🦾 Essential Video Generating AI Tools For The Independent Artists
We selected a handful of AI apps and tools that make your artist life easier as a video content creator
If you followed our Substack for the past months, you should know by now that we cannot emphasize enough on how vital social media is for growing a loyal fanbase and for expanding the reach on your musical creations. After searching for the most effective way to use on social media to reach potential new listeners, you came up with the same conclusion we have: it all comes down to one thing, and that’s CONSISTENCY! In other words: feeding the social media monsters with content every damn day, befriending the algorithms, hunting viral trends and eventually ending up addicted to doom scrolling (actually, who isn’t?).
At first sight, this shouldn’t be so difficult, right? One decent smartphone, a couple of video editing apps, a couple of hours spent watching “how to make the best TikTok promo for your music” youtube tutorials and you’re good to go. For 1 week. For 1 month. For 3 months. Until this task starts to eat up more and more of your studio time and your nerves. Until creativity runs low, along with your reach and eventually your self esteem. Social media creativity fatigue is real and no one can blame you for this. After all, first and foremost you’re a musician rather than a video content creator.
If you’re not a monk living in a WiFi-less cave, then you’ve probably touched the AI spiral a couple of times in the past year, even if you didn’t know it. More and more powerful and affordable, AI powered apps started to pop up like mushrooms after rain, almost of all them promising to bring professional results in the hands of zero skilled people. You know, like musicians in the video creation territories :D Sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Well, yes, up to the point of choosing the right app for the job. There are literally thousands of video generating apps out there, so the question is: which one to use? We did our homework and came up with a list of apps that could prove useful for creating music videos, lyric videos and tons of short form videos for the hungry social media platforms. We filtered down the options by the ease of use, the price and the quality of generated results. Here they are, in no particular order 👇 You’ll thank us later
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Want to present your Anime alter ego to your audience? Well, Animatable will do this for you in no time. Choose from specific character styles, alterate the background to your own needs and use your own videos as the source. Then let Animatable do his magic. This comes with a price: 20 USD / month is their first tier subscription.
Presenting your life story to your audience in a faceless way (especially if you’re an electronic music producer with little to no live performances that could be used to extract content from) can be a time consuming job to do. Luckily, with a good script and a an idea to produce a content series that could be stretched over an extended period of time, you can do this really fast with the help of autoshorts.ai: create a custom series, tailor the script, choose the narrator’s voice and BAM: you’re good to go :) You can test it for free, but of you’re serious about it (like posting on a daily basis), then you’ll have to pay 39 USD / month.
This FREE tool can generate an animated music video using any song as a source. You need to log into their Discord server, paste a youtube link to the music, write some details about how the video should look like, add a reference image and hit the Submit button. You have to be a bit more patient with Noisee, the free version tends to take some time to generate a video, yet the results are pretty amazing. The generated videos are limited to 30 seconds, more than enough to create a bunch of teasers for the upcoming release, if needed. They should release a subscription based model any time soon, so join their waiting list here
If you feel that your Ai video prompting is above average, then Kaiber is your go-to AI tool for creating some eye popping music videos for your music, as you can create videos based on storyboards. Beyond that, you can create an unlimited number of short videos based on your music (yes, the videos would sync to your beats and rhythms). Kaiber features are really impressive: prompt to video, image to video, animations and many more. Depending on the volume of content, you’ll start as low as 5 USD / month and go up to 30 USD.