How do you turn an image into a video with AI?

Image-to-video keeps everything the picture already shows: the framing, the light, the faces, the colors. So start with the frame you would want as the first frame of a shot. Leave room for motion: sky above a landscape, space in front of a person who will walk, a door that can open.

You can upload a photo you took or have permission to use, or draw the frame first on a still model in Create. Stills cost a few credits, and fixing the picture there is far cheaper than retaking video. Avoid images with small text or logos: the motion tends to smear them.

FXI Studio screens prompts and uploaded images before anything is generated. Use photos of people only with their permission.

The most common mistake is re-describing the image. The model can already see it, and new scene words fight the frame. Write three things instead: what moves in the scene, what the camera does, and how the shot ends.

"Fog drifts slowly between the pine trunks, a few birds lift off the branches, sunbeams shift as the clouds move. Slow push-in toward the man holding the photograph. Ends on a medium close-up, the photograph in focus."

Keep it to one camera move per clip. A push-in, a pan or an orbit reads as directed; three moves in five seconds reads as shaky. The prompt recipes page lists copy-ready wording for each camera move.

Every model in the table below takes your image as the first frame. P-Video is the fast default for camera moves and transitions, and it is the one free accounts can use. Seedance 2.0 Mini handles people and story shots, and Seedance 2.0 Fast gives sharper faces for the shots that matter most. Veo 3.1 Fast suits dialogue with native audio. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 costs 10 credits a clip but takes a start frame only.

On P-Video the attached image sets the aspect ratio, so crop the picture to the shape you want (16:9, 9:16 or 1:1) before you attach it.

Watch the clip once at full speed and once frame by frame. If the motion is too busy, cut adjectives and slow the camera. If faces drift, shorten the clip or move to a model built for people. If the shot ends somewhere you did not want, add a last frame or spell out the final framing in words.

Change one thing per retake so you can tell what fixed it. Most shots land in one or two tries once the prompt describes only the motion.

New accounts start with 65 free credits and no credit card, about 16 images or 3 free videos (2 today, 1 more next week), plus 22 more credits each week until the free balance is back at 65. Free clips run on P-Video at 5 seconds and 720p. Any credit pack or plan unlocks every model in the table, longer clips and 1080p.

On The Creator plan ($15/mo, 600 credits a month), a 5-second P-Video clip at 25 credits means about 24 clips a month.