Recast anyone in a video

Video Character Swap replaces the person in a video with the character from one image. Unlike a face swap, it changes the whole person: the face, the hair, the body, and the outfit. What the camera recorded stays as it was: the movement, the expressions, the lip movements, the camera work, the timing, and the background.

That makes it a way to recast a scene without a reshoot. Film a dance, a walk, or a line of dialogue yourself, or take a clip you have the rights to, and put a saved character, a costume, or a new performer in the lead. The clip keeps the performance; the character changes.

Lemon is the default model and takes clips of 1 to 15 seconds. Cherry 2 Pro takes clips up to 30 seconds, and other Berry, Cherry, and Plum models are in the Model menu too; some of them can keep the original audio. To change only the face and keep the hair and outfit, use Video Face Swap instead.

Clips with one clear person in frame give the most consistent results. The person should be visible for most of the clip, not hidden behind objects or cut off at the edge for long stretches. Steady footage and even light help the new character hold its look from frame to frame.

Trim the clip to the part you need before you upload it. The video can be an MP4, MOV, or WebM up to 30 MB, or one of your video creations, and the app tells you when a clip is longer or shorter than the model accepts.

• One person, clearly visible.
• A steady camera and even light.
• Trimmed to the moment you need.

The character image sets everything that changes: the face, the hair, the build, and the outfit. A full-body image shows all of them, while a face-only portrait leaves the model to guess the body and clothes. Match the framing roughly to the video: a full-body image for a full-body dance, a waist-up one for a talking shot.

Saved characters work as the reference, so one character can star in many clips and look the same in each. To get a clean reference first, make a character sheet or build a character with Character Builder: Attributes.

Put your character into a trending dance or a challenge clip; the AI dance video generator covers more ways to make dance videos. Recast a role in a short film, costume included, or have a brand mascot present a product demo you filmed yourself.

To change a single photo instead of a video, use Character Swap. To change only the clothes in a photo, use Outfit Swap. To restyle the whole video from a prompt, such as a new setting or art style, use the Video Editor.

Both keep the motion, the camera, and the background of your clip. Video Face Swap changes only the face: the hair, the body, and the outfit of the person in the video stay. Video Character Swap changes the whole person, so the character arrives with their own hair, build, and clothes.

Choose Video Face Swap when the outfit in the clip is right and only the identity should change. Choose Video Character Swap when the character has a look of their own that the clip should take on, such as a costume, a mascot, or a saved character.

The same choice applies to photos, between Face Swap and Character Swap.

Watch the result at full size, especially around fast movements and the moments when the person turns away or is partly hidden: that is where a swap is hardest. If the character slips there, try a shorter clip that leaves out the hardest moment, a clearer character image, or another model.

Only swap in real people with their permission, and use footage you have the rights to. Before every swap, the app asks you to confirm that you have permission to use the content, including any likeness in it.