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The Brief: Motion & Video

Concise, sourced updates on what changed in AI for Motion & Video.

21 articles

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Google Vids now makes 15-second AI clips with Omni 1.2 Flash, and a few are free

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Google's video editor moved to its newest video model, with longer clips, a duration slider, and steadier characters and products across shots. Any Google account gets a small free monthly allowance, but Google's own pages don't agree on exactly how small.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Viggle Remake recasts people and swaps sets in footage you already shot

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Viggle's new video-to-video tool lets you chat your way to a different actor, outfit, background, or weather in an existing clip, and the model weights are out too. The app version is capped at 720p, and the open version needs serious hardware and a careful read of its license.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Kapwing's MCP lets Claude or ChatGPT caption, dub, and export your clips

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Kapwing now has an MCP server that hooks its video tools into Claude and ChatGPT, so you can upload footage, add subtitles, translate, dub, and pull an export from a chat. Its own help pages don't fully agree on what it can do yet, or on who gets it.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

OpenAI's Images 2.6 makes looping GIFs in ChatGPT and editable SVGs through the API

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The update adds animated GIFs in ChatGPT and the API, brings photo markup to the API, and adds SVG output for developers. The SVG side is the more interesting one for designers, but it's API-only for now and comes with real limits.

Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Nuke 18's beta can run AI workflows from inside the node graph

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A new Griptape node connects Foundry's compositor to its AI orchestration platform, so prompts, models, and seeds sit right in Nuke. It's a beta, the AI usage costs extra, and where your plates go depends on how you run it.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Runway App Studio turns a repeat creative job into a tool your team can run

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Describe an app in plain language and Runway builds and hosts it, wired to your models and Brand Kit. It's on every paid plan, but check the minimum credit balance and the conflicting word on public links first.

Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Rive can now import Flash and Animate files into its state machines

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A new importer turns old .fla and XFL files into Rive projects: symbols become artboards, frame labels become state machine states, and buttons, tweens, and sounds carry over.

UI/UX, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Red Giant's Scene Light puts new lights into existing footage in After Effects

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Scene Light, new in Red Giant 2027.0, uses AI to estimate depth and surface direction from your footage, then lets After Effects lights fall across the scene, even behind people and objects in the foreground. Maxon says the analysis runs on your own machine.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Claude Motion turns a prompt into an animated explainer, and Claude Design is out of beta

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Anthropic put Claude Motion into beta for Team and Enterprise plans. It builds short, code-driven animations you can export as MP4 and send on to Adobe and other editors. The same day, Claude Design, Docs, and Slides left beta and came to every plan, Free included.

Motion & Video, Brand & Graphic

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Luma and Higgsfield both want to turn one approved ad into every version you need

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Luma's new Ad Variants resizes and translates a finished static ad into standard placements, and Higgsfield's Ads Studio now builds static ads from your site and remakes video ads with your own product, cast, and script. One week, one tedious job.

Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Figma Motion adds custom animation styles, audio, text animation, and Lottie export

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Three months into its open beta, Figma Motion picked up the features that take it from something to experiment with to something a team can standardize on: reusable styles you publish to a library, audio on the timeline, and Lottie output.

UI/UX, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Kling 4.0 is out, with 30-second clips and up to 15 references

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Kling's new video model is now available worldwide on its website, with single-pass clips up to 30 seconds, up to 15 references, and 10 keyframes. The promised 10-bit HDR and 21:9 output still aren't here, and API access is coming later.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Researched

Higgsfield's new Blender add-on puts cloud AI generation right in the viewport

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A signed add-on now lets Blender artists generate meshes, rigs, and scene elements from inside the 3D viewport, and get back editable data instead of a locked render. Early coverage is cautiously optimistic, not sold.

3D, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Announced

Krea Agent opens to everyone, free plan included

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Krea's AI agent, which plans a job, picks from more than 150 models, and generates or edits images, video, and audio from one prompt, no longer needs an invite.

Photo & Imaging, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Researched

DaVinci Resolve 21.1 adds a native MCP server for AI assistants

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Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex can now organize media, cut a highlight reel, or batch-render inside Resolve through plain language, using a native MCP server built into Resolve Studio. Studio tier only.

Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Researched

Figma frames can now feed directly into Weave workflows

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A new 'Figma node' lets you paste a Design frame straight into Weave, so it becomes a live, on-brand source that AI workflows can build on at scale.

Brand & Graphic, UI/UX, Motion & Video

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BriefEvidence: Researched

Runway's MCP server can now read your Brand Kit

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AI agents connected through Runway MCP can now find and reference Brand Kit assets, like logos, colors, and fonts, when generating images and video. Creating or editing a kit still has to happen in the product.

Brand & Graphic, Motion & Video