Luma Dream Machine

Luma Labs' Dream Machine is an AI model that swiftly generates high-quality, realistic videos from text and images. Trained directly on videos, it produces physically accurate, consistent, and dynamic scenes.

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Overview

Luma Labs launched Dream Machine in June 2024 as a powerful AI-driven text-to-video and image-to-video generator. Designed to produce stunning video clips, it caters to creators with both free and paid plans. The free tier offers access to all features and resolutions but limits users to 4 generations per day, encouraging strategic usage.

Dream Machine prioritizes accessibility and flexibility, letting free users explore the tool's full capabilities. However, submissions on the free plan may experience significant queue times, while paid tiers, such as the Standard Plan, offer much faster processing. September 2024 saw a significant update: users can now select camera motions via a convenient drop-down menu, adding a layer of customization for dynamic video generation.

Features like Camera Controls, Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, and Video Upscaling (among others) make it a robust tool for creating professional-grade visuals. Though some users report occasional bugs, Dream Machine remains a strong player in AI-assisted video creation.

By December 2024 company has redesigned their website and started offering video resolution selection. The platform now allows for modifying videos, which was not possible in previous versions. Users can extend videos and add new end frames, allowing for more complex and consistent video generations. This feature helps in creating longer takes with multiple keyframes.

Speed: Generates 120 frames in 20 seconds, enabling rapid iteration and exploration of ideas.
Motion: Creates 5-second clips with smooth motion, cinematography, and drama, transforming static images into engaging narratives.
Consistency: Understands interactions among people, animals, and objects, ensuring character consistency and accurate physics.

Credits usage explanation https://lumaai-help.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/folders/151000345244

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Creative Professionals Content Creators Media and Film Makers Marketing and Branding Specialists Developers and Tech Creators Nonprofit and Advocacy Creators Small Business Owners Entertainment and Performance Artists Professional Content Creators

This tool offers the following AI models:

Plan Name	Tier Type	Cost per Month	Credits per Month	Credits per Image	Credits per Video Second
Free	free	0.00	400	4.00	400.00
Allowance per month: 0.02 minutes, or 100.
* No video generation, only image. Non-commercial use. Watermarks.
Lite	lowest	9.99	3200	4.00	34.00
Allowance per month: 1.57 minutes, or 800.
* Around 20 videos (not highest quality). Non-commercial use only. 1080p generations. Latest model access. High priority. Watermarks.
Plus	medium	29.99	10000	4.00	34.00
Allowance per month: 4.9 minutes, or 2500.
* Around 62 videos (not highest quality). Latest model access. 1080p images, 720p videos High priority. Commercial use allowed. No watermark
Unlimited	top	94.99	10000	4.00	34.00
Allowance per month: 4.9 minutes, or 2500.
* Around 62 videos in fast mode (not highest quality). Unlimited use in relaxed mode. Latest model access. 1080p images, 720p videos Highest priority. Commercial use allowed. No watermark

Where multiple modes are available, the calculations are done for the most advanced (and costly) ones.

Pricing can change, make sure to check relevant links for any updates to the subscription plans.

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The new DreamMachine platform struggles with reliability and interface issues, driving users toward competitors known for efficiency and better user experience. [ Reddit ]

Prompt:

@character in 1940s workwear sits on the edge of a steel I-beam high above a sprawling city. She wears a light blue denim shirt with rolled-up sleeves, gray work pants, lace-up boots, white gloves, and a red polka-dot bandana. Seated in a three-quarter view, her body faces left while her gaze looks ahead, giving her a thoughtful, stoic air. Her feet rest firmly on the beam, arms on her thighs, exuding quiet confidence. Positioned in the lower third of the frame, the beam stretches beneath her, with a vast cityscape dropping away behind, emphasizing the dizzying height and scale.

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Generated on August 1, 2025:

Image output — This is 1/8 genereations and it's hardly usable. Seems like Photon image reference model is underbaked.

Prompt:

“ECLIPSE” – Lunar Shadow Sequence. Camera & Setting: A timelapse begins from a serene dark-turquoise ocean reflecting moonlight symmetrically framed by mountains on both sides. The camera locks on the moon as an eclipse begins. The stars swirl subtly across the bright starry sky with moving darkish clouds. VFX Text Appearance: As the moon darkens, its glowing edges form a halo that flickers and dances. Shadows creep across the landscape. Reflections dance in the ocean water, stars shimmer. The word “ECLIPSE” emerges in front of the eclipsed moon stretching outside its radius. Cinematic, futuristic title text spelling “ECLIPSE”, centered in the night sky. The font is a thin, glowing, neon-like sans-serif with extended horizontal lines. Smooth, rounded edges. Letters slightly spaced out, minimalist, sci-fi look. The glow subtly matches the moonlight. Highly stylized, modern typography with a soft reflection on a dark surface. Just before totality, the entire scene plunges into darkness. A faint corona shoots around the dark moon.

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Generated on July 31, 2025:

This is just not acceptable.

Luma Ray2

for link to original generation.

Prompt:

A static shot of a quaint urban street, where three anthropomorphic animal characters sit on a bench in stylish leather jackets. In timelapse, the scene transitions from morning to dusk the lighting softening, as pedestrians quickly move in the background, hinting at the passing day. The vibrant colors of the characters’ outfits contrast against the brick pavement, creating a whimsical contemplative vibe, emphasizing the stillness of the anthropomorphic animal trio sitting amidst the super dynamic urban life around in a timelapse scene.

