Grok Imagine Video · Image to Video

ABOUT THE WORKFLOW

Animate a Still Image
Upload any image and describe what happens next. Grok Imagine Video animates the scene with realistic motion, camera movement, and physics while staying faithful to the source image's composition, lighting, and subject detail. Audio is generated natively in the same pass: ambient sound, sound effects, music, and dialogue with lip-sync all land on the action without post-production editing. The output is an MP4 with audio.

Partner node. This workflow calls an external API, so each run uses credits from your API wallet. No API key needed. Floyo handles the connection.

Model

• Grok Imagine Video 1.5 by xAI. Built on the Aurora autoregressive architecture trained on billions of examples. Currently ranked #1 on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard, ahead of Sora 2, Veo 3.1, and Seedance 2.0. Generates 720p video with native synchronized audio in approximately 25 seconds per 6-second clip.

HOW IT WORKS

Step 1. Upload your image
The image that becomes the first frame of your video. The model preserves the subject, lighting, composition, and style throughout the clip.
Works great with: portraits · product photos · illustrations · concept art · posters · AI-generated images

Step 2. Write your prompt
Describe the motion, camera movement, and sound. Think like a director: "Slow cinematic push-in as wind moves through her hair, warm golden light, ambient café noise, shallow depth of field." The model expands your prompt internally, so clear direction matters more than exhaustive detail.

Step 3. Set duration and aspect ratio
Duration defaults to 6 seconds. Aspect ratio defaults to auto, which matches your input image. Switch to 16:9 for widescreen, 9:16 for vertical, or 1:1 for square.

Step 4. Hit run and download
Grok Imagine Video generates the clip with synchronized audio and returns an MP4 at 24fps.
Ready for: Premiere · DaVinci Resolve · After Effects · TikTok · Instagram · YouTube · X

First time? Upload your image, write a short motion description, and hit run. Leave duration and aspect ratio as-is.

RECOMMENDED SETTINGS

Quick-start guide. Find the goal that matches yours and copy the settings.

• Standard animated clip (most people) — 6 seconds, auto aspect ratio, 720p. Write a motion prompt and run.

• Vertical for social media — Switch aspect ratio to 9:16. Native portrait output for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

• Longer clip — Increase duration to 8 or 10 seconds for more time to develop the motion and camera move.

• Dialogue with lip-sync — Write dialogue in quotes in the prompt. "She turns to the camera and says: 'Come with me.'" The model handles lip-sync and voice generation natively.

• Cinematic camera moves — Use director language: "slow dolly push-in," "tracking shot at shoulder height," "crane rising above the scene." The model understands standard film camera terminology.

• Audio not matching the scene — Add explicit sound cues: "rustling leaves, distant thunder, footsteps on gravel, soft piano." The model generates audio from these descriptions.

• Build longer sequences — Generate multiple clips from different starting images with consistent style descriptions and chain them in an editor. The model preserves style and tone when you keep the prompt language consistent.

Prompt: Structure it as: subject + action + camera movement + lighting/mood + sound. "Close-up of a knight's helmet, slow push-in as embers drift across the frame, wind stirs the crest, warm firelight, crackling flames and distant horns" is specific and directable. The model expands sparse prompts automatically, but clear direction produces better results than vague instructions.

LEARN

📹 Videos

• Intro to Floyo

• ComfyUI 101 Free Course ft. Sebastian Kamph

• Floyo 101 for Team Collaboration

✨ Quick links

• Help docs

• LoRA Training guide

• Discover more workflows

USE CASES

📱 Social Media Content
Turn a product photo, portrait, or brand image into a scroll-stopping video with motion and native audio. Vertical, square, and widescreen aspect ratios are supported natively.

🛍️ Product and E-commerce
Animate a product shot into a short demo or reveal. The model preserves product detail, branding, and color from the source image while adding cinematic motion and ambient sound.

🎬 Cinematic Clips and Trailers
Generate atmospheric scenes from concept art or stills. The Aurora architecture holds detail and lighting across frames, producing clips with believable physics and weight.

🎤 Talking Character Scenes
Create speaking characters with native lip-sync from a portrait or character image. The model generates voice, mouth movement, and ambient audio together.

🎨 Illustration and Art Animation
Animate illustrations, paintings, posters, and stylized artwork. The model adapts motion to the art style rather than forcing photorealism.

WHAT WORKS BEST / WHAT TO AVOID

✅ Works great

• Clear, well-lit source images with defined subjects

• Cinematic camera terms (push-in, tracking, pan, crane, orbit)

• Simple to moderate motion (walking, turning, wind, particles, camera moves)

• Sound and dialogue cues written directly in the prompt

⚠️ May produce softer results

• Extremely complex multi-character action sequences

• Very dark or heavily compressed source images

• Prompts with no camera or motion direction

• Requesting motion that contradicts the source image's pose or physics

FAQ

What is Grok Imagine Video?
Grok Imagine Video takes a static image and brings it to life with realistic motion, object interactions, and automatically generated sound. It is built on xAI's Aurora architecture, an autoregressive model that generates video and audio in a single pass. It currently sits at #1 on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard, beating Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, and Kling in blind user testing. Happy HorseInVideo

Does Grok Imagine Video generate audio automatically?
It produces background music, sound effects, and lip-synced dialogue directly from image and prompt inputs, enabling video creation without post-production audio editing. Describe the sounds you want in the prompt and they generate alongside the visuals. Jxp

What resolution and duration does this workflow support?
The model generates at 720p and 24fps. Duration in this workflow defaults to 6 seconds, with support for clips up to 10 seconds. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Fast produces 6-second, 720p videos in about 25 seconds. Higgsfield

How does it compare to other image-to-video models?
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is the model that currently sits at #1 on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard. Its strengths are subject fidelity from the source image, native audio-visual sync, and fast generation. The 720p resolution cap is a trade-off compared to models that output at 1080p. InVideo

Can I chain clips into a longer sequence?
The model also works well for sequences. Stage each frame, animate it, and chain the shots together into longer scenes that keep a consistent look across an entire project. Keep the style language consistent across prompts for smooth visual continuity. Digen AI

Is Grok Imagine Video licensed for commercial use?
Grok Imagine Video is a proprietary xAI model. Commercial use is governed by xAI's terms of service and API usage policies. Review the current terms for your specific use case.

How to run Grok Imagine Video online?
You can run Grok Imagine Video online through Floyo. No installation, no setup, no API key to wire up. Open the workflow in your browser, upload your image, describe the motion, and hit run. Free to try.

WHY FLOYO?

Floyo is the only platform with team collaboration for ComfyUI in the browser. You run workflows with no install. You share run history, assets, and models across your team. You pay only when you generate. Floyo supports open-source and closed-source models.

A designer runs an edit and likes the result. A teammate opens that exact run from shared history and keeps going. No file handoffs. No version confusion.

For studios and enterprise teams, Floyo adds private workspaces, pooled resources, and a team usage dashboard. Other ComfyUI cloud tools run for one person at a time. Floyo runs for the whole team, with transparent per-generation costs.

Ready to try it?
Upload your image, describe the motion, and hit run.

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