Oh MAN... quote:
Throughout this project, I was using Fable and Sol with very little restraint and under the (very affordable to me) $200/month subscription plans.
[If you check out my Straude, I probably used $5,000 of tokens, but the actual subscriptions are $200/month.]
Video is much more expensive: at Gemini Omni Flash's current price of $0.10/second, it would cost $645.40 to generate this movie, but that would balloon massively to $5,146.10 when you add in the 45,007s of footage I generated which didn't make the cut [The full details are that the final cut is 6,454s of runtime, made from 849 clips and the rejects are 5,509 clips with 45,007s of runtime, which means there are 6,358 clips in total with 51,461s of runtime. Thus only about 13% of the clips I made were included in the final cut.]
Companies are STILL subsidizing video generation to hold people's interests.