How to make an AI dance video with your own face

Four fields, in the order the form asks for them

1. 1

   Open Studio and pick Copy a dance

   The card describes it as a movement video plus your photo. Opening it shows the form and names the motion-transfer model behind it.

   studio/dance-copy

2. 2

   Upload the choreography under Movement video

   The first field is labelled Movement video, hinted "The clip whose choreography you want to repeat". The form reads the real length out of the file you pick and sets the duration from it, clamped to what the model will render — so the price you see is priced on your actual clip.

   studio/dance-copy#movement-video

3. 3

   Add one photo under Your photo

   The second field is labelled Your photo and its hint is the specification: "Full-height photo, face clearly visible". Head-and-shoulders will not do — the model needs a whole body to move, and a cropped photo is the most common cause of a result that looks wrong in the legs.

   studio/dance-copy#your-photo

4. 4

   Trim the length, tick the rights box, press Generate

   Five to eight seconds is the sweet spot. Drift compounds with movement, so a long clip degrades in exactly the way a short one does not. Below the duration slider is the rights confirmation — you own the clip or have permission to use it, and you are not uploading someone else's likeness without consent. Generate stays inert until it is ticked. The form prints the exact credit cost of the run next to the Generate button, and re-prints it whenever you change the length. Nothing is charged before you press it.

   studio/dance-copy#rights

5. 5

   Collect the clip from your Library

   The finished vertical MP4 lands in your Library. Runs are processed in the background, so you can close the tab — the finished file turns up in your Library. We do not quote a fixed wall-clock time: it moves with the length of the run and with how busy the queue is.

   library

Which model does the movement

These picks come from our own side-by-side runs and from what the tools actually default to. The specs and credit prices live on each model's own page and are generated from the catalogue, so they cannot drift out of date here. We do not quote anyone else's review, benchmark or price.

What this does not do

• It does not license music. The tool works on movement, not sound — whatever track you lay under the result is cleared by you or by the platform's audio library, never by us.
• It does not hold up over long clips. Five to eight seconds is the sweet spot. Drift compounds with movement, so a long clip degrades in exactly the way a short one does not.
• It does not work from a head-and-shoulders photo. Full height, face visible, or the result has nothing to build legs from.
• Tools that copy movement or speech out of someone else's video ask you to tick a rights confirmation before the Generate button becomes active. The checkbox is a condition of the run, and what you confirmed is stored with it.

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