The Human Vs AI campaign is back, and this time, we have taken it to the next level.

Now that we’ve successfully completed both the Apple and Budweiser campaigns, we’re thrilled to introduce our third installment of the “Human Vs AI” campaign. 

This journey has been nothing short of exhilarating for the Steve team, from the initial concept discussions to recreating renowned ads.

Our first two videos in this series, where we remade the Budweiser and Apple ads, were loved by Steve users, the AI community, and people who create videos.

Now, for our third video, we have gone head-to-head with another giant – Nike

Nike is one of the most iconic brands in the world, known for its inspiring and innovative campaigns. 

One of their recent ads, titled “Rise of the Kids,” showcases the creativity and passion of young athletes from across the Middle East and challenges the common misconceptions that parents have about physical activity. 

The ad features stunning visuals, dynamic editing, and a catchy soundtrack that captures the spirit of the kids and their love for sport.

We have chosen to recreate this Nike video using Steve.AI for our latest Human vs AI campaign

And we think the result is pretty impressive. Watch it for yourself.

We recreated the above Nike video by following the below steps.

Step 1: We uploaded the original video file of the Nike ad to Steve using the “Voice to Video” feature.

Step 2: Steve transcribed the audio from the original ad and created a script based on it. We made some slight modifications to the script.

Step 3: We then inserted relevant keywords into the script, and we did not select the voice-over or music since we had our own voice-over.

Step 4: Steve generates the first version of the video, incorporating relevant visuals that support the script.

Step 5: We then uploaded the audio file from the original video to ensure synchronization with the visuals.

Step 6: We made some necessary replacements of images and videos to enhance the visual impact and relevance.

Step 7: This is a crucial step. We trimmed the video by selecting the right timeline and adjusted scene durations to synchronize the visuals with the original audio perfectly. This ensures a seamless viewing experience.

Step 8:  We hide the text elements in all slides.

Step 9: The video is ready for preview, we checked whether all the elements were in place. 

​​The result?

A stunning video that looks almost identical to the original Nike- Rise of the Kids ad. We were amazed by how well Steve.AI captured the essence and message of the ad and how it replicated the visual style and quality of the original. The video is engaging, inspiring, and fun to watch, just like the original.

But don’t take our word for it. You watched the above video yourself, and now tell us if you can tell the difference between the human-made and AI-made versions.

One of the challenges that many face is creating videos in different languages for different audiences. Steve.AI solves this problem by offering multilingual options that allow you to generate videos in any language you want. 

You can simply write your script, and then you can choose from a variety of voice-over options or add subtitles to your video.

With Steve.AI, you can create videos in six languages: English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and Spanish.

Another challenge that many come across is finding high-quality media assets that suit their needs. Steve.AI now has a vast range of media assets that you can choose from, including images, videos, music, sound effects, animations, etc. 

You can also check out Steve.AI’s library to create diverse images using AI. 

For example, you can generate images of people with different ethnicities, ages, genders, expressions, poses, etc.

Our journey of recreating iconic videos like Apple, Budweiser, and now, Nike- The Rise of Kids has highlighted the power of both human creativity and the use of AI tools like Steve.AI. 

AI enables us to optimize content creation efficiently and cost-effectively without compromising quality. You can create such high-budget human-made videos with Steve.AI within minutes and at a lower budget (mention price)

As we continue this series, including our successful completion of the third campaign, “Nike – Rise of Kids,” we’d love to hear your thoughts on the video. 

What’s holding you back from recreating your very own iconic ad? If you’d like for us to tackle another epic brand video, do let us know your ideas through team@steve.ai

The Human VS AI Campaign – A Peek Behind The Scenes

The entire Steve team is pumped today like never before. Why? One of our most awaited campaigns is going live today and we are super excited!

Is this our first video campaign? No, we have been constantly experimenting with various video series for the past year and have been getting a lot of support from our users for our content. However, this one is big. This one is ambitious. And, this one has us expanding our creative boundaries more than ever!

