Shotcraft
Video generation

Meta Movie Gen (weights unreleased)

A research model family announced by Meta in October 2024 covering text-to-video, personalized video, instruction-based video editing and synchronized audio generation.

A video generation model by Meta · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing medium

Weights
Not released
API
No
Commercial use
Nothing has been released, so no licence exists

Meta published a detailed technical paper and sample outputs but has never released weights, inference code or an API. It is included here only to record that it is not an open-weights option.

Never released

nothing has been released

Commercial use — Nothing has been released, so no licence exists

No licence exists because nothing has been released. Meta has not committed to open-sourcing Movie Gen and the weights remain unreleased. Published paper specifications are not a product.

This entry was written by hand from the licence wording quoted above, because the source dataset's yes/no field was misleading here. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Meta'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 mixed. Some fields came from pages we retrieved, others could not be confirmed and are left blank. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image, video, audio
What it makes
video, audio
Maximum duration
not established
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
not established
Weights
Not released
API
No
Pricing
Not available at any price. No weights, no API, no product. Meta has signalled that Movie Gen technology may surface inside consumer products but has not published a release date or open-sourcing commitment. No VRAM requirements can be stated because nothing is downloadable.
Released or updated
2024-10-04

Maximum duration, maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Influential research on joint video and audio generation and instruction-based video editing
  • Detailed public technical paper

Weaknesses

  • No weights, no code, no API - nothing usable
  • No release commitment as of August 2026
  • Frequently cited in open-model comparisons despite being unavailable
  • Any specification quoted for it is paper-only and unverifiable in practice

Best for

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.