The Ultimate Guide to AI Video Generation(Sora 2, Runway 4.5, Veo 3.1, Nano Banana Pro)

Runway Gen 4. 5, Sora 2 Pro, VO3. 1. Your feed is fluted with insane AI video demos that look like Netflix quality productions. Everyone's hyped. Everyone's watching. But here's the truth. Most people still haven't made one complete AI video from scratch. Not one. And it's not because the tools are bad. It's because nobody's showing you the full picture, the planning, the workflow, the chaos of juggling five different platforms and how to actually finish a project without losing your mind. Today, I'm walking you through the entire journey zero to finished AI video. the tools, the workflow, the mistakes, the fixes, and most importantly, how to organize this whole multi-tool circus so you can actually produce videos on repeat, not just make one lucky clip and pray. So, let's go.

So, first, let's map the territory because right now, AI video feels like walking into a hardware store with no labels. You know, these tools can build something incredible, but which one do you even start with? Here's how the landscape actually breaks down. First category, text to video. This is where you type a prompt and the AI generates the entire clip. The big players here are Sora 2 Pro, VO 3. 1, and Runway Gen 4. 5 if you have access. Sora excels at cinematic storytelling and complex camera movements. VO 3. 1 is the king of ultra detailed motion and photo realism, and Runway Gen 4. 5, when you can get your hands on it, delivers that polished commercialgrade aesthetic. Second category, image to video. This is where you start with a static image and animate it tools like Nano Banana Pro for image generation. Then you feed those images into runways image to video mode or PA or cling. The advantage here is control. You nail the composition, the style, the framing first, then you bring it to life. Third category, upscaling and enhancement. Once you generate a clip, you might need to upscale it from 720p to 4K or stabilize shaky motion or fix color grading. This is where tools like Topaz Video AI come in or even some of the built-in enhancement features in newer platforms like VO 3. 1. Fourth category, compositing and editing. You've got your AI clips. Now you need to cut them together, add text overlays, sound design, color correction, export in the right format for YouTube or Instagram or Tik Tok. Traditionally, this meant Da Vinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut. But here's where it gets messy. Cuz here's the problem. Each of these tools lives in a different app, different export formats, different naming conventions. You generate a clip in Sora, download it, generate another in VO, download that, create an image in Nano Banana, animate it in Runway, download that. Now you've got 12 files scattered across your desktop, your downloads folder, maybe a Google Drive if you're organized, and you can't remember which version was the good one, which prompt you used, or which tool even made that clip. This is where most beginners give up. Not because they can't figure out the individual tools, but because managing the workflow between all of them becomes a nightmare. So, before we dive into the solution, let's actually build something because I want you to see exactly where this chaos

happens. All right, let's pick a project. I'm going to create a 30-second product demo video for a sleek wireless charging pad. Think Apple style commercial. We need four shots. I'm opening a text doc and writing briefly my shot list with tool assignments. First shot in Sora 2 wide desk scene morning light slow dolly in. Then second one in nano banana plus VO 3. 1 top down lead pulse static camera. Shot number three VO 3. 1 direct side angle text overlay 20 watts fast charge. And shot four in Sora 2 wide pullback full desk reveal. The logic Sora handles cinematic wide shots. VO3 and Nano Banana Pro handle tight detail work. This takes five minutes, but it prevents Wait, which tool was I using again later? But here's the key difference from what most tutorials show you. I'm not going to jump between five different websites. I'm doing everything inside Aool. A cool has all the major AI video models built into one platform. Sora 2 Pro, VO 3. 1, Nano Banana Pro, plus their own AOL generation model. So I can generate clips, organize files, edit, and export without ever leaving one workspace. No browser tab chaos, no scattered downloads. Let me show you how this actually works. I'm opening a cool. Go toaccool. com and sign in. The workspace loads. Clean interface. Left sidebar shows my project folders. Center is the main canvas. Right side is my asset library. At the top there's a toolbar with tabs. Generate video. Generate image. Assets. Edit. Export. I'm clicking new project. A dialogue appears. Project name. I'm typing charging pad commercial. The project opens. Now I'm in the a cool workspace. This is where I'll generate all four shots, keep them organized, and edit them into the final video all in one place. All right, let's generate shot