We are proud to present: Human Vs AI – The Iconic Videomaking Battle

This is an experimental video series campaign where we take up viral, iconic videos made by brands and experts and try to recreate them on Steve. Yes! Ads and videos that must have cost a fortune to make and taken weeks to create would now be put to test on a script-to-video tool!

Our first video in the series is out now and we are very proud of how it has turned out. Watch it here

How incredible was that? 

Now, let us delve into the background of this campaign and look at some valuable lessons we learnt about the AI-Human partnership through this video.

The whole world is talking about AI today. There is a huge debate about whether or not it will replace humans, how it will change the way we live and work, and how it will impact various industries, big and small.

However, this subject is not new at Steve. As an AI tool, we have always been talking about these topics and have constantly been exploring how AI can be the best partner for human efforts. We explored all those manual parts of videomaking that AI can take over, leaving humans free to be more creative than ever. 

Along with our CEO Raghav, we also set goals to make Steve as efficient as human videomaking experts, if not more, to compete with the best videos ever made in terms of quality and efficiency.

All this and some cat-level curiosity made us take up the challenge to create iconic viral videos with nothing but Steve and its script-to-video abilities.

As we set out to turn this idea into a reality, we learnt a lot about AI and its potential. 

Finding a video that Steve could recreate was our first step. Steve has many strengths – animation, great AI engine, lip-sync feature, extensive libraries, and so on. However, for this campaign, we were looking at a combination of features and how our strengths would intersect with famous videos.

We learnt that Steve is great with videos that have strong stories, videos that elicit strong emotions. And, that is how we zeroed down on the Budweiser ad.

Now as we went on to actually make the video on Steve. We did two main things to get a great output. 

One, we tweaked the input script a bit since most scenes in the ad do not have text on screen. We have attached the script we used below, in case you want to try it out too.

Input script:

Scene 1 – Welcoming Dog home

Scene 2 – Playing with Dog

Scene 3 – Jogging with Dog

Scene 4 – Spending Time with Dog

Scene 5 – Dog playing with water

Scene 6 – Leaving Dog at home

Scene 7 – Driving out

Scene 8 – Partying

Scene 9 – Sad Dog

Scene 10 – Dog waiting

Scene 11 – Sad Dog with toy

Scene 12 – For some, the waiting never ended

Scene 13 – But we can change that

Scene 14 – Dog excited at the door

Scene 15 – Dog kissing 

Scene 16 – Make a plan to make it home.

      Your friends are counting on you.

Scene 17 – Dog Kissing

Scene 18 – Brand outro

Pro tip: Toggle on the “Hide text” button on all scenes except for scenes 12, 13 and 16

Two, we downloaded the original Budweiser ad music and added it to the video on Steve.

These two things did the trick for us and we were super happy to have conveyed the storyline of the original video in our own way without compromising on the emotional connect.

Working with AI had its challenges too.

1. In the Budweiser ad, the story is of one person and his dog. With AI, we could not really maintain that continuity of the same person and the same dog.

2. We could not do a scene-to-scene match of the original ad. But the AI did a great job of selecting visuals that put the point across nevertheless. But, the huge media library helped us choose great visuals that still told the story beautifully and maybe even added a bit of diversity to it.

3. While we tried this experiment on our free version too, our Pro version worked best. But, that was the only money we spent on the video and is a fraction of what the original video would have cost.

In the end, even after tackling these challenges, we saw that it took us no more than 10 mins to make the video. And for the no-shoot advantage, the time and cost advantage that AI offers, the challenges were more than justified in our opinion.

As we have mentioned in the comparison video, there is no substitute for human creativity. The ideation, the intent, the message, the emotional connect….all these aspects of the video are the results of human creativity. However, once you have an idea, the basic script and flow, AI can be a powerful tool to take over and save you tons of time and money while creating super impactful videos. That’s what Steve proved to us with this experiment.

Follow us on our journey as we continue this series and take up more videos to recreate. If you have an iconic video that you want us to recreate, go on and suggest it to us on any of our platforms and we will make sure to take it up and give you the verdict.

