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A live stream is the one format where a creator cannot be in two places. We build ReelMint , and Mint Live is the feature that lets a character you made go live on YouTube or TikTok, hosted by the AI in its own voice, reading and answering the chat, while you are asleep or at work. Mint Stage goes one further: a cast, a set and a schedule, and a show that writes, films and streams itself day after day. Here is what it does, what it costs, and the rules we learned the hard way. Mint Live: one character, one session Prepare the character once. The studio renders its talking and idle loops from the character's look and voice. This is a one-time cost of a few minutes; an unprepared character can still stream as a still picture. Start the session. You set a maximum length, and credits for that length are held; the unused part comes back when the stream ends. The price per minute is shown first. It hosts. The AI reads the live chat, answers in the character's voice with synce...

Search for an AI video generator and you will see "no restrictions" on half the results. It usually means one of three very different things, and two of them are not what you want. We build ReelMint , where we use the phrase on purpose, so here is what it means for us, what it does not, and how to read it on anyone else's page. Meaning 1: no model restrictions This is the one most people are actually looking for. A lot of tools lock the good models behind the expensive tier: you pay for the cheap plan and get last year's model, and the current one needs the plan above. On ReelMint every plan, from Lite at $9.99 a month upward, runs every model: Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Wan 3.0, Veo 3.1, Grok Imagine, MiniMax H3, the image models, the music and speech models. The plans differ in how many credits you get and in extras like parallel generations and a clean render without a badge, never in which model you may pick. Meaning 2: no daily cap or queue Some "free...

If you already live in an AI coding agent, opening a web app to make a video feels like a step backwards. We build ReelMint , and the whole studio is exposed as a Model Context Protocol server, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT and any other MCP client can list the models, quote a job, generate a clip, and post it to your channels, in plain words, with the same approval rules the web app has. This is the setup and what it is good for. Connect it in one command The server is a single endpoint that takes your account's token. In Claude Code it is one claude mcp add line with the URL and the token; the guide has the exact command for Claude Code, Claude Desktop and a generic client. After that, "make me a 10-second clip of a lighthouse in a storm and post it to my YouTube Shorts" is a prompt, not a workflow. What the tools are About sixty tools, grouped the way the product is: Models and quotes: list every model with its options, limits and price; quote a job ...

Anime is the style people ask AI video for most, and the one where generic text-to-video fails most visibly: faces drift between shots, dialogue is mumbled, the "anime" is a vague filter. We build ReelMint , and the Anime tab exists because that failure is fixable with structure. Here is how it works, from a line of text to a posted reel. What the Anime tab does differently A prompt becomes a cast, then character sheets, then a shot list, then the clips. The cast step is the one that matters: each character gets a fixed look (a sheet with the face, the hair, the outfit) that is sent to the video model on every shot, so episode three looks like episode one. Dialogue is written per shot and spoken by the model's native voices, in Japanese or any other language, with subtitles if you want them. Step by step Write the premise in one or two sentences. "A courier girl on a rooftop in Shibuya during a sakura storm, chasing a letter the wind took." Name the charac...

Text to video gets the headlines, but the three questions we get most often as the builders of ReelMint are about starting from something you already have: a photo, a clip, or a portrait. Here is how each one works, which model to use, and what it costs, with free examples you can open to see the result before trying your own. 1. Image to video: animate a photo Upload a photo or a generated still, describe the motion, and pick an image-to-video model. The photo locks the face, the outfit and the place; the prompt sets what moves. "Slow push in, she turns and smiles, wind in the trees" is a good prompt. "Make it cinematic" is not. Models: Seedance 2.5 for the best 1080p result up to 30 seconds; Grok Imagine when you want it cheap; Wan 3.0 for native audio. Free examples: a Lisbon street photo brought to life, a poster that starts moving, and an astronaut scene, all on the examples page with their prompts. The guide has the steps. 2. Video to video: restyle a...

Most AI video apps have a chat bolted on that answers questions about the app. Minty is the opposite: she is the way in. Every feature of ReelMint , the studio, the publisher, the bots, the live shows, can be run by telling her what you want in plain words. We build the product, and this is how she works and why we made the sign-in land on her instead of a dashboard. What talking to her looks like "Make a 10-second clip of a puppy running through autumn leaves, then post it to my YouTube Shorts at 6 pm." She picks a model, shows the price, asks for approval, generates, and schedules the post. If something is missing, she asks one question with quick answers rather than a form. If you say "use the cheapest model", she does. The feed shows cards, not walls of text: a tool row for each thing she ran, a question card, a library picker when she needs a file, a job card that updates until the video is done, and an approval card before anything that spends. The approva...

