Video Ads & Reels/Shorts
Video generation models and editors for vertical ads, Reels, Shorts and TikToks.
Playbooks
Budget-Safe AI Video: Draft Cheap, Finish Once
A cost-control workflow for AI video ads: learn each model's prompt syntax, iterate at low resolution, fix instead of regenerate, then upscale the winner.
Based on a how-to by @vfxwaffu
Four-Second Reaction Clips at Volume
Use one avatar reference to generate a selfie-style start frame, then a short reaction video, and multiply it across hooks and audiences.
Based on a how-to by @sixugc
A $0 Launch Film From Your Product's Real Screens
Build a launch video as a web page from your actual UI components, render it frame by frame with headless Chrome, and stitch with FFmpeg. No video model, no editor.
Based on a how-to by @nishantvyas
The Locked-Actor UGC System: One AI Creator, Twenty Scripts, Daily Tests
Build one consistent AI actor, batch-write short UGC scripts from a hook list, animate them, and kill or scale variations based on clicks.
Based on a how-to by @ky_scaling
A Month of AI UGC From Six Clips
Generate a handful of base clips with one AI creator, multiply them with caption variations, and schedule one post a day.
Based on a how-to by @karankendre
The No-Dialogue Cartoon Story Ad
Write a short wordless story where each scene carries one emotion and the product lives inside the joke, then build it shot by shot from a character sheet.
Based on a how-to by @0xZasti
Objection-as-Dialogue: Turn Customer Doubts Into the Script
Write a short two-character scene where real customer objections become the dialogue, and the product enters because someone wants the answer.
Based on a how-to by @Justin_lords
The Hook Swap: Put Your AI Character on a Proven Opening
Take the first 2–3 seconds of a hook format that works, re-perform it with your own AI character, and cut to your app or product demo.
Based on a how-to by @simonecanciello
Reference Look → JSON Prompt → Image → Video: The Scroll-Stopper Pipeline
Steal a visual style (not the content) from a reference, translate it into a structured JSON prompt, then generate and animate it.
Based on a how-to by @FynCas
The Retro 80s VHS News Ad
Fake a found-footage 1980s TV news segment (anchor, field reporter, man-on-the-street) where everyone raves about your product.
Based on a how-to by @ladprofit
Tools (20)
CapCut
Video editor for captions, cuts and vertical formats.
DaVinci Resolve
Pro video editor and color grading suite.
FFmpeg
Free command-line toolkit for assembling and converting video.
Google Flow
Google's AI filmmaking tool built on Veo and Google image models.
Grok Imagine
xAI's image and video generator.
Hailuo AI (MiniMax)
MiniMax's video generation app.
ImagineArt
All-in-one AI image and video creation suite.
Kapwing
Browser-based video editor with AI tools.
Kling AI
Video generation with start-frame and end-frame control.
Pika
AI video generation and effects.
Runway
AI video generation and editing suite.
Seedance (ByteDance Seed)
ByteDance's video generation model family.
Veo (Google DeepMind)
Google DeepMind's video generation model.
Wan
Alibaba's Wan video generation models.
Blender
Free 3D suite for previs and product renders.
Claude Code
Agentic coding tool that can batch-script, render and assemble ads.
Creatify
AI video ad generator from product URLs and avatars.
Higgsfield
AI video and image studio popular for UGC ads and AI influencers.
Kie.ai
API hub for running many image, video and music models.
OpusClip
Turn long videos into short clips.