Raw Video

About This Software

Raw Video is a local AI creative studio for Windows built to take an idea from a still image all the way to a finished video.

Generate original images. Transform existing scenes. Animate still images into video. Create sound effects. Work with Madison, Raw Video’s local creative assistant. Arrange clips and audio on the built-in timeline, trim your scenes, and export the finished result.

The entire creative stack travels with the application.

No cloud render queue.
No generation credits.
No token meter.
No searching the internet for missing model files.
No assembling complicated AI workflows before you can begin creating.

Install Raw Video and the studio is there.

Create Images Locally

Raw Video includes multiple local image-generation modes designed for different creative needs.

Lightning

Built for speed.

Lightning is designed for fast image generation with strong photoreal detail, faces, materials, lighting, and clear subjects.

Standard

A higher-quality general-purpose image mode designed for stronger composition, environments, poses, cinematic staging, and more complex scenes.

Advanced

An additional image-generation workflow with powerful instruction-following capabilities and access to Raw Video’s advanced image-editing tools.

Choose Wide, Vertical, or Square directly inside the Canvas and create images without leaving the application.

Edit Images And Change The Scene

Raw Video can do more than generate a new picture.

Load an existing image or work directly from something you created inside Raw Video, then describe what you want changed.

You can request changes such as:

• Move the subject into a different location
• Change the environment
• Adjust clothing or appearance
• Change lighting or atmosphere
• Add, remove, or alter objects
• Change pose or scene composition
• Restyle an image
• Create a new shot based on an existing scene

This makes image editing especially useful when building a sequence of shots.

Instead of starting every scene from scratch, you can begin with an existing image, change the scene, and use the result as the source for the next animated clip.

AI editing is not perfect, and complex changes may require more than one attempt.

Turn Still Images Into Video

Import an image or create one inside Raw Video, describe the motion you want, and animate it locally.

Motion notes can describe:

• Character movement
• Facial expressions
• Camera movement
• Hair and clothing motion
• Environmental movement
• Smoke, fog, rain, water, or light
• Background activity
• Mood and atmosphere

Raw Video provides multiple video-generation quality modes so creators can choose between faster experimentation and higher-quality final renders.

Landscape, portrait, and square source images are handled with source-aware output behavior rather than forcing every project into the same shape.

Build Shots Instead Of Starting Over

Raw Video is designed around a simple creative loop:

Create → Edit → Animate → Continue

Generate a character or scene.

Animate it.

Save a frame.

Change the location, camera setup, environment, pose, lighting, or other visual details.

Animate the new shot.

Continue building the sequence.

This allows creators to develop videos scene by scene without rebuilding every shot from nothing.

Meet Madison

Madison is Raw Video’s built-in local creative assistant.

Madison can help you work through the creation process without requiring a separate cloud chatbot.

Depending on what you are doing, Madison can help with:

• Image prompts
• Motion ideas
• Creative direction
• Scene development
• Understanding Raw Video tools
• Guided workflows
• Canvas analysis
• Suggestions based on the current visual
• General creative assistance

Madison can analyze visual content on the Canvas and help critique or develop what you are creating.

Her AI processing is designed around Raw Video’s local workflow.

Create Sound Effects

Raw Video includes local sound-effect creation tools for adding audio directly to creative projects.

Describe the sound you need and generate effects for scenes such as environments, impacts, machinery, movement, atmosphere, creatures, or cinematic moments.

Generated and imported audio can then be used with the built-in timeline.

Canvas Workflow

The Canvas is the center of Raw Video.

From one workspace you can:

• Load images
• Generate images
• Edit images
• Animate images
• Preview generated video
• Save frames
• Send media to the timeline
• Work with Madison
• Continue building the next shot

Raw Video is designed to keep the creative process moving without bouncing between a collection of unrelated AI applications.

Timeline And Audio

Raw Video includes a built-in timeline for assembling your work.

You can:

• Add generated video clips
• Add still-image cards
• Import audio
• Add generated audio
• Trim clips
• Arrange scenes
• Preview your sequence
• Export the finished video

The timeline is designed for straightforward creative assembly rather than replacing a full professional nonlinear editor.

Creators who need complex post-production can export their work and continue editing in software such as their preferred video editor.

Enhance Your Video

Raw Video includes a local enhancement workflow for creating a higher-detail version of supported generated clips.

Enhancement is intended as a finishing pass rather than something that must be applied repeatedly.

Raw Video performs checks before enhancement to help protect stability and prevent unsupported clips from entering the workflow.

