Resources

Last Updated March 6th, 2025

Variance’s Current Workflow:

  1. Flux / Midjourney(images)

  2. Kling 1.6 / Luma Ray2 / Hailuo-01 Director (img2vid)

  3. Sora [Remix for better quality, length](vid2vid)

  4. RunwayML [Act-One Feature](vid2vid)

  5. Topaz Upscale to 4K (vid2vid)

  6. ElevenLabs(voices/sound effects)

  7. Suno(music, score)

  8. Adobe Suite(editing / grading / mixing)

Best Large-Language Models:

OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3, 4.5

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7

Google’s Gemini 2.0

DeepSeek R1 (open-source)

X-ai’s Grok 3

Get GPT To Help You Learn / Have Better Conversations

All-In-One for LLMs:

Perplexity

(Has Access To Some Of The Above Models At One Price)

Video Models

S-Tier:

Google’s Veo2 [via Freepik & FAL]

Luma Ray2

Hailuo 01 Director

Pika 2.2

Kling 1.6

Tencent Hunyuan [open-source]

Alibaba WAN 2.1 [open-source]

OpenAI’s Sora

RunwayML Gen3 [for act-one and extend]

All-In-Ones:

Freepik

Krea

FAL (more complex, but more options)

(Has Access To Some Of The Above Models At One Price)

Decent Models:

Leonardo.Ai (Photos, Videos, Realtime Canvas)

Haiper (Video Generation from Photos or Text)

LTXStudio (Good all-in-one for shorts)

InVideo  (Turn any idea or content to video, instantly with AI)

Upscalers

Magnific (Image Upscale / Add Detail)

TopazLabs (Video / Image Upscale Software)

Krea.ai (Photo / Video Upscaling)

Audio

Suno AI (Create Full Songs with Lyrics or Instrumentals)

Udio AI (Create Full Songs with Lyrics or Instrumentals)

ElevenLabs (Dubbing, Voice Cloning, Custom Voices)

Graphics / Images

Krea (Flux, Train Your Own Models)

Freepik (Flux, Train Your Own Models)

Leonardo.Ai (Photos, Upscaling, Flux)

Midjourney (Images, Edit, Consistency, moodboards)

Canva (Thumbnails, graphics)

Magnific (Upscaling, Images, Style Transfer)

Writing

SudaWrite (Writing Assistant)

Any of the Top LLM’s Above [especially GPT 4.5]

Etc / Miscellaneous

CivitAI (Download Open Source Models & Workflows)

YouTube Specific


Vizard (Shorts from Long Form Content)

VidIQ (Titles, Thumbnails, Ideas, Stats)

CapCut (Free Editing Software)

Davinci Resolve (Free Editing Software)

HeyGen (Dubbing to Different Languages, Avatars)

(note, some of these are affiliate links and will benefit our channel! Thank you!)

I will continue to add more tools for you to use to speed up your process.

My current spend per month for all of this crap: $794.99!