Introducing Vidu Q1: The Best AI Image Generator for Stunning Videos

Vidu Technology has launched its latest AI video generation model: Vidu Q1. This model can automatically generate high-quality 1080P videos based on textual descriptions or images, while also incorporating intelligently generated sound effects. Compared to the previous Vidu 2.0 version, Q1 supports various animation styles and scene transition effects, even capable of simulating “cinema-grade camera movements,” making it suitable for anime, short dramas, e-commerce, and brand advertisements. It achieves “immediate production and commercial use,” ranking first in multiple authoritative evaluations across industries, and most importantly, it costs just 0.3 yuan per second of video—ten times lower than the industry average.

It stands as one of the most powerful and cost-effective video generation models globally. Let’s take a look at its performance ↓

Key Features

Cinema-Grade Visual Effects: Vidu Q1 supports generating 1080P HD videos lasting up to 5 seconds, with clear picture quality and rich details, achieving cinema-grade visuals.

U-ViT Architecture: Its innovative U-ViT (Universal Vision Transformer) architecture combines diffusion models and transformer technologies, ensuring outstanding performance in temporal and spatial consistency.

Enhanced Prompt Understanding: It boasts strong comprehension of prompts, automatically identifying actions, lighting, positional relationships, and other aspects to create more realistic visuals.

Seamless Transitions: Using only two initial and final frame images, it can generate natural and smooth scene transitions, maintaining character and scene consistency through advanced frame linking technology.

Multi-Subject Consistency: It seamlessly integrates multiple subjects, objects, and environments, ensuring consistency in subject, scene, and style, particularly optimized for animated generation with support for diverse animation styles.

Multi-Angle and Camera Control: It allows for 360-degree video generation with precise control over camera movements (like zoom, pan, and tilt), enhancing visual continuity and narrative effects.

Exceptional Cost-Performance Ratio: Each second of video costs only 0.3 yuan, making it suitable for commercial use or high-frequency content creation.

Professional Sound Effect Generation: It also supports generating high-quality background music and sound effects at 48 kHz, allowing for precise sound control and multi-track audio overlay (up to 10 seconds).

Now, let's examine the actual performance through some evaluations ↓

Main Performance Evaluation

Video Version Summary Evaluation ↓

Image and Text Detailed Evaluation ↓

1. Seamless Transition with Initial and Final Frames: With just two photos, it can generate natural and smooth scene transitions. The new initial and final frame tool in Q1 provides smoother linkage and more accurate semantic understanding, maintaining consistency in characters and scenes. For example, take this image of a boy playing basketball, which transitions directly to his dream of entering the NBA.

Here’s another example, where two images can achieve a transformation effect.

2. Cinema-Grade Visual Effects: Vidu Q1 supports generating 1080P HD videos up to 5 seconds long, featuring clear picture quality and rich details that achieve cinema-quality visuals. (Due to limitations on the number of videos uploaded by public accounts, I uploaded a GIF image, which compresses the visuals and does not reflect the true quality of the video). Look at this stunning visual effect!

Prompt: camera zoom in, figures slowly rise up from the water.

Prompt: the lens moves past floating embers, getting closer to a person's face.

Vidu Q1 doesn’t just understand “human language”; it can also grasp professional camera language impeccably. For instance, in the following example, the focus seamlessly shifts from a man in a pink suit close-up to another man in a black suit behind him, with the entire zoom process being smooth and natural.

3. Enhanced Animation Effects: Q1 has made significant improvements compared to Vidu 2.0, supporting more diverse video output styles, especially in animation. Here’s a demo ↓ Below are my tests, recreating classic scenes from the Japanese anime "Your Name."

Additionally, in terms of animation expressiveness, Q1 showcases characters more vividly, especially in high dynamic performance. For example, in the video below, Vidu Q1 not only understands 3D anime style well but also reflects the intensity of a dog's rapid fall and the ever-changing pastoral scenery with high realism.

Finally, let’s look at a few animation effects done by overseas bloggers ↓

2. Comparison with Other Models The dynamic camera movement capability from close-ups to wide shots is seamless and coherent throughout. Even in magnificent fantasy scenes, Vidu Q1’s performance is commendable. For instance, in the case below, a dinosaur flies swiftly above a castle. You can see that the video generated by Runway Gen-4 shows breaking points, and the dinosaur's flying motion in Veo 2 is not very natural. However, Vidu Q1 moves naturally, with significant and reasonable camera movement throughout.

Conclusion

Overall, Vidu Q1 excels in high-quality video, initial and final frames, and animation style performance. It significantly enhances video quality, providing clearer and more stable video effects. Particularly in animation, it supports exaggerated yet natural body movements, focusing on high-expressive scenes like battles, actions, and emotional outbursts. For instance, the impact of a fist towards the camera, and character emotional explosions are vividly depicted. However, like other models, it still relies heavily on abundant sampling, but significantly better success rates have been achieved compared to the previous generation. Most importantly, Q1 offers an incredibly attractive price point of just 0.3 yuan per second generated, nearly ten times lower than competitors, making it a true “king of cost-performance ratio.”

Vidu has also launched a staggered generation model, allowing users to enjoy free video generation during off-peak hours. When enabled, tasks submitted during peak server times will be automatically processed when demand decreases. If the server is already in an off-peak state, videos will generate immediately, consuming 0 points, making it a great deal.

Vidu has also introduced a one-sentence sound effect generation feature, allowing users to create up to 10 seconds of exclusive sound effects with just a sentence. The AI video is stepping into the “audio era.” Users can precisely control the timing of sound effects generation, which can start at any point within 10 seconds. This is also the industry’s first commercially viable system supporting meticulous timing control for text-to-sound effects. Additionally, Vidu's text-to-sound feature supports multi-segment sound overlays and outputs as a complete audio file. For example, in the following demo, multi-segment sound overlays successfully recreate the realism of a train passing by.

Enjoy creating your AI videos without silence!