Video ads

AI video ads from your product photos

Animate the static ad you already approved, or build the clip from a storyboard. Cut it on a real timeline, add captions and music, and run the same shape again for the next product.

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A photo of a person carrying the bag, and the vertical clip made from it — Your product photos in, the results out. Made with AI.Video starts on the Premium plan.

Motion and scenery in these clips are generated. The product comes from your photo. Anything a viewer could read as a filmed event, such as a person using the product outdoors, was not filmed.

Who it is for

Does that sound like you?

Video ads, without a shoot day.

You need clips for every product and every placement, and the edit takes longer than the campaign. Anyone can make an AI picture. Making hundreds that still look like your brand is the hard part, and a film crew covers one product a day.

How we solve it:

A still photo becomes a short clip. Video starts on the Premium plan.
The video editor cuts, captions and adds a voice
Brand rules set once and read on every run

Cut the waiting time and budget for deliverables.

You make this for clients, and every client has their own look. A shoot for each one costs weeks and most of the budget. A different generator for each one returns a different look, so somebody fixes it by hand before it is delivered.

How we solve it:

Each client's brand rules, saved once and used on every run
A workflow you build once and run for every client
A batch over a client's whole catalogue, delivered from Assets

A storyboard for one ad

Four stills in the order a short ad runs. The opening, the product, the story and the close all show the same bag.

Tan leather tote standing on a wooden jetty with a lake behind it, made with AI

Opening frame

The same tote on a stone block beside a tall window, made with AI

Product beat

A person in white carrying the same tote on the shoulder, made with AI

Story frame

The same tote as a packshot on a cream background, made with AI

Closing frame

AI video ads

An AI video ad is a short product film built from stills and generated motion rather than from a shoot. The cheapest place to start is the ad you already have: a static frame that performed, given movement. DesignerBox also builds a clip from a storyboard or straight from a product photo. Every result arrives on a real timeline, where you cut it, caption it and add the sound.

What a video ad needs

Four things that decide whether the clip is usable.

Motion that starts from your still

The Animate an image app takes the frame you already ran and moves it. The layout and the product come from your frame, which is why the result still looks like your ad.

Beats before shots

Brand storyboard sets the order of the clip before anything is generated. Deciding the beats first is what stops a video ad turning into four pretty shots with no argument.

A real timeline

Multiple tracks, picture in picture, transitions, animated text, audio and a LUT. Generation gives you shots. The timeline is where they become a thirty second ad.

A model for each shot

A slow push on a bottle and a person walking through a room are not the same job. Pick the model per shot, and see the cost of the run before you start it.

Four ways to run it

The same job, handed to more people at each step.

A still of a woman carrying a tan tote, and a frame of the vertical clip made from it

Template

A workflow already built for a named clip: a product film, an animated static, a styled spot. Each shows the result it returns.

Workflow

Your version, with your product, your beats and your model choice. Saved once and run the same way every time.

One finished frame of a video ad: a smartwatch on a wrist in a city street, with a headline across it

App

The workflow behind a short form, so a colleague can produce the clip without learning the steps.

Batch

A spreadsheet of products through one workflow, costed before the run starts.

How a clip is made

Four steps, from the photo you already own to a finished cut.

Start from a still

The product photo or the static ad you already approved. Beginning from an approved frame is what keeps the clip on brand without a separate review.

Set the beats

Decide what happens and in what order before you generate. Three beats and one ask is enough for most product clips.

Generate the shots

Pick the model per shot. Look at the run cost first, because video is the place where a careless model choice gets expensive.

Cut it on the timeline

Trim, layer, caption and add sound. Most feeds play without sound, so the clip has to work as a silent one first.

One video ad is a project. A shape you can run again is a production line. Save the run as a workflow and the next product gets the same beats, the same model and the same cut. A series then reads as one campaign. Give it to a colleague as an app and they produce the clip from a short form. Run it on a spreadsheet and the whole range is made as a batch, with the cost shown before the run. That last part matters more in video than anywhere else. Over forty clips, the gap between a cheap model and an expensive one is the difference between a test and a bill.

Questions about AI video ads

What teams ask before the first clip.

Does my product stay the same in the clip?

The product comes from your photo, so the shape, the label and the colour are yours. Watch printed text and fine detail across the frames and use the review step, because a warped label is the failure a viewer notices.

How long can a clip be?

Generated shots are short, which is why the timeline matters. You build a longer ad by cutting several shots together with your own footage, captions and sound rather than asking for one long generation.

Which plan do I need for video?

Video starts on the Premium plan. The Free, Basic and Pro plans make images only. The pricing page has the current details for each plan.

Can I put the clip straight into my ad account?

You export the file and upload it where you buy. DesignerBox does not publish to an ad platform. That feature is not built.

Is an animated static as good as a filmed ad?

For a product beat it is often enough. For anything that needs a person doing something believable, film it or use a presenter format and label it.

Can I keep the same look across a whole campaign?

Yes. Set the brand record once, save the run as a workflow, and reuse it. The workflow reads the brand on every run, so the fortieth clip carries the same colours and type as the first.