Generate Video From a Text Prompt

Generating a clip is the easy part now. The hard part is what comes after: the file lands in your downloads folder at six seconds long, and the thing you are actually making needs a trim, a caption, and four other shots around it.

Chat Octopus generates clips from three to ten seconds, in the shape you need: 16:9 for YouTube, or 9:16 for vertical. The free plan generates at 360p, paid plans up to 1080p, and 4K is coming soon. Sound comes with every clip. What you get back is a plain MP4 with no logo of ours across it.

Ten seconds is the cap on a single clip, not on what you can make. A described clip can be extended a few seconds at a time, up to about forty. Describe the sequence you want and Chat Octopus works out the shots it needs, generates them, and stitches them into one video. Independent shots run at the same time, so a batch of cutaways comes back in roughly the time one of them takes. The assembly is the part that actually eats your afternoon, and it happens here rather than in your editor.

Short is not a consolation prize once you know where a shot goes. Four seconds is a B-roll cutaway. Eight seconds is an intro sting, or a background plate sitting behind your title text. And because the clips arrive inside the conversation, you keep working. Trim the first second, add a caption, drop a voiceover over it, then cut it together with the footage you shot yourself.

You do not have to start from a blank prompt. Hand Chat Octopus up to four reference images and it generates from those instead: your product photo pushes in slowly rather than sitting still, or a subject you supply walks into a scene that never existed. Photos of real people work here, so "make this picture of us move" is a thing you can ask for, though any edit or animation involving a real person is blocked for accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. Image-led clips run three to ten seconds.

A marketer who needs a product-launch teaser animates the product photo they already have, then lays the logo and voiceover on top without leaving the thread. An editor missing one establishing shot generates a city skyline at dusk instead of buying stock. A creator building a vertical short generates a looping background plate and stacks captions over it.

Be clear about the ceiling. A single call maxes out at ten seconds, and at 360p on the free plan or 1080p on a paid one. Reference images steady a subject's look across a sequence, but they will not hold a face as still as a continuous take, so a stitched run reads as a set of shots rather than one unbroken scene. Video generation also needs an Apple or Google sign-in: accounts made with an email and password cannot use it, though every other tool still works. If you need a shot you cannot shoot, like a rocket lifting off or ink blooming through water, that is what this is for.