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This video introduces Pika Labs, a free AI video generator, encouraging viewers to try out this tool. It likely provides insights into the features and capabilities of Pika Labs, showcasing its potential for generating AI-driven video content. The video aims to inform and spark interest in users looking for accessible and innovative tools for video creation.
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I recently discovered an AI tool that generates videos from text like this one
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And also generates videos from images like this one
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To use this AI tool you don't need to download anything to your computer
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It is also free to use because they are still in their beta version
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And also it is pretty easy to use. Let me show you
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This tool is called PikaLabs. And to access go to pika.art and click on the join beta button
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This will take you to this page that basically says you've been invited to join Pika
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Click accept invite. Now you will be inside Discord and you need to answer these questions or simply click skip
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We are now connected to Pika and from here we have access to different channels for us to
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learn more about Pika. So if you have the time I do suggest that you go over these options and read those channels
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Let's go over the first option that says read instructions in getting started
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In here it says that we need to use any of these channels
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the generate 1 up to generate 10 to create our videos. So let's use generate 1
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Why not? We can access this channel from this button or on the left panel under creations
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Now let me show you how to create a video using just a text prompt
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And then after this I will show you how to create a video using just an image like this one
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Coming back here to Pika we are in the generate 1 channel and to generate our video we are going
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to type in this bar that we see at the bottom of the screen
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In here you'll see a message that tells you the steps that you need to follow
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You need to type slash and then select the create command and then we are going to enter
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our prompt. So let's do it. I'm gonna type slash then select create and in here I'm gonna start typing my prompt
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I want to see if Pika can create an astronaut walking on the moon
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And here are a couple of tips that you can use to craft your prompt
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If you want to influence the outcome it will be a good idea for you to be precise with
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your prompt. In this case I have my astronaut walking on the moon prompt but I'm also going to add
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the keyword cinematic. And now I'm gonna add a parameter to generate the video in the aspect ratio that I want
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So I'm gonna add dash AR and then 9 colon 16. This is because I want my video to have a vertical format
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And then I'm gonna hit enter. Okay my video is being generated and I'm gonna give it a couple of seconds
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Meanwhile I'm gonna share with you some other aspect ratios that you can use on your prompts
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My video is ready. It actually took just a couple of seconds and let's preview it
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Let me go full screen and this is the video that we just generated with a text prompt
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Remember that this is just a beta version of Pika. So yeah I'm surprised that I don't see my astronaut walking on the moon
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It's just rotating in space but that's okay. I have another example that I want to share with you guys
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This is a different aspect ratio, a horizontal or landscape mode. And in here we actually see the astronaut moving forward
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It's not walking, it's kind of sliding. But I guess the outcome can also vary depending on the aspect ratio that you choose
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Now if you want to download your video generation, go over your video and click on the download button
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I want to give Pika another chance for it to generate another video with the same prompt
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So I'm gonna click on this button and as we can see Pika is now generating another video for me
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Okay the video is ready and I already see that there is something weird with my astronaut arms
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So let's take a look at the video. Okay indeed we have three arms but this time we actually see the astronaut walking which is wonderful
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So as this platform is free I'm gonna give it another go
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Let's click on this button one more time. Okay I believe this one is not bad
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It's actually much better than the previous two options. I just want to mention that this is me actually trying Pika for the first time
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I did a lot of research yesterday so I had a lot of theoretical knowledge
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but the practical side of Pika is very easy. And actually I'm very surprised with these results
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And I want to know from you what do you think about this platform
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Do you think these videos are useful or not? And remember that this is just the beta version of the platform
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I cannot imagine how good this is going to get with time
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Remember that is free to use so I would suggest that you play around and you try this platform
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out because it can get to a point where they start charging for the service
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Now let me show you how to use an image as a prompt to create a video
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Let's go to the message bar below and type slash. From here instead of selecting create we are going to select animate
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Now we have the option to drag and drop an image or to click here to upload the file
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I'm gonna click here and then select the image you want to upload
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I have this whale that I created with an AI platform. And then once you have the image uploaded click here and hit enter
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If you want to see where your message is you can jump to present
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and try to find your message in here. It will be highlighted so it's easy to recognize
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An easier way to find your message is by clicking on your inbox icon
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and as you can see my image is already converted into a video
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and I can preview it from here, I can download it or I can jump to the message in the thread
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And this is how it looks. I really like this outcome. Let me try another image
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Okay again I'm going to type slash animate. I'm going to upload a photo in here
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This time I'm gonna use this image. As you can see it has a landscape mode but I want my video to be squared
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This is pretty easy to do and I will show you how to do it
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I'm going to select this photo or this image to upload it and then instead of hitting enter I'm going to click here where it says plus one more
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and then select prompt. Remember that if we want to change the aspect ratio of our generation
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we simply need to type dash AR and then this time because I want my video to be squared
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I'm gonna type one column one. Hit enter and let's wait for our video to be created
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The video is ready and this is what it looks like. Remember that to be able to create this video we used a landscape mode
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and because we were able to add a prompt we have now a squared video
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At the moment the videos that you create with PickaLabs only last three seconds
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but I'm gonna show you a simple trick that you can use to increase the length of these videos
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And this trick I learned it in Tao's YouTube channel. He gives a lot of tips on Mid Journey and also PickaLabs
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so I do recommend you go and check his channel out after finishing this tutorial
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Now let's get into the trick. I have this video. As you can see this video lasts only three seconds
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Now what we are going to do is to position ourselves at the end of the video
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Hopefully it will be the last frame and then we want to extract the last frame of the video
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What I'm going to do is to simply screenshot this area making sure that we don't see this menu right here
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We should only see the frame in the video. So I'm taking the screenshot in here
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I know that there are some platforms online that you can use to extract the last frame of the video
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but in my case I find this way much easier and faster
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Now we're coming back to PickaLabs and we are going to use the screenshot that we took or the last frame of our video
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to generate another video. Instead of using this message section, instead of coming here and typing slash, selecting animate, you know
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we are going to send a private message to Picka. So we have this creation in a private message
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So I'm going to the right panel and then find Picka. If you don't see this list here, you're going to click on this icon
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So at the moment I have my list open so it says hide member list
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but if you see an empty space and you don't see the list, click here, show member list, find Picka, right click and then message
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Now we are going to have a private conversation with Picka. So basically we are going to have direct messages
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and our creations are not going to get lost in this infinite thread of messages
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that we saw later on. So going to message, type slash, find animate
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and in here I'm going to upload the screenshot that we took from the last frame of the video
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Okay, this is the frame, open and then hit enter. The video is ready, let me just double check
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I want to see that the astronaut is actually walking. So yeah, this is perfect
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Now I'm going to download this video and this time I'm going to open the original video that we had in here
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So let me open it. I'm using QuickTime to view the video and then I'm going to edit, add clip to end
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and then I'm going to select the video that we just created with Picka Labs
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Choose media and now we have the two videos together. I'm going to click done and my video is now six seconds
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In this case I use QuickTime player because it is already installed in my computer
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I'm using a Mac but you can use any other video editor of your choice
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to join these two videos together. Now let me know which of the two features do you prefer
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the text to video or the image to video. To discover more AI tools watch this playlist right here
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and to continue learning with us subscribe to our channel. I think this is it for this video so I hope to see you in the next one. Bye
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