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# Luma ray 2

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    <p style={{fontSize: "1.1rem", color: "rgba(255,255,255,0.52)", maxWidth: "580px", lineHeight: "1.7", marginBottom: "2.25rem"}}>Luma AI's most powerful video model — a multimodal architecture with 10× the compute power of Ray 1. Ray 2 delivers fast, coherent motion, ultra-realistic texture detail, and logically sequenced events that make AI-generated footage look genuinely natural.</p>

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        <div style={{fontSize: "0.62rem", color: "rgba(255,255,255,0.32)", textTransform: "uppercase", letterSpacing: "0.1em", marginBottom: "0.3rem"}}>Resolution</div>
        <div style={{fontSize: "1rem", color: "#ffffff", fontWeight: "600"}}>540p–720p</div>
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        <div style={{fontSize: "0.62rem", color: "rgba(255,255,255,0.32)", textTransform: "uppercase", letterSpacing: "0.1em", marginBottom: "0.3rem"}}>Compute power</div>
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## Photorealism at scale

Luma Ray 2 is a ground-up rebuild of Luma AI's Dream Machine video generation platform. With 10× the compute of Ray 1, the model achieves a level of photorealism — realistic texture rendering, accurate material properties, and physically plausible motion — that makes it the strongest option for footage that needs to pass as real-world video.

The model excels at natural motion: human movement flows without the jitter or drift common in earlier video models, and event sequences follow a logical order rather than hallucinating random intermediate states. Both text-to-video and image-to-video workflows are supported.

## Capabilities

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  <Card title="Ultra-realistic textures" icon="eye">
    Material surfaces — skin, fabric, metal, stone, liquid — render with photorealistic fidelity, accurate to real-world lighting and surface properties.
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  <Card title="Coherent motion" icon="film">
    Movement is fast and coherent, following the logical physical sequence of events — no random mid-motion artifacts or unnatural interpolation.
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  <Card title="10× compute of Ray 1" icon="microchip">
    A multimodal architecture with 10× the compute capacity of its predecessor — noticeably sharper outputs and more detailed scene rendering.
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  <Card title="Image-to-video" icon="image">
    Animate any still image with natural, physics-plausible motion — the strongest image-animation workflow in Luma's lineup.
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  <Card title="24 FPS cinematic output" icon="clapperboard">
    Native 24 FPS output for the standard cinematic frame rate — consistent with professional film and commercial production standards.
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  <Card title="Wide aspect ratio support" icon="expand">
    Supports 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9, and 9:21 for flexible delivery across platforms.
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## Specifications

| Feature           | Details                          |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------- |
| **Developer**     | Luma AI                          |
| **Resolution**    | 540p–720p                        |
| **Duration**      | 5–9 seconds                      |
| **Frame rate**    | 24 FPS                           |
| **Aspect ratios** | 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9, 9:21 |
| **Audio**         | No native audio                  |
| **Input modes**   | Text-to-video, image-to-video    |
| **Compute**       | 10× Ray 1                        |

## How to use

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the AI Video Generator">
    Log into ImagineArt and go to the **AI Video Generator**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select Luma Ray 2">
    Choose **Luma Ray 2** from the model dropdown.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose input mode">
    For text-to-video, write a detailed prompt. For image-to-video, upload your reference image and describe the motion.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set duration and aspect ratio">
    Select your clip length (5–9 seconds) and aspect ratio.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Generate">
    Click **Generate** and review the photorealistic output.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Prompting tips

* **Describe the real-world material properties** — "Silk fabric catching the breeze," "rain-wet cobblestones under warm streetlights," "frost forming on a glass surface" — Ray 2 renders material physics convincingly.
* **Specify motion type** — "A slow, controlled pan," "subject walks naturally from left to right, maintaining eye contact with camera."
* **Image-to-video: upload high-resolution references** — Ray 2 preserves fine detail from the input image; a higher quality starting frame produces a higher quality animation.
* **Use 16:9 for cinematic output** — The 24 FPS cinematic standard and 16:9 ratio combination produces the most professional-looking results for film and commercial use.

### Example prompts

> A slow close-up of honey dripping from a wooden spoon into a glass jar. Warm backlighting, macro lens, photorealistic golden tones. 5 seconds, 16:9.

> A fashion model walks toward the camera on a rain-slicked Parisian street at night. Neon reflections in puddles, natural movement, cinematic. 8 seconds.

## Compare models

| Model                                           | Photorealism | Motion quality      | Audio | Best for                               |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ------------------- | ----- | -------------------------------------- |
| **Luma Ray 2**                                  | Excellent    | Coherent, natural   | No    | Photorealistic footage, natural motion |
| [Sora 2 Pro](/ai-models/video/sora-2-pro)       | Very high    | Physics-aware       | Yes   | Physics + audio integration            |
| [Kling 2.6 Pro](/ai-models/video/kling-2-6-pro) | High         | Cinematic           | Yes   | Audio-synced cinematic                 |
| [Runway 4.5](/ai-models/video/runway-4-5)       | High         | Precise, controlled | No    | Camera-controlled cinematic            |

<Tip>
  Luma Ray 2 is the best choice when photorealistic texture and material rendering is the top priority. For productions that also need synchronized audio, pair the visual output with a model like [Wan 2.5](/ai-models/video/wan-2-5) or add audio in post-production.
</Tip>