Create Cinematic AI Video using Kling | AI Filmmaking Tutorial

In this video, we're going to take a

look at how to create cinematic videos

using Cling. To create this video, I

collaborated with Caven Cardoza, also

known as Caven the Kid. He's one of the

most talented AI filmmakers in the

world, and he's also the instructor of

our advanced AI filmmaking course. So,

over the next few minutes, we're going

to take a look at how to get maximum

cinematic qualities from your AI videos

using Clink. Let's get started. So, as

an illustration for this tutorial, I put

together a quick little scene. Let's

take a look.

man. We've all been there. Okay, so

that's the example that we're working

towards. Let's hop into the tutorial.

So, of course, it all starts with our

character. And for our example, I'm

going to use this image of this woman.

Of course, you can use any character you

want. And the cool thing is with the

techniques that I'm going to show you

today, you'll get consistent characters,

clothing, and environments. So, we have

our character. Now, we want to focus on

the cinematic color grading and style

from the images that we want to create.

Now, of course, you could go in and

curate a board and work inside of tools

like Midjourney to fine-tune the images

to be exactly what you're looking for,

but for our example, I'm going to make

it super easy. Essentially, I came

across this image, and I really like the

color grading style. So, next up, it's

time to create the images. Now, there is

an image generator directly inside of

Cling, but it's not quite as intelligent

as the image generator that I'm going to

show you inside of this video. So, I

like making the images in other tools

and then bringing them into Cling to

animate them and ultimately create your

videos. So, the tool that I'm going to

be using is called Nano Banana. But if

you want to learn more about creating

images or getting consistent styles from

your images, be sure to click the link

below this video to check out our video

on consistent characters. So, I'm going

to use the online platform Free Pick to

use Nano Banana and we'll go ahead and

go to generate image. So, first things

first, make sure under model you're on

Google and then Nano Banana. Let's go

ahead and bring in both of those images.

So again, we have our character. And

then we have our color grading style.

We'll drag and drop them into the image

reference section. And for our prompt,

we'll say a cinematic closeup of at

image one. That's the image that has our

character wearing a linen dress sitting

outside an Italian cafe in Positano. Use

the same color grading and filmic style

as image number two. And we'll go down

here and make sure that we're going to

create four images in 16 by9. And go

ahead and click generate. So after just

a few seconds, we have quite a few

images here. So let's take a look. So

these are already looking pretty darn

good. You can see each one is uniquely

different. I don't like her looking at

the camera quite as much, but I do think

there's a lot of things that I do like

about some of these images. We'll work

our way through here. And I really like

this image. I like the details on the

cup. The composition's interesting. And

I like that she's looking forward. So,

we'll go ahead and go to the export

button. Make sure we're set to PNG and

go ahead and select download. So, now

it's time to create the reverse shot.

So, what is she looking at? So, the cool

thing is inside of Freepic, you can of

course upload the image like we did

earlier, but if you created your image

directly inside of Freepic, you can just

drag and drop it directly in the image

references section, which is a pretty

fun hack. Okay, so now let's type in our

prompt. This one's a bit longer. So,

what I said is show the reverse shot

from the woman's perspective of a guy

drinking coffee. Use the same color

grading as the image one, which is the

only image that we uploaded. The guy

should have the reverse angle of

Positano with the homes on the cliff on

the left side of the frame as this is of

course a reverse shot. So, let's go

ahead and click generate. So this is our

first image here and yeah, it really

knocked it out of the park. That's

exactly what we're looking for. Let's

take a look at a few other images here.

So we have this one which basically

replaced the woman. So not really what

we're looking for. We have this shot

here. Not exactly what we're looking

for. And then we have this shot here.

Again, it replaced her. So not exactly

what we're looking for. So you can see

it's sometimes about iteration, but we

actually got lucky with the very first

generation being exactly what we're

looking for. So, let's go ahead and

download that to our computer. Okay. So,

I'm going to spare you the back and

forth. Essentially, we used the exact

same process to create each one of the

shots for our scene. So, now that we

have our images, it's now time to upres

them. So, there are a few different

tools out there that can help you with

the upresing process. We've tested all

of them, and I really feel like Topaz

Gigapixel is still the best tool on the

market. To use the tool, all you have to

do is take your image, drag and drop it

into Gigapixel, and from here, there are

a few different options. You can see we

have standard, highfidelity, and low

res. I'm going to go ahead and select

highfidelity. And from here, there's a

bunch of advanced settings. I like

turning them all the way down because I

don't want to have any extra denoising

or artifacting happening to our images.