one wide lifestyle sora 2 inside a cool. I'm in my a cool project workspace. Top toolbar, clicking the generate video tab. A drop-own appears. Choose model. I see options. A cool model, Sora 2 Pro, VO 3. 1, PA, and others. I'm selecting Sora 2 Pro. The Sora generation panel opens inside a cool big prompt box in the center. Below that, settings for aspect ratio, duration, quality. Click into the prompt field. Here's my full prompt word for word. Then I click the settings panel near the prompt. I see aspect ratio clicking 16-9 because this is for YouTube. Duration dropdown selecting 12 seconds. Then I hit generate button. Sora starts processing. Progress bar appears. This takes 60 to 90 seconds depending on server load. The bar fills. Done. I create four video variations. I'm clicking each one to preview. Here is lighting too harsh. Shadows too strong. Then coffee cup is giant. Stealing focus from the pad. Motion too slow. Feels sluggish. Perfect. Smooth dolly. Pad centered. Light and warm and soft. I'm selecting this variation in the top right corner. I hit the download icon arrow pointing down. I'm clicking it. Sora finishes. The four variations appear right inside a cool. I don't need to download anything yet. They're automatically saved in my project's asset library. I'm clicking variation three, the best one, and hitting add to project. A cool automatically names it Sora generation01 and tags it with my prompt settings and generation date. I can rename it later if I want, but for now it's already organized in my project folder. No messy downloads folder. Everything lives here.

Now I need a tight top down shot of the charging pad with the LED glowing. We want perfect composition first image then animated video. So nano banana for the still VO3 to bring it to life. Firstly I generate base image in nanobanana pro. Back in my aul workspace top toolbar I'm clicking generate image. dropdown choose model I see a cool image model nano banana pro flux [snorts] others I'm selecting nano banana pro the nano banana panel opens prompt field at the top I'm typing this full prompt aspect ratio selector click in 16 to9 landscape hit the generate button nanobanana processes 15 to 30 seconds image appears the image looks good but the LED glow is too bright looks like a spotlight not a calm indicator I need to refine I'm clicking edit prompt and adding the LED indicator glows soft cyan blue. Very subtle and understated like a gentle pulse at rest, not a bright spotlight. Clicking regenerate. Second result loads much better. The glow is soft. The wood grain looks real. Composition is clean. Nano banana finishes. The image appears in the preview. I'm clicking add to project. It's saved into my AOL asset library with the name nano banana closeup01 and tagged with my full prompt and settings. I can see it in my assets panel on the right. Ready for the next step. Now I'm going to animate that nano banana image. Still in a cool top toolbar clicking generate video again drop-down choose model selecting VO 3. 1. VO panel opens at the top two mode buttons text to video and image to video. I'm clicking image to video. Now I need to select my base image on the right. My assets panel shows all my project files. I see nano banana close-up one. That's the image I just made. I'm clicking it then dragging it into the VO input box. The image fills the preview. Animation prompt. Below the image text field labeled describe your video. Here's what I'm typing my prompt. Big generate video button at the bottom. I'm clicking it. VO starts processing. This takes longer than Sora. About 90 seconds to 2 minutes because VO prioritizes detail and realism. Progress bar done. Video plays in the window. I'm watching. The LED pulse looks perfect. Smooth sine wave breathing. Not jumpy. The rest of the frame is rock solid stable. No warping, no artifacts. This is exactly what I need. A cool saves it as VO lead pulse01 in my asset library tagged with the animation prompt and all settings. I can see both the original nano banana image and this new video clip sitting in my assets panel organized under the same

