
New Text-To-Video AI & Image-To-Video AI Tool
Imagine turning your text into captivating videos with just a few clicks. Yes, AI video generators are making that possible! While most tools only create short 4-second clips, a new player changes the game. Vidu is a cutting-edge AI video generator that exceeds expectations, producing stunning 8-second videos from text and images.
Now the biggest question is what makes Vidu stand out. It’s now globally available and free to use! Let this blog dive you into how Vidu is revolutionizing content creation.
See the video blog here: https://youtu.be/ky-lw4Oid2k?si=-sSdQKZoClRsk6DY
Vidu AI
Vidu is a ground-breaking text-to-video and image-to-video generator model developed by Shangu AI, making it a standout in the world of generative AI tools. What sets Vidu apart is –
- Its ability to create high-quality videos from text prompts and transform images into stunning video clips.
- It excels in generating scenes that adhere to real-world physics, including realistic lighting and detailed human expressions.
- Ensuring spatio-temporal consistency of characters and scenes as the camera moves, offering smooth multi-lens transitions between long shots, medium shots, close-ups, and extreme close-ups.
- Allowing the creation of fictional scenes with remarkable depth and complexity.
- Also, understanding and generating scenes with unique Chinese characteristics, make it a versatile tool for diverse content creation.
Let’s see the video generation process of this tool. After getting into the tool the interface will be like this.

- First of all, on the left side of the interface, you’ll find the input options, offering two ways to generate videos:
1. By entering a text prompt
2. Uploading an image to convert into a video.
- The final output appears in the display box on the right. To test Vidu’s text-to-video capabilities, enter a prompt.
- Below the prompt box, there’s an Enhance prompt option, which is useful for improving the prompt if you’re unsure of what to write, ensuring better results.
- After entering the prompt, navigate to the settings, where you can select a style for the video generation. There you will find two options:
1. General
2. Anime.

- First, let’s explore the anime style by selecting the style first.
- Then you have to set the duration Vidu allows 4-second and 8-second long videos.
- Let’s try with an 8-second video and here you are done with setting.
- So, now hit the generate button and it will take around 30 seconds to generate the video and preview.
After seeing the preview, you will find that really impressive as there are no unusual activities, no morphing, and no glitches in the video but it looks as if it was created in a professional Anime Studio.
Now if you are thinking about the video quality, don’t worry you will get the up upscale feature to upscale the video. For this, simply click on the upscale button and then hit the Upscale 8 credits button and get the result. You can find the result with higher video resolution and good quality.
Rich and Complex
Now, let’s try using a rich and complex prompt with the following steps.
- In this case, you can use a pre-made prompt, and if you want access to similar prompts or collect more, you can join the Discord channel, where the Prompt Guide channel offers a variety of prompts to use.
- After entering the prompt, set the video style and length.
- Then hit the Generate button and after a brief wait, you can see the final result, which turned out to be truly outstanding.
look at each object and the character of the video which are very consistent in the full video as well as the other elements. The movement was also precise.
Realistic Video
All right after the anime-style video, let’s try to generate a realistic video clip.
- Here, you can use the first video again to see the capability of generating a realistic video with a simple prompt.
- So, in this case, just changing the style of anime to general.
- Now keeping other settings alike hit the generate button and get the result.
- For a better result upscaling the video.
The result is awesome as the tool maintains the character and scene constancy at an epic level and the video looks like it was shot by a camera. You can also find the camera movement, light and compositions awesome.
Rich and Complex
All right now let’s generate another video with a rich and complex prompt.
- After entering the prompt, customize the settings based on the requirements.
- After everything is done, hit the Generate button, and get the result.
You will find it unbelievable. The camera work, lighting, and composition looked like a perfect cinematic drone shot. You can also try another example with a complex prompt to get a comparative look at the results. Now you can create a full film with Vidu because it keeps the characters and scenes consistent. In the same way, you can create animated films.
Image-to-Video Generation
Let’s now explore Vidu’s image-to-video generation capabilities.
- So first uploading an image and you can also use one AI-generated image to convert it into a video clip.
- After uploading, you’ll notice two new options:
1. Use as First Frame and
2. Use for Character Reference
- If you want to animate the exact image, choose the first option, but if your image contains a character you’d like to animate, select the second option.
- Let’s begin with the first option, and after selecting it, you can also enter an additional prompt for good results. Try both to get a comparative look at the results.
You can get a much more specific result with the additional prompt.
Use for Character Reference
Now, let’s try the Use for Character Reference option, which works best with human characters, provided the image contains only one character.
- You can test it without a prompt, and find the result was amazing keeping the same character from the image but generated different shots.
- Next, try adding an additional prompt after uploading the image to see how it would affect the output.
- After adding the prompt, you can see it generates a perfect scene for you keeping the same character in the outfit but changing the scene in the environment.
So, honestly, the result is amazing to create video content particularly if you are a virtual influencer then you can use this AI tool to create videos.
FAQs
Q: Does the Vidu AI tool free of cost to use?
Yes, Vidu AI is currently free to use. It has been launched globally and is available for free registration and use, allowing users to explore its powerful text-to-video and image-to-video generation capabilities without any cost.