If you’re looking for another option for producing videos using AI amid the recent avalanche of AI video generators, there’s another new one. The newest addition to your stable is Pollo AI, and you can try it out for free right now. Pollo AI’s features are noticeably easy to play with and can turn both text prompts and still images into high-quality videos.
Pollo is a product of Hix.AI, a developer of generative AI tools for conversation and synthetic media, including the new synthetic music platform Tad.ai. As with many AI video generators, all you need is a text prompt to get a short video. The text-to-video generator can transform any script into a fully realized production, including animation and transitions. You don’t need a film degree; an informal description is sufficient.
You can also add motion to still images. By uploading a photo, the AI will animate it in a way that the AI deems appropriate for the context of the image, including environmental effects such as ocean waves on the beach. You can also use text to explain what you want to happen or how you want people or objects to appear in the image used in a video, which may not include any other facet of the image.
The platform creates the videos of your clues very quickly, usually taking less than a minute.
How to use Pollo for free
You can try Pollo AI for free and get 20 credits per month. However, the videos are all watermarked and there are limited editing and camera shake options. If you want more features and credits, there are three pricing tiers of $15, $30, and $90 per month for 300, 800, and 3,000 credits respectively.
The seemingly insatiable demand for AI video production has led to a plethora of AI video tools for the masses. Depending on your needs, you can get a lot of free AI videos from the available platforms, including Runway, Pika, Stability AI, Hotshot, and Luma Labs’ Dream Machine.
The AI-generated elephant moving around the room is OpenAI’s Sora model, which attracted a ton of interest upon its unveiling, yet remains limited to certain approved OpenAI partners. The same goes for Meta, which recently introduced the impressive Movie Gen AI video generator, but similarly limited access to professional, approved filmmakers.
Pollo may not displace its rivals, but if the market reflects actual demand even slightly, it will likely do quite well even with only a small portion of its potential user base.