Pika Labs Tutorial: The Secret to Cinematic AI Videos

Pika Labs can create high quality cinematic AI Videos. The secret to do this, is to use image-to-video instead of the text-to-video option. And for this, you need to create universal images with matching scenes, lighting and color schemes in an external text-to-image app.
In this tutorial I'll cover everything about Pika Labs and teach you how to make cinematic prompts for text to image apps like midjourney, stable diffusion or any other one. So you can create the best AI Film on the discord server from Pica.
Download my FREE Pika Labs Guide here :
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Download the Cyber Jungle Prompting guide here:
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Pika Discord
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Links to text to image apps (some of them are affiliate links)
rundiffusion.com?ref=digitalmagic
ideogram.ai/
civitai.com/
github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stab...
www.midjourney.com
openai.com/dall-e-3
Topaz Video AI
www.topazlabs.com/
00:00 Intro - Pika Labs is a free AI video generator where you can use text or image prompts to create short videos
00:44 How to join Pika's Discord server to start prompting using the Pika bot or text boxes.
01:22 Creating text to video
02:17 Create image to video and add parameters and camera movements for text to video and image to video
07:15 Structuring text-to-video and video-to-image prompts to get universal looking images and create your own cinematic universe
08:05 Creating text-to-image in midjourney and create cinematic images with uniform scenes, color arrangements and lighting
09:35 Upscaling your videos to 4k with Topaz Video AI
10:43 Creating action in your text-to-image shots using dynamic movements prompts
DISCLAIMER: No copyright is claimed in this video and to the extent that material may appear to be infringed, I assert that such alleged infringement is permissible under fair use principles. If you believe material has been used in an unauthorized manner, please contact the poster.
Music: KZbin Library - Eternal Garden - Dan Henig

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Very useful AI tutorial to create videos with Pika Labs! Thanks for sharing! Keep it Up! :)

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Was wondering and wishing to make Ai generated short film, Thanks for shedding light on possibilities. And the tools you have provided is not just a time saver it is a game changer. Thanks again 💌🤝

[@digital_magic]

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[@AlbaogLaura]

This was a really good tutorial. No filler stuff, only the Import stuff. And thanks for the cheat sheet🌟Keep up the good work buddy!🌟🌟🌟

[@digital_magic]

Thanx i am glad you liked it :-) And i know what you mean with the filler stuff. I do it sometimes to and i dont like it, but many youtubers do it because youtube rewards long watch time. Its the system that creates this stuff, which is a shame

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I thought my AI Films were coming out good, but after your expertise on Pika Labs and upscaling. They will be on a whole new level! Much Thanks!

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Super helpful - I was not aware that you could open your own "private" message window.

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[@digital_magic]

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HUGE thanks! You are amazing teacher!

[@digital_magic]

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This tutorial is AWESOME !! thanks

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FINALY some one that can speak in plain English and breaks it down on how to use a AI tool with examples thank you for explaining i always wanted to learn but alot of other videos accross toher platforms are way to complicated im a IT guy building computers infrastructure i do. but from fixing and building this is out side my area and for once nice to see it done well thank you again for making this instructional video easy to understand.

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[@digital_magic]

I am glad you liked the video 🙂 With my new Visual Prompt Toolkit with over 1000+ Visual Keywords, creating the base images gets even more fun and easy: digitalmagic.gumroad.com/l/PromptToolkit

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[@digital_magic]

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You realy work hard to create such video. Thank you...

[@digital_magic]

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[@digital_magic]

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[@suzannecarter445]

I've watched dozens and dozens of KZbin video about AI film making but this one really go me excited again. I wasn't going to use Pika even though the quality is wonderful simply because it wouldn't accept my photos, only prompts. I knew I had to do it in 2 steps. Also I didn't really know enough about direction/camera angles. Thank you for the free PDF! You can be sure I subscribed! I was already extending my AI videos by using a free utility called FinalFrame to feed repeatedly as input to Runway. I knew about Topaz labs, but when I needed it, I couldn't remember the name (thanks for reminding me).

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Thanks, I didn't know Pika. I turned a client's static project (Dys Superheroes (dyslexic, dyscalculic, and other dys)), into anime. But my first attempts using my illustrations were inconclusive (only the mouth moves, whereas I'd like to see the arms lift), but I don't despair. Thank you again for all these tutorials, your involvement and the training help you provide.

[@digital_magic]

thanx for your nice comment Stany

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Just a few mins in and my joy to find a decent human being to provide all this information ❤ wonderful human being!

[@digital_magic]

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Thank You!

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Good explanation

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Impressive work and a great explanation! Thank you.

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thought my AI Films were coming out good, but after your expertise on Pika Labs and upscaling. They will be on a whole new level! Much Thanks!

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Thanks!

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Thank you🤓

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[@digital_magic]

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[@EcomGypsy]

This is amazing. Really appreciate the tutorial. I wanted to know if you have ever produced a longer full video using this method? Appreciated!

[@digital_magic]

Not yet! and thanx for your nice comment, i am glad you liked the video :-)

[@kzgameplayz]

Very nice bro

[@digital_magic]

Thanks

[@DigitalDreamscapesAIArtU-gu6uo]

Good explanation! The results you can get from imagetovideo is truly remarkable. You can also take the last frame from a pika created movie and use it again so you can get a larger coherent movie. The only problem is that because of compression the quality goes down rather fast :(

[@digital_magic]

thanx for your comment, i also noticed that when you do that, that you get slight color differences

[@tigersgedanken1246]

will there be longer videos available soon? like a premium version?

[@spiral-m]

For this reason it's not worth using unless you want that effect.

[@digital_magic]

@@spiral-m i think so too, i have tried it, but you just see the difference too much

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[@digital_magic]

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[@Sqiky911]

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[@digital_magic]

You are very welcome

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I love Pika Labs! I just made a video showing how to automate it so you can sit back and watch your channel grow itself.

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That is so brilliant thank you for sharing your knowledge freely.

[@digital_magic]

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[@PIOT23]

I feel like I learned more in the 1st minute of this video than hours I’ve spent learning the same stuff elsewhere

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[@MarcPhilipGoodman]

Very nice tutorial! thanks so much for all the work

[@digital_magic]

You're very welcome! and thanx for watching :-)

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great

[@digital_magic]

thanx

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Thank you so much for these tips! Freaking amazing!

[@digital_magic]

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[@digital_magic]

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fast for a beginner but well done and lots of info

[@digital_magic]

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[@DoctorKusanagi]

Thank You for the Tutorial! I will be able to evolve my Pika Prompting skills!

[@digital_magic]

Glad I could help!

[@mcramirez]

Simply excellent teaching. It motivated me to use the tool. Thanks!!!

[@digital_magic]

Glad it was helpful! And thanx for your nice comment :-)

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Fantastic tutorial. Also thank you for the PDFs!

[@digital_magic]

You're very welcome!

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Thanks Bro

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Very good video

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Exactly what I needed thanks ^^

[@digital_magic]

Good to hear 🙂 Glad it was helpful

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OMG! I’m a filmmaker, artist, and tech geek raised by a tech geek. This is going to be amazing! I can’t wait to try it!

[@digital_magic]

Have fun!

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I love scooby,...and yes i look like shaggy with this haircut 😅

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2:30 is how you know he cares!

[@digital_magic]

Thanx 🙂