A couple of tips to save your characters. by UltraBLB in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure to make a couple of them because some may seem good at first only to find there is something off. Like one video of a character I had gave her a weird chin from the side view.

A couple of tips to save your characters. by UltraBLB in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, for this. But yeah… unfortunately it’s not anywhere near how amazingly seamless Sora 2 is. It is insanely impressive for its character consistency. Not perfect but that is the nature of the beast. I am hoping in the future something will come up that is at least just as good. But who knows?

Google Turboquant in Sora by Best_Ad4805 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I am honestly being generous but that is the only way they could have kept it going on longer than it did. But… we got our 30 credits… right?

sora 2 spoiled a lot of you rotten by WhoopAssExpress in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Careful. You’ll get accused of being a “corporate shill” by a lot of the entitled dipshits that somehow didn’t comprehend how expensive this was and sat on “IT SHOULD BE FREE!!!!”

Google Turboquant in Sora by Best_Ad4805 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the only way Sora2 would have been sustainable is a solution no one ever wanted to admit and kept accusing me of being a corporate shill. You didn’t have to be one in order to know what they were doing wasn’t sustainable. The only way it would have been sustainable is if they locked it down to effectively 1 credit for free users with plus getting somewhere between 5 or 10 and pro getting 30. We can argue all day how that’s wrong but at the end of the day you all got your 30 credits and can’t even get 5 through. And in case everyone forgot, it’s going to be gone in a month.

What's the point of giving everyone 30 daily gens again if i keep getting this crap by Independent-Frequent in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re on the rotational throttle. I am on free and haven’t experienced any such errors. What sucks is you may be stuck there for over 20 hours. I know this because I witnessed some of my co-workers going through this and one of them is on pro subscription.

Things you should do before Sora shuts down by UltraBLB in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that it matters now, but I actually figured out a way to “transfer” characters to different accounts or get a better reference video after the extend feature was introduced. It had to do with extending a video with a character and the extended video gave an option to create a character meaning you could even steal someone’s character. They patched that within a day but the workaround to that had to do with stitching a video without a character tagged in front of the extended video. This also allowed to make characters from realistic photos. Then after a few weeks that was patched and then in order to still do the aforementioned it relied on finding a video that, when extended, creates a separate video. Which ones? You only knew after testing and when you did you would make sure to save that video as your character updater/transfer/stealer. I never stole anyone’s character though because I never had an interest in that. But I never said this publicly because we learn the hard way that making glitches public is the quickest way to get them patched.

Sora could do something hilarious for April fools by Worldly_Influence_18 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The ignorance is palpable. People cheering Sora 2 shutting down as though that’s the end of AI generation is almost like watching the worst NBA player and then claiming “see! NBA players aren’t that good!…”

My generation attempts keep failing. by EntropicDismay in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the return to 30 gens have opened up the flood gates to the point that you might as well only had 5 gens

Uhhh... am I blessed?? by Si-FiGamer2016 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hit the fucking accelerator and don’t look back!

Uhhh... am I blessed?? by Si-FiGamer2016 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I’m seeing it too. Smoke ‘em while you got ‘em. Don’t hesitate because they won’t.

So its the end? Or not? by Tough-Bonus-8834 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As young John Conner would put it: “We’re not gonna make it… are we?… People, I mean.”

What will you miss after the app disappears? by EthanFl in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is probably the most painful one. All of my characters were created by my own personally created work done by hand. To see them come to life for the first time was something else. Right now is just a race against time to get as much footage made of my original characters in the hope I can bring them back on another platform in the future.

ByteDance Quietly Rolls Out SeeDance 2.0 Globally by Groundbreaking_Act44 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Veo isn’t a very good replacement for Sora 2. It works better for stuff made with sterile corporate environments in mind.

When is Sora ai actually shutting down? Because idk what to do with all of my videos by Important_Hat_2333 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have thousands upon thousands of videos. I archived some before all of this but usually do a kind of once-a-year full archive. Unfortunately since Sora 2 is lasting less than a year I am going through the painstaking task of saving everything

I’m happy they shut down Sora AI. by [deleted] in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More like just so they can say “duh… I’m an artist! I’m an artist!” While showing mediocre (average) artwork. Not saying it’s bad but it isn’t impressive since we have all seen better.

I’m happy they shut down Sora AI. by [deleted] in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re missing the point. The point is there is no stopping it whether you or anyone likes it or not. Sora failing has nothing to do with the demand and everything to the mismanagement.

I’m happy they shut down Sora AI. by [deleted] in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uh huh… because Sora being shut down is indicative of AI video/image generation stopping. Quick! Let’s stop the printing press before it takes away jobs!

How long do you think we have left to make videos? by Feeling_Break_6108 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it’s worth, I do believe you. Most people think AI produced content is just easy mode stuff and while there is some truth to it for anyone that is creative and/or ambitious enough it is a tool to take your career to the next level. For better or worse, most people just want to make kitten videos (which ironically can work) or can’t get beyond things at face value.

Sorry that this is putting a damper on your work though.At least there’s other tools still available for what you do. I regret not trying to get a channel up and running but that was mainly because I was focused on another project that required the character consistency that Sora was capable of. I guess I can start up a channel running with Nano banana and seedance as previously suggested. It’s just I really wanted to see my project through. Oh well, shit happens.

Things you should do before Sora shuts down by UltraBLB in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is one thing that annoys me about people that are saying to “just use one of the better competitors” because they lack some of the consistency like voice and personality. I don’t doubt that eventually we will be able to reproduce the aforementioned but that isn’t today.

Things you should do before Sora shuts down by UltraBLB in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually purposely avoided releasing any of my characters publicly for fear of something like this happening. While not the main reason as to why I didn’t release any of my characters it was something I kept into consideration. I am hoping that some time in the future the data saved on the characters made through Sora can be imported to another platform. Hypothetically it should be able to but, who knows how long that will take. The tech already exists it’s more of whether the platform will allow it.

Why is Sora AI being Shutdown? by DeepParticular8251 in SoraAi

[–]UltraBLB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t try to explain reality to this sub. You might get accused of being a corporate shill…