Stop Wasting Credits on AI Video Generators Like Seedance 2.5 — Transcript

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1. 0:12No, no, no, no.
2. 0:15I need credits. I need to find credits.
3. 0:30So, there are three methods of how you
4. 0:31can save yourself money on AI video
5. 0:33credits that we'll be covering in this
6. 0:35video. We'll be using Higgs with for
7. 0:37this as in my opinion, this is one of
8. 0:39the best AI video generator tools out
9. 0:41there and they have created a new method
10. 0:43that will save you a lot of credits
11. 0:45which I'll be covering later. I will
12. 0:47leave a link to them in the description
13. 0:49down below. The first method is choosing
14. 0:51the right model and this often gets
15. 0:53overlooked by a lot of people. Everyone
16. 0:56nowadays thinks they have to use
17. 0:57Seedance 2.5, but to be honest, it's
18. 1:00expensive as [ __ ] A different model can
19. 1:02easily achieve 80 or 90% of the same
20. 1:05result and it's [music] a lot cheaper.
21. 1:07So, let me show you an example of what I
22. 1:09mean by that. So, I have one video that
23. 1:11is generated using Seedance 2.5 and the
24. 1:14other video is generated using an older
25. 1:16model which is Kling 3.0 which is
26. 1:19severely outdated by now. I won't tell
27. 1:21you which one is which yet, but you tell
28. 1:23me which one you like the most and which
29. 1:25one you think is Seedance.
30. 1:40Now, the first video was Kling 3.0 and
31. 1:42the second video was Seedance 2.5. To
32. 1:45me, these results are really similar,
33. 1:48but this generation in Kling cost me 12
34. 1:50credits while the same generation in
35. 1:52Seedance 2.5 cost me 72 credits. That's
36. 1:56the difference of 60 credits. So, if we
37. 1:58compare the two, I can generate six
38. 2:00videos using Kling 3.0 for the same
39. 2:03price as one video on Seidance 2.5. And
40. 2:06that's why you got to identify when you
41. 2:08can use a cheaper model. Because some of
42. 2:10the models might not be suitable for
43. 2:12your generation. For example, let's take
44. 2:14the topic of anime. I've done a lot of
45. 2:17research on this. I've asked around and
46. 2:19I've tried it myself. And in my
47. 2:21experience, Minimax is the better
48. 2:24solution to use here compared to
49. 2:25something like Seidance. So, here I have
50. 2:28another example.
51. 2:42>> I am the AI lord.
52. 2:59I am the AI lord.
53. 3:00>> Here, the first generation was Seidance
54. 3:022.5 and the second one was Minimax. I
55. 3:05liked the result of Minimax a lot more
56. 3:07and it's also a lot cheaper. The
57. 3:10difference here in price is 180 credits
58. 3:12for Seidance 2.5, while it has only 30
59. 3:15credits for Minimax H3. And if you use
60. 3:18the max version, it's not even that much
61. 3:20more expensive. It's 37.5. And the other
62. 3:23thing is, Minimax is pretty
63. 3:25unrestricted, while Seidance 2.5 has the
64. 3:28tendency to not allow a lot of different
65. 3:30generations. Like, for example, if you
66. 3:32want to make copyrighted stuff, you
67. 3:34can't really do that with Seidance. But,
68. 3:36with Minimax on the other hand, I made
69. 3:38this.
70. 3:40>> Rick, I I told you we can't use
71. 3:42copyrighted visuals.
72. 3:43>> Yes, we can, Morty.
73. 3:44>> No, we can't.
74. 3:45>> Yes, we can, you stupid human.
75. 3:47>> We definitely can, guys.
76. 3:49>> No, we can't.