A Local AI Studio

Raw Video is intentionally different from cloud-generation services.

The image models, video-generation systems, AI components, runtime software, and processing tools required by the application are bundled with Raw Video.

That means the installation is large.

It also means you are not buying access to a remote generation queue.

There are no per-image credits or per-video generation tokens inside Raw Video.

After the required Steam installation, ownership verification, updates, and activation processes are complete, Raw Video’s creative generation workflow is designed around local processing on your own supported hardware.

The show travels with its own stage.

No Model Hunting

Local AI software often requires users to locate models, download files from multiple websites, build Python environments, install dependencies, configure folders, repair incompatible packages, and learn complicated node workflows before creating anything.

Raw Video is designed to remove that layer.

The supported models, engines, runtimes, and processing components required by the application are included with the installation.

You install Raw Video.

You open Raw Video.

You create.

Hardware Requirements

Raw Video performs demanding AI workloads directly on your PC.

A supported NVIDIA RTX desktop GPU is required.

A GPU with 16 GB of dedicated VRAM is the recommended target for Raw Video.

A GPU with 24 GB of VRAM provides additional headroom for demanding workflows, longer sessions, and other GPU workloads.

Performance can also be affected by:

• CPU performance
• System memory
• SSD speed
• PCIe configuration
• GPU drivers
• Cooling
• Background applications
• Available VRAM
• Model-loading state
• Image complexity
• Requested output quality

Systems below the recommended hardware specification may experience substantially longer render times, failed generations, or unstable behavior.

Rendering Takes Time

Raw Video performs AI generation locally.

These are computationally intensive processes, not conventional video filters.

Generation time varies depending on hardware, selected quality mode, resolution, model, source material, and system workload.

The first generation in a session may take longer while large AI models are loaded into memory.

Later generations using the same workflow may start faster while those resources remain available.

Better Sources Produce Better Results

AI video generation works best when the source image gives the model something clear to work with.

For stronger results:

• Use sharp source images
• Keep important subjects clearly visible
• Avoid heavily compressed images
• Use clear motion descriptions
• Describe movement rather than rewriting the entire scene
• Start with moderate movement before attempting complex action
• Keep faces and important details large enough to resolve clearly

Artifacts already present in a source image may become more noticeable after editing or animation.

AI Has Limitations

Local generative AI continues to improve, but it is not perfect.

Generated or edited content may occasionally contain issues involving:

• Hands or fingers
• Small or distant faces
• Crowds
• Small text
• Logos
• Fine object details
• Complex interactions
• Fast movement
• Background characters
• Reflections
• Water
• Dense environmental motion
• Highly complicated editing instructions

Different generation modes may interpret the same prompt differently.

Trying another seed, simplifying the request, adjusting the source image, or using another Raw Video image mode can often produce a substantially different result.

Storage

Raw Video has a large installation footprint because its AI models, video-generation systems, image-generation systems, editing model, local assistant components, runtime environments, and media-processing tools are included with the application.

This is intentional.

Raw Video does not use a small installer that later asks the user to hunt down the important pieces separately.

Please ensure you have sufficient free SSD space for the application, Steam updates, temporary generation files, exported media, and projects.

Safety And Responsible Use

Raw Video includes responsible-use notices, prompt checks, and local source-image verification features intended to reduce inappropriate or disallowed use.

Some prompts or source images may be blocked or may require confirmation.

These systems cannot guarantee that every generated result is appropriate, legal, accurate, platform-compliant, or suitable for publication.

Users remain responsible for the material they create and distribute.

Content And Commercial Use

Raw Video is intended for lawful creative use.

Users are responsible for ensuring they own, license, or otherwise have permission to use imported material, including:

• Images
• Video
• Music
• Logos
• Characters
• Trademarks
• Likenesses
• Photography
• Artwork
• Other copyrighted or protected content

Raw Video does not grant rights to third-party copyrighted characters, trademarks, celebrity likenesses, private images, logos, or other protected material.

Creators are responsible for reviewing the applicable rights, model terms, platform requirements, and laws governing anything they publish, distribute, or sell.

AI Technology Disclosure

Raw Video uses locally operated generative AI models and AI-assisted systems for image creation, image transformation, image editing, video generation, visual analysis, creative assistance, and other supported creative functions.

AI-generated and AI-assisted content may include invented visual information, altered appearances, unexpected details, artifacts, unstable motion, inaccurate text, or other transformations produced by generative models.

Users should review all generated content before publishing, distributing, or using it commercially.