I want them to look as natural as

possible. And for the upscale factor,

I'm going to set it to x times 4, you

can of course multiply it to whatever

number you want. But of course, once you

start getting too high, the images are

just simply too large. So you can see

here with the before and after, if you

see the before, super pixelated, and

then after, it has a lot more realistic

details. So there's just a lot more

individual details with the hair

strands. The eye looks much more

realistic, and you can even see some

texturing in the hat. So, it's doing a

really, really good job. So, when you're

ready to save your image on your

computer, go ahead and click export

image. So, you'll do the exact same

thing for all of the images inside of

your sequence. Okay, now comes the fun

part. It's time to animate our images.

Of course, you can go over to the Cling

platform and animate your images

directly inside of Cling, which is

awesome. I'm actually going to continue

to use freepic here simply because we

already have credits to the platform and

there's an API that connects clink

directly inside of freepic. So it's a

great back and forth process directly

here on the platform. So in order to

create a video inside of freepic, we're

going to go to the generate video button

here. Let's go ahead and bring in one of

our images. I really like this image

here of her making this like grossed out

face. So, we'll go ahead and drag and

drop that into the start image section.

And for our prompt, we'll say, "A woman

looks at the camera confused and grossed

out, looking around, looking back at the

camera." And we'll also say handheld

camera shake. I like defining what

camera movements I want to see if I have

specific things that I'm looking for.

Now, for the duration, we're going to

set this to 10 seconds. basically just

giving us more time and it allows us to

pick and choose the exact few seconds

that work for the shot that we're

working with. And go ahead and click

generate. And after a few minutes, we

have this shot here, which honestly

looks pretty good. You can kind of feel

the sense that she's really grossed out

from the shot. So, I think that Clling

did a really good job. Now, does CL get

it right every single time? Absolutely

not. you definitely will have to

generate multiple times for most of the

shots inside of your films. Let me just

show you a quick example of that. So,

basically, I wanted this guy to rub his

hand through his hair and then lick his

hand and be grossed out. And uh we tried

getting that a few different times. And

so, we have this shot here. He rubs his

hand and then he licks it, but he kind

of just like bites his hand. So, that's

definitely not what we're looking for.

Uh, we have this shot here. Rubs his

hair. He also looks like an Oompa-

Loompa. I think the color grading

changed. And then I don't know, the

dynamics on that tongue is just like

really off. And then we have this shot

here. He touches his head and then he

like licks his fingers and he's like

grossed out. I don't know. It's just

very offputting and weird. So, a lot of

the shots are not exactly what we're

looking for. It's a back and forth

process. You'll create a video, adjust

your prompt. It's going to take you

probably five generations on average to

get exactly what you're looking for. So,

now that you have your shots, it's time

to upres them. So, by default, they're

going to be in 1080p, but you need to

upres them into 4K or beyond if you're

working on a more professional project.

And the tool that I like to use to upres

my videos is Topaz Video AI. So, let's

go ahead and take that shot here of the

woman. She just really grossed out here.

and we'll drag and drop that into Topaz

Video AI. And under the output

resolution here, we'll set it to 4K. And

under the model, we'll set it to

Proteus, which is the default model.

Honestly, it does a pretty good job. And

we'll turn down recover detail to zero.

We're not going to adjust any of the

other settings, and you can go ahead and

go to the quick export button in the

bottom right to export it to your

machine. So, after a few minutes, you'll

have all of the shots on your computer,

and now it's time to edit them all

together inside a video editing

application. I like using Adobe Premiere

Pro, but of course, Da Vinci Resolve is

another fantastic option if you're

looking for a professional tool to edit

all of the video clips. So, I have an

incredibly simple timeline here. You can

see we have our shots. We also have a

music track that I downloaded online.

And then we also have some sound

effects. Now, one tip that I like to use

whenever I am working with AI video

footage is to apply a very simple film

grain to my timeline. This helps

everything to just feel a bit more

realistic. You don't want to go

overboard, but just a little bit goes a

long way. So, I've went ahead and pasted

our film grain into the timeline. You

can see we have the film grain over our

video footage. So, I have the grain

selected in track two here, but you'll

see that it's gray. Basically, when we

play it back, there's the grain, but

there's, you know, nothing that you can

see underneath. So, what we're going to

do is change the blend mode to overlay.

And then I'm going to turn down the

opacity below 50%. So, for this one, I'm

going to do 42%. I recommend playing

around with it to dial it in to the

exact grain amount that you're looking

for. I really think less is more when

you're working with grain. A lot of

times people will just set it to 100%.

And it really comes across as a little

too grungy in my opinion. So now that

you have everything in your timeline,

you can go in and finesse the shots.

This is your shot to, of course, adjust

the sound design. You can add in

different music. you have the ability to

match the color grading, which can be

very helpful for helping to sell the

overall realism of your scene. And once

you're done, you can export your

project. So, there you go. That's how to

create realistic and cinematic AI video

footage inside of Cling. Of course, if

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