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Generate videos from images with Adobe Firefly: here’s a step-by-step guide

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The start screen of Adobe Firefly's Generate Video.
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The Generate Video module of Adobe Firefly’s Video Model will let you create professional-quality video clips from a combination of keyframe images and prompts. The process is fast, easy, and flexible, with no need for any production experience, so it’s perfect for social media posts, content fillers, b-rolls, and other work purposes as it’s designed to be safe commercial use.

Adobe Firefly‘s Generate Video is trained using licensed content and public domain data, so you don’t have to worry about usage rights — though you need to have the rights to the images that you’ll be uploading to the module. These could be original artwork, photos you took yourself, or digital images you created, but you can also use Adobe Firefly’s text to image feature for your project. For professional creators, you’ll appreciate Firefly’s deep integration with other Adobe tools such as Photoshop and Premiere Pro, which will allow you to easily create new video elements.

Are you ready to start generating videos from images? Read on for our step-by-step guide.

  • Start the process by selecting two still images (JPEG or PNG) to be used as keyframes, or by creating a text prompt.
  • Select your video’s resolution (540p, 720p, or 1080p) and aspect ratio (widescreen at 16:9, vertical at 9:16, or square at 1:1) to meet your file size and format needs.
  • For your video’s composition, you can upload a reference video that Adobe Firefly will attempt to match. It’s highly recommended to use a reference video with 1080p resolution.
  • For your video’s camera settings, you can also upload a reference video. You’ll also be able to select the shot size (extreme close up, close up show, medium shot, long shot, or extreme long shot) and camera angle (aerial shot, eye level shot, high angle shot, long angle shot, or top down shot).
  • You’ll be able to add camera motion to your video — your options are zoom in, zoom out, move left, move right, tilt up, tilt down, static, and handheld.
  • Select from any of the style presets to apply to your video. You can choose between 2D, 3D, anime, black and white, cinematic, claymation, fantasy, line art, stop motion, and vector art.
  • Check the preview of the video. You can keep making adjustments to all of the settings until it’s perfect, and once you’ve achieved it, you can export the video directly from Adobe Firefly.

Generating videos from images using Adobe Firefly is that simple. The most important step of all though is the last one, and that’s to try it out. Go ahead and unleash your creativity.

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