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Image to Video for Windows
The Image to Video feature in Filmora allows you to easily transform static images into engaging videos. With various creative templates and customizable options, this tool makes it simple to add dynamic effects and transitions to your photos, bringing them to life in just a few clicks.
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How to Access the Image to Video Feature in Filmora?
Entry 1: Quick Access from the Main Interface
After launching Filmora, you can find the AI Image to Video feature directly on the home screen under the Toolbox section (as shown in the screenshot). It is the first option displayed.
Entry 2: Access via the Toolbox
If you don’t see Image to Video on the home screen, navigate to the Toolbox from the left-hand sidebar. Locate the Image to Video tool and click on it to access the feature.
Entry 3: Through the Stock Media Tab in the Editing Interface
After starting a new project, find the AI Media option in the left-hand sidebar under Stock Media, and click Image to Video to choose the template you like.
How to Use Filmora’s Image to Video Feature
After accessing the Image to Video tool, follow these steps to create stunning videos using your chosen template.
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The process is consistent across all templates, with only slight differences in their effects or outputs.Step 1: Choose a Template
Mode 1: Image to Video
After accessing the Image-to-Video feature within the tool’s interface, expand the Image-to-Video tab. Here you can explore different categories for your videos and choose the template of your choice:
- AI Kiss: Add a romantic touch with AI-generated effects.
- Hug Your Love: Create heartwarming, emotional visuals.
- Painting Fugitive: Turn your images into artistic, escape-themed stories.
- AI Fight: Craft epic battle scenes with cinematic effects.
- Smoke Escape: Add mysterious, smoky visuals for drama.
- Horror: Create spooky videos with eerie effects.
- Sandify: Add dreamy, sand-inspired fade effects.
- Struck by Lightning: Electrify visuals with dramatic lightning.
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Mode 2: Character to Video
To convert your mundane portrait into a digital avatar in a video, access the Character-to-Video tab. Explore the categories of this mode according to your preferences:
- Gallop Ahead: Transform yourself into a heroic horse rider racing through a scenic landscape.
- Concert: Place your character on a rocking concert stage with lights and a huge crowd.
- Post-Apocalypse: Drop yourself into a world of ruins and survival.
- Angel Stride: Convert your character into a glowing celestial figure walking with elegance.
- Magic Castle: Place yourself walking like a princess around her castle.
- Flying Power: Fly high in the sky with this image-to-video transformation.
- Interstellar Crash: Showcase your character in a sci-fi scene after a cosmic attack.
- Become A Pilot: Transform yourself into a pilot flying an airplane in style.
- Spaceship Pilot: Control a futuristic spaceship by converting yourself into a spaceship pilot.
- Spy Mission: Turn your avatar into a spy and secretly go on their mission.
- Cyberpunk City: Travel into the future and enter a cyberpunk city in full futuristic costume.
- Go To Space: Convert yourself into an astronaut and head to space.
- Catwalk: Become a model walking on the ramp in style.
- Firefighter Hero: Place yourself as an unsung fire fighter hero helping everyone.
- Champion Moment: Celebrate your character’s victory by lifting the grand trophy.
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Mode 3: Start/End Frame to Video
Conversely, you can make your images the start or ending frame in a video by accessing the Start/End Frame to Video section. Look through the templates provided and pick the one that suits you best:
- Transforming into A Fox Demon: Convert into a mystical fox spirit with fiery animations and energy.
- Brown Hair Princess: Become an anime-style princess with brown hair.
- Elephant Evolution: Experience changing your frame into a powerful elephant instantly.
- Champion Fighter: Shift frame into a battlefield where your avatar becomes a fighter.
- Aging Gracefully: Time travel and see how you would look after getting old.
- Spartan Warrior: Turn yourself into an ancient Greek warrior who is fully armored.
- Aesthetic Anime: get an animated makeover with pastel colors and dreamy filters.
- Youth Rewind: Rewind time and turn an old frame into a youthful picture.
- Pixel Landscape: Transform your image frame into retro landscape with pixel art effects and motion.
- Reaper’s Descent: Descend into a dark and haunting scene as your avatar becomes a reaper.
- Wolf Soul Rise: Create the rise of a wolf by transforming the scene using this template.
- Melt to Clay: Watch your character turning into a clay doll.
- Revive the Past: Breathe life into old photos by adding vibrant colors.
- Fire Particles Logo: Turn your mundane logo into fiery animation.
- Foxy: Add a playful animated fox twist to your frame with this template.
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Mode 4: Reference to Video
If you want to transform an image into a video with more accuracy, you can upload multiple images. Click on the Reference to Video tab and choose your template from the library:
- Eagle Flight: Make your character fly high, riding on an Eagle.
- Blazing Ride: Jump into fast-paced motorcycle ride with cinematic motion.
- Jungle Expedition: Explore the Jungle by converting your child’s image riding an animal.
- Pegasus Adventure: Make the character ride a Unicorn flying among the clouds.
- Warmhearted Bear: Picture yourself with a cute bear eating ice cream.
- Ocean Explorer: Explore the ocean by making your character dive beneath the waves.
- AI Dress Show: Become a red-carpet model wearing an elegant dress.
- Gorilla Drive: Transform yourself into a passenger princess with the Gorilla driving.
- Afterburn Drift: Perform hero bike drift using this template.
- Book Skirt: Make your character wear a whimsical outfit made of books.
- Meow Express: Let your cat deliver parcels for you with this template.
- Eating HotPot With Pandas: Enjoy eating hotpot in the cute Pandas company.
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Step 2. Preview the Template and Upload Your Images
Once you click on a template, a preview of its effects will appear in the Player on the right. This helps you visualize the result before proceeding. Drag and drop your images into the upload area or click to browse files on your computer.
For every mode, you can also use the Custom template, enter a detailed description of the desired effect (e.g., “Create a day-to-night timelapse of this bridge”).
Step 3: Customize Your Images
Choose between different modes:
- Single Image: Focus on one image at a time.
- Stitch Mode: Combine multiple images into a continuous video.
Adjust the Aspect Ratio for the output video by selecting either Landscape (16:9) or Portrait (9:16) at the top. Once the adjustments are made, click the Submit button to confirm your settings and move to the next step.
Step 4: Generate the Video
Once your image is uploaded and settings are finalized, click Generate to create your video. You can check the progress by accessing the Taskbar from the top right corner. It may take anywhere from tens of seconds to 3 minutes to generate the video.
Step 5: Manage and Edit Your Generated Video
After the video is successfully generated, you can edit it by adding elements like Effects and Filters. Once you are satisfied with the results, head to the top-right corner and hit the Export button to save the video.
