With AI-generated video technology rapidly evolving, it’s now possible to turn a single image into a cinematic video clip in seconds, with no editing skills. Whether you’re a content creator, marketer, or just experimenting, Photo AI makes the process fast, easy, and insanely fun.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to go from a static photo to a vivid, moving scene using Photo AI’s Image to Video feature.

From AI photo to motion in 3 easy steps

Turning your photo into a short video takes less than a minute. Here’s how:

1. Inside Photo AI, first take some photos of the scene you like. Either write your own prompt or use one of our 100s of photo packs.

   

2. Once you see a photo you’d like to turn into a video, hover over it and tap [ Make video ].

   
   You’ll see a popup that lets you write a prompt which controls what happens in the scene, the motion of the camera and style:

   
   “camera slowly zooms out and shows model standing in room while wind blows from outside”

   
   Where “model” references your AI model you created.
   

   

3. It will then take a minute or so and your video is done!
   
   

Upload your own images to turn into a video

With Photo AI you can also upload your own images (like real photos you made) and turn them into a video in a similar way.

1. First go to [ Import into gallery ] and select your image.
   

   

   
   

2. Then once it shows up in the gallery, hover over the image and tap [ Make video ].
   

   

Just like before, you’ll see a popup that lets you write a prompt which controls what happens in the scene, the motion of the camera and style:

“The camera slowly zooms out to reveal the model in a futuristic city glowing at night”

3. It will then take a minute or so and your video is done!

Photo AI uses the latest world-class AI video models

Photo AI gives you access to the latest in cutting-edge video models and the moment a new video model is launched we usually have it available in our app within hours:

• Kling

• Hailuo AI’s Minimax

• Pixverse

• Google’s Veo

Photo AI auto-selects the best model available at any time and because AI models are quite safety sensitive, will fallback to every single model until it finds one that can do what you prompt it to do. Giving it one of the highest success % rates of any AI app for image-to-video.

Smooth motion, high quality, instant results

With Photo AI’s video engine, you get:

• 5–10 second clips with fluid, cinematic motion

• Zero video editing experience required

• Instant preview and downloads

Whether you’re turning a selfie into a dramatic scene or animating your artwork, Photo AI delivers unmatched quality in just a few clicks.

Final thoughts

AI video used to require complex tools and hours of editing. Now, with Photo AI’s Image to Video feature, you can go from static to cinematic in under a minute.

Take an AI photo or upload your own image, write a prompt, and let the AI handle the rest.

→ Try Image to Video now on Photo AI