Render with AI: restyle the scene you built.

Render with AI never paints over your work. The finished render arrives as a video layer that sits over exactly the seconds you chose, and the scene it was made from stays in the file, layer for layer and keyframe for keyframe. Hide the render to compare, then turn it back on to see the new look.

Because the render is an ordinary video layer, it trims, fades and plays on the timeline's clock like any other clip. Not quite right? Change the description or the Close, Balanced or Loose setting and render the stretch again; the scene underneath hasn't moved.

Text-to-video tools decide the composition, the timing and the camera for you, and a new prompt reshuffles all three. Render with AI works the other way round. You decide where everything sits and how it moves, in real 3D with real layers, and the AI video model only decides what it looks like: a photoreal product shot, a painted frame, or a material and mood Paraplex doesn't build in.

That makes the result easier to direct. A layout you already approved stays approved, and the camera move happens where you keyed it, because the model is restyling your frames rather than inventing new ones.

Want the assistant to build the scene first? See AI motion design.

Each render covers 5 or 10 seconds that you choose on the timeline. A Paraplex piece can run up to an hour, so put the AI look where it earns its place, such as a hero shot, a product reveal or the opening of a Short, and keep the rest as crisp, editable motion.

Match the quality to the moment: Draft for a quick look at the direction, Standard, then Best 720p or Best 1080p for the version you keep. Then set how closely it keeps to your scene. Close holds nearest to your shapes and edges, Loose gives the model the most room to reinterpret, and Balanced sits between them.

Every Paraplex plan renders real 3D: physically based glass, chrome and wood, lit by real lights and environments, with shadows and reflections. On Pro, Studio render adds path tracing for the final pass, so light bounces between surfaces more like it does in front of a camera. Both keep your scene exactly as built, with your type, colors and materials as set.

Render with AI is a different tool. It reinterprets your frames instead of lighting them, which is how you get a painted look, a photoreal mood your scene doesn't model, or a style that would take days to build by hand. Use it for the look, and keep exact brand colors, type and numbers in the real scene.

Have a single picture instead of a scene? Animate a picture turns a still, or the frame at the playhead, into a 5 or 10 second clip that moves as you describe, at Draft, Standard, Best 720p or Best 1080p, and drops it on the timeline as a video layer.

More on real 3D scenes in Paraplex.