We hope you enjoyed the video and reading about its making. See you soon with the next one in the series.

Happy videomaking!

Make a Facebook Story Ad with an AI video maker

Facebook, as a platform, has evolved over its 15 odd years of existence. Today, it is not just a social networking site but is also an important platform where a lot of digital content is consumed by users. Naturally, for brands and marketers, it is a place to tell their story and communicate the value they offer to potential customers. 

There are various ways to talk about your product or promote it on Facebook. Today, we are talking about one important format – Facebook Stories. Did you know? 62% of Facebook users have said that they have become more interested in a product or service after finding out about it in Stories.

Stories are short, to the point, in the moment and really grab the attention of users amid the sea of posts and shares on the Feed. 

However, unlike the swift nature of stories, creating videos for stories is time-consuming. At least, that was the case. And then came Steve!

With Steve you can leverage video making AI to create amazing video ads for FB stories in minutes. How? Let us see in the steps below:

Step 1

Login with Steve using your e-mail id. On your dashboard, choose the ‘Live’ tab which is suitable to create content for the vertical format of a Facebook story ad. 

Click on Start in the Script to Live Video section.

Step 2

Now, you are on the script page where you can either enter your own script or select from our 200+ script templates covering various popular video scripts. 

Here, also make sure that your video dimensions are as per the vertical format.

Once you have the script ready, check the boxes for voice-over, video, etc and select the source type as per your Steve account type. Don’t forget to enter the keyword that best describes the kind of video you want to make, this gives context to the AI to pick the perfect visuals. 

Click on Next and select the video layout from the options shown.

Step 3

Your video ad is now ready to be reviewed!

Go through the scenes to swap any visuals in a single click and choose from a huge media library to customize. You can also customize music, voice tones, colour themes, text placement, and much more. Explore the menu on the Workspace to create just the video that you want.

Step 4

Once you are done editing, click on Publish and your video is ready, in sync and rendered perfectly for you to simply download and share on Facebook stories!

Create and share amazing videos on Facebook stories with Steve and stay on top of your audiences’ minds!

How to use free video ad maker without a watermark to create stunning promo videos

As much as we love our favourite brands and products, we all do love well-made, creative promo videos too, don’t we?! Think Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola and all those cool videos that turned their many users (and interestingly even non-users) to fans of their story-telling and content. Amazing, right?

The power of good promotional or advertising videos is huge and the best part os that any brand can leverage this. All you need is creative ideas and great videomaking (well, that’s now practically taken care of, but we’ll come to it in just a bit!) to make videos that speak your brand’s language and convey the exact value that you offer.

Promo videos are a very important part of marketing strategies. They are to-the-point communication pieces that convey something specific about the business and convey the value of a business/products/offers to the audiences.

It is a great way for businesses to find the right customers and end-users to know exactly what a business/product offers. It is basically a win-win!

Now, getting into making amazing ad videos for your business, we saw that the two major things are the creative ideas and the videomaking. While you brainstorm really cool ideas, we created Steve AI, a free video ad maker, to completely take care of the videomaking. That’s right, completely!

You can go from script to video within minutes and what’s more? Steve AI makes these videos with stunning, high-quality visuals that are also watermark free!

Let us go through the step by step guide to making these videos in just a few click:

Login to Steve AI and you will see your dashboard. Here, select the Live tab and click on script to video.

Select from our pre-loaded script templates or enter your own script for the promo video. Give a keyword related to the video to help AI understand the context better. Select music and voiceover as required.

Select the image source as per the plan you have registered for.

Select the video layout template. And in less than 10 seconds, your video is ready!

Play the video and swap the visuals in a single click. You can choose to edit the character (both human and animal), the expressions, the placement of animation, the animated elements, etc from a huge library.

Once the customization is done, click on Publish and sit back as Steve AI renders the final video for you in a few minutes. Finally, download the watermark-free video and the job is done!

