Pika AI - AI Video Generator
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Pika AI Brief Overview
Pika is an AI “idea-to-video” platform that helps you generate and edit short videos using plain-language prompts. You can start from text (describe a scene you want) or from media you already have (like a photo or video clip), then use Pika’s tools to animate, transform, or modify the result.
Instead of traditional timeline editing, Pika focuses on prompt-driven creation: you tell it what to make (or what to change), pick a mode and settings (such as duration and resolution), and generate a clip. It’s commonly used for quick, social-ready content—short animations, stylized effects, object swaps, and creative transformations.
Pika also includes an audio-driven mode (Pikaformance) designed to sync expressive facial motion to sound, enabling “talking/singing image” style outputs.
Simple How-to-Use
- Go to Pika at pika.art and sign in (or use the iOS app if you prefer mobile).
- Click Try Pika / Create and choose a starting point:
- Text-to-Video (type a prompt), or
- Image-to-Video (upload a photo), or
- An editing tool (upload a clip for swaps/additions, or upload multiple images for frames/keyframes).
- Write a clear prompt describing: subject, action, setting, style, and camera feel (short and specific usually works best).
- Pick options like model, resolution, and duration (available settings depend on the mode and your plan).
- Click Generate, review the output, then iterate: tweak your prompt or inputs and generate again until it’s right.
- Download the final clip, or reuse it as an input to apply another tool (for example, generate a base clip first, then do a swap or effect pass).
Pika AI Key Features and Functions
- Text-to-Video: generate a video clip from a written prompt.
- Image-to-Video: animate a still image into a moving clip.
- Pikascenes: build more complete “scene-style” generations, including workflows that can incorporate multiple visual elements.
- Pikadditions: add new objects/people/fantastical elements into a video.
- Pikaswaps: replace or “swap” elements within a video using text or reference images.
- Pikaffects: apply dramatic visual effects and transformations (e.g., stylized distortions and “effect” edits).
- Pikatwists: prompt-based transformations that “twist” or restyle a clip into a new variation.
- Pikaframes: keyframe-like transitions between multiple images for morphs, transformations, and longer sequences.
- Pikaformance: audio-synced facial performance for expressive, sound-driven animation.
- Credit-based generation system: different tools/models consume different amounts of credits per generation.
Pricing
Pika uses a monthly credit system, where generating videos (and using certain tools/models) costs credits. Pika lists four plans on its pricing page (with prices shown as per month billed yearly, and an option to toggle monthly vs. yearly billing):
- Basic (Free): 80 monthly video credits. Includes access to Pika 2.5 (listed as 480p only) and selected editing tools (including Pikadditions, Pikaswaps, and Turbo Pikatwists). The plan also lists no-watermark downloads and commercial use, plus the option to buy additional roll-over credits.
- Standard ($8/month billed yearly): 700 monthly video credits, broader access to models/modes (including Pikascenes/2.2), access to Turbo and Pro variants of key tools, and fast generations.
- Pro ($28/month billed yearly): 2,300 monthly video credits and faster generations.
- Fancy ($76/month billed yearly): 6,000 monthly video credits and fastest generations.
Credit usage varies by tool. Examples shown on Pika’s pricing page include 10 credits per video for Turbo Pikascenes/Pikadditions/Pikaswaps, 60 credits per video for Turbo Pikatwists, and Pikaformance at 3 credits per second. Pika also notes VAT may apply depending on your country.
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