You Can Now Use Sora! Here's How...

Summary

OpenAI has finally launched Sora, its long-awaited AI video generator model. Despite many competitors catching up during Sora's development, this new tool holds a distinct edge as demonstrated in recent demos. Users can access Sora with a Chat GPT+ or Pro account, allowing for varying levels of video generation capabilities. However, there are certain regional restrictions with countries in the UK and the EU still pending. While the tool promises fascinating functionalities like concurrent generations and customizable presets, user experiences have varied due to high initial demand leading to long wait times and occasional errors. Expect future updates to address these issues as Sora gains traction and user feedback.

Highlights

• OpenAI finally released Sora, their much-anticipated AI video tool, giving users exciting new possibilities! 🎉
• Sora's accessibility requires a paid Chat GPT account, offering 50 to 500 video generations monthly, depending on your subscription plan. 📈
• Regions left out include the UK and EU, pending legal clarifications before they can join the Sora party. 🚧
• Sora excels with unique features like multiple concurrent generations and DIY preset creation. 🛠️
• Initial user reports indicate heavy server loads causing slow generation times and occasional errors. 😅

Key Takeaways

• Sora by OpenAI is finally here, offering a new frontier in AI video generation! 🎥
• Access Sora with Chat GPT+ or Pro accounts, with up to 500 video generations monthly on the Pro plan. 💰
• Current limitations include availability in some countries, like missing out in the UK and EU. 🌍
• Sora's features include concurrent video generation and cool presets to play around with. ⚙️
• High demand is causing some slowdowns and errors, but improvements are on the way! ⏳

Overview

OpenAI's new tool, Sora, is causing quite a buzz in the AI community as it finally hits the market. Sora offers a fresh way to generate videos using AI technology, promising to surpass existing tools despite its delayed release. A Chat GPT+ or Pro account is necessary to access Sora, with users enjoying varied levels of video generation based on their subscription plan.

While packed with exciting features like concurrent generation capabilities and customizable presets, Sora is still ironing out some wrinkles. There’s a notable buzz among users about the extensive server demand, leading to longer generation times and occasional hiccups. Access is still restricted in some countries, notably the UK and the EU, due to pending legalities surrounding AI policies.

Expect updates and enhancements as Sora gathers more user feedback and refines its services. Despite its current challenges, Sora is heralded as a monumental step in AI video technology, and the future looks bright for users eager to explore its full potential. As more people access it, the tool is expected to evolve, promising a smoother and more efficient user experience.

