How to turn a menu photo into a short video
Upload your dish photos and tell Vizard Agent to keep the food and the lighting exactly as they are. Vizard Agent splits a collage back into separate shots, cleans up stray marks, animates only the light and the steam, and adds cafe ambience so the plate stays yours.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what must not change before you say what should. Vizard Agent treats "keep the item" as a constraint on the generation rather than as a stylistic preference, and that is what stops your French toast turning into a stock photograph of somebody else's. Give the dish name too, so any text is right.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Restaurants already have good photographs of their food. What they lack is anything that moves, and the risk in animating a dish is that the generator quietly changes it: different berries, a different plate. Animating only the light and the steam keeps every element of the dish exactly as photographed. In the session behind this article it:
- Examined both uploaded photographs closely and inspected them at full resolution.
- Extracted the separate shots from the collage photo, split them into individual assets, and reviewed them on a preview sheet before using any.
- Generated an acoustic cafe track and room ambience, listened to both rather than assuming they fit, and added soft foley effects.
- Inspected the text area of one panel and cleaned a stray mark off it.
- Generated animated sunlight and steam on the dish and reviewed the generated frames against the original.
- Delivered 15.1 seconds of vertical 1080x1920 video at 30fps.
When does this not work well?
Animating a photograph has a small envelope, and asking for more movement than it allows is where the format breaks. A fork lifting food means reinventing the food, and Vizard Agent says so rather than deliver a dish you don't serve. Low-resolution photos leave nothing to move into, and flat lighting gives sunlight nowhere to fall.
Common questions
Will the dish change? No. Vizard Agent animates the light and the steam and leaves the food as photographed.
Can Vizard Agent use a collage? Yes. It splits the collage into individual shots before doing anything else.
How many photos do I need? Two was enough here. More photos give Vizard Agent more shots to cut between.