AI Video Effects — Pikaffects-style
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Upload a photo and pick a cinematic effect — explode, melt, portal, dolly-zoom, glitch, and 25 more. The AI turns your still image into a short animated clip with that effect.
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Upload a photo and animate it with 30 cinematic effects — explode, melt, portal, dolly-zoom, glitch, and more. Powered by Kling, Runway, Hailuo, Pika.
How to Use AI Video Effects — Pikaffects-style
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Enter your input
Type text, upload a file, or describe what you want. No account needed.
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Click generate
Our AI processes your request in seconds using the best open-source models.
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Download & share
Download, copy, or share your result. Free for personal and commercial use.
Use this tool via API
Automate this tool from your own code. OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint, Bearer-token auth, no extra SDK required. Token costs match the web interface.
curl -X POST https://api.free.ai/v1/video/generate/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-free-..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"prompt": "A cat playing piano", "duration": 4}'AI Video Effects — Pikaffects-style — FAQ
Upload a still photo and pick from 30 cinematic effects — explode, melt, portal, dolly-zoom, glitch, lightning, fireworks, levitate, and more. The AI turns your photo into a short animated clip applying that effect. Similar to Pika's Pikaffects feature.
Your photo becomes the first frame of a video. We send it with a curated effect prompt to a premium image-to-video model (Kling 2.6 Pro, Runway Gen-4, Hailuo 02, or Pika 2.2) which animates 5–10 seconds of motion applying that effect.
VFX generation requires purchased tokens — image-to-video models are expensive to run (~250,000–400,000 tokens per clip). The daily free pool does not cover it. Sign-up bonus credits also can't be used here (grants are for self-hosted models only).
30 presets: Explode, Melt, Portal, Glitch, Dolly-zoom, Zoom in/out, Orbit, Fireworks, Inflate, Deflate, Levitate, Freeze, Burn, Dissolve, X-Ray, Hologram, Clone, Shatter, Rewind, Slow-mo, Time warp, Earthquake, Rain, Snow, Fog, Lightning, Transform, Punch-in, Drop zoom.
5, 8, or 10 seconds. Longer clips use more tokens and take longer to render.
Kling 2.6 Pro gives the most cinematic, film-like motion. Runway Gen-4 Turbo is fastest and great for fluid motion. Hailuo 02 Pro is the cheapest. Pika 2.2 is best for artistic, surreal effects.
Clear single-subject portraits or product shots. Avoid very busy scenes — the AI needs to understand what the main subject is. Square or landscape framing renders best.
Typically 1–3 minutes depending on the model and clip length. Kling and Pika are the slowest (~2–3 min), Runway is the fastest (~1 min). We stream the result back as soon as it's ready.
Not in one generation — each run applies one preset. But you can pipe the output back in as the input for a second effect to stack them (explode + slow-mo, etc.).
Yes — the "Extra direction" field lets you append details to the preset prompt ("dramatic sunset lighting", "slow motion", "cat as the subject", etc.).
No. Uploads are processed and discarded within minutes. The generated video is kept on our CDN for 24h (7d for paid users) at the share link.
Yes — POST an image_url + prompt + model to /v1/video/generate/. See /api/ for docs.
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