How to integrate real videos with ai?
Hey everyone, it’s Lior. Let’s be real for a second—creating professional AI movies is about much more than just throwing a few words into a prompt box and hoping for the best. It requires a mix of workflows, a bit of creativity, and understanding how to bridge different worlds. Today, I want to show you a technique that is super simple on one hand, but also a bit “next level” because it blends a real video you shot on your phone with an AI-generated environment.
It might sound complicated, but I promise it’s way easier than you think. For this process, we’re going to use Nano Banana to create our base image, Grok to breathe life into it, and CapCut to stitch everything together.
The Practical Guide: How to Make an AI Movie by Blending Reality and Imagination
The secret here is the connection between your static phone footage and the motion generated by the AI. Here are the exact steps I took:
- Film the Base: Take your iPhone (or any smartphone), and set it on a tripod or a stable surface. It is crucial that the shot is completely static. I filmed a video where there’s just a tiny bit of movement in the background, but the camera itself doesn’t budge.
- The Last Frame is Key: Once you’re done filming, export the very last frame of that video (take a high-quality screenshot or use the “Export Frame” feature).
- Create the Continuation in Nano Banana: I uploaded that last frame to Nano Banana so the AI would know exactly where to start from. There, I expanded the scene and changed the environment using the following prompt:
Make a mural on the wall of a magical forest like in fairy tales with a tree trunk and a door inside. - Animate in Grok: Now that we have an amazing image that is a direct continuation of our video, I uploaded it to Grok to turn it into a video. To describe the movement I wanted, copy the prompt:
A very upset dwarf is coming out of the door after someone wake him up. He approaches the camera and complain. No camera movement. - The CapCut Magic: This is where it all comes together.
- Place the static image on your timeline, followed immediately by the video you generated in Grok.
- Now, add an “Overlay” layer with the original video you shot on your iPhone.
- Trim it so it aligns perfectly with the transition point.
- The most important step: Use the “Remove Background” tool on your original iPhone video. This keeps “you” (or your subject) in the shot, while the background becomes the AI world we just built.
Learning Ai with Lior
So, who am I? I’m Lior, a dreamer and creator in the world of Artificial Intelligence. I come from a background of writing content, but today I’m much more into the visual side of things. It’s a wild world where new tech and workflows drop every single minute.
After I spend time sweating over the details and testing all the options, I try to frame my insights into short, easy-to-follow guides. These guides aren’t just for “copy-pasting”—they are meant to encourage you to take the idea and push your own practical experience a few steps further. This isn’t an AI course (at least not yet), but it’s definitely helpful knowledge for anyone who considers the title “AI enthusiast” a matter of art and passion.