I figured it would be good to have a thread specifically dedicated to discussing the nitty gritty of generating AI content (video, text, and images), rather than just sharing output. Do you have specific websites & tools you find particularly useful? Has your favourite service recently updated, for the better or for the worse? Just seen an exciting news story about some coming development? Have you found a prompt that gets particularly good results? Do you have a strategy for keeping more complex projects coherent (eg editing together long multi-scene videos)? Which services are friendly to hypno-content, and which require creative prompting? Which services are best at teritary stuff, like replicating the look & feel of media from some other era? And so on and so forth. I'm hoping to eventually update this OP into a more formal list of the best tools, but for now I just figured I'd get the ball rolling.

"Hypdon'tnosis" by Downing Street. and  "Nice Guy" by Downing Street.
i will get into these a bit more later when i have time!

Don't worry, right now I don't have much time either 
So it might take a while. 

I want to say that Cheer Teacher inspired to begin working on my own AI video project and to learn a bit about it. And learning, I have looked at several videos that are considered "great examples" and I have to say that Grim Tidings, your work is superior everything I've seen. Mostly, I think, because most AI video is mostly used for advertising now - essentially a spew of attention-getting garbage that doesn't need any coherence whereas your stuff has plot and structure.

And so far, my impression is that unless you want an endless stream of space ships coming out of the asses of dragons, AI isn't magic wand, it's tool like other things and requires time, effort and creativity to use effectively.

You just gave me chills, Svengli. Thank you.

What you don't see are all of the fails - I have about a 30% success rate with my clips... some of the worst-cases (omg doors and moving through objects) take 6-12 "takes" to get to acceptable. And I STILL see the artifacts every time I rewatch my stuff. I'm sure you'll get comfortable with that discomfort, too, eventually.

The effort is what makes it fun. And I do assert that, if I had the people, money, tools, and time... I'd have loved to have made films in real life (maybe someday... if I dream).

I'm looking forward to see what you create - and I'm ready to be humbled! Since Cheer Teacher is tagged as inspirational (chills) I'll share an anecdote: when you finish something, share it... even if you don't think it's perfect. I made 30-ish "photo stories" before trying 4 "video clip sequences" until Ms. Archer and Mr. Harrison came alive on my screen and finished the story. It was only after I showed it to my family (crowded around my monitor) that I even considered finding a place to post it. It's NOT by best video work... but it's representative of what I want to produce.

Dang, thanks again.

Oh, and Sub Rosa Episode 3 released.

Impressive story and technology.
Stunning visuals.

Thank you! The technology is definitely improving quickly.

Everything on DFX is AI. Thank you!