{"id":1714,"date":"2024-12-13T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T11:41:16","slug":"making-short-bible-story-movies-with-sora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2024\/12\/making-short-bible-story-movies-with-sora\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Short Bible-Story Movies with Sora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OpenAI just <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/sora-is-here\/\">released<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sora.com\/\">Sora<\/a>, a text-to-video generator. Here are three five-second videos I had it make of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+15%3A3-7\">parable of the lost sheep<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-sheep-cliff.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-sheep-cliff.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-sheep-golden-light.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-sheep-golden-light.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-sheep-meadow.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-sheep-meadow.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re all basically the same concept, with a happy sheep coming toward the camera. Prompting for a video is different from prompting for an image; I struggled to get good results in the limited number of generations available to me. I had more failures than successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of fails where I tried to get a video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Exodus+14%3A21-22\">Moses parting the Red Sea<\/a>. The first one looks like a video game cutscene, but revealing a giant wall is opposite of what I&#8217;m going for. In the second one, Moses decides to take a quick dip in the Red Sea before popping back out. Both of them are trying (and failing) to create the &#8220;wall of water&#8221; effect popularized by the movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j3CANELyPo0\">The Ten Commandments<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-red-sea-wall.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-red-sea-wall.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-red-sea-jump.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2024-12-red-sea-jump.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If I had more credits available, I&#8217;d share more. We&#8217;re in the earliest days of text-to-video generations&#8212;the DALLE-2 era of AI videos: they&#8217;re amazing but limited, advanced but (in retrospect) basic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI just released Sora, a text-to-video generator. Here are three five-second videos I had it make of the parable of the lost sheep: They&#8217;re all basically the same concept, with a happy sheep coming toward the camera. Prompting for a video is different from prompting for an image; I struggled to get good results in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,20,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}