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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.
Cloud video enhancer that upscales blurry footage to 1080p using AI models tuned by content type.
AI video-to-VFX suite for relighting, rotoscoping, background removal and PBR passes, with a node-based compositor.
Credit-based AI video upscaler that sharpens footage to 4K while preserving natural motion, aimed at creators cleaning up low-res clips.
AI tool that removes and replaces video backgrounds without a green screen, exporting transparent or edited clips.
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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
- ✦AI-based video upscaling to 1080p
- ✦Content-type-specific enhancement models (ads, vlogs, gaming, CCTV, anime, etc.)
- ✦Cloud processing with no software installation
- ✦Fast turnaround, typically under 10 minutes
- ✦Support for major video formats up to 2GB
- ✦Free sample before paid full-video processing
- ✦Node-based AI compositor (Canvas)
- ✦Video-to-VFX transformation (SwitchX)
- ✦AI rotoscoping and background removal
- ✦PBR pass generation from footage
- ✦Real-time 3D relighting editor
- ✦Export/plugin support for DCC tools
- ✦Upscales video resolution up to 4K
- ✦Reduces blur, noise, and compression artifacts
- ✦Preserves natural motion instead of over-processing frames
- ✦Offers dedicated modes for anime, restoration, and gaming footage
- ✦Supports 60fps smooth-motion output
- ✦Credit-based usage tied to output resolution and duration
- ✦AI subject detection across people, products, and moving objects
- ✦Background removal without requiring a green screen
- ✦Background replacement with color, image, or video
- ✦Transparent export formats including WebM and ProRes 4444
- ✦Standard and Pro processing modes for different footage difficulty
- ✦Free trial credits for new accounts
- →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
- →Creators improving low-resolution personal or archival videos
- →Marketers enhancing promotional video footage
- →Streamers upscaling gaming or sports clips
- →Users restoring old family or vlog recordings
- →Relighting shots in post-production
- →Rotoscoping and removing backgrounds
- →Generating relightable VFX passes for compositing
- →Restoring old or low-quality vintage footage
- →Cleaning up compressed social media clips before reposting
- →Sharpening gaming or product demo recordings for sharing
- →Removing backgrounds from creator or social media video clips
- →Producing transparent product demo videos for compositing
- →Replacing backgrounds in tutorials without studio equipment
- →Creating ad and marketing videos with custom backgrounds