Image to Video AI Generator

Turn any image into a video with AI

Convert images into videos with AI

Upload a photo, product image, illustration, or AI artwork and turn it into a moving video — no editing experience required

Bring any image to life as a video — in seconds

Image-to-video AI turns static images into moving video clips. Choose an AI model, upload your image, and use it as the starting frame.

With "Plan Mode" toggled on, Kapwing first builds a storyboard preview so you can review the scene structure and edit the shot list before generating the video.

Add a photo, product shot, illustration, or AI-generated image to start creating social videos, product ads, animated visuals, and short clips for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Create Video

Add realistic motion, camera movement, and effects

Kapwing helps animate still images with smooth motion, camera pans, zooms, and cinematic movement using leading AI video models, including Kling motion control.

Even a simple prompt can create dynamic clips with more realistic subject movement and stronger visual focus.

For videos that demand human-realistic accuracy, converted images maintain turn to motion natrually — creating new opportunities for marketing, sales, and virtual influencer content.

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Turn product photos into videos

Transform dull images into dynamic, campaign-ready videos

Always stay on brand with custom edits

Turn product images into moving videos with pans, zooms, rotations, and animated motion.

Add logos, subtitles, voice overs, text, and branded overlays to create campaign-ready product videos from a single image.

From upload to export, everything happens in one streamlined platform, whether you’re creating an 8-second clip or a fully-edited 5-minute video.

Generate Video

Scale your content across every platform

Choose from multiple aspect ratios and start shaping plain visuals into eye-catching videos that engage new customers across all platforms.

Designed for marketers, advertisers, content teams, and influencers, Kapwing offers business-ready features like batch exports, shareable project links, and live feedback notes to simplify every step of image to video creation.

Open Project

Image-to-video AI for every workflow

Millions of creators and businesses trust Kapwing to lead their content into the AI era

Three example social media videos created using an AI image to vidoe generator.

Social Media Creators

Turn static images into viral TikToks, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts with AI-enhanced prompts that capture trending styles and deliver scroll-stopping quality

An example product advertisement created using an AI image to video generator.

Designers

Designers showcase mockups with motion, generating animated videos with panning, zooming, and dynamic rotations — perfect for client presentations or portfolio reels

E-commerce

Use AI Image to Video to animate product shots, add logos and pricing overlays, and instantly create platform-ready content for marketplaces, ads, and social media

Example social media video clips creted using an AI image to video generator to be used by event marketers.

Marketing & Agencies

Batch exports, shareable project links, and live feedback notes make collaboration seamless for marketing teams, helping agencies deliver polished, on-brand content at scale

A book with a dragon emerging from it to promote the content by bringing it to life with an AI image to video generator.

Authors

Showcase your work and captivate readers by transforming static book covers into cinematic, story-driven videos — refined to perfection with consistent prompt enhancements

Music Artists

Artists and entertainment brands create stunning music visuals, social teasers, and show promos in minutes, transforming album covers, behind-the-scenes shots, or photoshoot assets

An informational video created using an image to video generator to disseminate information easier online.

Educators

Teachers and online coaches convert slides, diagrams, and lesson materials into engaging videos with Kapwing’s AI Image to Video Generator — keeping students’ attention longer

Real teams creating on Kapwing

Already transforming video creation across industries

Hear directly from the teams who publish faster, collaborate better, and stay ahead.

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It just works!

Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.

Eunice Park

Studio Production Manager at Formlabs

With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.

Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!

Vannesia Darby

CEO at MOXIE Nashville

Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.

Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.

Grant Taleck

Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com

It keeps getting better!

Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.

Panos Papagapiou

Managing Partner at EPATHLON

By the far the most user friendly software to use.

As a housewife at home looking to start a YouTube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.

Kerry-lee Farla

Youtuber

Kapwing is my secret weapon!

This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.

Gracie Peng

Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.

Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As an English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.

Heidi Rae

Education

Excellent subtitling features

[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!

Natasha Ball

Consultant

Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.

[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)

Mitch Rawlings

Information Services Freelancer

This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.

I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, there is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.

Dina Segovia

Virtual Freelance Worker

●Step by Step

How to Turn an Image to Video with AI

Step 1
Open Kapwing
Open Kapwing’s AI Image to Video Generator.
Step 2
Upload image and enter prompt
Upload a photo, illustration, or product image, then describe how you want the AI to animate it. You can prompt for camera motion, subject movement, or cinematic effects.
Step 3
Generate, edit, and export
After clicking “Generate Video”, add it to your canvas for custom edits. When you’re ready, select “Export Project” to download the finished video.

●Thoughtfully Unique

What's different about Kapwing?

Six reasons creators stay in flow: faster edits, smarter tools, and collaboration that actually keeps projects moving.

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Collaborative

Quickly review and share feedback with your team using real-time comments in shared workspaces. Save assets to your Brand Kit for easy access.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

AI-Powered

Kapwing uses the latest advanced AI models to power generative AI and one-click editing tools.

●Just the FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

We have answers to the most common questions that our users ask.

Is the AI Image to Video tool free?

Yes, anyone can try Kapwing’s AI Image to Video for free without watermarks. All our AI tools run on a credit system, with each feature costing a set number of credits. For maximum creativity and the best value, upgrade to a Pro account to unlock the full power of AI-driven content creation.

What is the difference between AI image-to-video and AI text-to-video?

AI Image-to-video starts from a still image and animates it. AI Text-to-video starts from a written prompt and generates a new scene from scratch. Kapwing supports both workflows.

How do I turn a photo into a video with AI?

Upload a photo, enter a prompt describing the motion or scene change you want, and generate the video. You can then edit the result by adding text, subtitles, logos, voiceovers, or music.

Can I use AI image-to-video for product photos?

Yes. AI image-to-video is a simple way to turn product images into short promotional videos with camera movement, text overlays, music, and branded edits.

Can you edit and customize AI-generated videos?

Yes, all of Kapwing's AI-generated videos are completely customizable. Once they have been generated you can add a variety of edits based on your subscription package, including branded backgrounds, colors, images, and logos.

What models work best for AI image-to-video?

We recommend using Seedance or Kling motion control for the best image-to-video results.

What is AI image-to-video?

AI image-to-video is a tool that turns a still image into a moving video clip. It uses your uploaded image as the starting frame, then generates motion and camera movement based on your prompt.

What aspect ratios, file sizes, and display resolutions are supported?

Kapwing's AI studio works with all popular file types for video and image including MP4, AVI, MOV, WebM, WebP, JPG, PNG, and more.

Aspect ratios in: 1:1, 9:16, 16:9, 4:5, 5:4, 3:4, 4:3, 2:3, and 21:9.
Resolution support: 480p, 512p, 768p, 720p, and 1080p.

Can you create a video with multiple camera angles?

Yes — to generate multiple camera angles in a single video, select the "Seedance" model and use the phrase "the camera changes’" in your prompt. Each time you include "the camera changes", the model will create a new shot within the same clip.

How can I get tips for writing better image-to-video prompts?

Check out our blog on advanced AI video prompts for a deeper look at how to write and use them effectively.

What are Custom Kais?

Custom Kais are pre-built AI image and video effects in Kapwing. Our team has created hundreds of them so you can instantly produce eye-catching content — no prompt writing required. Just apply a Custom Kai and the style is handled for you.

You can also create your own Custom Kai to capture your brand’s unique look and reuse it anytime for consistent, on-brand image to video generations with one click.

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