u/Comfortable-Hat1761

Hey all,

I’ve been playing around with Kling video-to-video trying to turn real footage into something that looks like a proper 3D game engine render, like UE5 cinematics.

But I can’t really get it to stick to the 3D animated / game engine look. Even with reference images it kind of just falls back into “live action with a filter” instead of actually feeling like a rebuild.

At this point I’m wondering if I’m just using the wrong approach.

I started thinking maybe video-to-video isn’t the way and I should actually rebuild parts of the scene / characters, maybe even using Tripo AI to generate quick 3D assets, then estimate motion from the original footage and just re-apply everything in an engine like Unreal or Blender with proper lighting.

Then maybe Kling only makes sense as a final polish layer instead of doing the whole transformation.

Not sure if this is completely overkill or if that’s just how people actually get this kind of result right now.

Has anyone here actually managed to get a true “3D reconstructed” look from real footage without going full rebuild?

Hey all,

I’ve been playing around with Kling video-to-video trying to turn real footage into something that looks like a proper 3D game engine render, like UE5 cinematics.

But I can’t really get it to stick to the 3D animated / game engine look. Even with reference images it kind of just falls back into “live action with a filter” instead of actually feeling like a rebuild.

At this point I’m wondering if I’m just using the wrong approach.

I started thinking maybe video-to-video isn’t the way and I should actually rebuild parts of the scene / characters, maybe even using Tripo AI to generate quick 3D assets, then estimate motion from the original footage and just re-apply everything in an engine like Unreal or Blender with proper lighting.

Then maybe Kling only makes sense as a final polish layer instead of doing the whole transformation.

Not sure if this is completely overkill or if that’s just how people actually get this kind of result right now.

Has anyone here actually managed to get a true “3D reconstructed” look from real footage without going full rebuild?

Picked these up because the price was reasonable and I figured I'd try something without a camera for once. No particular grand plan, just curious.

Honestly still figuring out where they fit. The AI assistant part gets used the most, mostly just asking things I'd normally Google, nothing revolutionary. The face to face translation comes up when colleagues switch to French and I don't want to stop the flow of conversation to pull out my phone. Works well enough, though it does struggle sometimes when people talk fast.

The meeting summary thing has been the most consistently useful. I don't love writing notes so having something do a rough version for me is genuinely helpful even if I still edit it.

The no camera aspect is kind of a non-issue in a good way. Nobody has asked about it, nobody seems to notice or care. Which is probably the point.

Still not sure if I'd call it essential. Some days I forget I'm wearing them and don't use any of the features. But on the days I do use them it does take a bit of friction out of the day.

Anyone else tried these for work? Wondering if I'm using them wrong or if this is just kind of what they are.