool that turns long videos into short vertical highlight clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, aimed at podcasters and marketers.
AI video editor that auto-captions, trims and repurposes raw footage into short-form clips for social platforms.
Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
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- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
- ✦Video editing
- ✦Photo editing
- ✦Media conversion
- ✦Screen recording
- ✦AI-powered tools (motion tracking, background removal, auto subtitles)
- ✦Extensive library of effects, transitions, titles, and overlays
- ✦Automatic highlight detection and clipping
- ✦Auto-reframe to vertical format
- ✦Text-based (transcript) video editing
- ✦Caption translation into 100+ languages
- ✦Brand templates and shareable links
- ✦Team workspace with member collaboration
- ✦Automatic viral-style captions in 48 languages
- ✦One-click AI auto-editing (cuts, trims, silence removal)
- ✦Magic Clips to extract shorts from long-form videos
- ✦AI actor/avatar video creation without filming
- ✦AI video translation and eye-contact correction
- ✦Scheduled publishing across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram
- ✦Public API for automating the editing workflow
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
- →Creating vlogs
- →Making travel videos
- →Saving family memories
- →Leveling up your vlog
- →Wowing your viewers
- →Earning more followers
- →Creating videos they’ll love
- →Commercial purposes in a business environment
- →Podcasters turning episodes into shorts
- →Marketers repurposing webinars into social content
- →Coaches building a personal brand from client calls
- →Agencies scaling clip production for multiple clients
- →Turning a podcast or long video into multiple short clips
- →Adding on-brand captions to social videos at scale
- →Publishing short-form content across platforms on a schedule
- →Creating videos with AI avatars instead of filming
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media