Make a product ad from one photo

You can make a short product ad from a single good photo. Shoot it plainly, generate a few scenes around it, add one camera move and cut it to fifteen seconds.

You can make a short product ad from a single good photo. Shoot it plainly, generate a few scenes around it, add one camera move and cut it to fifteen seconds.

What you get

A 15 second vertical product ad.

Time to read

About 4 minutes. Each step works with any toolset.

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What you need

• One clean photo of your product
• A background remover
• An image model and an image-to-video model

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Steps

1. Shoot one clean photo

   Put the product against a plain wall near a window and take the shot. Then run it through a background remover so you have a clean cutout.

2. Generate a few scenes

   Ask an image model for three scenes, for example a studio shot, a lifestyle setting and a label close-up. Tell it to keep your product exactly as it is.

3. Add one slow camera move

   Turn each scene into a five second clip with a single slow move, like a push-in. Simple motion keeps the product steady.

4. Write three short lines

   A hook for the first two seconds, one benefit, one action. Keep each line short enough to read at a glance.

5. Cut it vertical to fifteen seconds

   Put your best clip first, add captions and export at 9:16.

Best clip first. The opening second decides whether people stay. Lead with the shot that looks most finished.

Avoid this: melted labels. Some clips come back with the label warped. Do not try to fix them in the edit. Regenerate those shots.

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Before you publish

• Shoot one clean photo
• Generate a few scenes
• Add one slow camera move
• Write three short lines
• Cut it vertical to fifteen seconds

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Two ways to go further

Let Vinci make it

Send us a product photo and a brief and we return a finished ad in your brand style. Book a demo to get started.

Free and open source Vinci

Run the Vinci studio on your own machine with your own model keys. It shows the price before every job.

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Run this workflow in the open source studio

These skills cover this guide: @tryvinci/product-reveal-5s, @tryvinci/image-generate, @tryvinci/video-generate, @tryvinci/captions-burn.

Studio

1. Install and start in demo mode

   git clone https://github.com/tryvinci/vinci && cd vinci
   python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && make install
   ./scripts/vinci init --demo
   ./scripts/vinci studio
   

   Demo mode uses practice providers, so it costs nothing and needs no key.

2. Open a skill

   Open the studio at http://127.0.0.1:4310/studio and pick product-reveal-5s.

3. Connect your own keys when ready

   Add provider keys under Connect. Live spend stays off until you set VINCI_ALLOW_LIVE_SPEND=1, and every job shows its price first.

HTTP

With the studio running, every skill is also available over HTTP:

curl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:4310/runs \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"skill":"@tryvinci/product-reveal-5s","inputs":{}}'

The studio lists each skill’s inputs.

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