Midjourney Image To Video

Midjourney Image To Video

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Midjourney Image-to-Video turns a single image into an artistically rich, high-quality video using Midjourney’s creative AI. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Features

Midjourney — Image-to-Video Model

Midjourney Image-to-Video transforms static artworks or illustrations into cinematic video clips with motion, lighting, and depth — while maintaining Midjourney’s signature artistic fidelity. This model captures subtle camera movement, breathing effects, and dynamic perspective shifts, bringing your images vividly to life.

✨ Why It Looks Great

• Midjourney-grade aesthetic — built on the same visual backbone as the legendary Midjourney image engine.
• Artistic motion synthesis — intelligently infers camera movement, light flicker, and environmental animation.
• High visual consistency — preserves texture, detail, and lighting from the input image.
• Multi-resolution support — generate videos at 480p or 720p resolution.
• Tunable creativity — control motion randomness and artistic deformation with parameters like chaos, stylize, and weird.

⚙️ Limits and Performance

• Input: one reference image (JPEG / PNG / WebP).

• Output duration: fixed short cinematic clip (~5 seconds).

• Resolutions:

  • 480p for faster, lower-cost generation.
  • 720p for enhanced clarity and professional output.

• Supported aspect ratios: 1:1, 16:9, 4:3, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16, etc.

• Estimated processing time: 30–60 seconds per video (depending on prompt complexity).

💰 Pricing

🧠 Parameters Overview

🚀 How to Use

1. Upload your image as the base frame.

2. Write a prompt describing the desired motion, lighting, and tone. Example: “Slow cinematic zoom on a magical fox reading under warm lamp light.”

3. Choose resolution (480p or 720p).

4. Adjust parameters:

   • stylize for artistry
   • chaos and weird for creativity
   • quality for detail

5. Click Run to generate your video.

6. Download and preview the animated result.

🧠 Understanding — stylize

The stylize parameter defines how strongly Midjourney’s internal aesthetic “rules” guide your output.

• Low values (≈50–150) → lower visual coherence, rougher details, but higher prompt control. Ideal for original or hybrid concepts (“catragon,” “centaur,” etc.).

• High values (≈250–750) → smoother, more realistic images, but weaker prompt adherence. MJ leans toward dataset beauty rather than creative deviation.

• Pro tip: for both coherence and control, use strong visual prompts and mention your style at both the beginning and end, e.g.:

  “Salvador Dali painting of surreal architecture, by Salvador Dali —stylize 250”

Midjourney has confirmed: the higher the --stylize value, the closer results align with the average user’s preferred visual aesthetic.

💡 Quick Presets

🧩 Tips for Best Results

1. Keep prompts visual and descriptive (use lighting, materials, mood, and camera terms).
2. Lower stylize to make Midjourney listen more closely to your wording.
3. Raise stylize for a more polished or realistic look.
4. Avoid high chaos or weird unless experimenting with concept art.
5. Reuse the same seed to refine results iteratively.

🧩 Notes

• Motion style depends heavily on prompt clarity and the original image composition.
• Extreme weird values can produce abstract deformation effects — experiment for creativity.
• For consistent results, fix the seed parameter across multiple runs.

# Submit the task
curl --location --request POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/midjourney/image-to-video" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}" \
--data-raw '{
    "resolution": "480p",
    "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
    "motion": "low",
    "quality": 1,
    "stylize": 0,
    "chaos": 0,
    "weird": 0,
    "seed": -1,
    "enable_base64_output": false
}'

# Get the result
curl --location --request GET "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/${requestId}/result" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${WAVESPEED_API_KEY}"