What is Sora?

Sora is a powerful AI video generation model that can create videos from text prompts, animate images, or remix videos in new styles. OpenAI first previewed the model back in February, but today is the first time the company is releasing it for wider use.

What’s new in this version?

Sora’s core functionality – creating impressive videos with simple prompts – remains similar to the February preview, but OpenAI has worked to make the model faster and more cost-effective ahead of this broader release. There are a few new features and two stand out.

One of them is called storyboard. It lets you create multiple AI-generated videos and then stitch them together on a timeline, similar to how you would do with traditional video editors like Adobe Premiere Pro.

The second is a feed that acts as a kind of creative gallery. Users can post their Sora-generated videos to the feed, see the prompts behind specific videos, optimize them, and generally get inspiration, OpenAI says.

How much can you do with it?

You can generate videos from text prompts, change the style of videos and change elements using a tool called Remix, and compose multiple clips using Storyboard. Sora also offers style presets that you can apply to your videos, such as: B. an atmospheric film noir template or a cardboard and paper template that conveys a stop-motion feeling. You can also trim and loop the videos you create.

Who can use it?

You’ll need to subscribe to one of OpenAI’s premium plans to create videos with Sora, either ChatGPT Plus ($20 per month) or ChatGPT Pro ($200 per month). Both subscriptions also include access to other OpenAI products. Users with ChatGPT Plus can create videos up to 5 seconds long and in resolutions up to 720p and can create 50 videos per month.

Users with a ChatGPT Pro subscription can create longer, higher resolution videos. Your videos have a resolution of 1080p and a duration of 20 seconds. You can also have Sora generate up to five variations of a video at once from a single prompt, allowing you to explore options more quickly. Pro users are limited to 500 videos per month, but can also create unlimited “relaxed” videos that are not generated immediately but are queued to be generated when site traffic is low.

Both subscription tiers can create videos in three aspect ratios: vertical, horizontal and square.