77. 3:54>> He's too young. Now, if you're just
78. 3:56getting started with AI, it might be
79. 3:57super overwhelming trying to know
80. 3:59everything about which model you need to
81. 4:01use. And that's why I made this website
82. 4:04for you, where you can upload your own
83. 4:07prompt to it, and it will tell you which
84. 4:09model you should use. So, call this the
85. 4:12AI video model selector. How it works is
86. 4:15you simply add in your prompt. This is
87. 4:17powered by Jeff, so it does the hard
88. 4:19work for us. It's run by me, it's super
89. 4:21cheap. I will just give this away for
90. 4:22free. You put in your prompt, then you
91. 4:25add in the reference that you have, and
92. 4:27then you tell it the duration that the
93. 4:28video will be. As you can see, if you're
94. 4:30trying to make longer videos than, for
95. 4:33example, 15 seconds, you only have a
96. 4:35choice of these three models. If you go
97. 4:37longer than that, you only have the
98. 4:38choice to do something like SeaDance or
99. 4:41One 3.0. So, let's do 10 seconds as this
100. 4:43first simple test. What it will do is it
101. 4:46will evaluate your prompt, and it will
102. 4:48look through the database of the things
103. 4:51that I've uploaded there, and then it
104. 4:52will tell you which model will get you
105. 4:54the best result. And then it's up to you
106. 4:56to make the judgment call if it's worth
107. 4:58it. For example, here it's only giving
108. 5:0033% to do it with SeaDance 2.5. And it
109. 5:04will also give you the expected credit
110. 5:06cost. But for 35 credits cheaper, which
111. 5:09is 45 credits in total, you can also use
112. 5:11SeaDance 2.0. And [music] the budget
113. 5:13pick would be One 3.0. So, it will give
114. 5:15you those percentages, and if you are
115. 5:17And depending on what budget you have,
116. 5:19you can make your choice of that. And
117. 5:21once you like what you see, you click on
118. 5:22generate, and then it will bring you
119. 5:24over to Higgsfield, where you can
120. 5:25generate your video.
121. 5:33Okay, now let's try a more complex scene
122. 5:35to show you how this really works. So,
123. 5:37now I added in a longer prompt with a
124. 5:40lot more words, and it's kind of like a
125. 5:42sitcom type of prompt. I also have a
126. 5:45couple different references. And then
127. 5:47I'm going to select the length of how
128. 5:49long I want this video to be, which is
129. 5:5115 seconds. For the resolution, I want
130. 5:53to do 1080p. And now we're going to
131. 5:55evaluate, and then it tells us that this
132. 5:59might be best to do with Cidence 2.5.
133. 6:01Again, it's the most expensive model,
134. 6:03but if you want the absolute best
135. 6:04result, you want to be using this. If
136. 6:06you want to do 4K, it will automatically
137. 6:09drop that model because 4K is
138. 6:11unavailable, but you can get 1080p. So,
139. 6:14based on this recommendation, let's
140. 6:15actually generate this scene using
141. 6:17Cidence 2.5. And now it has added in the
142. 6:20references, it has added in the prompt,
143. 6:23and then we can hit generate.
144. 6:26>> I finally found a friend.
145. 6:27>> Please, everyone knows you don't have
146. 6:29friends.
147. 6:30>> Oh, yeah? You sure?
148. 6:32>> Yeah, I'm sure.
149. 6:33>> So, look at this.
150. 6:36Hey, I'm Bruiser, Dan's new friend.
151. 6:40>> So, yeah. Looking at this result, having
152. 6:42multiple different camera angles, three
153. 6:44different characters talking. It's not
154. 6:46too complicated in terms of camera
155. 6:47movement, but I would say Cidence 2.5
156. 6:50really nailed this. And that's how I'm
157. 6:52hoping to save credits for you. But
158. 6:54let's say we do something completely
159. 6:56different. So, let me remove all of
160. 6:57these references, and then we add in a
161. 6:59different prompt. This time I'm going to
162. 7:01do a motion prompt. This is going to be
163. 7:03for a 2D kinetic typography and motion
164. 7:07graphics, 50 seconds. So, I've added in
165. 7:09my prompt. I have added in the
166. 7:11resolution, all of that. We're going to
167. 7:13evaluate it, and now it's telling us
168. 7:15that Minimax H3 might be the best option
169. 7:18to use here because it is super good at
170. 7:20making these motion graphics. And if we
171. 7:22generate this, we get a result like
172. 7:24this.
