Shotcraft
Video generation

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1

Amazon Nova Reel generates video from text prompts or from text plus an image, and is available only through Amazon Bedrock.

A video generation model by Amazon Web Services (Amazon Nova) · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Up to
120 seconds
Resolution
1280x720 at 24fps
Aspect ratios
16:9
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Not established

AWS documents output at 1280x720 and 24 frames per second, produced in six-second increments up to a total of two minutes; generating anything longer than six seconds requires model ID amazon.nova-reel-v1:1. It also supports a storyboard mode for composing multi-shot sequences.

Commercial use — Not established

The research notes for this model record other terms but do not state a commercial-use position, and no licence page was retrieved, so it is not established here. Check the vendor's own terms.

  • The terms restrict what you may generate. Governed by the AWS Service Terms and Amazon Bedrock's acceptable-use policy; not reviewed in this pass

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Amazon Web Services (Amazon Nova)'s own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
video
Maximum duration
120 seconds
Maximum resolution
1280x720 at 24fps
Aspect ratios
16:9
Controls
image-to-video, keyframes
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
Billed through Amazon Bedrock; AWS Bedrock's per-second Nova Reel rate was not retrieved during this pass, so recorded as unverified.
Released or updated
Nova Reel 1.1 (amazon.nova-reel-v1:1); AWS announced 1.1 in April 2025 per its What's New feed, docs current as of 2026-08-14

Strengths

  • Longest documented output of any model in this set: up to two minutes
  • Storyboard mode for multi-shot narrative structure
  • Runs inside existing AWS accounts with IAM, VPC and Bedrock guardrails
  • 24fps output is documented explicitly, which most vendors omit

Weaknesses

  • 720p only; no 1080p or 4K
  • Composed of six-second increments rather than a single continuous take
  • 16:9 is the only documented dimension
  • No native audio
  • Available only via Bedrock, so no direct consumer product

Best for

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Sources

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