AI Transition Generator

To create an AI transition, start a new chat with Kapwing AI and enter a detail prompt describing where you want your transition to start and end, as well as the action in between.

Next, upload two images or the last frame of your first video and the first frame of your second video. If you need to extract the frames from existing clips, you can use the Freeze Frame tool in the Kapwing Studio. Specify which image is the start frame and which image is the end frame in your prompt. To make sure the AI interprets your prompt correctly, use the hashtag button or hover over each uploaded image and click the hashtag to specifically name each image as part of your prompt.

Click the arrow to generate your transition. Kai, Kapwing's AI assistant, will come up with a plan for you to approve, and will then start generating. When your transition is ready, click the download icon to save it to your device without watermarks, or click the "Edit" button to move to the Kapwing Studio, where you can arrange your images or videos around your new transition. Finally, click "Export project" at the upper right to download or share your finished video as MP4, MOV, or WebM.

Describe the camera move, what changes between your two frames, and the style of the change, like a morph, a melt, or a whip pan. Add a pace and any sound effects you want. For camera terms, see Kapwing’s AI Camera Prompt Guide. Overall, the more detailed your prompt is, the better your AI transition will be.

For the best results, make sure you specify that you want the video to use a start frame and end frame, then specify which image is which using the hashtag button in the prompt box.

In Kapwing, Veo, Kling, and Seedance support both start and end frames, so any of them can generate a transition.

Each model interprets motion differently, so the same frames and prompt can give you different results. If a transition doesn’t land the way you want, try another model before you rewrite the prompt.

Traditional transitions, like crossfades, wipes, zooms, and glitches, are preset effects applied to the cut between two clips. They change how one shot gives way to the next, but the shots themselves stay the same. An AI transition generates new footage made for your two frames and your prompt, so the scene can move, transform, or burst into something else on its way to the next shot.

Presets are instant and work well for quick, consistent cuts across a whole video, like moving between interview answers or tutorial steps. AI transitions take a few minutes to generate and suit the moments you want viewers to notice. Kapwing has both, so you can browse the library of video transitions in Kapwing Studio and generate custom AI transitions for your key scene changes.

Both frames should share the same aspect ratio, or the transition may crop one of them. Use the AI Image Extender to reframe one image so it matches the other before you generate.

For TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, use 9:16 images for both frames and choose a vertical aspect ratio before you generate, so the transition fits the rest of your video.

Yes, you can ask for sound effects in your prompt, like a whoosh, a splash, or the crackle of fire, and they’re generated with the clip.

You can also leave audio out and build the sound yourself in Kapwing Studio. Create a specific effect with the AI Sound Effects Generator and layer it on the cut, or let your music or original audio continue through the transition.

Yes, you can generate a transition from the speaker into B-roll of the product, place, or step you’re describing, then detach the audio so the voiceover keeps playing over the transition.

Cutaways like this suit tutorials, explainers, and podcasts, where showing the subject helps viewers follow along without pausing the story. Need B-roll? Create it with the AI B-Roll Generator, then transition into it.

Kapwing accepts common image formats for your start and end frames, including JPG, PNG, WEBP, and HEIC, so you can use photos straight from your phone. To start from video, upload MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, or another common format to Kapwing Studio, then save the frames you need as images.

Your finished transition is a video clip you can edit with the rest of your project. Export the final video as an MP4, MOV, or WebM.

If you only have one image, you can create the second one with AI. Generate an end frame with Kapwing’s AI Image Generator, like your product on a mountaintop or your subject in a new outfit, and the transition takes your video somewhere you never filmed.

Start from your first image when you generate the end frame, so both frames share the same subject and composition. That gives the AI a clear path between them and makes a clean transition more likely.