173. 7:28>> [music]
174. 7:35[music]
175. 7:40>> So, all we did, and by we I mean me and
176. 7:42team, is fed the data that we had when
177. 7:45using these models, and based on that,
178. 7:47we built this tool for you, so you can
179. 7:49hopefully save yourself some credits.
180. 7:51Again, this tool is free to use. I will
181. 7:53leave the link in the description down
182. 7:54below. The second method to saving
183. 7:56yourself credits is using draft mode.
184. 7:59This is only available for students 2.5,
185. 8:01and ever since this launched, I've saved
186. 8:03a lot of credits since then. Because, as
187. 8:05you can see, the 1080p version is quite
188. 8:08expensive. But as soon as we switch over
189. 8:10to the draft mode, we get the video for
190. 8:1245 credits. The downside, it's only
191. 8:15480p. You might wonder, like, why would
192. 8:18you do that? So, for example, I used to
193. 8:21generate a lot of 1080p videos, and I
194. 8:24regenerated them until I got it right.
195. 8:27Each generation cost me like over $10
196. 8:30with students 2.5 1080p. Now, with draft
197. 8:33mode, this cost has significantly gone
198. 8:35down, and then once I found the perfect
199. 8:38generation, all I had to do is just
200. 8:40upscale it. Because draft mode is 45
201. 8:43credits, and then it will cost you an
202. 8:44extra 180 credits to upscale it. So, let
203. 8:47me give you an example of what I mean by
204. 8:49this. So, my goal is to kind of like
205. 8:50create a Star Wars scene. I have me
206. 8:53myself as a character sheet in there,
207. 8:55and I have Bruiser Robot as a character
208. 8:58sheet in there, and then I've added in
209. 8:59my prompt. I'm not sure like if this
210. 9:02will work, because it's quite a complex
211. 9:04scene. What I want to see is I want to
212. 9:05have a battle in space. I want to have
213. 9:07some interaction in terms of talking
214. 9:09with me and the other character, and I
215. 9:11want everything to like flow nicely. So,
216. 9:14instead of me just going straight into
217. 9:16the 1080p mode, which will cost me a lot
218. 9:18of credits, I first generated this
219. 9:20draft. Now, that got me this first
220. 9:23generation.
221. 9:24>> [groaning]
222. 9:27>> Wow, that was really close.
223. 9:38You really need to learn how to speak.
224. 9:41>> I've always known how to speak. It was
225. 9:42just to piss you off.
226. 9:43>> So, to me this doesn't really make sense
227. 9:45because first we have the robot in the
228. 9:47starfighter like this
229. 9:49and then it's flying like outside of it.
230. 9:52So, I won't be able to use this
231. 9:54generation in my video. So, I have to
232. 9:56regenerate it. But what I do now is I
233. 9:58can just go back and I can just tweak
234. 10:00this prompt. So, I look through my
235. 10:02prompt. I find the parts that I want to
236. 10:04tweak. I rewrite it and then I hit
237. 10:06generate again again in draft mode. And
238. 10:10that got me this generation.
239. 10:15>> Wow.
240. 10:16That was really close.
241. 10:27You really need to learn how to speak.
242. 10:29>> I've always known how to speak. It was
243. 10:30just to piss you off.
244. 10:32>> So, that is already a lot better. But
245. 10:34now that I'm watching this, I am
246. 10:35thinking like why don't I have the robot
247. 10:38like sit outside of the spaceship
248. 10:41instead of like in the cockpit with me.
249. 10:43I go back into my prompt. I add in these
250. 10:46changes and then I generate it again
251. 10:49with the draft mode. And that generated
252. 10:51me this video.
