So I ran a simple test. A 5-second ad hook for a car insurance brand. Nothing crazy. No complex physics, no crowd scenes, no 47 characters interacting. Just a short, punchy clip with a spoken line. My prompt was clear: viral hook format, 5 seconds max, product description ad, specific phrase included. Result: 700+ credits gone. The clip had broken textures, the voiceover pronunciation was rough, and it just didn’t look usable for anything. Fine. Maybe I did something wrong. Let me adjust and regenerate. Oh wait, each iteration costs a significant chunk of credits too. By my third or fourth attempt, I’d already burned through 700+ credits on a single 5-second clip that still wasn’t there. On the Creator plan, you get 6,000 credits a month. So basically, one simple ad test with a few iterations = ~12% of your monthly budget. For five seconds of unusable footage. Unlike their Canvas feature, the one where you manually control every keyframe, actually makes more sense for real work. Right, it’s not autonomous, it’s not “AI does everything,” but at least you’re not burning credits hoping the model figures out what you meant. For content creators trying to produce at scale, that’s the only workflow that’s financially survivable right now. submitted by /u/SubstantialBread8169
Originally posted by u/SubstantialBread8169 on r/ArtificialInteligence