The AI video stack that's quietly replacing $10k production budgets in 2026
Been building out a full curriculum on this and figured I'd share the core stack publicly since it's wild how far this has come:
🍌 Nanobanana Pro — image editing/generation, multiple camera angles from one photo, 4k upscaling, consistent characters across shots
🎬 Kling 3.0 / Seedance 2.0 / Google Veo 3 — AI video generation with actual motion control and VFX that used to need a full editing team
🗣️ ElevenLabs — voice cloning + sound effects that make AI video feel real instead of "AI-ish"
✂️ CapCut — still the fastest way to stitch it all into something postable
The gap right now isn't the tools, it's knowing the workflow order (image → video → sound → edit) and which tool wins at each step. That's the whole reason we built AI Video Bootcamp — 10 phases going from zero to actually monetizing this stuff (ads, UGC, cloning, faceless channels).
Happy to answer questions on any of these tools below 👇