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Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
AI clipping tool that turns long videos into short vertical highlight clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, aimed at podcasters and marketers.
User-friendly photo and video editing suite with AI features.
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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- ✦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
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →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
- →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
- →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