You Can Now Use Sora! Here's How... Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 well the day is finally here we've been hearing about this forever now but open AI finally released Sora their AI video generator model I'm super excited to get in play with it I have not personally been able to use it yet although it did take so long to come out that all of the other AI video generators have seemed to improve and got better and almost got to the level of Sora but from what I saw in today's demos Sora still looks like it's got a little bit of an edge on a lot of the other tools so let's dive in and put it through its motions the thing most
• 00:30 - 01:00 people are probably going to be asking themselves is how much does Sora cost to use well if you've got a chat GPT paid account you can use it with your account so if you're on the $20 a month plus account you get up to 50 videos per month which is 1,000 credits you can generate at 720p if you're on their new $200 a month Pro Plan you can generate up to 500 videos a month or 10,000 credits you also get unlimited relaxed videos so I'm assuming that's a slower to process video generation you can
• 01:00 - 01:30 generate up to 1080p resolution and 20 seconds you can have five concurrent Generations so you can have a whole bunch of generations going at once you can actually download the videos without the watermark so if you're on that $200 a month plan you get a bunch of extra features but if you're on the $20 a month plan you do get to use it as well I did upgrade to the $200 a month plan because well I make YouTube videos about AI so I figure I should have access to as much as I can the other thing to note about Sora is that it is not available in every single country yet they do have
• 01:30 - 02:00 a list of countries that it's available in there are quite a few countries that it is available in right now however it is important to note that it is not available in the UK or the European Union yet they're trying to sort out you know all the legalities of getting it live over there because they have a little bit more strict of AI related policies in those areas so let's go ahead and try it out when I log into the dashboard here I have a fairly familiar intuitive looking dashboard over on the left menu we've got our recent videos
• 02:00 - 02:30 we've got featured we've got saved we've got our library all videos our favorites our uploads and it looks like we'll be able to organize by folders which is pretty handy something I wish chat GPT actually did up in the top right here we've got filter to filter by prompts storyboards remixes Blends and Loops we've got some fill options by aspect ratio and square I don't totally know what that means yet we've got our activity and then we have got our little profile and settings dropped down here but click into settings we've got
• 02:30 - 03:00 options for username email themes you can decide whether or not you want your videos published to the explore page and you can choose whether or not you want your content to be used in training I can click on my plan here I can see how many credits I've got how many relaxed videos I've got Max concurrent Generations Max video duration max resolution and the ability to download without watermarks so I can see all of the features I've got here then down at the bottom we have got our prompt entry box I can upload an image when I go to
• 03:00 - 03:30 upload an image it asks you to agree to a bunch of policies so let's go ahead and do that but I'm not actually going to upload an image right now we'll come back to that in a minute we've got some presets here balloon world stop motion archival film Noir cardboard and paper craft and I believe in their demo video this morning they actually said you can create your own presets as well we've got our resolution it looks like at the moment we have three options 16x9 1x1 square or 9x6 sort of vertical videos we've got our resolution we have the option for 80P 720p and 1080p we can see
• 03:30 - 04:00 how much slower each progressively better resolution is we've got our duration 5 Seconds 10 seconds 15 seconds and 20 seconds I believe you need to be on the higher end plan to go all the way up to 20 seconds and you can choose how many video variations you want it to generate when you generate new videos 1 2 or 4 and then over here we've got the storyboard option which we'll have to play with in a minute but let's go ahead and test some of the videos that I always like to test when I first used video generators I like to do a monkey
• 04:00 - 04:30 on roller skates because so far none of the video generators have done a great job with that one let's go ahead and leave it at 5 Seconds 480p just for the speed of generation just cuz it's a test and we'll create the video now I can see up here it added to the queue so I've got one video running but I get five concurrent videos because I am on the pro account so let's go ahead and do another one let's do a wolf howling at the moon we'll generate that one now I've got two concurrent Generations let's do a cat eating tacos you've
• 04:30 - 05:00 watched my previous AI video Generation videos you've seen me do all of these prompts before now for whatever reason one of my videos failed so a cat eating tacos there was an unexpected error running this prompt let's try that again there shouldn't be any problem with that one a cat eating tacos let's go ahead and generate it this time it appears to be working maybe we'll find out my other videos still appear to be queued when I look up here I'm going to go ahead and rename this new folder that I created I'm just going to call it test so when I'm back in Sora later I know that these
