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:
š Nanobanana Pro ā image editing/generation, multiple camera angles from one photo, 4k upscaling, consistent characters across shots
š¬ Kling 3.0 / Seedance 2.0 / Google Veo 3 ā AI video generation with actual motion control and VFX that used to need a full editing team
š£ļø ElevenLabs ā voice cloning + sound effects that make AI video feel real instead of "AI-ish"
āļø CapCut ā 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 ā video ā sound ā edit) and which tool wins at each step. That's the whole reason we built AI Video Bootcamp ā 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 š