Motion is now in the studio on paid plans: clips of up to fifteen seconds at up to 1080p, priced per second from the same credits as your stills, and able to start from a frame you already made. Here is exactly what it does, and what it does not.
Hana Ishikawa
Product Lead
Video has been the most requested thing in our inbox, and the thing we were most reluctant to ship badly. A video tool that cannot hold your character's face is a demo, not a product.
So the first release leans on what already works: the stills you have made. Start from a frame you already like, describe the motion, choose a camera move, and the clip begins from that frame.
Motion lives at Studio › Video and is open on every paid plan — Keeper, Vault and Keystone. The free plan does not include video.
There are three models, all from third-party providers and called through OpenRouter: Seedance 2.0 Fast and Seedance 2.0 from ByteDance, and Hailuo 2.3 from MiniMax. Clips come out at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, with no audio.
It is in beta, which for us means three things: it works, it is not fast, and the details may change before it is final.
Motion should inherit the look you already built. Nobody wants to grade a character twice.
— release note
The most reliable way to keep a character in motion is to start from a frame where she already looks right. Use one of your stills as the first frame and the clip opens on it — her face, the light and the grade are in the picture before anything moves.
Start frame — Any still from your Vault, used as the opening frame. Optional, but it is what holds a face.
Motion — What happens in the shot, described in plain language.
Camera — Push in, pull out, orbit, crane, handheld or static — or leave it to the prompt.
Length — 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 15 seconds on Seedance; 6 or 10 seconds on Hailuo.
Resolution — 480p, 720p or 1080p on Seedance; 720p or 1080p on Hailuo.
Fig. 1 — three frames from one clip that started from a still. The face holds; the motion is allowed to blur.
Fifteen seconds and 1080p are the ceiling today, set by what the models we call accept. Without a start frame, a clip is generated from the prompt alone, and how well it holds a specific face is up to the model.
There is no audio, no frame interpolation and no way to extend a clip. A third-party model also does not promise the same clip twice from the same inputs, so when a take is good, keep it.
Video is priced per second and drawn from the same credit balance as your stills — there is no separate video allowance. The price is shown before you render, and a clip that fails, or is refused by the model's safety filter, is not charged.
2 credits / s — Seedance 2.0 Fast
3 credits / s — Seedance 2.0
4 credits / s — Hailuo 2.3
So a five-second clip on Seedance 2.0 Fast is 10 credits, five seconds on Seedance 2.0 is 15, and the longest clip on the menu — fifteen seconds of Seedance 2.0 — is 45.
No audio, no clip extension, nothing above 1080p and nothing longer than fifteen seconds. We would rather say that plainly than put dates on a roadmap.
Every clip you render is kept in your Vault at the resolution it was rendered at.
Motion is live on every paid plan today. If you already have a still you trust, that is the one to start from — the whole point is that you do not have to build anything new.
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