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Sora 2 AI Video Generator
Generate detailed videos with realistic motion, physical cause and effect, synchronized dialogue, and expressive sound. Use the Sora 2 AI video generator directly below to create from a prompt, image, frame pair, or supported references.
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The complete Open Sora video workspace is embedded here and starts with Sora 2 selected. You can still compare variants or switch models without losing the rest of the workflow.
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Generation requires an account and uses credits based on the selected model, variant, duration, resolution, and other settings. Failed tasks are refunded automatically.
What is Sora 2 and when should you use it?
Understand where Sora 2 fits before spending time on references, prompts, and final-resolution generations.
Sora 2 is OpenAI’s video and audio generation model for creating dynamic scenes from natural language or a guiding image. Its central strengths are physical plausibility, steerability, stylistic range, and synchronized sound, which makes it useful for shots where action and audio need to feel connected rather than assembled later.
For storytellers, filmmakers, creative technologists, social teams, concept artists, and advertising creatives, the practical advantage is not a single headline benchmark. It is the way Sora 2 combines Text to video and image to video with Natural-language prompts and a guiding image. That combination determines whether the model can preserve a prepared visual direction or needs to invent most of the scene from language alone.
On this page, research and production live in one flow. Read the official specifications, study the source material, use the prompt framework, and then work in the embedded generator. The selected model defaults to Sora 2, while the rest of Open Sora's upload, progress, history, reuse, and download experience stays available.
Sora 2 specifications and supported formats
Use these official capabilities to plan the input, format, duration, and production tier before you generate.
Developer
OpenAI
Model release
September 2025
Generation modes
Text to video and image to video
Inputs
Natural-language prompts and a guiding image
Duration
4–20 seconds
Resolution
720p, 1024p, and 1080p
Aspect ratios
16:9 landscape and 9:16 vertical
Audio
Synchronized dialogue, sound effects, ambience, and music
Best use cases for Sora 2
Start with work where the model's strongest controls create a practical advantage rather than choosing only by maximum resolution.
Physics-heavy visual ideas
Explore sports, creatures, vehicles, materials, weather, and other scenes where motion must have convincing weight.
Stylized social video
Create vertical animated, surreal, cinematic, or photoreal clips with their own dialogue and sound design.
Image animation
Bring a key visual, illustration, campaign frame, or concept painting into motion while preserving its visual direction.
Official Sora 2 example and source material
This official media was downloaded from the model developer's launch or product material and optimized for fast playback on this page.
Official Sora 2 physics showcase
Official source material: Official OpenAI Sora 2 video downloaded from the model release page.
How to create video with Sora 2
Move from a creative idea to a configured Sora 2 generation without leaving this model page.
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Describe the shot
Write the subject, action, environment, camera, style, timing, and sound. If you have reference media, upload it and explain the role of each asset.
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Configure Sora 2
Keep Sora 2 selected, choose the appropriate variant, mode, duration, aspect ratio, resolution, and audio settings, then check the displayed credit cost.
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Generate, review, and reuse
Start the task, follow progress in the result panel, review the completed video, reuse its settings for another take, or download the finished file.
Why creators choose the Sora 2 AI video generator
The defining capabilities that shape how Sora 2 handles direction, references, motion, sound, and delivery.
Physical plausibility
Create action with stronger cause and effect, object permanence, momentum, collisions, and believable environmental response.
Synchronized sound
Generate dialogue and effects that follow the timing and visible action of the scene instead of adding a generic soundtrack.
Wide stylistic range
Move between cinematic, photorealistic, animated, archival, graphic, surreal, and highly art-directed visual treatments.
Image-guided creation
Start with a visual reference when the character, composition, product, or design language is already established.
Longer short-form clips
Build scenes up to 20 seconds for richer movement, more complete beats, and shots that need time to develop.
Standard and Pro quality
Use Standard for exploration or select Pro for sharper high-resolution output and stronger consistency in final work.
How to prompt Sora 2 for more controllable video
A strong Sora 2 prompt behaves like a compact production brief: it gives the model a subject, an ordered action, a camera plan, an art direction, and a soundtrack.
