How do I create cinema-grade videos using AI?
Last Updated: 22.06.2025 08:43
At the moment, you can’t.
Things are improving fast, but I would suggest we are at least five years away from AI being able to produce a full-length cinematic release at cinema quality. In a year, you may see the first AI-rendered 3-minute short that’s actually good enough for a theatrical release, but it will still be coming from people who already know how to make films.
You’ve probably seen the clips on YouTube claiming to be [name of famous film] in 1950s Technicolor, or similar. If you watch them for two minutes you will
I’ve tried out several of the tools that claim to produce ‘cinema-grade’ video.
think it is nonetheless cheesy
despair as to why they can’t keep the characters similar from one shot to the next.
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be impressed that what they’ve made is possible
All I can say is, the people who claim that have evidently never been to the cinema.
and
AI just isn’t there yet.
You can use AI in developing your cinema-grade video, provided you have the skills and equipment and budget to do the other bits. To give you a picture of what this means, a Hollywood film costs about $1 million per minute of final footage.