Vidu Q1 brings high-budget VFX capabilities in generating audio and high-definition, convincingly natural transitions that are now within reach of anyone within only minutes
SINGAPORE, April 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vidu, the flagship product of ShengShu Technology and a pioneer in generative AI video, is unveiling Vidu Q1 – a new high-performance generative video model that demonstrably sets the benchmark for quality and control, outperforming competing tools based on VBench's standard for comprehensive generative video evaluation standards. Starting today, Vidu Q1 launches with four major features that rival cinematic-grade visual effects (VFX). These include seamless transitions between realistic and animated sequences, and high-fidelity background music that can be auto-generated from text-inputs.
Aiming to offer creators access to capabilities that were previously reserved for well-funded film studios, Vidu is redefining the future of visual effects. Chief of Vidu Q1's features centers around First-to-Last Frame, a seamless way to generate hyper-realistic, professional-grade transitions that rival those created by experienced VFX artists. By uploading two images and typing a simple text command, users can leverage Vidu Q1's advanced semantic understanding and visual guidance to produce cohesive, cinematic transitions with minimal randomness. This innovative solution allows filmmakers, content creators, and influencers to significantly reduce production time without the need for expensive post-production or CGI teams.
This even works for images that have no perceivable relation to one another, where Vidu Q1 can come up with a highly believable transition between a photo of a door opening, and a screenshot of your favorite action hero and villain fighting. By prompting Vidu Q1 to "open the door to watch your action hero fighting his rival," what you input is faithfully reflected in the output with high fidelity, ensuring a natural and convincing result.
Additionally, all of this is achieved thanks to a groundbreaking breakthrough in generative video quality – Vidu Q1 delivers up to 1080p video output for clips up to 5 seconds. This means studio-quality, crisp, and detailed visuals, while also eliminating the usual wait times associated with rendering footage. While still honoring its core value to animators, Vidu Q1 is also introducing major enhancements to generating videos in the anime style that now offers even a higher degree of consistency and expressiveness from generated characters, for smoother outputs with natural, cinematic transitions between frames.
Moreover, users starting today can also gain complete control over their audio production without a background in audio engineering or voice actors. Vidu's new AI Sound Effects feature can be controlled entirely by semantic instructions (text-inputs), and offers high-resolution, HD audio in an industry-first 48 kHz. Vidu Q1 is intelligently optimized to generate original background music and sound effects that offer richer audio details, and professional-grade fidelity. On top of this, Vidu Q1 delivers an audio experience free of jarring sounds, compression distortions, or choppy audio. Moreover, the melody can be automatically generated to match the mood, emotion and style of a video clip. For more precise controls over how and where sounds are used within a film, users can layer multiple audio tracks for up to ten seconds per track, or also splice the music and sound effects to be timed exactly to specific actions through simple text prompts to add timestamps like "between 0-2 seconds add a wind sound."
"Vidu Q1 marks a pivotal step forward in making video generation smarter, more expressive, and more accessible," said Yihang Luo, CEO of ShengShu Technology. "This new generative video model brings us closer to our vision of building the next-generation content creation platform – one that empowers anyone to turn imagination into reality with unprecedented ease, creative freedom and cinematic precision."
As a testament to its rising popularity among animation studios since being the first to be made commercially available back in July 2024, Hollywood has begun taking notice. Just last month, Aura Productions co-announced a 50-episode sci-fi series of AI-generated anime shorts developed using Vidu, which included piloting Vidu Q1.
All of this builds on the platform's use of its U-ViT research, penned by the Vidu team. With the groundbreaking Multiple-Entity Consistency feature, introduced in Vidu 1.5, users could for the first time effortlessly merge unrelated people, objects, and environments into a seamless video. Since then, Vidu has consistently set key industry benchmarks, with Vidu Q1 being the latest to solidify Vidu's position as one of the most cost-effective and advanced video generation platforms available on the market.
To learn more about Vidu, please visit https://www.vidu.com
About ShengShu Technology
Founded in March 2023, ShengShu Technology is a world-leading artificial intelligence company, specializing in the development of Multimodal Large Language Models. Driven by innovation, the company delivers cutting-edge MaaS and SaaS products that revolutionize creative production by enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable content creation. With its flagship video generation platform Vidu, ShengShu Technology's solutions have reached more than 200 countries and regions around the world, spanning fields including interactive entertainment, advertising, film, animation, cultural tourism, and more.
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Vidu Q1 Model Launches Globally Offering Unmatched Realistic VFX Capabilities, From Generating Cinematic Transitions to High-Fidelity Sound Effects with Just a Few Simple Inputs
The Initiative Aims to Address the Pain Points of Family Filmmaking
BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 6th, the 3rd FamilyLens International Film Festival opened in Beijing. SmallRig, a global specialized provider of imaging solutions, collaborating with FamilyLens, is empowering family filmmaking through various initiatives, including the Family Filmmaking Co-Creation Initiative, a dedicated family filmmaking kit, and a social impact screening program.