• 05:00 - 05:30 were just the videos I was using it to test with and my guess is since Sora was announced today there are a lot of people trying to generate videos right in this moment it appears to be so overloaded in fact that a lot of people right now are getting this message signups are temporarily unavailable we're currently experiencing heavy traffic and have temporarily disabled signups we're working to get them back up shortly so check back soon so if you do jump over to Sora expecting to play with it and you haven't signed up for Sora yet with your pro or Plus account may see this message hopefully it's gone by the time you try to sign up for Sora
• 05:30 - 06:00 but some people are running into this issue one little coder here shared on X that he actually has signed up but was unable to actually generate a video because it says service at capacity please try again later I personally haven't run into this issue yet but I have gotten a few unexpected errors all right so I got my first generation of a monkey on roller skates again it's only at 480p and you know the quality is really showing one thing I find interesting about watching the playback of these videos is if I scroll my mouse
• 06:00 - 06:30 across the video it actually plays it so I can actually scroll it forwards and backwards you can see my little finger there on the left video and just by moving I'm not clicking or anything just by moving my mouse across the video it's playing forwards and backwards now other than the fact that these videos are 480p there is no doubt that this is a monkey on roller skates this is 100% the best generation of a monkey on roller skates that I've seen so far and all of the video tools that I've tested it is a monkey wearing roller skates they're
• 06:30 - 07:00 clearly roller skates the leg kind of disappears at one moment on the left one right there it looks like the legs sort of switch places with each other but it's pretty dang good but again this is 480p so is a little Pixy looking I think it's pretty bogged down took about 6 minutes just to wait through the queue of generation and again I'm on the $200 a month plan I generated at the lowest resolution the shortest time possible and it took 6 minutes just to get out of the queue and then once it started generating it took another minute to 2 minutes to generate wasn't paying close
• 07:00 - 07:30 enough attention but it took a good minute or two to generate so Allin I started the generation at 1029 it was done by about 1037 so it took about 9 minutes from the time I entered the prompt to the time I got the video out of it my wolf howling at the moon so far is taking even longer than that it's at 94% right now but I started the generation at 10:30 it is now 1038 so so far we're about 8 minutes in on that one and my cat eating tacos I'm at about 7 Minutes in on this one so I finally got the wolf howling at the Moon it took
• 07:30 - 08:00 about 11 minutes to generate these but let's go ahead and take a peek you can look at both of them at the same time as I scroll across the one on the right is barely animated at all you could see a little bit of the trees rustling and the Wolf moves a teeny tiny bit the one on the left here it just looks like a static image that somebody put a parallax effect behind it doesn't even look like a video the wolf's not moving at all the trees aren't really moving it just sort of looks like there's a starry background and then a foreground with a rock and a wolf and a trees in the Mo and it's sort of like a parallax between
• 08:00 - 08:30 the two images and then again on the one on the right there like very subtle movement so fairly disappointing for waiting 11 minutes to get this which is only 40p in 5 seconds I did get my cat eating tacos this one took about 11 minutes also so the one on the top is a cat maybe eating a piece of lettuce or something and then the one on the right here the cat's chewing you can see a taco there not too bad I'm I think it's fairly impressive I don't have much complaints about this one it would have been nice if like the face was in the taco eating it but it's a prettyy solid
• 08:30 - 09:00 generation the wolf howling at the moon was disappointing the monkey on roller skates I'm actually pretty impressed I've had a hard time getting a monkey on roller skates let's try an image to video I'll go ahead and upload an image here here's an image that I used for a recent thumbnail of me kind of talking into a mic let's just call it a man speaks into a microphone I'm a little worried about trying 1080p right now cuz if it's eight times slower and the other ones took 10 minutes that means it's going to take 80 minutes to generate so I'll go ahead and leave it on 4 480p just for the demo purposes of this video
• 09:00 - 09:30 ideally once Sora has been out for a little bit longer those wait times come down but I do think it's getting bombarded today let's go a and create the video based on that image there and then while we're waiting for the image to video let's try some of these presets here let's do a balloon world and I want to test all of these presets with like the same prompt so I can see how the preset adjusts the same prompt let's do a pirate juggling watermelons I'm going to copy this prompt so I can use it over over and over again we're going to use
• 09:30 - 10:00 the balloon World preset we'll run that one I'm going to try the stop motion preset we'll try the archival preset and the film Noir preset all right so the video I tried to generate where it was starting with an image of my face that one after about 20 minutes it said there was an unexpected error running this prompt retry prompt I'll go ahead and click retry prompt here and it just brings up a page that is a larger video showing there was unexpected error so not sure why clicking retry prompt