Here’s our little attempt at making a great promotional ad video –

Go on, create amazing ad videos in a fraction of the time and resources that you might spend on videomaking without the assistance of Steve AI!

How to create YouTube intro using free video ad maker without watermark

When it comes to content creators and the digital content eco-system in general, YouTube is the OG in many ways! As Google quoted early on, in 2006, YouTube was indeed “the next step in the evolution of the internet”. It grew exponentially, created a way for content creators to actually make money through content and continues to be one of the most powerful content-sharing platforms!

Today, there are over 50 million YouTube channels and that number is grew by 36% in the last year. And, more and more content creators are joining the club to bring together communities and connect with various kinds of audiences.

For content creators or aspiring ones, one of the main ways to grow is by creating consistent, relatable content that has a clear voice.

Intro videos set the tone & style for your video communications and help to instantly connect with audience.

With Steve AI as your free video ad maker, video production is delegated to AI that understands context and converts script to video in minutes. But more specifically to YouTube, it is also a great tool to make amazing intro videos that really set your content apart and become your signature in a sense.

For the existing audiences, intro videos are a way to instantly connect with your style and establish trust. For new viewers, they define who you are and sets expectation for your content in a great way

So, how do you create, not just any intro video, but a watermark-free animated intro video with amazing visuals that will be a great addition to your content strategy?

Let us go through a step-by-step guide on how to do just that with Steve AI in no more than a few clicks:

Login to Steve AI and you will see your dashboard. Here, select the Animation tab and click on script to video.

Write down a crisp script of 2-3 lines that summarize your overall content and can work well as an intro for your videos.

Give a keyword related to the video to help AI understand the context better. Select music, voiceover and image source as required.

Select the video layout template. And in less than 10 seconds, your video draft is ready!

Play the video and swap the visuals in a single click. You can choose to edit the character (both human and animal), the expressions, the placement of animation, the animated elements, etc from a huge library.

Pro tip: Add your personal or professional brand logo by uploading it into the video.

Once the customization is done, click on Publish and sit back as Steve AI renders the final video for you in a few minutes. Finally, download the intro video and the job is done!

What are you waiting for? Create that intro video and take your content to the next level now!

How to create free video ads with video ad maker to boost ROI

What was the last advertisement on the internet that instantly connected with you and really stayed with you as a consumer/audience? Whatever the ad may be, it is likely that it featured great storytelling, was relatable and landed exactly on your pain point and among other such things……was most probably a video advertisement.

Engagement-wise, videos, even just on social media, generate a whopping 1200% more shares than text and images combined. And, in video marketing, 87% of marketers say that videos have contributed to increased ROI for their brands! So, if you are looking to quickly captivate your audience and instantly have them connected to your storytelling, video ads are definitely one of the best ways to go.

However, when we talk about ROI, the factor of expenses and resources comes in too. The more that an ad is resource-heavy, the lesser is the possible ROI. Well, no more!

With Steve AI as your video ad maker, you can create free video ads in minutes with no prior videomaking experience! You heard that right! You can now directly go from script to video by delegating the video production to Steve! And this is made possible by the power of AI.

Let us see how you can breeze through creating stunning video ads with Steve AI in just 4 clicks.

Firstly, log into Steve.AI. You’ll see your dashboard. Here, click on either Live/Animation option. Let’s go with Live for this example.

Next, select from the auto-generated script template for different kinds of content. You can either make minor changes to script or write a fresh script too. Here, we are selecting a car insurance ad temlplate by clicking on Create Sample Script.

Check the script and enter the content for the AI to understand what kind of visualas you want. We’ve entered Car Insurance here.

Now, click on Next and choose the video style.

And, voila! Your video is ready with background music and great visuals!

Customize the video by ‘swapping’ the clips or make adjustments on text placement and you are ready to download the video once you hit Publish!

Wasn’t that like really cool? The possibilities for instant videomaking on Steve AI are endless and all you have to do is explore the tool and use it for what it truly is at its core – Your AI videomaking assistant!