Glossary · AI Video
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Text-to-video is an AI technique that turns a written description into a finished video clip. You type a prompt — for example, "a drone shot over a misty pine forest at sunrise" — and a model such as Google VEO 3.1, Wan, or Seedance generates the matching footage, including motion, lighting, and in some models synchronized audio.
Text-to-video models are trained on enormous libraries of paired video and text, which teaches them how written concepts map to moving images. When you submit a prompt, the model synthesizes new frames from scratch rather than searching for existing footage, so every output is original.
Quality depends heavily on the model and the prompt. Newer models like VEO 3.1 handle physics, camera language, and even native sound far better than earlier generations, while detailed prompts that specify subject, action, setting, and camera movement consistently outperform vague ones.
In VdoBloom, text-to-video is one of 65+ video tools and supports multiple models — VEO 3.1, Runway, Wan, Seedance, and PixVerse — so you can match the model to the job: cinematic realism, stylized motion, or fast social clips.
VdoBloom starts you with 10 free credits — enough to put this into practice with no card required.
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