Chitra Studio

The Chitra Studio blog

Tests, comparisons and how-tos for making AI images, video and sound. Real outputs, real prices.

A clip of soldiers walking through a ruined street with waveforms of the sounds made for it

Add Sound18 October 2026

How to add sound to an AI video

Voice, music and sound effects, and the models that watch your clip. One clip with four soundtracks, with what each cost.

 Six waveforms: one song split into vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and other parts

Split into Parts18 October 2026

Separating vocals, instruments and noise with AI

Split into Parts, Pull Out a Sound and Clean Up: one song in six parts, a dog pulled out of a street, and a voice-over cleaned.

 Five versions of a samurai in a snowy bamboo grove, one from each of five AI image models

Contact Sheets17 October 2026

One prompt, five AI image models

Comparing Seedream 5.0 Pro, GPT Image 2.5, FLUX.1 Schnell, Nano Banana 2 and FLUX 3 on the same prompt, with prices, times and ratings.

 Waveforms of the same dog-bark sound effect from three AI models

Sound effects17 October 2026

One sound effect, five AI models

Only two of five did what I asked. Comparing Stable Audio 3 SFX, ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2, CassetteAI, Mirelo SFX 2.0 and MMAudio v2.

 The Chitra Studio Cost Report for a real workspace: 1,915 credits by day, by model and by project

Cost Report17 October 2026

The Cost Report: see what every AI image, clip and sound cost

Every generation's exact cost, added up by project, time window and model, with every charge listed and a CSV to export.

 A samurai in a snowy bamboo grove as a still, and four seconds later drawing his katana

Animate17 October 2026

How to turn an AI image into a video clip

Your image is the first frame; your prompt is the motion. Comparing MiniMax H3 Max, H3 Max Turbo and Gemini Omni Flash.

 An opera singer on a gondola with a box around her red gown, and the same picture with only the gown turned emerald green

Editing17 October 2026

How to change one part of an AI image without touching the rest

Draw a box, say what changes, keep every other pixel. Comparing Nano Banana 2 Edit and GPT Image 1 Mini.