Reusable prompt structure
Subject + ordered action + environment + camera + lighting + visual style + timing + dialogue and sound + consistency constraints
Example Sora 2 prompt
“A low tracking shot follows a red paper airplane gliding through a quiet museum after closing. Its wake stirs hanging banners and dust. The plane circles a marble statue, clips a fountain mist, then lands on a security desk. Soft HVAC hum, paper flutter, distant footsteps, and one small wet tap at landing.”
Describe physical causality
Explain what starts the motion, how objects react, and how the environment changes as the action unfolds.
Give sound its own paragraph
Write exact dialogue, ambient layers, foreground effects, music direction, and intentional silence separately.
Keep one shot legible
For the most controllable result, organize the prompt around a clear subject, action, camera idea, and visual payoff.
Sora 2 modes, references, and output options
Choose a tier and format based on where you are in the creative process. Draft settings are for finding the shot; premium settings are for finishing a direction that already works.
| Capability | Sora 2 support |
|---|---|
| Variants | Standard and Pro |
| Generation modes | Text to video and image to video |
| Inputs | Natural-language prompts and a guiding image |
| Reference control | One guiding image |
| Duration | 4–20 seconds |
| Resolution | 720p, 1024p, and 1080p |
| Aspect ratios | 16:9 landscape and 9:16 vertical |
| Audio | Synchronized dialogue, sound effects, ambience, and music |
4–20 seconds720p, 1024p, and 1080pSynchronized dialogue, sound effects, ambience, and music
Plan around the limits of generative video
AI video is most reliable when the prompt gives each shot one readable visual idea. Review important details before publishing and treat the first generation as a directed take that can be refined.
Complex multi-character interaction, fast occlusion, readable text, logos, hands, and exact object counts can still vary between takes. Use clear references, simplify crowded action, and inspect continuity frame by frame.
Higher resolution does not replace art direction. Lock the story beat, composition, movement, and sound at an economical setting first; then move the strongest direction to the premium variant or resolution.
Sora 2 AI video generator FAQ
What is Sora 2?
Sora 2 is a OpenAI AI video generation model. Sora 2 is OpenAI’s video and audio generation model for creating dynamic scenes from natural language or a guiding image. Its central strengths are physical plausibility, steerability, stylistic range, and synchronized sound, which makes it useful for shots where action and audio need to feel connected rather than assembled later. Open Sora places the complete generator on this page so you can move from research to creation without opening a separate workspace.
Which generation modes does Sora 2 support?
Sora 2 supports Text to video and image to video. That range lets you start with a written idea, guide the opening with an image, or use additional references when the composition, identity, or motion must be more controlled.
How long and what resolution can Sora 2 generate?
You can create 4–20 seconds video with output at 720p, 1024p, and 1080p. Pick a lower resolution for quick creative exploration, then use the highest appropriate setting when you are ready to evaluate detail or deliver the shot.
Can Sora 2 generate audio?
Sora 2 supports Synchronized dialogue, sound effects, ambience, and music. Write dialogue, ambience, music, and effects as deliberate parts of the prompt so the soundtrack supports the visible action and emotional rhythm of the scene.
What can I upload to the Sora 2 AI video generator?
The model accepts Natural-language prompts and a guiding image. Its reference workflow supports One guiding image. Give every uploaded asset a clear role in the prompt instead of expecting the model to infer which image controls identity, style, composition, or movement.
Who should use Sora 2?
Sora 2 is a strong fit for storytellers, filmmakers, creative technologists, social teams, concept artists, and advertising creatives. The best choice still depends on the shot: use this page's facts, features, examples, and prompt guide to decide whether its particular balance of control, speed, resolution, sound, and references matches the job.
How do I write a better Sora 2 prompt?
A reliable prompt names the subject, action, location, camera, lighting, visual style, timing, and sound. Put events in chronological order, quote exact dialogue, and state what must remain consistent. When you upload references, identify each one explicitly.
Can I use Sora 2 directly on this page?
Yes. The full Sora 2 generator is embedded directly below the hero on this page. Choose text, image, frames, or references as appropriate, configure the available controls, review the visible credit cost, and start the generation without leaving the model guide.
Official Sora 2 sources
Model capabilities and media on this page were researched from the developer's official product pages, announcements, and documentation.
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