• 10:00 - 10:30 doesn't actually do anything I don't know if that's a bug or what's going on but nothing happens when I click retry prompt other than it just opens a page with the errored Out video on it all right so I got the image to video to work after that first unexpected error and here's what it did so the first one it has some like subtle Motion in the eyes then it kind of Zooms in to show more of the jacket and then it starts to talk the second one starts with just a static image doesn't move and then moves to a completely different image so kind
• 10:30 - 11:00 of funky how that worked I don't really know how to prompt Sora yet this is literally my first day using it as well so there's probably a lot of things I'm doing wrong with prompting I'm sure there's a lot of people that are going to give some advice on how to actually get better results from the prompts you give it but from this image it basically said cool I like your image but I'm going to make you a completely different video now let's look at some of the presets we were playing with here's a pirate juggling watermelons using that balloon World prompt I guess it kind of looks balloony it more looks like a almost like a Pixar style animation but
• 11:00 - 11:30 I could see it being a little bit balloony uh the one on the right he more like makes one watermelon turn into two as opposed to juggling and it looks like he's just sort of making watermelons float I'm not really seeing the juggling action it's a decent looking video I guess this one is stop motion video and yeah that looks like stop motion it doesn't look like a pirate juggling in either one on the one on the left it just looks like watermelon sort of floating around in the air on the one on the right it looks like a watermelon pops out of the water and floats there
• 11:30 - 12:00 but it does look like stop motion animation then we have archival footage here this actually is starting to look a little bit more like juggling but the balls are sort of floating away you got the the little like marks on the on the side that almost look like film and it does look like an older archival video so it has the preset I can see that the preset is working the video the physics of it is just still kind of wonky definitely looks very AI generated and now we have our film Noir preset of a pirate juggling watermelon if I hover
• 12:00 - 12:30 over this one I mean it's black and white and I guess film Noir cuz you could kind of see all the shadows and stuff but once again it can't figure out the juggling aspect of it uh they don't really look like watermelons either they just kind of look like balls or you know bowling balls or something that he's holding and then here's the final preset the cardboard and paper cutout version once again not much juggling the one on the left looks a little more like juggling the one on the right looks like he's just kind of turning one watermelon into two and then dropping it on the ground and turn into one again but I
• 12:30 - 13:00 definitely get the cardboard and paper cutout aesthetic it just can't figure out how to do juggling yet this one also took about 20 minutes to generate so it is still slow right now but we can see what the various presets do let's go ahead and try the storyboard feature I'm going to click storyboard and this is one of the areas where I feel Sora gets really powerful is you can actually give it multiple prompts along a timeline and have it sort of work with those prompts so I want to try to get like a man standing on a cliff morphing into a wolf
• 13:00 - 13:30 so I can come here to like the 2 second marker click plus and now I can add another prompt for the first one we want a man standing on a cliff let's go with a full moon in the background and then 2 seconds in the man morphs into a wolf let's see if we can get a man standing on a cliff with a moon in the background sort of morphing into a wolf like a werewolf and we'll go ahead and click create and that one's now added to the queue and the other cool thing about this storyboard is you can generate a 5-second video and if you don't like the
• 13:30 - 14:00 last 1 second of the video you can crop it down to 4 seconds and then have the storyboard generator regenerate that last 1 second or you can slide the whole video over and have it regenerate the first 1 second so it takes the context of the videos that you have and knows to how to extend them and let's take a peek at the storyboard generation now remember it starts with a man on a cliff and then the man is supposed to morph into a wolf let's check out the two generations we can definitely see the man on the cliff there let's go ahead
• 14:00 - 14:30 and hover over it and let's see what the animation does he sort of crouches down and doesn't turn into a wolf the one on the right it just sort of Zooms in on the man and never actually turns into a wolf either maybe it just needs a longer generation let's see what happens if I just give it a prompt without using the storyboard feature like a man on a cliff morphs into a wolf under a full moon maybe if we try that as oppos the storyboard feature I'll get something a little bit closer to what I was hoping that this one would do but this one's just sort of a dude standing on a cliff
• 14:30 - 15:00 this one looks like it could just be a static image that's zooming in on the image here's my full prompt of a man on a cliff morph into a wolf under a full moon we can see the full moon we can see the man but we're not seeing much morphing so uh it seems to struggle with a man morphing into a wolf but again maybe a more detailed prompt would have worked and also I got one failed variant so it was supposed to generate two videos it only generated one again I think this is a symptom of the servers just being completely overloaded right now and now instead of generating more
