Q&A · AI Video

What is the difference between text-to-video and image-to-video?

Quick answer

Text-to-video creates a clip entirely from a written description — the model invents the visuals. Image-to-video starts from a photo you provide and animates it, keeping your subject’s exact appearance. Use text-to-video for scenes that do not exist yet; use image-to-video when a specific person, product, or artwork must look exactly right in the result.

The trade-off is imagination versus control. Text-to-video can produce anything you can describe, but each generation reinterprets your words, so a specific face or product will drift between runs. Image-to-video locks the look and only generates the motion.

Many real projects chain both: generate a perfect keyframe with an image model, refine it, then animate it with image-to-video — getting text-to-video’s creative freedom with image-to-video’s consistency.

VdoBloom supports both modes across its models (Kling is image-to-video only on the platform; VEO 3.1, Wan, Seedance, and PixVerse handle both).

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