Text to Video vs Image to Video AI: Which Gives You Control
Text to video vs image to video AI comes down to what you must control: the look, the motion or both. A plain framework to pick the right input per shot.
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Text to video vs image to video AI comes down to what you must control: the look, the motion or both. A plain framework to pick the right input per shot.
Why AI video tools cap a single clip at seconds, not minutes. Veo, Sora, Runway, Kling and Pika limits, sourced to each vendor's own docs, dated.
The TikTok AI content label can appear without you touching it. How TikTok, Instagram and YouTube each decide, and why one workflow does not cover all three.
The Studio toggle is triggered by realism, not by AI. Asset by asset, when YouTube synthetic content disclosure is required and when it is explicitly exempt.
YouTube's inauthentic content policy is not an AI ban. Read at the source, it turns on templates, volume and whether you added anything of your own.
YouTube does not ban AI video. Two separate policies apply, one about labeling and one about monetization, and only one of them can cost you the Partner Program.
Default to stock. Four conditions flip the decision to AI video, plus the licensing difference nobody selling either route will bring up.
Cost per second hides retries, resolution tiers and failed generations. Here is how to work out your own real cost per usable clip, from any vendor's page.
Shot two and the face changed. How reference images and character-lock tools help AI video keep the same character across a sequence, and where it still breaks.