Every AI video tool leads with the demo reel. The part that decides whether you can put the output in a client deliverable or monetize it on YouTube is buried in the terms of service. We read those.
This section covers the tools that touch a video workflow: video and image generation, voiceover and dubbing, music, and the AI features working their way into the edit itself (transcription, roto, cleanup, reframing). Picks work like everywhere else on the site: we name the trade-offs, and we’ll talk you out of the paid tier when the free one holds up.
Each guide answers the same questions before it ranks anything: what the output costs, what the license lets you do with it commercially, and what you keep when you cancel. Licensing claims carry the date of the terms we read, because these companies rewrite them quietly and often. We re-check the whole section quarterly, and when a tool’s terms turn hostile, the pick changes.
Voice
AI voiceover, cloning, and dubbing: which ones pass for a person, and what the commercial terms behind each voice allow.
Music
Score and soundtrack generators, with the sync and monetization terms settled before we talk about how they sound.
AI in the Edit Bay
The features already inside your NLE and the plugins around them: which save real editing time, and which demo better than they cut.
