The frame is not negotiable
The renderer produces 2 shapes and no others, so every start frame arrives as one of them however it started. The only question is whether the composition was chosen or inherited.
START FRAMES · FITTED IN YOUR BROWSER
Crop an image for video
Image-to-video renders in 16:9 and 9:16 and nothing else. Fit your picture to that frame yourself, see exactly what a crop costs, and download it — without uploading anything.
FREE · NO ACCOUNT · NOTHING IS UPLOADED · 16:9 and 9:16
Start-frame fitter
Everything below runs on your own machine. The image is read locally and drawn to a canvas, and no request leaves this page.
Read locally and never uploaded. Nothing is stored, so reloading the page clears it.
WHY IT MATTERS
Something is going to crop your photograph. It may as well be you
A phone photograph is not the shape a video is. Hand one to image-to-video and the engine fits it to 16:9 and 9:16 on your behalf, using no opinion at all about which part of the picture mattered.
Crop or bars, decided here
Cropping fills the frame and loses the edges; padding keeps every pixel and spends part of the frame on black. Both are shown as a percentage before you commit, which is the whole decision in one number.
Enlarging is the invisible cost
Fitting a small photograph to a large frame does not add detail, it stretches what is there. The tool says how far it is enlarging and names the largest size your image fills natively, so a soft render is a choice rather than a surprise.
PAST THE PAGE
The frame decides more than the prompt does.
Starting from an image fixes the composition, the colour and the subject before generation begins. That is why image-to-video usually takes fewer attempts than describing a whole scene from nothing — and why the frame is worth a minute of your attention.
- Bring your own still, or pull one out of footage with the frame extractor.
- Draft at 360p for 30 credits, then re-render the take you want at 1080p for 125.
- In many countries a new account gets 100 free starter credits, no card. Unused starter credits expire 72 hours after they are granted.
This page is free and needs no account. Generating video is a billed mode; the pricing page lists what a clip costs.
See how image-to-video worksQUESTIONS
Start frames, answered
Is the frame fitter free?
Yes, and there is no account. It crops and resizes in your browser — nothing is generated and no request is made, so it costs us nothing to serve. Generating video from the frame afterwards is separate and billed.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read through a local browser URL, drawn to a canvas and handed back as a download. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, nothing is stored, and closing the tab is all the cleanup there is.
Which shape should I choose?
Whichever one the clip is for: 16:9 reads as a screen and 9:16 as a phone, and a vertical clip cropped from a landscape photograph loses most of the frame. Decide the destination first, because it decides the shape and the shape decides the crop.
Should I crop or pad?
Crop unless the whole picture is the point. A cropped frame fills the video and looks like it was shot for it; a padded one keeps every pixel but spends part of every second on black bars, which reads as a photograph in a video rather than a video. Padding earns its place for artwork with a fixed border, or a screenshot where an edge carries meaning.
Which size should I pick?
The largest one your image fills without being enlarged — the tool names it for you. Sizes run 360p, 720p, 1080p, 4k. Choosing above that does not add detail; it makes a softer frame and, if you render at that size, a more expensive clip.
What happens if my image is too small?
It is enlarged to reach the frame, and the tool tells you by how much. Nothing is invented in the process — an enlarged photograph is the same photograph with softer edges — so a small source is a reason to pick a smaller frame rather than a reason to worry.
Make it move
Bring a still you already have into the Video Studio and describe the motion.
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Video frame extractor
No still to start from? Pull one out of footage, free and in your browser.
Image-to-video prompt generator
The frame is half of it. This writes the motion half.
Aspect ratio calculator
The general version, for any ratio and any target size.
Pricing
What rendering from the frame costs, in credits. No subscription.
FRAME READY
The frame is right.Now make it move.
Take it to the Video Studio, render at 360p first, and change one thing at a time. That loop is the difference between a clip you post and a clip you delete.