project. For this one, I want an even tighter side angle shot of the charging pad. And I want animated text to fade in over the video. 15 watts fast charge. V3 can generate the video and bake in the text in one go. No need for a base image this time. We're going direct text to video. This time when the VO panel opens, I'm clicking the text to video button, not image to video. Step one, main prompt field, big text box center. I'm typing this full prompt. Step two, settings panel, aspect ratio, clicking 16 to 9. Step three, generate button. I'm clicking it. VO processes about 2 minutes. Result loads. Step four, review. Playing the video. First attempt, the text appeared, but it's too small and the fade in is instant, not gradual. I need to refine the prompt. Step five, I'm clicking edit prompt and changing the text description. After 0. 5 seconds, large white text fades in very slowly over 1. 5 seconds on the right third of the frame. The text is big and bold, occupying about 25% of the frame height, making it impossible to miss. Regenerate. Second attempt processes done. Second result loads much better. I'm clicking add to project. A cool saves it as VO text close-up O2 version two because I regenerated. My assets panel now shows three files. The Sora wide shot, the nano banana image, the VO led pulse, and now this VO text shot. All organized, all tagged with prompts. Last shot.

We're going back to Sora 2 for a smooth wide pullback. the opposite movement of our opening dolly in this creates a satisfying visual bookend top toolbar in Aul clicking generate video drop-own Sora 2 pro again the Sora panel opens I'm clicking new generation to clear the previous prompt and start fresh step one prompt field here's my full prompt step two settings aspect ratio 16-9 duration dropdown select in 12 seconds step three generate button processing Takes about 90 seconds. Done. Step four, review the four variations. Variation one, camera movement is jerky, not smooth. Variation two, pull back is too fast, feels rushed. Variation three, perfect, smooth, slow, pull back, good pacing, product stays in focus at the start, then the reveal feels natural. Variation four, lightening shifts midway through, the sunlight flickers, looks inconsistent. Selecting variation three, I'm clicking add to project. Cool. Saves it as Sora pullback 2. Now in my assets panel on the right, I can see all four video clips plus the original nano banana base image. Everything generated inside one workspace. All tagged with prompts, settings, model names, and timestamps. No scattered files, no downloads folder chaos. In a traditional workflow, at this point, I'd have five files scattered in my downloads folder with random names. I'd be opening Da Vinci Resolve or Premiere, manually importing each one, trying to remember which prompt I used, which settings worked, which version was the good one. And here's the best part. I don't need to import anything into an editor. I'm already in the editor, bottom of the screen, my timeline. It's empty right now, but I can just drag those four clips straight from my assets panel onto the timeline, trim them, add transitions, color correct, add music, and export, all without leaving a cool. This is what I mean by a production hub. It's not just a generator. It's the whole workflow. All right, we've

generated all four shots. They're sitting in my Aool asset library organized and tagged. Now, let's put them together. Full disclosure, AOL is sponsoring this video. But the reason I'm using it for this tutorial is simple. It actually solves the production chaos problem. You generate, organize, edit, and export in one place. No scattered files, no tab hopping. Let me show you. I'm opening a cool first thing I see a clean workspace. On the left, I've got my project folders. In the center, my timeline and canvas. On the right, my asset library. This already feels different from just another generation tool. I'm creating a new project. I'm calling it product demo v1. Now, here's the magic. I can import the clips I already generated from Sora VO and runway. Drag and drop. They're in. But a cool also has native generation tools built in. Sora 2, VO3, nano banana for images, and their own a cool model for hyperrealistic content. So if I wanted to, I could generate everything right here without ever leaving the platform. But the real power is that it doesn't force you to. You can use whatever tools you want, then bring everything into a cool to organize and finish. Inside the project, I label each clip Sora product reveal VO deskshot and drop in the nano banana base image as a reference. Prompts, versions, source images, everything lives in one place now. No more desktop chaos. Now, let's