Everyone has a folder of photos from a wedding, a trip, a match or a product shoot that never became anything, because making a video out of stills means a timeline, transitions, music licensing and an afternoon. We build ReelMint , and Mint Moments is the feature that turns that folder into one finished vertical film with music, with nothing else to configure. Here is what it does, what it costs, and where it is and is not a good fit. How it works Upload up to 15 photos in the order the film should play. Phone photos are fine; they are resized on the way in. Pick a mood. The categories are things like a wedding, a trip, a match, a product shoot, a birthday. The mood sets the pacing, the motion style and the kind of music. Pick a length. Short for Reels and Shorts, longer for a keepsake. Read the price, then confirm. The quote is shown in credits before anything is made. Nothing is charged until you confirm. Wait 10 to 25 minutes. Each photo is brought to life as a short cl...

The hardest part of a content channel is not the first video. It is the ninetieth. We build ReelMint , and the feature our own channels lean on most is Bot Studio: a standing recipe that writes, films, scores, captions and posts a video on a wall-clock schedule, with the monthly cost printed before you save it. This post is how it works, what it costs, and the mistakes people make setting one up. What a bot is A bot is a recipe plus a schedule plus destinations. The recipe says what kind of video (text to video, anime, image-led, a sung song, or a compilation of earlier videos), which model, how long, which voice and music, and the theme. The schedule says when it fires (daily at 9 am, every Monday, every six hours). The destinations are the channels you connected: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, any mix. When it fires, it writes a script for that day on the theme, generates the clip, adds the soundtrack and captions, writes a caption in each platform's style, and publi...

Four models get most of the attention in AI video right now, and they are genuinely different tools. We run all of them inside ReelMint , where every plan can use every model, so we see the same prompts go through each one every day. This is the practical comparison we give people who ask "which one?", with length, audio, resolution and price side by side. The short version Seedance 2.5 (ByteDance): up to 30 seconds with native audio at 1080p. The best all-rounder for story clips and image-to-video. Our free examples use it for the Lisbon street scene and the puppy. Kling 3.0 Omni (Kuaishou): native voices, 720p up to 4K, up to 15 seconds, strong with people and dialogue. If you need a character to speak on camera, start here. Wan 3.0 (Alibaba): up to 30 seconds with native audio from text, an image, or a reference clip plus up to ten reference stills. The one to pick when you want to film a new clip "like this one", or restyle with a consistent cast. Veo 3...

"Cheapest" is a slippery word in AI video. A tool can have the lowest monthly price and still be the most expensive per clip, because the monthly price buys credits and the credits buy different amounts of video on different models. We build ReelMint , and the only honest way we have found to compare tools is to cost one specific thing: a roughly 10-second clip at 720p on the cheapest paid plan. Here is how that comes out, and how to keep your own costs down. The price is on the button Before any of the numbers, the one design rule that matters: in ReelMint the credit cost of a generation is printed on the Generate button before you press it, and it is derived from the provider's real cost for that model, length and resolution. If a provider rejects a job, the credits come back in full. You are charged for what was produced, nothing else. What a 10-second clip costs, model by model Read from the live rate table on the cheapest page , cheapest first: Runway Gen, chea...

Every AI video tool stops at the download. You generate a clip, save it, and then the real work starts: open TikTok, upload, write a caption, open YouTube, upload again, write a title, open Instagram, and so on. Five uploads for one video, every day. We build ReelMint because we were tired of that, and this post walks through how the one-click version works, including the parts that are easy to get wrong. Step 1: connect each platform once Go to Connections and press Connect next to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or X. Each one opens the platform's own sign-in page. You approve a publishing permission there, and you are sent back. ReelMint never sees your password; the platform gives it a token to post on your behalf, and you can revoke it from the platform's settings at any time. Two details that trip people up: Instagram posts through its Facebook Page. Your Instagram account has to be a professional account linked to a Facebook Page. That is Meta's rule for ...

Most "free AI video generator" pages work the same way. You sign up, you get a handful of credits that run out after one blurry clip, and then the paywall drops. We build ReelMint , and we wanted the free part to be something you could actually use, so we did it differently: the team made 27 finished creations in the studio, and every new account can open any of them and keep a copy, with no card and no trial. This post explains what those creations are, what "keep" means, and what you can do with a free video once you have it. What you get for free The free examples page lists every creation with the prompt, the model and the settings that made it. There are three in each of the nine studio modes: Text to video: a neon street chef in Tokyo with native voices, a surfer inside a wave with native audio, and a puppy in autumn leaves. Each is 11 to 15 seconds. Image to video: a Lisbon street photo that comes alive, a poster that starts moving, and an astronaut ...