How to make a Split Post

Plan the move, then four steps in the editor.

Want to make a split post? Here's how. Remix any video from our community showcase or start a new AI video from scratch. In the editor, look at the top of the edit scene preview sidebar on the left and click split post. You'll now see two prompt boxes, one for your top image and one for your bottom image. Want to use your own photos, a logo, or a background? Upload up to five images under upload images. Each one gets a tag, like at image one. Both prompt boxes share the same uploads. Just tag an image in the box where you want it. Tag it only in the top box, and it only shows up in the top scene. Tag it in both, and it carries across both. To skip the wait, here's one I made earlier. I uploaded a brick wall and tagged it in both prompts, so the wall matches across both scenes. Click regenerate in either box to refresh just that scene, or regenerate both to refresh them together. Next, pick your post layout, Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn, then click next. Now the fun part. In director mode, write your custom ending. Refer to each part of the post as the top area, the middle area, which is the caption, and the bottom area. Like this. The man in the bottom area climbs up over the middle area and hands off the rose to the woman in the top area. Rather not write one? Leave it empty, hit animate, and we'll handle the ending for you. Below that, choose your video settings, resolution, duration, and sound. Then pick how many videos to create. Choose two and you get two for the same credits as one. Pick your favorite or if one doesn't come out as expected, simply use the other. No extra credits and no going back to edit and render all over again. We show the exact number of credits you're using right above the animate button. Everything before this step, like generating your scene previews, doesn't use any credits. Click animate, and in a minute or so, your split post is ready to download.

Walkthrough: making a Split Post in the editor.

Before you start

Plan the move in one sentence.

Every Split Post has three areas: the top area, the middle area (your post) and the bottom area. Something moves from one to another. Decide what before you open the editor.

A boy climbs from the bottom scene, over the post, to hand a rose to a girl at the window in the top scene.

Top area
The top scene.
Middle area
Your post. The action moves in front of it, and your caption stays clear.
Bottom area
The bottom scene.

Works

The boy has a window to climb to. Every frame has a reason.

No one in the bottom image to climb up to her.

Ask these before you start your video

What moves?
Pick one clear subject.
Where does it land?
The other image needs a target that answers it: here, the girl at the window.
Which way?
Down feels natural: pour, roll, drop. Up works for climbs and hand-offs, like this one.

Step 1 of 4

Turn on Split post

Remix any video from the community showcase, or start a new AI video. Then click Split post at the top of the Edit scene preview sidebar.

You'll see two prompt boxes: Top image and Bottom image.

Select Split post in the sidebar.

Step 2 of 4

Prompt both scenes

The top prompt makes the top image. The bottom prompt makes the bottom image.

Put the subject near the post and facing it.

Using a product, or logo? Ensure the text is big, bold and visible in your scene preview. Learn more

Your own images

Upload up to 5 under Upload images. Each gets a tag, like @img1. Tag it in the top box and it only shows up in the top scene. Tag it in both and it carries across both. Uploads are references, so the scene is still generated. Want an image unchanged? Say so, like “use @img1 as is”.

You'll see two prompt boxes. One for your top image and one for your bottom image. Describe each scene in its own box. Think about the move first. In this one, she's at the window up top and he's down below with a rose. Set him up so climbing to her makes sense, standing at the wall, looking up at her window. Want to use your own photos, a logo, or a background? Upload them, then tag the image in the box where you want it. As you can see here, I've added a single image and tagged it in both prompts, so the brick wall pattern is shared across both scenes. But you could, for example, upload a picture of yourself and tag it in one scene only. Generate up to four variations from the same prompt and pick your favorite. This saves you time by giving you multiple options up front, so you're not constantly clicking regenerate. You'll see them here at the bottom of the sidebar. Just click a variation to add it to your scene. You'll also notice each prompt box has its own regenerate button, and then there's a regenerate both button. The button in each box regenerates that scene only, while regenerate both regenerates both scenes at the same time. Once you're happy, click next to go to the animate step where you describe how you want your top and bottom scenes to interact.

Screen recording: writing both prompts, tagging an upload, picking a variation and regenerating.

Step 3 of 4

Pick your layout

Click Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn, then Next. Match the post style to where you'll share it.

Step 4 of 4

Write the ending

Optional. Leave it empty and we'll handle it, or type it in Explain how the top & bottom scenes interact in Director mode.

Keep it to one or two sentences, and keep it realistic. Less is more: asking for a very advanced, unrealistic crossover is setting yourself up to fail.

Avoid: He climbs over.Who? Where?

Extras: a gesture, or a spoken line.

The boyWho climbs from the bottom areaWhere they start over the middle area,Over the middle area reaching the girl's window in the top area,Where it lands and hands her the red rose.The payoff

The example ending, split into who, where they start, over the middle area, where it lands, and the payoff.

Prompting tips

How do I write prompts that work?

The Animate step in the editor, with the “Explain how the top & bottom scenes interact” box highlighted. — The tips below are for the highlighted prompt box, found at the “Animate” step.

1How to write it

Keep it to one or two sentences.

Be realistic.

Keep the crossover believable and achievable with your two images.

Use the area names.

Avoidover the postover the caption

Writetop areamiddle areabottom area

More than one subject? Use positions.

“The man” leaves the model guessing which one.

Avoidthe man

Writethe man on the left

2What trips the model up

Don't write negatives.

Like all AI video models, ours can read negatives literally: the model picks up “icons” and adds them.

Avoidno icons

Voice-overs: describe the voice.

Without a description, you may get a generic voice that doesn't match your character.

AvoidThe zombie says “Happy Halloween”

WriteThe zombie says in a deep, groaning zombie voice, “Happy Halloween”

3What this box can't do

Don't change the scene in “Explain how the top & bottom scenes interact”.

Scene changes belong in the top and bottom image prompt boxes in the previous “Layout” step.

Avoidput my logo on the t‑shirt

Scene vs. ending prompts

If it's not in your scene preview, it won't be in your video.

The AI animates the scene preview you see before you hit Animate. It doesn't see your uploaded images.

Anything you want in the final video, like your logo, product or text, should already be visible in the scene preview presented to you before animating, and before any credits are used. Asking “Explain how the top & bottom scenes interact” to add or swap something makes the AI invent it from scratch, and it may not look how you want. Check your scene preview before you spend any credits.

Watch how to add an image to your scene

End example

The finished Split Post.

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Top area

Middle area

Bottom area

Ask these before you start your video

What moves?

Where does it land?

Which way?

Your own images

1How to write it

Keep it to one or two sentences.

Be realistic.

Use the area names.

More than one subject? Use positions.

2What trips the model up

Don't write negatives.

Voice-overs: describe the voice.

3What this box can't do

Don't change the scene in “Explain how the top & bottom scenes interact”.

If it's not in your scene preview, it won't be in your video.

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