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Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
Converts uploaded or linked audio/video into text with AI summaries, mind maps, and multi-format export in 63 languages.
Cloud review tool letting VFX, animation and game teams annotate and give timestamped feedback on video and media frames.
Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
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- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦Audio/video-to-text transcription from file upload or YouTube link
- ✦Support for 63 languages and 11 input file formats
- ✦Automatic AI summaries and visual mind maps
- ✦Speaker recognition and translation
- ✦Export to txt, pdf, docx, srt, csv, and vtt
- ✦Shareable transcript links
- ✦Frame-accurate video and media annotation
- ✦Real-time collaborative review sessions
- ✦Free sign-up option
- ✦Enterprise support options
- ✦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 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
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →Researchers transcribing interviews
- →Students converting lectures into notes and mind maps
- →Podcasters and creators generating subtitles
- →Professionals needing multilingual meeting transcripts
- →VFX studios reviewing shots remotely with clients
- →Game studios collecting feedback on in-progress assets
- →Animation teams running distributed review sessions
- →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
- →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