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AI Video Marketing: Is this the future for dealership sales and service?

Just some insights as I work into this. While you can use AI to put the car just about anywhere, it feels wrong. The video looks much more natural, when it shows the dealership and original location. You can do the craziest of things, make the car drive in the city, or any sort of thing. But then is just becomes so clear is AI. I think the key is to get it to a point where there is just no way to know its AI generated. Im not sure if that is possible with the tools and models currently available, but is not too far away either. On the previous tests I used Google Veo 3.1 : Gemini AI video generator powered by Veo 3.1 , that is supposedly the top model now as from the leaderboard here : Image-to-Video Arena | LMArena . Now new models come all the time. There is one that is particularly good from OpenAI, and generates much more natural looking clips, yet it does not allow to generate videos starting from pictures, so we cant use it. That said, I think is a certainty that Google and other AI Labs will match and surpass OpenAIs model in the next few months. From my testing it will seem that we are one or two generations away from the videos being indistigisible from real.
 
What is the prompts you have used? These are fantastic
Thank you! been improving the code, managed to fix a few things from the previous examples, will post new ones soon.

The results may not be because of the prompts, but simply because Google Veo 3.1 is really good, major leap from previous models. The prompts include details about the cars, the scene, the character and the camera motion. I do not write the prompts but have an LLM write them for me, taking into account all these details.
 
A few more tests, these are from older code, with some errors on the narrations and video, but let me share them before showing you the new version so there is some contrast:







New code version is much improved, trying all sorts of tricks to push things, I think Im reaching the limits of what the underlaying video model can do.
 
Hey everyone,

I'm relatively new to the forum and have been following a lot of the discussions on maximizing profit and cutting marketing costs. It's clear that customer communication is key, but it can be a real time sink, not to mention expensive to produce high-quality video updates.

I wanted to get your thoughts on something our company is doing. We've developed a way to create professional, custom-tailored AI videos for car dealerships in minutes, not days. The idea is to turn a simple text prompt into a professional video of a salesperson, service advisor, or finance manager, delivering a message to a customer.

For example, instead of a salesperson having to record an update for a new arrival, you can have a video ready in minutes. We've seen great results with videos like this one we made for a dealership with a new G63 AMG:
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/zFDtHNSWs94


The process is incredibly fast, and what would normally be a $1,500-$5,000 production budget can be done for a fraction of the cost. I'm curious to hear if this is a tool you could see your team using. What are your thoughts on using AI to streamline customer communication?

That’s a really smart approach — cutting down production time while keeping the personal touch is a huge win for dealerships. AI video like this can make communication faster, more consistent, and still feel genuine to customers. The G63 AMG example sounds like a great showcase of what’s possible. Excited to see how this tech continues to evolve!