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Animate a picture

Animate a picture brings a still to life: light that ripples across water, clouds that drift, a camera that glides forward. Describe the motion, and an AI video model makes a clip from the picture, which lands in your scene as a video layer.

A picture of light caustics on water, rippling and shimmering after being animated

Where to find it: right-click a layer with a picture and choose Animate this picture with AI…, or open Render with AI and choose Animate a picture.

Animate a picture

  1. Select the layer with the picture, such as a shape you've put a photo on.

  2. Right-click it and choose Animate this picture with AI….

    A layer's right-click menu with Animate this picture with AI…
  3. Describe the motion: what moves, how, and what the camera does.
  4. Pick a quality and a Length of 5 s or 10 s.
  5. Click Animate.
The Render with AI dialog set to Animate a picture: Picture set to The selected picture, a description of ripples drifting across the surface, the four qualities with Draft chosen, and Length 5 s

The clip lands as a video layer from the playhead.

To animate what's in your frame instead of one picture, open Render with AI, choose Animate a picture, and set Picture to The frame at the playhead.

Quality

QualityWhat it does
DraftQuick and cheap: gentle motion that keeps the picture
StandardFollows your description closely, with livelier motion
Best 720pThe most lifelike motion and light, at 720p
Best 1080pThe same, at 1080p

The dialog shows the cost before you start. See AI credits and keys.

Describe the motion

  • Say what moves and how: "ripples of light drift slowly across the surface".
  • Say what the camera does, or that it stays still: "the camera glides slowly forward", "the camera still".
  • Keep it to one or two movements. A long list of actions makes a busy, unsteady clip.

The credits are spent when the animation starts, and given back if it fails. Your clip carries no sound.