This is an older video I reworked a little for a talk I just gave and thought I would share it again. I’ve always loved this one so much. Made using @pika_labs #Pikaframes #keyframes #ai Music made with #suno
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The Pika conversation is overwhelmingly praise: people share the clips it makes — textures, glow, particles — and get excited about each newly announced feature. Complaints, comparisons and questions are a thin tail of one-off posts.
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Tone· 58 posts from 46 people· written 27 Oct
How do people feel about Pika?
22 people praise or share what Pika makes, the largest theme here, and 17 more are excited about its newly announced features. Almost nothing in this section is negative.
The biggest group, 22 people, is here for the clips themselves: textures on rusted armour, the glow, glowing particles against dark backdrops, a colour palette and the fluidity of smoke. Several credit WAN 3.0 run through Pika. One creator reports that 29 creators posted the same one-tap Pika effect and many beat their usual views, the best to 1.7 million — their claim, offered as a tactic.
17 people are excited about what Pika has announced or shipped: Smart Matching picking the model for you, changing the camera move "without changing the performance", changing the lighting after the shoot, Swap Anything, and scoring timed to picture in "one ask". A smaller group of 6 says the workflow turns an idea into a cinematic short with no director's chair; 3 call it their go-to or point others to it; 2 see it as high-end product video without high-priced production.
- Loves what it makes27
- Excited about the new features20
- Easy and effortless6
- Recommends it3
- Good for paid work2
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The textures on the rusted armor and the glow are absolutely top tier
Made this in the new Pika and had so much fun the whole way through. @pika_labs thinking about making a new story. Smart Matching picks the tool or model that fits what I want, so I never had to stop and figure out what to use. I could just focus on the story. #NewPika #SmartMatching #pikacpp
You bring idea ChatGPT brings Pika and Camera Director turns it into full cinematic short with no directors chair required is such effortless filmmaking magic
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Pain points· 2 posts· written 27 Oct
What do people complain about with Pika?
Few complaints are filed here — 2 people, one each: that Pika Agent hasn't worked right for months with support tickets unanswered, and that a generated face didn't look like the person.
The two complaints are unrelated, so neither is a pattern. One customer asks what is going on with Pika Agent "because it hasn't worked right in months and my support tickets go unanswered" — a report about reliability and support silence together, not one or the other.
The other is about likeness: replying to a Pika video, someone says it "doesn't look like you", and contrasts it with an earlier Pika-made video featuring Pepsi that "looks exactly like you" and "did a great job". Their judgement is that the newer output "looks like someone else". That is one person's comparison of two videos, so it says a face can miss, not that likeness has got worse.
Nothing here about price, and no other missing pieces are named in this section.
- Pika Agent broken, support silent1
- Faces don't look like the person1
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Alternatives· 1 post· written 27 Oct
What are the alternatives to Pika?
Only 1 person weighs Pika against something else here: they compare it with Higgsfield and call Higgsfield far too expensive.
The comparison comes in a thread where someone is looking for tools and is pointed to Pika's API; the reply is that "Higgs just way too expensive lol", which puts Pika on the cheaper side of the only alternative named in this section.
That is all the section holds — 1 post — so there is no read on switching to or from Pika, and no other tools are named. Treat it as one buyer's price check, not a trend.
- Higgsfield1
Questions· 5 posts· written 27 Oct
What do people ask about Pika?
The most-asked question, from 2 people, is whether Pika's music tools can work around a track you already have; the rest are one-off questions about access and settings.
The largest theme, 2 people, is about music and cuts. One asks whether Soundtrack can "follow a fixed track instead, aligning cuts and motion to an existing song", noting that music videos usually start from the song and cut to the beat. Another, in an exchange about a suspense prompt, asks whether natural effects can be kept while swapping only the music.
The other questions are single, unrelated asks. One cannot find any form and asks whether cpp is still available. A developer asks the Pika team whether Wan 3.0 / Prime Omni Video has thinking mode on by default or through an enable_thinking parameter, not finding it in the API docs. One asks whether the tool can be used "to remove the woke".
Nothing in this section reports an answer coming back.
- Can it follow my own song or cut?2
- Is cpp still available?1
- Is thinking mode on by default in the API?1
- Can it remove the woke?1
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Interesting reverse of the usual flow. Music videos start from the song and cut to the beat. Can Soundtrack follow a fixed track instead, aligning cuts and motion to an existing song?
Na cena da pipa, o prompt pede suspense, não só “uma trilha”. É uma escolha de narrativa. Eu compararia com uma versão leve, mantendo o corte. Dá para preservar os efeitos naturais e trocar só a música?
Is cpp still available @pika_labs , I am unable to find any form etc 😥
. @pika_labs Hi Pika team! For Wan 3.0 / Prime Omni Video, is thinking mode enabled by default, or can we enable it via enable_thinking? I couldn’t find this parameter in your API docs. Is it supported, and how can we control it?
Can we use it to remove the woke?
Wishes· 1 post· written 27 Oct
What do people want from Pika?
One person asks for something here: 1 user wants Grok access added to Pika.
The whole section is one request, "Need grok pls", posted in reply to Pika. It is a single 1 post, so it reads as one user's ask rather than a demand Pika's audience is making.
Nothing else is wished for in the posts filed here — no requests about price, models, exports or the editor.
- Integrate Grok1
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How do people talk about Pika?
The phrases people use most, counted once per person.
- 1“ai video”4
- 2“smart matching”2
- 3“sound effects”2
- 4“cinematic short”2
- 5“wrestling match”2
- 6“pika team”2
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