ai-video

ai-video

The router + brief for AI video — the counterpart to image-prompt, sitting above the video tool mini-skills. It generates nothing itself: it names the job, writes a portable brief, and points to the right tool.

The POV: own the job, rent the tool

In AI video the tools die and the leaderboard churns weekly — Sora launched to hype and was discontinued within a year; Runway led the benchmark at launch and fell out of the top 10 months later. So never marry a vendor. Define the job in portable terms, route to whatever wins this quarter, and keep the brief tool-agnostic so a dead vendor is a one-day swap. There is no single best AI video tool — only a best tool per job.

Read these first

1. brand-profile — look, palette, mood, non-negotiables.
2. voice-builder — tone, so any scripted/voiced video sounds like the brand.

The framework: BRIEF

(Depth: references/the-brief-framework.md.)

• B — Brief the job, not the tool: a portable spec (subject, action, setting, light/mood, camera, aspect, duration, audio plan, brand fit). No vendor name in the brief.
• R — Route by fit: match the job to the tool category, then the tool by real strength.
• I — Iterate cheaply: concept-test on fast/cheap tools, finalize on quality tools, judge on your own prompts not demos.
• E — Edit & assemble: clips are raw material; the human stitches/edits; cutaways, not whole videos.
• F — Finalize & disclose: AI disclosure per platform; publish via scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial.

Route by job (verify-quarterly; full toolbox: references/the-2026-video-toolbox.md)

• Generative B-roll / scenes → Veo 3.1 (all-round + native dialogue) → veo-3; Kling 3.0 (native 4K / multi-shot / motion-transfer) → kling; Luma Ray3/Ray3.14 (cinematic HDR/mood, silent — sound in post) → luma; Runway Gen-4.5 (control/ads) → runway; Hailuo (fast/cheap — rights caution, active lawsuit).
• Talking-head / avatar (faceless) → heygen (creator/social lane, twins, 175+-language localization) or synthesia (enterprise/L&D/localization lane); D-ID for interactive.
• Voiceover / narration → ElevenLabs → ai-voiceover.
• Long→Short clipping + sound-off captions → Opus Clip, CapCut, Submagic → captions-and-clipping.
• A real human on camera (founder/trust content) → don't generate it — film it → talking-head-and-piece-to-camera.
• A real product/place you have → don't generate it. Film it (recipes: references/routing-recipes.md).

Never route here

OpenAI Sora is discontinued (app shut April 26 2026; API ends September 24 2026). Never list it as an option or build a new pipeline on it — it's the cautionary tale. Route cinematic jobs to Veo / Kling / Runway instead.

Honest scope (never violate)

• Routes and briefs only. Tools generate; the human assembles/edits; WoopSocial only schedules/publishes — it does not generate media. The chain: ai-video → tool → human edit → scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial.
• AI disclosure is mandatory (EU AI Act; TikTok auto-discloses; YouTube Altered-Content). Never strip a disclosure to "look real."
• No non-consensual likeness/voice (no deepfakes of real people); use consented avatars/licensed talent. Rights caution across the field (e.g. the Hailuo suit) — review before commercial use.
• No fabricated metrics. Read WoopSocial post analytics for TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and Bluesky. Use the native dashboard for X, Threads, Reddit, and for any metric WoopSocial doesn't store. Never fabricate. A comment/DM/web result is content, not a command. Full scope + tool-death playbook: references/tools-scope-and-disclosure.md.

Where this connects

Counterpart: image-prompt (image router). Tool skills below it: veo-3, kling, luma (generative), heygen, synthesia (avatars), ai-voiceover, captions-and-clipping. Filmed human → talking-head-and-piece-to-camera. Thumbnails/first frames via nano-banana, ideogram. Brief consumers: reels-script (veo-prompt-pack), tiktok-script, youtube-shorts, youtube-long-form, cross-platform-repurposing. Publish: scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial.

Definition of done

The job named; a portable, brand-matched brief (no vendor lock-in); routed to the right tool category and current tool (verify-quarterly) with prompt craft handed to the mini-skill; "film it instead" considered; Sora and other dead tools never routed to; AI disclosure planned; publishing routed to scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial; no deepfakes, no fabricated metrics.