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# Make a Short Video Clip with AI

> Describe a few seconds of video, pick portrait or landscape, and get a clip for reels, stories or your website, saved to your media library

Describe a scene in a sentence or two and the AI films it: a few seconds of video you can post as a reel or story, or put on your website. You can also bring one of your photos to life.

This guide makes a five-second portrait clip of coffee being poured at a Northwind café.

## Describe the clip

**1. Open Video**

Click **Marketing** in the left rail, then the **Media Library** card, then **Create with AI**. Click **Video** at the top.

**2. Pick the shape**

Under **Settings**, choose **Portrait (9:16)** for reels, stories and TikTok, or **Landscape (16:9)** for YouTube and your website.

**3. Describe what happens**

In the box at the bottom, say what the camera sees and how it moves, and the light. To animate one of your photos instead, click **Add reference image** and pick it.

![Create media with Video chosen, outlined; Settings with Portrait (9:16), Reels, Stories, TikTok, outlined, and Add reference image; and the description Slow close-up of a barista pouring a pour-over coffee into a ceramic mug on a wooden café counter, warm morning light, steam rising, with 7 of 20 video clips left this month and Generate video, outlined](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/-IPJnPAOk8gHFhQD/images/how-tos/content/vid-01-describe-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=-IPJnPAOk8gHFhQD\&q=85\&s=e6a43046828f0765b4b4a34aff86ef8e)

The description, portrait, and the clips left

**4. Click Generate video, once**

The clip takes a few minutes, here about four. You can leave the page: the clip is saved to your media library when it's ready. Each clip uses one of the month's clips, counted when you click, so don't click twice.

## Use the clip

The clip plays in the page, with what you asked for and its size.

![A portrait clip of a barista pouring water from a kettle into a pour-over dripper above a ceramic mug on a wooden counter, 0:05 long; Saved to your media library; the prompt; 5 s, 1080 x 1920; and Post, Open in library and Download, outlined, with Edit and try again and Start over](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/-IPJnPAOk8gHFhQD/images/how-tos/content/vid-02-the-clip-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=-IPJnPAOk8gHFhQD\&q=85\&s=9528e67eaeb42fee03097dee92e2530e)

Northwind's five-second clip

* **Post** opens a new social post with the clip already in it.
* **Open in library** shows it with the rest of your media, to use on your website or in emails.
* **Download** saves the video file.
* **Edit and try again** keeps your description so you can change a few words and make another.

## Good to know

* **How many clips you have** is shown under the box, such as **6 of 20 video clips left this month**. The count starts again each month.
* **Pictures instead?** See [Create or Edit a Picture with AI](https://docs.hiveku.com/how-tos/content/ai-images.md).
* **Post it:** see [Schedule a Post](https://docs.hiveku.com/how-tos/content/schedule-a-post.md).


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