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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.
Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
All-in-one AI video clipping and repurposing tool that turns long videos into captioned, reframed shorts for social platforms.
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- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
- ✦Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
- ✦First and last frame transition control
- ✦Anime art-to-video animation
- ✦Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
- ✦AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Image-to-video generation
- ✦Text-to-image and image editing
- ✦Open-source model releases for developers
- ✦Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦Auto-clips long videos into short highlight reels
- ✦Searches video/transcript content to jump to specific moments
- ✦Summarizes videos into an outline with timestamps
- ✦Generates speaker-labeled transcripts
- ✦Creates animated multilingual captions
- ✦Reframes video into 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9 automatically
- ✦Offers an API for programmatic video processing
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
- →Anime creators animating static art
- →Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
- →Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
- →Content creators generating short AI video clips
- →Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
- →Marketers producing quick visual content
- →Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →Repurposing podcasts or streams into short-form social clips
- →Creating subtitles for multi-language audiences
- →Quickly finding and reviewing key moments in long recordings
- →Batch-processing video content via API for content pipelines
- →Building highlight reels for gaming or event footage