Job 08 · Not yet tested
Best short video clip from a prompt?
Text-to-video tools. Three fixed prompts, each aiming at a 5–8 second clip. A person reviews adherence and broken frames.
People who need a short clip from a prompt, not a full editor.
The standard test
Pack 0.1.0 · specified · Three short clips
3 fixed prompts, 5-8s
Setup
The same three prompts and the same duration target. No image reference unless every tool gets the same one. A person reviews whether the clip follows the prompt and whether it is usable without a reshoot. Prompts are published with the pack.
Inputs
The three prompts and the duration target.
Time limit
One wall-clock cap for every tool in the job. The number is published with the pack before the first run and does not move between tools.
What we record
- Prompt adherence notes
- Visual failures
- Time
- Cost
- Model version
- Plan
How the FitScore is built
FitScore = weighted average × 20, rounded to the nearest integer. The weighted average is the sum of (criterion score × weight) divided by 100.
- Output quality30
- Reliability15
- Cost and free tier15
- Speed10
- Setup friction10
- Agent, API, and MCP support10
- Privacy and data10
5 excellent · 4 good · 3 usable · 2 poor · 1 fails. Full method.
Candidates
Candidates for Video generation. This order is the launch list, not a ranking. No FitScores are published.
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Version and plan recorded when a test is published
Questions this page answers
- Best short video clip from a prompt?
- FitForTool has not published a FitScore for this job. The launch candidates are Google Veo, OpenAI Sora, Runway, Kling, Luma Dream Machine, Pika, and Hailuo (MiniMax). Each one is listed as not yet tested. A ranking is published only after every tool in the comparison has had the same test pack run, and a person has reviewed the result. Until that page shows a FitScore, there is no winner.
- How will FitForTool test video generation?
- 3 fixed prompts, 5-8s. The same three prompts and the same duration target. No image reference unless every tool gets the same one. A person reviews whether the clip follows the prompt and whether it is usable without a reshoot. Prompts are published with the pack. We record prompt adherence notes, visual failures, time, cost, model version, and plan. Those notes are then scored from 1 to 5 on seven shared criteria. The pack has been specified and has not been run.
- Can a vendor pay to rank higher on this job?
- No. FitForTool does not sell position or score. A sponsorship, if we run one later, is labelled and sits outside the ranked list. An affiliate link is disclosed and does not change order. A vendor may ask for a retest, and we rerun the same pack. Sponsors do not see the result before it is public.
- What does "Not yet tested" mean?
- The tool is a candidate for this job. There is no published hands-on run, so there is no FitScore, no criterion score, and no rank. Research-only is a different label, used when we have read the docs and still have not run the pack. Neither label is a score.