• 15:00 - 15:30 videos to show what it's capable of I'm going to show some of the videos that are under the featured tab under explore here because every time I'm generating a video it's taking between 15 and 20 minutes right now which is making the video I'm recording right now take forever my advice is if you want to use Sora I'd probably wait like a week or so until maybe some of the craziness dies down because right now it is super overloaded it is taking a long time to generate videos even if you're on the high-end $200 a month plan also we'll probably have more feedback and tips on how to better prompt by then as well cuz
• 15:30 - 16:00 right now I'm still kind of confused on how to get something really good out of Sora you know simple basic prompts don't work well so chances are you have to give it a little bit more detail to really get what you're looking for but looking at some of the examples in the feature tab people are getting really good videos out of this we've got like a a bird on a fence here that looks pretty good looks pretty realistic you've got some clouds we've got like a I don't know looks like a clay rocket here we've got a bunch of colorful dancing poodles like River and this like fantasy looking
• 16:00 - 16:30 World somebody looking out over a city skyscraper a monkey in the Smoke driving through some trees here a ladybug a man walking through what looks like Tokyo or or something we've got a a ship on the ocean an elephant walking in the snow here a cat on a skateboard a viking walking in the snow I mean the stuff that's showing up in the featured videos is really really impressive I mean people are making really good videos with this I just need to figure out how to prompt this a little bit better this Viking in the snow is really impressive I wonder if I can actually see the prompt on it so if I click on it we can
• 16:30 - 17:00 see a video of a Viking walking through a mountain snowy landscape near the ocean so you can see the ocean in the background and the snowy landscape that's pretty good with a pretty basic prompt this one with the ship on the water here was an anamorphic extreme wide shot of a double masted wooden ship departing from the ancient Port of jopa and then let's see if I hover over it you can see the whole prompt I'm not going to read the whole thing it's a long prompt so this one actually was a really really detailed long prompt oh this pixel art one is really good what is this okay so I can't read that I wonder if I can translate it here so the
• 17:00 - 17:30 translation here is a cut scene for Minecraft in which the player escapes from a gradually Frozen Village that looks really cool I really like the sort of like pixel art look of that video so I think my problem is I wasn't putting enough detail on the prompts I think just slightly more detail will work a little better look at this close-up of a monkey like that looks straight out of a nature documentary here so this was a remix of a different video making him close his eyes so people are definitely getting some amazing videos I'll just hover here on the screen over some of
• 17:30 - 18:00 these videos for a second so you can look at some of the generations people are getting here's a few more and one of the nice things is you can go into the featured section or the recent section click into any video that somebody else made and see the exact prompt they made or remix The Prompt and tweak it a little bit so that's pretty cool as well so Sora is definitely impressive so here's a video I found on my computer that I generated back in March of 2023 of a monkey on roller skates that's what we were getting back in March of 2023 when you compare that to what Sora is generating in December of
• 18:00 - 18:30 2024 we have come a long way honestly I know you can find a lot of issues in these videos but just looking at where we were in March 2023 to where we are today in December 2024 AI video has made insane leaps it does seem like you need to give it a little bit of detail in your prompt just giving it a monkey on roller skates a wolf howling at the moon things like that doesn't seem to be enough to get the motion that I want out of it also again super bogged right now people are claiming on X that it's
• 18:30 - 19:00 taking them upwards of an hour to generate a video right now I think I've been fairly lucky generating my videos in 15 to 20 minutes right now uh so I would probably hold off like I mentioned but again if we look in the explore Tab and see some of the recent videos people are getting some of them are pretty dang impressive others not so much but Sora is here and this is the worst it's ever going to get I'm excited to play with it some more yeah let's go this looks fun excited to dive in test even more and as I figure out more tips and tricks I'll
• 19:00 - 19:30 likely make some follow-up videos and uh we'll dive in even deeper hopefully you enjoyed this hopefully you learned a little bit more about what Sora is capable of and uh you get a chance to play with it hopefully it's not too bogged down for you to actually get in and generate some videos I'm going to keep going but because the videos are so long to generate I'll probably start sharing some of my Generations over on X and Instagram and places like that so you can see what I'm actually getting out of Sora so if you're not following me on those places I'll probably be posting stuff there because this video is going to take me multiple days to make if if I keep on trying to generate
• 19:30 - 20:00 more videos to put it through its motions well it's as bogged down as it is but Sor is here anybody outside of like the UK and Europe can go play with it right now and Sam Alman even mentioned this is like the gpt1 or the dolly one of AI video generation from Sora I can only imagine what we're going to see a year from now all right that's it I'm done rambling I'll see you in the next video bye-bye