253. 10:55>> Wow. That was really close.
254. 11:07>> You really need to learn how to speak.
255. 11:09>> I've always known how to speak. It was
256. 11:11just to piss you off.
257. 11:12>> And that's exactly how I want the video
258. 11:14to be. Like this to me is great. Like I
259. 11:16can use this. And then now that I have
260. 11:19the final version, I had to pay one time
261. 11:21a 240 credit fee to get it in the 1080p
262. 11:25version. So, in total that would be 420
263. 11:27credits. So, if you put them side by
264. 11:29side, you would have saved yourself 300
265. 11:32credits using the draft mode. But, if we
266. 11:35compare this to how I used to do this
267. 11:37the old way, is I used to have to
268. 11:40generate this video three different
269. 11:42times for 240 credits each, which will
270. 11:45bring out the total price to 720 credits
271. 11:48to now me generating this three times
272. 11:50using the draft mode, which is 60
273. 11:53credits per generation. The third method
274. 11:55to saving yourself money is using the
275. 11:58API. And in particularly, I'm talking
276. 12:00about the Hixfeld API as they have
277. 12:02launched this. Because if you're unsure
278. 12:03if AI is something for you, or you find
279. 12:05it expensive, and you don't have to lock
280. 12:07yourself into a annual or a monthly
281. 12:10membership, you can just pay for what
282. 12:12you use. If you're unsure of what to
283. 12:14use, then let me explain it to you.
284. 12:16First, if you are using AI casually, and
285. 12:20you're not spending all of the credits
286. 12:21that you have in your monthly
287. 12:23subscription, then get the API. You only
288. 12:26pay for what you use. If every time you
289. 12:28use AI and your or subscription is
290. 12:31finished, you might be better off
291. 12:33upgrading your subscription or seeing
292. 12:35like what you can get with the API. But,
293. 12:38if you are a heavy user, then I would
294. 12:39still recommend using a subscription.
295. 12:42I've actually made this graph for you,
296. 12:43which exactly explains for which
297. 12:45scenario it is best to either use the
298. 12:47API or get a subscription and what
299. 12:50subscription you should get. If you are
300. 12:52making just one generation, API is
301. 12:54obviously cheaper because you're wasting
302. 12:57$49 on the plus plan and $310 if you're
303. 13:00getting like a maxed out ultra plan if
304. 13:02you don't use these credits. Now, if you
305. 13:04make five generations, then the plus
306. 13:06plan on an annual plan is cheaper. But,
307. 13:09if you want a monthly plan, then it's
308. 13:11about the same as the API. If you want
309. 13:13to make more than five generations, so
310. 13:15let's say 10 for example, you cannot
311. 13:17even get that in the plus plan and we're
312. 13:19talking about students 2.5 1080p
313. 13:2215-second generation videos. So, these
314. 13:24are long videos. Keep that in mind. You
315. 13:26can also compare this to the Cidens 2.0
316. 13:29and Kling 3.0. Over here, as you can
317. 13:31see, most of the times the API is
318. 13:33cheaper to use if you're using these
319. 13:35models. But when you're using Cidens
320. 13:362.5, which is the model that most people
321. 13:38want to be using, then you have to
322. 13:40decide for yourself which one makes more
323. 13:41sense. For example, if you're a heavy
324. 13:43user, you might benefit more from having
325. 13:46an ultra plan at $310, as it's like
326. 13:48twice as cheap as using the API here.
