SkyReels-V4: Multi-modal Video-Audio Generation, Inpainting and Editing model

TL;DR

SkyReels V4 is a pioneering multi-modal video foundation model that enables high-quality, synchronized video and audio generation, inpainting, and editing at cinematic resolutions using a unified architecture and innovative efficiency strategies.

Contribution

The paper introduces SkyReels V4, the first model to jointly support multi-modal input, video-audio generation, and unified inpainting and editing with high efficiency and quality at cinematic scales.

Findings

Supports up to 1080p, 32 FPS, 15s videos with high fidelity.

Unifies various inpainting tasks under a single interface.

Employs a novel efficiency strategy for high-resolution, long-duration generation.

Abstract

SkyReels V4 is a unified multi modal video foundation model for joint video audio generation, inpainting, and editing. The model adopts a dual stream Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) architecture, where one branch synthesizes video and the other generates temporally aligned audio, while sharing a powerful text encoder based on the Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM). SkyReels V4 accepts rich multi modal instructions, including text, images, video clips, masks, and audio references. By combining the MLLMs multi modal instruction following capability with in context learning in the video branch MMDiT, the model can inject fine grained visual guidance under complex conditioning, while the audio branch MMDiT simultaneously leverages audio references to guide sound generation. On the video side, we adopt a channel concatenation formulation that unifies a wide range of inpainting style tasks, such as image to video, video extension, and video editing under a single interface, and naturally extends to vision referenced inpainting and editing via multi modal prompts. SkyReels V4 supports up to 1080p resolution, 32 FPS, and 15 second duration, enabling high fidelity, multi shot, cinema level video generation with synchronized audio. To make such high resolution, long-duration generation computationally feasible, we introduce an efficiency strategy: Joint generation of low resolution full sequences and high-resolution keyframes, followed by dedicated super-resolution and frame interpolation models. To our knowledge, SkyReels V4 is the first video foundation model that simultaneously supports multi-modal input, joint video audio generation, and a unified treatment of generation, inpainting, and editing, while maintaining strong efficiency and quality at cinematic resolutions and durations.