Experiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools

The date is January 9, 2025. I came across an article on a public account about the upgrade of Tongyi Wanxiang, praising its camera work and quality as professional-grade. Thus, I had the idea to experience and compare various domestic AI video generation tools. Note that I am not a professional user and not skilled in prompt writing, so this article can be seen as an experiential journey.
Experiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools
Prompt
The background is a rural village in southern China in the 1980s, on New Year's Eve. In the distance, the sound of firecrackers can be heard. A small boy squats down to light a firecracker and then immediately runs away. After a while, the firecrackers begin to explode, and the faint light illuminates the faces of five watching children.
After running all the models, I realized that this prompt was very vague and inaccurate.
Below is a brief introduction to each product and their generation effects.
Jimeng
Official website: https://jimeng.jianying.com. Owned by ByteDance, it rewards 88 points for daily logins (valid for the day), and generating a video using a professional model costs 20 points.
This is a product that is used quite frequently.
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Choosing the Pro version of the model, the effect is as follows:

The picture quality is good. The houses and clothing of the characters are somewhat close to the 1980s as described in the prompt. The time is set at night, but the sky in the video seems to be during the day. The process of lighting the firecrackers is missing. The final effect of the firecrackers is similar to fireworks.Experiencing Domestic AI Video Generation ToolsExperiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools.

Hailuo
Official website: https://hailuoai.com. Daily login rewards 100 shells, and generating a video costs 30 shells.
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Generation effect:

The picture quality is good, and it has a sense of camera workExperiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools. The houses and clothing of the characters are also quite close to the 1980s. The sky seems to be at dusk; it would be better if the houses had lights on. The process of lighting firecrackers is not quite right, and a child holding fireworks is generated, with seven children watching.

Tongyi Wanxiang
Experiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools
Generation effect:
The picture quality is good. The houses and clothing of the characters are similar to the 1980s. The time is set at night, and the room seems to have lights on, but the environment is too bright, resembling daytime. The process of the child lighting firecrackers is relatively in line with expectations, and even a shadow of a person is generated. The number of watching children is four, perhaps including the one lighting the firecracker. After turning around, the second child remained still, and their head turned 180 degrees very abruptly, which was quite scaryExperiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools. A string of firecracker decorations appeared abruptly, with inappropriate positioning and size.
Tencent Hunyuan
Official website: https://video.hunyuan.tencent.com. Daily login rewards 6 generation opportunities.
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Generation effect:

The picture quality is good. There are no houses; it seems to be in the wild, and the clothing of the characters has a sense of age. The time is at night, and the night sky can be seen. The process of lighting firecrackers is relatively complete; the firecrackers look a bit fake. Finally, five children walk towards the camera, but it is unreasonable for them to walk through the firecrackers. After stopping, their gaze seems to be looking at something, creating a sense of being watchedExperiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools.

Kuaishou Keling
Official website: https://klingai.kuaishou.com/text-to-video. Monthly rewards 366 inspiration points, and generating a video costs 20 inspiration points.
Experiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools
Generation effect:

The picture quality is good. The houses and clothing of the characters have a sense of age; the village houses and fields growing crops are depicted. However, the time is set during the Spring Festival, and it shouldn’t be this hot in southern China; it is unreasonable for the children to be wearing short sleeves or going shirtless. The expressions of the characters are quite on point, showing happiness and surprise. The child lighting the firecrackers runs away with the flame in hand, a bit comicalExperiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools.

Conclusion

Even if the prompts are not detailed or accurate enough, the performance of each model product is quite good. What kind of effects can be achieved if the prompts are optimized? It is worth looking forward to. However, this also shows that the user’s professional literacy greatly affects the actual results and the gap from expectations. For ordinary non-professionals to create higher-quality works, mastering some professional knowledge is very necessary, such as how to write, how to write scripts, understanding types of shots and camera terminology, learning to ask questions, etc.

When your ideas are still vague, using AI tools can provide more inspiration, continuously enriching and perfecting ideas, and ultimately, a fantastic creation can emerge with the assistance of AI. Isn’t that exciting?

Experiencing Domestic AI Video Generation Tools

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