It stops at the edge of your photograph.
Five to twenty photographs you took go in. Three eight-second clips come back — a walkthrough or a walkaround, quiet, no music, no voiceover. And when the camera reaches the edge of what you photographed, it slows and settles rather than carrying on into a room that does not exist.
The one rule that makes this safe to put on a listing.
Video generation is very good at continuing. Give a model a photograph of a living room and ask it to move the camera forward, and it will happily produce a doorway, a hallway beyond it, a window with a view, a second reception room. All of it plausible. None of it in your flat.
Which is fine as an artistic exercise and catastrophic as a listing asset. A video showing a room that does not exist is a misrepresentation in your advert, made under your name, on your account. Whoever generated it, you are the host, the landlord or the seller, and you are the one who gets delisted or asked to explain.
So the generation is instructed, in every clip, not to invent rooms, doorways, windows, furniture, fittings or views beyond the frame of the reference photograph, and to slow and settle where the camera approaches an edge rather than continuing into unseen space. That instruction is not a setting you can turn off. It is checked at build time, and a version of this product that lost it would fail to start rather than quietly ship.
Three other things are excluded for the same reason: no people, no pets, and no text, captions, logos or watermarks. A person who was never in the room is the same problem as a room that was never in the flat.
What you get, precisely.
Three clips, eight seconds each, 1080p, with quiet roomtone and nothing else — no music, no voiceover, no footsteps. You pick one of two camera styles when you upload.
For interiors. The camera moves through the space the way a person would — into a room, across it, settling on what the photograph actually shows. Best for a flat, a house, a room let or a holiday let, where the question a viewer has is what it is like to be in there.
For objects. The camera orbits the subject rather than passing through it. Best for a car, a piece of furniture, a bike, something handmade — where the question is what it looks like from the other three sides.
Which one you choose changes the prompt the generation runs on, so it is worth a moment's thought. A walkthrough of a sideboard produces something odd; a walkaround of a two-bedroom flat produces something odder.
Your photographs are the whole ceiling.
This is the part worth being blunt about before you pay. The video cannot be better than what you upload, because it is not allowed to add anything. Five dark photographs produce five dark seconds. A room photographed only from the doorway gives the camera almost nowhere to go.
What helps: more photographs rather than fewer, up to twenty. Daylight. Two or three angles of the same room rather than one of each. And photographs that overlap slightly, so there is a visual path from one to the next.
What does not help: an estate agent's wide-angle shot from a corner, a photograph with a person or a pet in it, or anything that has already been edited to flatter — the generation works from the frame it is given and does not know which parts of it were true.
Uploads are bounded: five to twenty photographs, JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 6MB each and 40MB in total, with limits on how small or large an image can be. They are your buyer content and they are deleted on the same thirty-day basis as everything else you send Unfussed, with the generated clips deleted alongside them.
How it runs.
- Upload the photographs and say what they show. "A two-bedroom flat in Leeds", "a 2015 Golf", "a hand-thrown mug". That description conditions the generation, so be plain rather than promotional.
- Choose walkthrough or walkaround. One decision, and it is the one that most affects whether the result is usable.
- £7 buys 7,000 points, and this job spends 3,500 of them. Video is the most expensive thing Unfussed does and it uses its full ceiling, so unlike the writing jobs there is no unspent remainder from this one. It also carries no revisions — a regeneration is a fresh submission, because the cost is in the generation itself rather than in the drafting.
Generation takes longer than the other jobs — the clips are produced by a long-running process and the page picks them up when they are ready rather than making you wait on a spinner. A generation that fails spends nothing.
Fit.
Worth it if
- Your listing allows video and you have good photographs and no footage.
- You are letting a property remotely and cannot get back to film it.
- You are selling a car or a large object and want the other three sides shown.
- You want something short for a social post that is honestly derived from the real photographs.
Not worth it if
- Your photographs are poor. This will not rescue them, and it is not allowed to improve them.
- You want the space to look bigger or brighter than it is. That is the one thing it is built to refuse.
- You want a narrated tour with captions and music. There is no audio track beyond roomtone and no text of any kind.
- You want more than 24 seconds. Three eight-second clips is the whole product.
- You could just film it on your phone. Honestly — if you can stand in the room, do that instead.
Make one.
Pick your best five to twenty photographs, in daylight, with a couple of angles per room. That choice is most of the result.
One payment, no subscription. 7,000 points; this job uses its full ceiling of 3,500. No revisions — a regeneration is a fresh submission.