327. 13:51Keep in mind, this is as of making this
328. 13:53video, these prices might change. So,
329. 13:56what is actually the benefit of the API
330. 13:57and how do you start using this? Well,
331. 14:00let me explain. What you need to do is
332. 14:01you need to go over to the Higgsfield
333. 14:03dashboard, then you click on API. This
334. 14:05will open up a new tab, and here you can
335. 14:07explore the API. You can then go to the
336. 14:10quick start page right here, and you can
337. 14:12copy this prompt and send this to your
338. 14:14agent. If you copy this, you put it
339. 14:16inside of your ChatGPT or your Claude or
340. 14:19whatever you're using, you paste it in
341. 14:21there, and then you hit send, and now it
342. 14:23will start building your own AI video
343. 14:26model tool for you using the Higgsfield
344. 14:29API. Now, for me, this took like 10
345. 14:31minutes, and it made basically our own
346. 14:33variation of Higgsfield, but it is using
347. 14:36the API. Like, it's exactly the same as
348. 14:38Higgsfield. You have all of the models
349. 14:39that you want to use, you have all of
350. 14:41the image models that you can try out
351. 14:42here, and you can add in your start
352. 14:44frame, end frame, tweak these settings,
353. 14:46everything you want. All you have to do
354. 14:48here is you have to connect your API
355. 14:50key, and then you can get this to work.
356. 14:52Keep in mind that if you go to your
357. 14:54Claude, Codex, or even Gemini chat where
358. 14:57you start building this, that you can
359. 14:59customize everything out of this. For
360. 15:02example, I made a better type of
361. 15:04Higgsfield, I would say, where I use
362. 15:06this API access, and I customized it
363. 15:09using all of my different workflows that
364. 15:12me and my team are using internally. And
365. 15:14I basically put this into the LLM, and
366. 15:16then I've made variations of that, and
367. 15:18that is this result. So, now there are a
368. 15:21cool things which I can do. For example,
369. 15:23if I added my prompt right here, I have
370. 15:25this prompt optimizer and this prompt
371. 15:27optimizer is made based on my own MD
372. 15:31files. So I have had that in there. So
373. 15:33it's using my own optimizer skill. It's
374. 15:35not using anyone's else, completely
375. 15:37tailored to my liking. So let's generate
376. 15:39an example here. I'm just going to do
377. 15:40the low quality mode. So then we hit
378. 15:43generate and now it's using the API to
379. 15:45make this. So this is the video that it
380. 15:47made.
381. 15:58And as you can see, it has used my MD
382. 16:01file. I don't have to do this in my LM
383. 16:03anymore because it's has done that for
384. 16:06me through this new tool that I built.
385. 16:08And you can access this right now. So
386. 16:09the all you have to do is once you
387. 16:11access this site, you just need to add
388. 16:13in your own API key. You need to add an
389. 16:15open AI API key. You need this so it can
390. 16:18do the prompting for you and then you
391. 16:19get access to this. Another cool feature
392. 16:21that I built into this is the style
393. 16:23feature and here you can copy the style
394. 16:26of any type of reference image. So for
395. 16:28example, I really like the look of this
396. 16:31image and if I now drop this into the
397. 16:33style right here, it will apply that
398. 16:34style to my videos. So now I'm going to
399. 16:36describe my scene. So I'm going to add
400. 16:38in a simple prompt of a cyberpunk style
401. 16:41samurai walking into a flower field and
402. 16:43now we're going to hit generate and now
403. 16:45it's using the style of this image and
404. 16:47it's optimizing my prompt to generate
405. 16:49something like this.
406. 17:00So that is pretty cool. I've also got
407. 17:02one more feature which I'm not going to
408. 17:04share with you, but like this is a tool
409. 17:06we use internally and that's why I like
410. 17:09API so much because I can tweak my own
411. 17:11MD files, my own skill files and I can
412. 17:14just share it internally with my team,
413. 17:15build my own tools, host it on my own
414. 17:17servers, and pay only for what I use.
415. 17:20So, if you apply all of these different
416. 17:21methods, you're able to save yourself
417. 17:24some credits. And hopefully, this was
418. 17:26useful to you. If it was, please let me
419. 17:28know in the comments down below what you
420. 17:29want to see next. And if you want to
421. 17:31learn how to make super realistic AI
422. 17:33videos, then click the video that's on
423. 17:35the screen right now, and hopefully, you
424. 17:37will learn a lot more.