Deepening the "Co-Creation Initiatives"
The Co-Creation Initiatives are a series of global creative initiatives open to filmmakers and image creators worldwide. Through deep collaboration across multiple dimensions — including product co-creation, discovery and promotion, and content co-creation — SmallRig aims to expand the boundaries of mobile filmmaking and bring the spirit of Free Your Dream to life with creators everywhere.
Following the launch of the Mobile Filmmaking Co-Creation Initiative at the 14th International Smartphone Film Festival, SmallRig announced the launch of the Family Filmmaking Co-Creation Initiative on December 6th at the 3rd FamilyLens International Film Festival. The initiative invites global creators and every family to participate, focusing on three core directions: product co-creation, work promotion, and content co-creation, to explore the possibilities of family filmmaking for everyone.
Mr. Zhou Yang, Founder and CEO of SmallRig, shared the inspiration for the initiative: "The initiative is rooted in the immense universality and profound emotional depth inherent in family narratives, which serve as a common emotional bond connecting global audiences. We firmly believe that in this era, where everyone can be a content creator, every family can and should film their own story. The instinct to create is deeply embedded in the human spirit, and every home is the origin of countless narratives."
Gu Xue, Founder and Director of the FamilyLens International Film Festival, stated: "We hope that people and practitioners around the world who care about family movies can find suitable solutions and gain insights from the Co-Creation Initiatives. We look forward to more and more people exploring the field of 'Home' together through this initiative."
To address the pain points of family filmmaking, SmallRig officially released the SmallRig Family Filmmaking Kit at the opening ceremony. The kit includes a high-quality microphone, fill light, and a portable tripod, specifically designed to achieve "professional function democratization" and "complex feature simplification." During the FamilyLens Workshop, attendees experienced the convenience of the equipment firsthand. Many expressed that the kit truly solves many problems, enabling ordinary families to complete necessary filming without specialized photography knowledge.
Social Impact Screening Program
The 3rd FamilyLens International Film Festival is open to the public from December 6th to 14th. The festival opened with the screening of well-received documentary: K-Family Affairs. In addition to the competition section, the festival features several distinctive sections, including the Reframing Home Movies— An Italian Retrospective, Youth Film Program, Filmmaker in Focus, and the Social Impact Program. Four major awards, such as the Real-Life Portrait Award and the Artistic Exploration Award, will also be presented.
As a key component of the Co-Creation Initiatives, the SmallRig Image Development Fund partnered with the FamilyLens International Film Festival to curate the "Social Impact Screening Program." This unit focuses on elevating awareness of critical issues within the family unit, advocating for a new reflection: "Starting with Seeing, Concluding with Understanding."
Arum Nam, Director of K-Family Affairs, stated:
"Starting with the stories of your family, your friends, and yourself, I believe this personal narrative can connect directly to the bigger society."
SmallRig believes that truly meaningful social impact storytelling stems from awareness in proximity—achieved by using the lens to penetrate the daily surface and enabling a deep, empathetic "Seeing with Empathy."
The four featured works in this unit are:
- People of the Ascent
- Granny's Lost and Found
- Ruixi at Fourteen
- No Country For My Maternal Grandma
These films highlight four family issues that require "seeing": the yearning of left-behind children, the mental isolation of Alzheimer's patients, the elderly searching for subjectivity in their drifting lives, and the emotional volatility and struggle of Bipolar Disorder.
Strategic Outlook and Future Expansion
SmallRig will continue to support the Family Filmmaking Co-Creation Initiative's deep development through promotional campaigns and practical workshops focused on family movie scenarios.
The overall goal of SmallRig's Global Co-creation Initiative is to continuously explore and meet the growing, diverse needs of global creators across different vertical domains. SmallRig is committed to persistently expanding the co-creation model into more imaging sectors, collaborating with industry partners to push the boundaries of imaging and grant global creators broader creative freedom.
About SmallRig
Founded in 2013, SmallRig is an innovation-driven global company that designs and manufactures comprehensive support solutions and accessories for all content creation needs. Trusted by over four million creators globally, SmallRig pioneered the User Co-creation Design (UCD) philosophy and the DreamRig Program.
For more information, visit: www.smallrig.com.
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SmallRig and FamilyLens Launch Global Family Filmmaking Initiative at 3rd FamilyLens International Film Festival
SmallRig and FamilyLens Launch Global Family Filmmaking Initiative at 3rd FamilyLens International Film Festival
SmallRig and FamilyLens Launch Global Family Filmmaking Initiative at 3rd FamilyLens International Film Festival
