🎬️ Meta announces “Movie Gen”

This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇️

• AI Task Delegation Playbook: How to use AI as your personal assistant to optimize workflow, save time, and boost productivity.*

• Text-Behind-Image: Instantly place text behind any image (Free tool).

• Make Audio Visualizer Video: Turn any audio file into a visualizer (Free tool).

• 1440 Media: A community of 3.9 million readers offering daily briefings, delivering information without bias.*

• Pointillism: Create dotted effects for your designs (Figma plugin).

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TOP STORY
🎬️ Meta announces “Movie Gen”

Meta has introduced Movie Gen, a new AI tool that creates videos from text prompts and can edit existing footage.

Here’s what’s possible with Movie Gen:

Create videos with SFX! 🎵

Movie Gen can generate high-quality clips complete with AI-produced audio, such as sound effects and background music.

Edit video with text 📝

Users can also upload photos or change various elements with text instructions to personalize the videos.

Create personalized videos 👤

You can even upload a picture of yourself, and Movie Gen’s sophisticated AI will turn it into a custom video that preserves your likeness and realistic motion.

The technology is still in testing and isn’t ready for public release due to the high costs and slow generation times.

Meta is competing with companies like OpenAI, which launched a similar tool called “Sora” earlier this year, although neither has been made widely available yet.

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WEB DESIGN
⚡️ Framer releases “Plugins” and CMS References

This week, Framer introduced Plugins, allowing you to connect some of your favorite applications and features to your Framer website.

Here are some notable plugins that were released:

• Notion: Sync Notion databases to Framer CMS with 1-click, supporting rich text, images, dates, and more.

• Framer/Figma Sync: Sync color and text styles from Figma to Framer.

• Unsplash: Browse & search the biggest collection of high-quality stock photos from Unsplash directly in Framer

• Rive: Build production-ready graphics for web, apps, and games — with rich interactivity and state-driven animation.

• Google Search Console: Track clicks, impressions, and top search queries directly on Framer’s canvas with real-time updates.

• Google Sheets: Sync Google Sheets with the Framer CMS with easy column mapping and seamless data import.

• HubSpot: Drag and drop HubSpot forms and calendars, enable tracking with one click, and add a chat banner for direct customer messaging.

• LottieFiles: Access 500,000+ ready-to-use, free, and premium customizable Lottie animations for your websites.

Plus, Framer announced “CMS Collection References,” which enable users to connect different CMS collections seamlessly.

• Essentially, this feature lets you easily pull information from one collection to another, saving you time and keeping everything updated automatically.

• For example, now you can create a separate collection for authors and link it to your blog post collection.

• This automatically pulls author details for each post, ensuring consistent updates across all references.

Framer also introduced “multi-reference fields” for linking multiple items, such as tags or categories.

You can nest references, allowing deeper data integration and new possibilities for complex information display.

VIDEO EDITING
💻️ Cap, a free alternative to Loom

This week, Cap, a free, open-source alternative to Loom, released its highly anticipated v0.3.0 update, marking a new direction for the app.

Cap was rebuilt from the ground up after four months of public beta testing — it has gained popularity as a free alternative to the popular screen recording tool, Loom.

• It now features powerful video editing capabilities.

• Users can now trim recordings, add custom backgrounds and padding, and enjoy a cleaner, more intuitive interface.

• Additionally, Cap has embraced a local-first approach, ensuring faster performance and improved privacy by processing all edits directly on your device.

• Cap also added a new screenshot feature to instantly snap and share desktop pics.

Coming soon: AI-generated video titles, password protection, custom domains, and team-sharing options like Slack and Discord.

P.S. If you’re looking for super advanced screen recording tools, check out Screen Studio and Tella!*

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Figma updated “Auto layout,” making swapping between “fill container” and “hug contents” even faster.

• Captions released a new “Social Media Manager” feature that AI powers entirely.

• Lottielab added a new “Drop Shadow” feature, enabling users to add depth and dimension to their animations.

• Adobe Fonts now allows you to build shared collections of your favorite design elements (e.g., fonts)!

• Tella improved the recording of multiple clips by adding the ability to track the number of recorded clips, see the total recording duration, and more.

• Restream added new fonts, sizes, and fully custom colors, music, and backgrounds to countdowns.

• Leonardo.Ai made “Pheonix” compatible with their Style Reference and Image to Image modes.

• Figma has updated all file thumbnail sizes to a 16:9 ratio.

• Freepik announced that Flux 1.1 Pro, developed by Black Forest Labs, is now available via a premium subscription to Freepik.

• Restream now allows you to align your logo and QR code left or right.

• Play released a simulator for MacOS.

• KREA AI announced that its Flux AI image model can now generate images 3x faster.

• udio released “Style Reduction,” allowing users to specify genres, styles, or moods to exclude from their generations.

• HeyGen released new “looks” for Avatars, which include new outfits, poses, and backgrounds.

• Framer Awards will include $100,000 in cash prizes and brand-new physical awards.

• Descript has started rolling out access to its “Rooms” feature.

• Figma released new device frames for iPhone 16, Android, and Apple Watch Series 10 devices.

• DaVinci Resolve 19.0.2 was released with new support for decoding MPEG transport stream clips, additional API script support, and improved audio alignment when replacing clips in the media pool.

• Figma brought back fixed panels and removed the floating panels in UI3.

• Gamma partnered with Lenny’s List to bring three free months of Gamma for all Lenny’s List students.

• Halide 2.17 has been released — it includes more power Adjustments with “Camera Control” on the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro.

• Epidemic Sound is now allowing users to sign up for early access to its DaVinci Resolve plugin.

• Pika released “Pika 1.5,” a brand new AI video model.