Frames to Video AI That Generates the Motion Between Two Stills
Upload a first frame and a last frame, say what should happen between them, and get back a clip that really travels from one still to the other. No timeline, no tweening, nothing to install.
You set both ends, the motion is generated • Directed reveals and match cuts • Delivery-grade 4K
What Is Frames to Video AI?
Frames to video AI is an online tool that takes two still images, a first frame and a last frame, and generates the video that connects them. Instead of cutting or dissolving between the two pictures, the model reads both ends of the shot, works out what has to move, and renders every frame in the middle, so the clip travels from one still to the other as a single continuous take. The same job goes by several names: frame to video AI, keyframes to video, start and end frame video, or filling in the motion between two images. They all describe one workflow. You supply the two anchors, the model supplies the in between. Because both ends are pinned to images you chose, you control where the shot opens and where it lands, which is what separates frames to video from prompting a clip from scratch and hoping it stops in the right place.
What You Can Do with Frames to Video
Six ways to work the first and last frame workflow, from your own keyframes to prompt guided motion and 4K output
- Two upload slots on the page: one first frame, one last frame
- Both ends stay locked to the exact images you supplied
- Movement, camera travel and lighting change are generated, not blended
- No timeline, no keyframe curves, no editing app to install
Who Uses Frames to Video AI?
Creators, filmmakers, animators, product teams and editors who already know how a shot should start and end
Short Form Creators
Turn a strong opening still and a strong closing still into a 9:16 clip for Reels, Shorts and TikTok. Hook and payoff are both frames you picked, so the clip lands where you planned instead of drifting.
AI Filmmakers
Generate a shot that has to begin and end on specific compositions, which is what a cut demands. It gives continuity between boards, so the outgoing frame of one shot and the incoming frame of the next line up without a hand animated fix.
Animators and Illustrators
Skip the inbetweening. Feed the tool two drawn poses, a start and an end, and let it generate the span between them. It previews the timing of a sequence before anyone cleans up the frames.
Ecommerce and Product Teams
Two product photos, one straight on and one at an angle, become a short rotation for a product page or an ad. The item keeps the shape and colour of your real shots at both ends, because those ends are your photographs.
Video Editors
When the middle of a take is unusable, pull the last good frame before the gap and the first good frame after it, and generate a bridge. It also builds a motion transition between two shots that refuse to cut together.
Educators and Explainer Makers
Before and after diagrams explain more when the change is visible. Upload the before state as the first frame and the after state as the last, and the generated middle shows the process instead of asking a class to picture it.
Why Use Frames to Video AI?
What you get from pinning both ends of a shot and generating the movement in between
Both Ends Stay Where You Put Them
A text prompt alone decides its own ending. Here the ending is a file you uploaded. Pinning the first and last frame is the point of the format, and it is why frames to video fits a storyboard or a cut in a way free running generation cannot.
Motion Generated, Not Faked
Morphs stretch pixels and fades hide the fact that nothing moved. This generates the intermediate frames instead, so limbs travel and parallax appears rather than smearing between two photos.
Up to 4K When the Draft Is Right
Draft at the preselected 720p while you test prompts, then rerun the keeper at 1080p or 4K. The default engine covers 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, so the rough test and the delivery render come from the same two frames.
Four to Fifteen Seconds in One Pass
Clip length is a setting, not a stitching job. Anything from 4 to 15 seconds comes out of one run on the default engine, which covers a social cut, a product loop or a slow reveal without an editor.
Optional Generated Sound
The default engine can generate audio along with the picture, and the switch is off unless you turn it on. A silent clip stays silent for your own music bed, and a clip that needs ambience arrives with sound attached.
Free to Try in the Browser
Frame to video AI free of an install is the point of running it here. Sign in, upload two stills and generate in the browser, with no plugin, no render farm and no local graphics card.
How to Turn Two Frames into a Video
Generate the motion between your two frames in 4 steps
Open Frames to Video and Sign In
Sign in and open the frames to video workspace at the top of this page. It loads on Seedance 2.0 as the default engine, and you can switch later from the model dropdown.
Upload Your First and Last Frame
Add one still to the first frame slot and one to the last frame slot. These two images become the opening and closing frames, so pick stills that show the beginning and the end of the movement you want.
Describe the Motion and Set Options
Write what should happen between the two frames, including camera travel and pacing. Then set aspect ratio, resolution and a clip length between 4 and 15 seconds, and decide whether the run should generate audio.
Generate, Review and Download
Start the run and watch the generated middle play back between your two frames. Download the take you like, or adjust the prompt, the length or the engine and rerun the identical pair for another version.
Frequently Asked Questions about Frames to Video AI
Common questions about turning a first and last frame into video: clip length, resolution, sound and commercial use
Frames to video AI generates the video between two still images. You give it a first frame and a last frame, and the model produces every frame in between so the shot moves continuously from one still to the other. It is also called frame to video AI, keyframes to video or start and end frame video, and it differs from a crossfade because the middle is real generated motion.
Open the generator on this page, upload one image into the first frame slot and one into the last frame slot, then describe the motion you want between them. Set aspect ratio, resolution and clip length, press generate, and download the result. This mode has exactly two upload slots, one for each end of the shot.
Yes, you can try frames to video AI free in the browser. Sign in, upload your two frames and generate without installing software or buying an editing suite. Drafting at the preselected 720p is the quickest way to test a pair of frames and a prompt before you rerun the keeper at a higher resolution.
Image to video starts from one picture and invents where the shot goes, so the ending is up to the model. Frames to video takes two pictures and has to arrive at the second one, so you control the landing as well as the opening. Use /video/image-to-video when you only have one still, and this page when the last frame matters as much as the first.
Yes. Export a start and an end frame from your own footage and upload them into the two slots. Editors use this to bridge a gap where the middle of a take is damaged, and animators use it to generate inbetweens from two drawn poses. Anything you can export as a still image works as a keyframe here.
The uploader takes ordinary still image files, so a frame exported from a phone, a camera, an editor or another AI generator goes straight into either slot. If a file is refused, re-export it as a standard still image. For the cleanest result, keep both frames at the aspect ratio you plan to render.
On the default engine a frames to video clip runs from 4 to 15 seconds, and you choose the length before you generate. Longer settings spread the same movement into a slower reveal, while shorter settings turn the identical pair of frames into a punchy transition. Other engines in the dropdown offer different ranges.
The default engine offers 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, with 720p preselected. Draft at 720p while you tune the prompt, then rerun the pair of frames you like at 1080p or 4K for delivery. Available resolutions depend on the engine you pick in the model dropdown.
The two frames set where the shot starts and ends, and the prompt tells the model how to travel between them. A short line such as a slow push in with the subject turning is often enough, but the box accepts up to 20,000 characters if you want to spell out camera behaviour and pacing.
The default engine can generate audio together with the picture, and the switch is off by default. Leave it off if you plan to lay your own music or voice over the clip, and turn it on when you want the clip to arrive with sound in it. Not every engine in the dropdown generates audio.
The page opens on Seedance 2.0 as the default engine for the first and last frame workflow, and the model dropdown lets you switch without re-uploading. That list is filtered to engines that support this mode, so anything you can select accepts two frames, though resolution, clip length and generated audio vary by engine.
Clips you generate here can be used in commercial work such as ads, product pages and client edits, provided you hold the rights to the two frames you upload. Since both ends come from images you supply, stick to footage, product photography or artwork you own or are licensed to use.
Turn Your Two Frames into a Video
Upload a first frame and a last frame, describe the motion between them, and generate in the browser.