AI Video Guides & Tutorials
Step-by-step, production-tested guides to every major AI video tool and workflow — written from real projects, not press releases.
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GuidesNVIDIA RTX Spark for Local AI (2026): What It Actually Runs
128GB unified memory, a 20-core Grace CPU, a Blackwell GPU on one chip. What RTX Spark can actually run locally, what it costs, and who should wait to buy.
GuidesThe AI Podcast Stack: Record, Edit & Publish Twice as Fast
Record with Riverside, edit by transcript in Descript, generate show notes automatically. The pipeline that cuts podcast post-production to under an hour.
GuidesSeedance 2.5 Specs: What ByteDance Actually Confirmed
Half the Seedance 2.5 specs circulating are invented. Here's every figure ByteDance published, every one it didn't, and how to spot the fabrications.
GuidesSeedance 2.5 Multi-Shot: A Whole Story in One Pass
One-take means one generation, not one camera angle. How Seedance 2.5 builds setup, development, turning point and resolution inside 30 seconds.
GuidesSeedance 2.5 Editing: Timestamps, Green Screen, Camera
The 2.5 upgrade nobody leads with is the editing suite — timestamp-level fixes, background replacement and camera re-editing. What each one changes.
GuidesSeedance 2.5 Character Consistency: 50 Reference Slots
Seedance 2.5 takes 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio clips per request. How to spend that on identity — and which 'consistency features' don't exist.
GuidesOpen-Weight AI Video Models You Can Actually Run
MiniMax H3 going open-weight restarts this argument. What runs on 8GB, what needs 24GB, and what the quantization actually costs you in quality.
GuidesMiniMax H3 Omni Reference: The 12-File Budget
H3 takes 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips — but only 12 files total. How to spend that budget on identity, motion and voice without wasting slots.
GuidesMiniMax H3 Guide: 2K Video, Native Audio & Open Weights
MiniMax H3 landed July 31 with native 2K, built-in dialogue and open weights. The real API limits, the five input modes, and where it still breaks.
GuidesMiniMax H3 API in Python: Setup, Polling and Errors
A working H3 client in Python — auth, the v2 payload shape, all five modes, polling, and the six errors that actually bite. Built from the official reference.
GuidesLyria 3.5 in Flow Music: 3-Minute Vocals, Real Controls
Google's Lyria 3.5 replaced Lyria 3 Pro on July 29 with tempo and stem controls, better lyrics, and image-to-music. What it fixes and what it doesn't.
GuidesHow to Access Seedance 2.5 (And What Isn't Live)
Seedance 2.5 is now live on Higgsfield as a real API surface. ByteDance's own ModelArk API is still coming. Every working route and what each one needs.
GuidesSeedance 2.5 Previz Workflow: 3D Blockouts to Finished Shots
Seedance 2.5 accepts a low-poly 3D blockout as a reference slot. Here's the previz workflow we use to lock composition before spending a 30-second generation.
GuidesKling 3.0 Omni Guide: 4K Editing, 15s Clips, 6 Cuts
Kling 3.0 Omni is the editing-capable tier, not just a bigger renderer. What the June upgrade changed, when to pick it over Turbo, and the upscaler it replaces.
GuidesHunyuan 3 Local Guide: Can You Actually Run 295B at Home?
Tencent open-sourced Hunyuan 3 — 295B total, 21B active, Apache-2.0. We break down the real VRAM math, the GGUF quant path, and who should skip it entirely.
GuidesHow to Make an AI Music Video: Full Pipeline (2026)
We shipped a full AI music video with this exact pipeline: AI song, keyframe stills, image-to-video clips, beat-cut edit. Here's the real workflow.
GuidesYouTube Shorts with AI: The 3-Second Hook System (2026)
We produce Shorts with AI video tools weekly. The hook structures, pacing rules and editing choices that hold retention past the 3-second drop-off point.
GuidesXTTS Voice Cloning Locally: Clone Any Voice, Fully Offline
XTTS clones a voice from a 6-second sample on your own GPU, fully offline. The 2026 install, real VRAM numbers, and where narration quality breaks down.
GuidesVoxtral: Mistral's Offline Transcription Model, Tested
Mistral's Voxtral runs speech-to-text fully offline under Apache 2.0, in 3B and 24B sizes. VRAM needs, how it differs from Whisper, and the browser build.
GuidesRunway Gen-4.5: What You Get, and What It Costs
Runway Gen-4.5 is included in every paid plan from $12/month. Real credit maths, the aggregated model library nobody mentions, and who should skip it.
GuidesRun Whisper Locally: Free Offline Transcription (2026)
faster-whisper install to first transcript, the large-v3-vs-turbo call I make, and what a real file costs on a GPU versus a CPU, with no API bill involved.
GuidesPiper TTS: Fast Offline Voice Synthesis on a Raspberry Pi
Piper runs real-time neural text-to-speech on a Raspberry Pi with no GPU. The install, the license change nobody mentions, and which tier fits a Pi 4 vs a Pi 5.
GuidesMiniMax M3 Locally: The 428B Model's Real Hardware Cost
MiniMax's open-weight M3 posts frontier coding scores with a 1M-token context. What self-hosting a 428B MoE model takes, and who should just use the API.
GuidesLocal Voice AI: Whisper, TTS & Offline Assistants (2026)
The self-hosted voice stack map: Whisper/faster-whisper for speech-to-text, Kokoro/Piper/Chatterbox/XTTS for voices, Ollama for the brain — wired offline.