Text-to-Video
Text-to-video is a type of generative AI that creates a short video clip directly from a written description.
June 16, 2026
Text-to-video is a generative AI technique that turns a written prompt into a short moving video clip, creating the subject, scene, camera motion, and timing entirely from your words.
How it works
A text-to-video model is trained on large collections of video paired with descriptions, so it learns how things look and how they move. When you type a prompt — for example, "a paper boat drifting down a rain-soaked street, slow dolly shot" — the model generates a sequence of frames rather than a single image. Most modern systems use a diffusion process: they start from visual noise and refine it step by step toward your description, while a temporal component keeps the frames coherent so the motion looks continuous instead of flickering. The output is a short clip, usually a few seconds long, that can often be extended or stitched into longer sequences.
Why it matters
Text-to-video collapses a process that once needed cameras, actors, sets, and editing into a single sentence. It lets creators prototype scenes, produce social clips, and visualize ideas in seconds, with full control over style, pacing, and camera language through the prompt. Because the whole clip is generated, you are not limited to footage that already exists — you can describe anything. The main challenges are length, fine detail, and keeping a subject perfectly consistent across every frame, which is why prompt precision matters as much as it does for still images.
In eaxy
In eaxy, video generation runs on Kling 3, the latest video model, so a clear prompt becomes a polished short clip with natural motion and camera movement. You can generate from a description, lean on style packs for a consistent look, and prompt in your own language. For animating a specific picture you already made, eaxy also supports image-to-video.
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Frequently asked questions
What is text-to-video?+
It is generative AI that reads a written prompt and produces a short moving video clip — generating the subjects, scene, camera movement, and timing from the words you provide, with no footage required.
How is text-to-video different from text-to-image?+
Text-to-image produces one still picture. Text-to-video produces a sequence of frames that play as motion, so the model must also keep the scene consistent over time.
How long are text-to-video clips?+
Most current text-to-video models produce short clips, often a few seconds long. You can chain or extend clips to build longer sequences.
Do I need any footage to use it?+
No. Text-to-video starts from words alone. If you want to animate an existing picture instead, that is image-to-video.
Make it with eaxy
Describe anything and generate stunning images in seconds — then bring them to motion with Kling 3.