Mixing Things Up in Video With AI

Using Luma Ai 'modify video' set on Flex 2 strength with first frames edited in Leonardo (using Flux.1 Kontext).

Here is a fun exercise. Run over to Pexels and find a video clip that you like.

While you can do this with something you record yourself, people often get so self-conscious of their appearance and antics that it freezes them from actually doing the creative exploration. Finding a video on Pexels is a safe alternative.

I found this video of a ballerina by Taryn Elliot of Cape Town, South Africa:

To begin with, I needed the ‘first frame’ from the video. So I opened the video, paused at the very beginning and did a screen capture of the image.

There are a number of ways to edit this first frame. Today I decided to modify the starting image in Leonardo.

I ran the prompt 3x to get the visual I wanted - a more complete chrome variant.

What is nice, is that Flux.1 Kontext only modified the main figure as requested - leaving the background pretty much as it started.