Your First Video with AI

Create your first video with AI — no detours, no prior knowledge required. You'll be surprised how easy it is. No camera, no film training needed. Just an idea and a prompt.

Why Video Is a Different Experience

Until now, you've experimented with text, music, and images. Video is different. It requires movement, time, dynamics. This makes video both harder and more magical.

Imagine if you wanted to make a film before: you needed an expensive camera, a location, actors, lighting equipment, hours of shooting, weeks of post-production. Only filmmakers could do this. Today? You describe to an AI what you want to see — and within minutes it delivers scenes that look like real film footage.

This is nothing less than a revolution. And like all revolutions: you truly understand it only when you experience it yourself.

Your Task: Write a Video Prompt

Today you're doing something new: you describe exactly what you want to see to a video generator. Like a storyboard description, but much more precise because the AI turns it into moving images.

Open a video AI tool. Here are three free or inexpensive options:

• Runway Gen-3 (runwayml.com) — the advanced tool, can generate longer videos (up to 10 seconds)
• Pika (pika.art) — simple interface, fast generation, free credits
• Luma Dream Machine (lumalabs.ai) — very realistic, but limited to 5 seconds

All three work similarly: you write a prompt, the AI generates a video.

Here are three example scenarios if nothing comes to mind:

1. Nature Scenario: "A wave crashes against rocks, spray shoots into the air, covered in sunlight. Morning mood, calm and powerful."
2. Urban Scenario: "Rainy street in a city, neon lights reflect in puddles, people walk by with umbrellas, nighttime shot."
3. Abstract Scenario: "Geometric shapes (cubes, spheres) rotate through a color space, transitions between blue and orange, minimalist, hypnotic."

Or write something completely different — maybe something from your life. What have you observed in the last few days that you'd like to see as a video?

What to Observe

When the AI generates your video (usually takes 1-3 minutes), watch it several times and pay attention to your gut feeling:

• Movement Quality: Does the movement look natural, or choppy? Do objects look weightless or do they have weight?
• Style Consistency: Does the lighting mood match your description? Does everything look coherent, or patchwork?
• Timing: Is there too much, too little, or just right? Do you need faster or slower movements?

Note these three observations — they're your material for the next lesson, where we'll figure out why the AI did exactly that.

A Thought to Take Away

Many people see an AI video for the first time and say: "That's not perfect." True. It's not perfect. But it's also not nothing. It's a living sketch, an animated thought you brought from your mind to the screen in seconds. Two years ago, that would have required a Hollywood budget. This isn't the future of film — this is already the present.