Hey Product Hunters! 👋
I'm Romain, the founder of Melies, an all-in-one AI Filmmaking software built for storytellers, creators, and filmmakers 🎬
Cinema has always been my passion, and with the latest AI advancements, I’m building the tool I’d have dreamed of as a young, aspiring filmmaker.
Today, the best AI tools for film creation are spread across multiple platforms. Melies simplifies this by bringing everything together in one dedicated platform, integrating top AI tools and models: GPT-4 and Claude for screenwriting, FLUX for image generation, Runway, Kling, HailuoAI Minimax and Luma Dream Machine for video generation, ElevenLabs for sound effects and voices, and more. (See integrations)
With Melies, you can go from an idea to a movie without juggling multiple subscriptions or tools.
One of the biggest challenges with AI filmmaking is also maintaining consistency in characters and scenes—a critical part of any movie. Melies is focused on solving these issues by making sure each character and scene remains cohesive throughout your film.
Here's how Melies incorporates AI at every step to make the process easier:
💡 Idea Generation: Get inspired with AI-generated movie ideas
👤 Character Development: Build in-depth character bibles and backstories
✍️ Screenwriting: Write screenplays step-by-step with AI support
🎨 Storyboarding: Generate visually rich storyboards for each scene
🎬 Image & Video Generation: Generate your scenes with images and videos to bring each scene to life
🎶 Sound Generation: Animate with realistic voices, sound effects, and background music
Check out Melies here : https://melies.co 🌟
I’m excited to see the stories you’ll tell with Melies.
If you have any questions or feedback, I'd be happy to answer here!
@romainsimon Having to juggle between different AI tools for each part of filmmaking is a real pain point, so bringing everything under one roof is brilliant. Congrats on the launch!
@brijs Thanks a lot!
Yes, it works also for longer movies (I've set the limit to 3 hours)
However it's still experimental, so longer movies can cost a lot (especially for generating videos)
I've added a calculator to try to estimate how much a movie would cost: https://melies.co/pricing#calcul...
@hadjimina Thanks Philipp! I'll be adding more features for making documentaries, because I think there are a lot of use cases where you want to illustrate things and don't have images.
Features like importing source materials, or training characters would be great for documentaries I guess?
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cool if you add some demo videos to this launch page. how many minutes of video can it generate ? is the subscription per month or per credits? this is a massive wrapper of a lot of models, it's gonna cost
@maxcompe There is no limit right now on the duration, but longer videos still need manual editing.
Here's a short trailer I made recently:
The only things I had to do without Melies is add a better music with Suno & do some editing.
This is wild, Romain! 🎥 Melies sounds like it's gonna shake up the indie film scene big time. As someone who's always had a million movie ideas but zero budget, this all-in-one AI approach is seriously intriguing. The character consistency feature is brilliant - that's always been a major pain point. I'm curious though, how does the AI handle more nuanced storytelling elements? Like, can it capture subtle character development or complex themes? Either way, it's exciting to see tools that could potentially democratize filmmaking. Might have to dust off that sci-fi script I've been procrastinating on!
@_ivan1 Thanks a lot! Right now, Melies guides you step by step while writing your script. It writes an outline, which you can edit, before generating the entire script. You can also edit the script as much as you want.
I'll improve that, but it gives you creative control at each step, so you can either go 100% AI-generated content, or edit everything in details if you prefer.
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