Edimakor alternative
Edimakor alternative: from one photo to a captioned short, all in the browser
Pixel Dojo takes a still to a talking clip with sound on Seedance 2.5, reframes it for Shorts and Reels and burns in captions, with nothing to install and every price shown before you click.
Edimakor is a desktop video editor with AI tools built in. We wanted to show the AI half of that job running in a browser tab, so we made a short cooking clip from scratch in four steps.
30 credits ($1.88) per 5 s clip at 720p with audio. Included in every plan, from $10/month.
Already a member? Sign in
By Brian Lovett · Updated
More shots for a creator channel
Each of these was made on Pixel Dojo from one prompt, shown on its tile.
Our hero clip on Seedance 2.5, voice and kitchen sound built in.
The cook presses the fork along the last ravioli edge, lifts it up to the camera with a proud grin and says, "Fork, press, done. Nobody will know these took twenty minutes." Flour drifts in the window light. Sound: his voice, the fork tapping the board, a quiet kitchen.
A talking vlog shot on Veo 3.1 Fast with wind and her voice.
Handheld vlog shot on a misty mountain ridge: a hiker in her thirties with a green rain shell and a braid turns the camera toward herself, out of breath and grinning, and says, "Twenty minutes of fog, and then this." The clouds open behind her onto a valley. Sound: wind, her voice, distant birds.
B-roll on Kling 3.0 with the spray and footsteps in the sound.
Slow tracking shot through a covered flower market at dawn: buckets of ranunculus, tulips and eucalyptus, a vendor in a canvas apron sprays the blooms with a mist bottle, light haze through the roof panels. Sound: misting spray, footsteps and quiet chatter.
A desk setup shot on WAN 3.0 for 10 credits.
Smooth overhead slide across a minimalist walnut desk at night: a mechanical keyboard with cream keys, a ceramic mug of tea, a small succulent and a notebook, a warm desk lamp clicks on and the scene glows amber. Sound: the lamp click and soft keyboard taps.
A video thumbnail on GPT Image 2.5 with clean bold text.
Bright cooking video thumbnail: a wooden board of fresh homemade ravioli dusted with flour and a fork pressing one edge, the words "RAVIOLI IN 20 MINUTES" in bold white letters with a tomato red outline on the left, clean high contrast food photography.
How we made a cooking short in four steps
- 1
Make the opening still
Nano Banana 2.1 made a home cook pressing fresh ravioli at a floury counter, for 1.5 credits.
- 2
Animate it with a spoken line
Seedance 2.5 used that still as its first frame. We wrote his line into the prompt, and the voice and kitchen sound came back with the picture.
- 3
Reframe for vertical
Video Reframe turned the 16:9 clip into a 9:16 version for Shorts, Reels and TikTok.
- 4
Burn in captions
Auto captions transcribed his line from the vertical clip and burned it in, ready for a muted feed.
Every step of the cooking short, as we ran it
These are the outputs exactly as the models returned them. Each tile shows the prompt, settings and credits it used.
Medium shot of a cheerful man in his fifties with rolled shirt sleeves and a flour dusted apron at a home kitchen counter, pressing the edges of fresh ravioli with a fork on a floured wooden board, a bowl of ricotta filling beside him, warm window light, looking at the camera, 35mm lens.
- Seedance 2.5 kept the cook, his apron and the kitchen from the still, pressed the last ravioli and spoke the line with the fork tapping the board. That clip is at the top of the page.
- Video Reframe kept him centered in the 9:16 crop the whole way through, so nothing important fell off the edges.
- Auto captions transcribed his line, "Fork, press, done," and the rest of it word for word, with key words in yellow.
- The still cost 1.5 credits, the clip 30, the reframe 8 and the captions 5.
Edimakor plans vs Pixel Dojo
Everything in the Edimakor column comes from HitPaw's Edimakor home and Windows buy pages, read on October 15, 2026, at the prices shown that day.
| At a glance | Edimakor | Pixel Dojo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 1 month $19.95, 1 year $49.95, perpetual $69.95, on one PC | Lite $10 a month for 160 credits, Pro $25 for 500 credits, Pro Max $50 for 1,100 credits |
| AI credits | 300 a month, 3,000 a year, or 10,000 lifetime with the perpetual license | 160, 500 or 1,100 credits a month, priced per model on each model page |
| Where it runs | Windows and Mac desktop apps, plus a web version | In the browser on any device, with a public API and hosted MCP server |
| Video models | Names Veo 3, Kling, Nano Banana, Hailuo, Vidu and PixVerse | Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 and WAN 3.0, priced per clip before you generate |
| Captions and reframing | Auto subtitles and speech to text | Auto captions burned in, and Video Reframe for vertical |
| Refunds | 30 day money back guarantee on the 1 month, 1 year and perpetual plans | A first purchase can be refunded within 7 days, in full if under 20% of credits are used, pro-rated after that |
When Edimakor is the better pick
If you want a full timeline editor on your own computer, with the AI tools inside it, Edimakor is built that way. HitPaw says its non AI editing features are free to use with a watermark on exports, and the perpetual license is a one time payment.
It also lists a video translator with more than 400 AI voices, voice cloning, a clip maker for long videos and background and watermark removal. If those editing jobs are most of your week, it is a sensible buy.
If you mostly need the shots themselves, made on the newest models and finished with captions and a vertical crop, we think doing it in the browser here is faster.
What the cooking short cost us
Plans are Lite $10 a month for 160 credits, Pro $25 for 500 credits, Pro Max $50 for 1,100 credits. Every plan includes every model and commercial use.
Our still cost 1.5 credits, the talking clip 30, the reframe 8 and the captions 5. Each tile shows its own price.
Under our refund policy, a first purchase can be refunded within 7 days, in full if under 20% of the credits are used and pro-rated after that.
Edimakor questions
What is a good alternative to Edimakor?
Pixel Dojo makes the AI shots on Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 or WAN 3.0, reframes them for vertical and burns in captions, all in the browser with the price shown first.
How much does Edimakor cost?
HitPaw lists Edimakor for Windows at $19.95 for 1 month, $49.95 for 1 year and $69.95 for a perpetual license on one PC, with 300, 3,000 and 10,000 AI credits.
Is Edimakor free?
HitPaw says Edimakor's non AI features are free to use with a watermark on exports, and new users get 30 free credits to try the AI features.
How do I turn a horizontal clip into a vertical short?
Run it through Video Reframe on Pixel Dojo with a 9:16 target, then add auto captions. We did exactly that with the ravioli clip above.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Every Pixel Dojo model runs in the browser, and the same models are available through the public API.
Video Effects New
No prompt? Try a one-click effect
283 ready-made effects, from AI Hug and Earth Zoom In to product spins and listing walkthroughs. Upload a photo and press Generate. No prompt to write.
Try Pixel Dojo as your Edimakor alternative
Write a prompt above or start from any example on this page. One subscription covers every model on Pixel Dojo.
Start with Seedance 2.5Sources
Facts about Edimakor come from these public pages, checked on Oct 15, 2026. Prices and plans change; check the source before you buy.