Notes from the cutting room

We build OpenClips, so read this with that bias in mind. What a finished Reel takes, which AI reel makers handle which part of it, and three real Reels our platform made start to finish.

SEP 30, 2026Read

Quiver shipped Arrow 2 and Arrow 2 Telos, and a public leaderboard now ranks them first and second at SVG generation, ahead of every frontier model in the field. Here is what that means, where the crown slips, and why anyone making ads should care about a file format.

SEP 18, 2026Read

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September. Here is what it changes, how the two API models differ, why every spec table you have read this week was filled in by somebody guessing, and what takes the same brief today.

SEP 10, 2026Read

Higgsfield built its name on motion presets. We build the studio those models could run inside. Here is the honest case for switching, the case against it, and the renders behind both.

SEP 9, 2026Read

Grok Imagine is the video model people meet inside Grok and then try to use for work. It is fast, loud and genuinely good at some jobs, and there are things it will not do. Here is the line between them, on our own renders.

SEP 8, 2026Read

A roundup that renders instead of ranking. One product brief, typed once, sent to five text-to-video models on this platform, and every clip on this page is the result.

SEP 7, 2026Read

Six steps from an empty box to a finished clip. Every one of them carries a render we actually made, the brief that made it, and the catalog sheet that prices one of your own.

SEP 6, 2026Read

Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's video model, and three of them wear the name. Here is what it does, how to drive it, what a render costs, and how far the free route actually goes.

SEP 5, 2026Read

Nano Banana is the nickname that stuck to a Google image model, and there are now three of them wearing it. Here is what separates the base model, Pro and 2, how to drive them, and what an edit actually costs.

SEP 4, 2026Read

Every image-to-video tool advertises a free tier, and free means four different things. Here is what each version of free actually buys, which tools are worth an evening, and the honest version of it on OpenClips.AI.

SEP 3, 2026Read

Eight AI video generators, ranked by the job they actually win. One shared brief, real spec sheets read from the catalog, and an honest answer about where the studio you are reading this on belongs.

SEP 2, 2026Read

Most AI video prompts fail before the render button. Here is the six-beat formula our studio uses to turn one line of text into a trailer-grade clip — with prompts you can steal.

AUG 24, 2026Read

Three flagship video models, three personalities. Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 answer the same brief in different accents — here is which camera to roll for your next ad.

AUG 18, 2026Read

Fifteen seconds is not a short ad — it is a complete one. The exact structure behind our best-performing UGC spots, with hooks, a script template and a launch checklist.

AUG 11, 2026Read

The same clip in the wrong frame is a wasted render. Which ratio wins on TikTok, Reels, YouTube and feed — plus how to compose for vertical without cropping anything.

AUG 4, 2026Read

MCP lets an AI assistant call the studio as a tool. Here is how the OpenClips MCP door is built — what the agent does, how the connection authorises, and why the app can never start it for you.

JUL 28, 2026Read

One wallet, every model, no fog. What a credit actually buys, what the free signup grant is really for, and the moment a paid plan starts paying for itself.

JUL 21, 2026Read