edit. I'm dragging the Sora clip onto the timeline. Trimming the first two seconds because the motion starts slow. Now, the VO close-up. I'm placing it at the 6second mark. I'm adding a quick dissolve transition. A cool has built-in transitions. Nothing fancy, but clean and fast. Now the VO desk scene. I'm placing it at 12 seconds. Total runtime so far. About 18 seconds. I want to add a text overlay. I'm clicking the text tool. Introducing the future. Simple, bold, centered. I'm animating it to fade in over the first clip. Done. Music. A cool has a built-in audio library. I'm searching for minimal tech. I'm finding a clean ambient track. 120 BPM, dragging it in, trimming it to 30 seconds, lowering the volume so it sits under the visuals, not over them. Before this would have been five open apps, Sora for generation, VO for animation, Da Vinci Resolve for editing, Epidemic Sound for music, Google Drive for file management. Now it's one workspace. But wait, remember that VO clip? The desk scene? When I play it back, I notice the motion is slightly stuttery. Not terrible, but not smooth enough for a final export. Normally, I'd have to export this, open Topaz, run it through frame interpolation, reimpport. Takes 10 minutes minimum. And here's another one. Remember that nano banana base image we used? It's a PNG, but I want it crisper for a final thumbnail or a still frame export. I'm right clicking the image asset in my library. Enhance image upscale. It processes for about 30 seconds. Done. Now it's sharp enough to use as a 4K still if I need it. These aren't revolutionary features individually, but having them built into the same workspace where you're already editing. That's the difference between I can technically do this and I actually will do this. Now, let's say you're not working alone. Maybe you've got a client who wants to review this before you finalize or you've got an editor on your team. Normally, you'd export the whole thing, upload it to Google Drive or Dropbox, send them a link, wait for feedback via email or Slack, make changes, re-export, re-upload. It's a mess. In a call, I'm clicking share project. I'm generating a link. I can set permissions, view only or edit access. I'm sending this to my client. They open it in their browser. They can scrub through the timeline, leave timestamped comments directly on the clips. Can we make the text bigger? Can the music start earlier? I'm seeing their comments in real time. I'm making the changes. Text size increased. The music starts at 2 seconds instead of 4 seconds. I'm saving. They refresh. They see the update instantly. No reexports. No version confusion. And here's the other thing, version history. I can see every iteration of this project. I can roll back to any previous version if a client changes their mind. This is the kind of workflow that used to only exist in tools like Figma or Notion. Now it's in video production.

All right, final step. I'm clicking export. A cool gives me two quality options. 720p or 1080p. I'm choosing 1080p because that's clean enough for YouTube and most social platforms. I'm also noting that if I need a vertical 916 version for reals or Tik Tok, I can duplicate the project, adjust the canvas to vertical, reexport. But for now, 1080p horizontal is what I need. Processing takes about 2 minutes. Done. I'm downloading the file. I'm renaming it product demo final 1080p. mpp4. So let's recap the full workflow. I generated clips in Sora 2 Pro and VO 3. 1. I imported them into AOL. I organized them with tags and notes. I edited everything on one timeline. I added text, music, and color grading. I enhanced the clips with smoothing and upscaling. I shared the project with a client for feedback. I made revisions in real time. I exported from multiple platforms. Total time maybe 30 minutes. If id done this the traditional way, five different apps, constant exporting and reimpporting, manual file management, email feedback loops, I'd still be working on it 3 hours later. And here's the honest part. Is a cool perfect? No. If you're only ever using one tool, like just runway or just Sora, and you're fine with keeping everything in Da Vinci or Premiere, you might not need this. But if you're serious about AI video production, if you're mixing tools, managing multiple projects, working with clients or a team, and you want a repeatable process instead of duct tape chaos, this is the

missing piece. AI video in 2025 isn't just about which model has the flashiest demo reel. It's about having a system, the right tools for the right jobs and a production hub that keeps everything organized so you can actually finish projects instead of drowning in files. Link to a cool is in the description and if you sign up through that link, you'll get early access to some of their upcoming features. More importantly, if you've been stuck in the I can make cool clips but I can't finish videos phase, this is worth checking out. And if you want more workflow breakdowns like this, hit subscribe and drop a comment. What's your biggest struggle with AI video right now? Is it the generation part, the editing part, or the how do I keep track of everything part? Let me know and see you in the next