Freeform renders are on every plan: up to 720p on Free, with the Kyndrify mark. 1080p with no mark starts on the Basic plan, and Cinematic Ultra Extended and Pro Flash render at full resolution from the Plus plan. The free plan starts you with credits so you can look around the studio first.
One photo in. A moving clip out.
Upload a photo, say what should move, get a clip back.
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One photo in. A moving clip out.
Upload a photo you already have and say what should move in it. Pick how long the clip runs and what shape you need it in. The studio renders a few seconds of footage that starts from your own picture, so there is no stock search and nothing to film.
A still turned into a short clip. Nothing here was filmed.
This makes a photo move. If you want the person in the photo to speak your script, that is a Digital Twin, and it works differently: talking-head video is the door for that.
Part of AI video generator.
How do you turn an image into a video?
Upload the picture, write one line about what should move, pick a length and a shape, then render. Kyndrify starts the clip from your photo and hands back a few seconds of motion. The result is footage, so nobody in it speaks your script. It renders on every plan, at up to 720p on the free one.
Who it is for
Marketers, sellers and creators who already have the picture and need a few seconds of movement out of it.
What you need
One photo, and one line describing the movement. JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB.
What it costs
The cheapest quality costs 114 credits a second, so a five second clip is 570 credits. It renders on every plan, at up to 720p on the free one with the mark, and 1080p starts on the Basic plan, which comes with 5,600 credits a month. See what a plan's credits buy.
What it does not do
It will not animate a stranger's face, and nobody in the clip speaks your words.
Upload, describe, render.
- 1
Bring the photo in.
Attach it as a reference or pin it as the start frame, whichever matches what you want back. Add an end frame if you already know where the clip should land. This is the decision that changes what comes out, which is why it comes before the words.
- 2
Say what moves, and set the clip.
One line is enough. "Steam lifting, rain on the glass" does more than a paragraph. Then pick the length and the shape: 4 to 15 seconds, and up to 30 seconds on the longest quality, and square, widescreen or vertical. Sound comes back inside the clip unless you ask for it silent.
- 3
Read the price, then render.
The credit cost sits on the button before you press it, worked out from the length and the quality you picked. The clip lands in your Studio, ready to download or drop straight into an edit.
Guide the clip, or start it.
This is the part that decides what you get back, and most tools never say it out loud. You are answering one question in one of two ways, so you pick one.
Attach it as a reference.
The clip is guided by your picture. The subject, the colours and the look carry across into a shot that gets composed fresh, which is what you want when the photo is the mood rather than the moment. You can attach up to nine reference images on the Cinematic qualities and let them steer together. If you pick one of your saved characters, their own photos count toward that number.
Pin it as the start frame.
The clip opens on your picture, exactly as it is, and moves away from it. That is the one to choose when the photo is the shot and you want it to stay the shot. Pin a second photo as the end frame and the clip travels from the first to the second, which is how you get a move you can plan instead of a move you hope for. You use one way or the other on a clip, never both at once. Switching between them does not throw anything away: whatever you staged is still there when you switch back.
Check the photo before you upload.
The file. JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB. 300 to 6,000 px on each side, between 2:5 and 5:2. Ordinary photograph shapes are fine, and something extremely long and thin gets turned away.
What cannot be in it. Five things, and the studio says so before it charges you:
- Brand logos and trademarks
- Copyrighted characters and artwork
- Real people's faces, unless they are a Digital Twin with consent
- Anything sexual, violent or hateful
- Anyone under 18
That third one catches more people than the rest put together, so there is a section about it below.
No photograph yet? AI images makes the still you want to move, and product photos turns a shot you already have into a studio one.
A real face needs a real yes.
Kyndrify will not animate a stranger. A photo with a real person's face is accepted in one case only: that person is a Digital Twin of yours, which means they recorded consent and we hold the record. If the face is yours, create an AI version of yourself first, then pick yourself as the character in the clip. If the face belongs to someone else, they make the twin, not you.
An Avatar is different. It is a character we generated, with no real person behind it, so there is nobody to ask. Either one can be the character in a clip.
That rule is why this page can be straight with you about what the tool does. Plenty of things will animate any face you feed them. We would rather have the consent record.
Your photos and your renders belong to your Workspace. Kyndrify does not use your photos, voice, scripts or finished media to train a Kyndrify model. Machine-verifiable disclosure and provenance are still rolling out and are not yet guaranteed on every output, so follow the disclosure rules that apply wherever you publish. Read the biometric notice and how we build responsibly.
What this page does not promise.
The clip is short.
Clips run 4 to 15 seconds, and up to 30 seconds on the longest quality. There is no long-form path here: for more than that, render a few clips and cut them together in the editor.
Nobody in it speaks your script.
The sound that comes back is scene sound written for the shot, and you can ask for silence instead. A photo that speaks is a Digital Twin, which is a different door: talking-head video.
A real face needs consent on record.
A photo carrying a real person's face is accepted only when that person is a Digital Twin of yours, with a consent recording on file. A stranger's face is turned away before anything is charged.
Free clips stop at 720p.
Freeform renders are on every plan: up to 720p on Free, with the Kyndrify mark. 1080p with no mark starts on the Basic plan, and Cinematic Ultra Extended and Pro Flash render at full resolution from the Plus plan. The free plan starts you with 8,400 credits that never expire, so you can look around the studio first. If you have a line of text and no picture at all, Freeform is the same engine from the other end.
Questions people ask before they upload.
- How do I turn an image into a video?
- Upload the photo, either as a reference that guides the clip or pinned as the frame the clip starts on. Write one line about what should move. Pick the length and the shape, check the credit price on the button, and render. The clip comes back in your Studio.
- What kind of photo works best here?
- One where the thing you want to move is clearly the subject. Products on a surface, food, interiors, landscapes, weather, and images you rendered yourself all behave well. A photo that is already blurry, very dark, or crowded with small detail gives the shot less to hold on to. The file needs to be JPEG, PNG or WebP and under 10 MB.
- How long is the clip?
- Clips run 4 to 15 seconds, and up to 30 seconds on the longest quality. This is short footage on purpose. If you need more than that, render a few clips and cut them together in the editor.
- Can I animate a photo of a person?
- Only when that person is a Digital Twin of yours, with consent on record. Pick them as the character in the clip rather than uploading a loose photo of their face. A photo of someone who has not consented is turned away before anything is charged.
- Does the clip have sound?
- Yes. The studio writes scene sound to go with the shot, and you can ask for a silent clip instead. What it is not is a person reading your words: nobody in the clip speaks your script. For that, a Digital Twin says a script in your own voice, on the talking-head video page.
- What does it cost?
- The cheapest quality costs 114 credits a second, so a five second clip is 570 credits. It renders on every plan, at up to 720p on the free one with the mark, and 1080p starts on the Basic plan, which comes with 5,600 credits a month. The free plan starts you with 8,400 credits that never expire, so you can look around the studio before you decide.
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You already have the photo.
Bring it in, say what should move, and see what a few seconds of it looks like. Freeform renders are on every plan: up to 720p on Free, with the Kyndrify mark. 1080p with no mark starts on the Basic plan, and Cinematic Ultra Extended and Pro Flash render at full resolution from the Plus plan. Signing up is free and asks for no card.