I have previously introduced Domo AI, an AI video style conversion tool that can convert real-life videos into various virtual styles. It is worth noting that this tool is mainly targeted at the overseas market, thanks to its successful marketing on social media platforms. In just three months, it has already gained over 100,000 registered users. However, perhaps due to the rapid growth of users, it has led to a significant increase in computational costs. A few days ago, Domo AI temporarily suspended free trials for new users.
Today, I discovered a perfect alternative to Domo AI called GoEnhance, which offers limited free trials and currently supports nine types of video style conversions.
GoEnhance preserves the details of the original video better, including the texture and patterns of clothing, accessories and hair of the characters. It retains them more completely, and the coherence of the visuals is also better. It is difficult to see elements disappearing or jumping in the visuals.
If you are interested, you can try it out yourself. New users can generate three 3-second videos or two 5-second videos for free. It also supports web access (which has become an advantage compared to Domo AI). Unlike Domo AI, which only supports Discord, GoEnhance currently only supports web access and requires a Google account to log in.
In addition, GoEnhance has a nice detail in terms of user experience - the generated videos come with the original audio. In the scenes where AI video conversion is used, such as dance videos, there is often background music. GoEnhance captures the original audio track of the video and combines it with the converted video before providing it to the user.
The downside is that the generation speed is slightly slow, which may be related to computational resources or the need to handle more details technically. Currently, there are still few users, but as the user base grows, this may become a significant bottleneck.
In addition to supporting Video2Video video style conversion, GoEnhance also has an image upscale function. Considering its name and website style, I suddenly realized that the development team initially wanted to create an image enhancement tool similar to KREA AI or Magnific AI.
Video2Video video style conversion has more entertainment value and can be used to adapt dance videos from platforms like TikTok. It has a broader audience, but it is not a strong demand and there are copyright issues. On the other hand, Image Upscale has more productivity attributes and can be used for image enlargement or restoring old photos. It has a narrower audience and is more geared towards professional users who have higher performance requirements. If it doesn't have enough differentiation from Magnific AI, it will be difficult to survive.
These two issues mentioned above are likely to exist in many AI drawing or video applications, including GoEnhance, which is learning from Domo AI. The high computational costs and difficulty in converting free users into paying customers make it necessary to first build up the user base through unique features and marketing, and then secure funding. There are not many choices available at the moment that can achieve this as successfully as star teams like Pika and Magnific AI.
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