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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.
Desktop and cloud AI suite for enhancing, upscaling, and restoring video, for casual users and creators fixing low-quality footage.
Video converter and AI enhancer for format conversion, upscaling, and a suite of AI photo and video editing tools.
AI video-to-VFX suite for relighting, rotoscoping, background removal and PBR passes, with a node-based compositor.
AI color-grading software for editors and colorists that auto-balances, matches shots, and runs locally in Resolve, Premiere, and more.
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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
- ✦Upscales video resolution up to 4K/8K
- ✦Restores damaged or degraded footage, fixing scratches and compression loss
- ✦Colorizes black-and-white video automatically
- ✦Increases frame rate through AI frame interpolation
- ✦Reduces video noise and brightens dark footage
- ✦Enhances facial detail and stabilizes shaky video
- ✦Offers online, no-download tools alongside the desktop app
- ✦Video format conversion (MP4, MKV, AVI, etc.)
- ✦AI video and photo enhancement/upscaling
- ✦Audio extraction and conversion
- ✦AI generation (text-to-image/video)
- ✦Editing: trim, merge, compress, subtitles
- ✦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
- ✦AI shot matching across sequences
- ✦One-click auto color balance
- ✦AI auto white balance
- ✦Match a look from any reference image
- ✦Local, on-device processing
- ✦Plugin/standalone for Resolve, Premiere, Nuke, Flame, Baselight
- ✦Film and grain emulation (Pro)
- →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
- →Casual users polishing personal travel or family videos
- →Content creators improving vlogs, reels, or tutorials
- →E-commerce sellers upgrading promotional video quality
- →Restoring old family or archival footage
- →Converting videos between formats
- →Enhancing and upscaling footage
- →Extracting audio from video
- →Basic AI-assisted video/photo editing
- →Relighting shots in post-production
- →Rotoscoping and removing backgrounds
- →Generating relightable VFX passes for compositing
- →Balancing and matching entire timelines
- →Fast cinematic grading for editors
- →High-end finishing and VFX color
- →Creating and sharing looks