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Generated on June 14, 2025:

not impressive at all

Luma Ray2

Prompt:

A natural beauty blonde woman with a confident and assertive pose is in the center looking at the viewer with fierce focused annoyed gaze, wearing a slightly dirty Western-inspired outfit, including a Western-style hat, a dress with a vest-like undergarment, and a feminine yet strong aesthetic. She is pointing a large 8-Gauge Shotgun (aka 8-bore) straight in front of herself, at the viewer, with the massive barrel dominating the foreground and appearing exaggerated in size due to dramatic perspective, creating an intense visual focus. The style is a realistic photograph with a focus on fashion and a cinematic quality, a still from a Western-themed film. The background consists of a series of buildings, a hint of a mountain range, and a rustic atmosphere. I've created four new images from your Western-themed scene, each with a unique take on the natural beauty blonde woman and her confident pose, all with a focus on fashion and cinematic quality.

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Generated on May 18, 2025:

Prompt:

Medium shot, fish-eye lens. Shallow depth of field creates a focus on the robots taking selfies while at the top of the mountain. All robots huddled together while taking a group selfie picture. Goldy is a red 1950s retro robot monster, slightly rusty. Dolbus is a sleek futuristic humanoid robot with rounded features, black and steel look and taller than the rest. Bingus is a copper steampunk robot with big eyes and a stylish hat posing with crossed arms, chin up, projecting attitude. All robots appear happy, smiling directly at the camera. The mood is jolly and humorous.

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Generated on January 14, 2025:

Prompt:

A sausage dog wearing stylish wind goggles drives a gleaming chrome motorcycle, its long ears flapping wildly in the breeze, and its mouth open in an excited, playful expression. The dog looks thrilled as it grips the handlebars tightly. In the front basket of the motorcycle, a ginger-and-white cat sits energetically, its fur tousled by the wind, with wide, excited eyes and an open-mouthed expression of joy. The background features a vast countryside road stretching into the distance, lined with golden fields and distant mountains under warm golden sunlight. The entire scene exudes quirky, dynamic energy with a fun and cinematic vibe.

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Generated on December 21, 2024:

Text-to-video prompt accidentally tested vertical format.

Prompt:

A young woman sitting at a rustic wooden table in a cozy, softly lit cafÃ©. Her head rests on her hand, elbow propped on the table, her expression distant and bored. Strands of her wavy chestnut hair frame her face, catching the golden glow of the late afternoon sun streaming through a large window beside her. The table is scattered with a cup of steaming coffee, a half-read book, and a notebook with scribbled notes. Behind her, the blurred bustle of the cafÃ© contrasts sharply with her stillness, creating a sense of detachment. Cinematic framing focuses on her from a slight angle, emphasizing the slant of her gaze and the wistfulness in her eyes. The warm ambiance is accented by bokeh light effects, with muted tones of beige, cream, and soft green dominating the background, adding a dreamy, introspective mood.

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Generated on December 18, 2024:

Prompt:

Camera orbit right around the red chair engulfed in raging flames, its silhouette flickering against the pitch-black night. The fire crackles violently, growing wilder with each passing moment. Suddenly, the chair explodes with a thunderous force, sending burning debris flying in every direction. The fiery fragments illuminate the surrounding night landscape in a chaotic burst of light and sparks, leaving behind an eerie emptiness where the chair once stood—only faint embers and smoldering ash remain, floating through the air like glowing ghosts.

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Generated on December 18, 2024:

Image-to-video. See high resolution at https://youtu.be/T6xO-huUwC8

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Latest Luma Dream Machine News

August 12, 2025

"Modify with Instructions" is now live in Luma AI's Dream Machine for all subscribers. Edit videos with natural language for swapping, removal, refinements & restyling in VFX, ads, film & design.

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July 30, 2025

Luma added a new way to change stuff in Dream Machine using plain language - Modify with Instructions. You just type what you want and it makes edits across VFX, ads, movies, and design projects. Stuff like removing or swapping objects, making virtual sets, fixing characters, and restyling is coming soon for all subscribers.

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July 11, 2025

Dream Lab LA is Luma’s new project out in Los Angeles mixing AI tech with old-school filmmaking. It’s where tech folks and storytellers work shoulder to shoulder to try new ways of telling stories.
They're open to studios that want future-proof tools filmmakers messing with AI first-timers creators making stuff no one's thought of and students hunting for advice and hands-on help.

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June 5, 2025

Luma AI has launched "Modify Video" — a tool to edit style, characters & settings after filming. Restyle scenes, swap worlds, and reshape your vision from a single shoot.

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May 10, 2025

Reframe by LumaLabs AI allows users to outpaint and resize any uploaded video, image, or Dream Machine creation into various formats. It enables free customization and repositioning on the canvas, aiming to eliminate the need for cropping. Available now to Unlimited & Enterprise plans.

Useful Links

How to Motorcycle with Modify Video.

Tutorial

How to turn a stationary bike into a high-speed chase with Ray2 Modify Video.

Added on: July 2, 2025

This page was last updated on August 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM