NewMoneyPrinterTurbo is trending again: topic in, finished short out
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Studio Hall’s working notebook for AI video: new repos, agent skills, multi-tool pipelines and prompt techniques. It covers cinematic, explainer, creator/UGC, 3D, animation and motion graphics, plus music generation and audio sync. We track what’s new and promising, pick the standouts, and write short posts about them.
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Latest finds
- MoneyPrinterTurbo is trending again: topic in, finished short out
The 2024 short-video generator by harry0703 is back on GitHub's daily Trending lists (all languages and Python) on Nov 4, a day after @RoundtableSpace featured it. It's MIT-licensed, sits near 139K stars, and has quietly grown from a stock-footage slideshow maker into a front end for Seedance, MiniMax H3 and a dozen voice engines.
- Kinetograph renders Remotion and HyperFrames projects without a browser
Kinetograph is a beta (v0.3.0) code-to-video engine that runs your TSX in Node and draws each frame with a Rust GPU compositor instead of headless Chrome. Per its creator, existing Remotion projects and HyperFrames HTML pages render as they are.
- Kling 4.0 Flash is open to everyone, including API, MCP and Adobe plugins
Kling announced on Nov 4 that Kling 4.0 Flash, the faster tier of its 4.0 video model, is now available to every user on the Kling website and through the API. It can also be reached through MCP, a CLI and plugins for Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects.
- ComfyUI lands in ChatGPT, and v0.44 adds ProRes saving and MiniMax H3 edit nodes
On Nov 4, Comfy announced that Comfy Cloud is now an official ChatGPT plugin, so you can run ComfyUI image, video, audio and 3D generation from a chat without installing anything or owning a GPU. The v0.44.0 core release that shipped the night before adds ProRes output and a batch of video nodes.
- Video Studio Skill: a Claude Code skill that films and edits your web app's demo
An MIT-licensed workspace built around a /devrel-video Claude Code skill: Playwright records real clicks through your product, HyperFrames adds the title card, browser frame, chapters and call to action, and FFmpeg masters the file. It reached 118 points on Hacker News on Nov 2 and sits around 346 GitHub stars.
- #OpenSourceHiggsfield closes: five last-hour ComfyUI builds
Entries for ComfyUI's #OpenSourceHiggsfield challenge closed at 9 AM PT on Nov 3, and the hashtag filled with last-minute submissions. Winners are due Nov 10. These five stood out for working video makers: a 3D previs tool, a kinetic-type engine, a MiniMax H3 film studio, a song-sectioned music-video tool and a take-based shot manager.
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| # | Tool | Category | Score (prelim.) | Pricing | Official site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ElevenLabs | Voice, music & dubbing | 76prelim. | Creative plans (monthly): Free $0 (10k credits), Starter $6 (30k), Creator $22 (121k; first month $11), Pro $99 (600k), Scale $299 (1.8M, 3 seats), Business $990 (6M, 10 seats). Annual ≈ 2 months free. | elevenlabs.io |
| 2 | DaVinci Resolve | Editing & repurposing | 74prelim. | Unverified | www.blackmagicdesign.com |
| 3 | Runway | Video generation | 72prelim. | Free: one-time 125 credits. Annual (shown as monthly): Standard $12/mo, Pro $28/mo, Max $76/mo. Monthly list prices higher ($15/$35/$95). Credits reset each cycle except Max (up to 1 month rollover). | runwayml.com |
| 4 | Google Veo | Video generation | 72prelim. | Unverified | deepmind.google |
| 5 | Topaz Video | Upscaling & enhancement | 72prelim. | Topaz Video alone: $59/mo or $299/yr ($39/mo with annual commitment). Included in Topaz Studio (all apps) from $399/yr or $69/mo. Studio includes unlimited local rendering + 300 monthly cloud video credits. | www.topazlabs.com |
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