Sora got shut down and i'm back to square one. here's what i'm using now.

I was a Sora 2 user. Made a bunch of stuff. Atmospheric shorts, mostly. Landscape, water, fog, moody stuff. Sora was incredible at physics. The way fabric moved. The way light fell. Nobody else has that.

- PixVerse V6 for atmospheric shots. Fast. 30 seconds per generation. The multi-shot feature is decent, keeps scenes connected without jump cuts. Not Sora-level physics, but the lighting and mood are close.

- Runway Gen-4 for shots that need real physics. Slower, more expensive, but the quality is there.

- Kling for anything with complex human movement. Interface is clunky but the motion realism is the best of the bunch.

I've attached a short piece I made last week. PixVerse for the bulk of it, one Runway shot for the hero. 4 hours of iterating. The water effects are a little off. The lighting shifts in one scene. But it's the closest I've gotten to what I used to make with Sora.

I'm not going to sit around waiting for the next Sora. The tools are good enough now. Drop your stack if you're an ex-Sora person too.