Imagine Weekly – Issue 41 [July 9th]

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Daniel Reiser
July 09, 2025

Welcome to Issue 41 of Imagine Weekly 👋

The Midjourney team is hard at work on a range of new features and improvements. Upcoming enhancements include advanced video controls, looping, and turbo mode, plus an HD image-to-video option for film professionals. Model development continues with V8 and real-time generation, and a new enterprise API is on the way. Ambient sound effects, platform upgrades, and sustainability efforts are also in progress, all aimed at making Midjourney more powerful and versatile for the community.

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In this issue you’ll find:

  • 📖 Office Hours TL;DR

  • 🛠️ Related & Tools to explore

  • 🎨 Some new srefs to tinker with and other sources of inspiration

📖 TL;DR

🎬 Video Model Enhancements: New controls, looping, and turbo mode are in development; upscaler delayed due to backend changes.

🎥 Professional Video Features: HD image-to-video mode targets film professionals, restricted to high-tier plans due to cost.

🧠 Model Development Updates: V7.1 mixed results; V8 and real-time generation in progress; faster voice integration being tested.

💼 Business API Launch: Enterprise API applications opening soon with premium pricing and a gradual rollout.

🔊 Audio & Sound Features: Ambient sound effects under consideration; no speech yet; community may help prioritize features.

🖥️ Platform Updates: Mood board, style explorer, user profiles, and mobile improvements are upcoming; better office hours integration planned.

🌱 Infrastructure & Sustainability: Video service reaches break-even; cost optimizations and new revenue streams support sustainable growth.

🎨 Inspiration, Prompts and Srefs

Frankly, over the last couple of weeks, I was a bit disappointed with what --sref random was producing. | Didier Quarroz 郭荻

Frankly, over the last couple of weeks, I was a bit disappointed with what --sref random was producing. But finally, today I managed to get a bunch of truly outstanding codes for v7. Try this one: --sref 1280556643 It’s extremely unique, hand-drawn, with a striking red element. Follow Didier Quarroz 郭荻 for more MidJourney --sref codes.

www.linkedin.com/posts/guodi_frankly-over-the-last-couple-of-weeks-i-activity-7348007601583910913-A2o5

Directing art or what? | Gizem Akdağ

Directing art or what? //Midjourney

www.linkedin.com/posts/gizakdag_directing-art-or-what-midjourney-ugcPost-7348692159404896256-khdx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAugk7cBg0eSGpHWmDDIOn_mOG6LnzlIf7g

Animating a vintage image my grandmother as a young woman... | Sherry Horowitz

Animating a vintage image my grandmother as a young woman...

www.linkedin.com/posts/sherry-horowitz-1b9178204_genai-midjourney-ugcPost-7348690212912304129--O7o

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