Tasks
Video generation
Generate short clips from a description, animate an image you already made, and extend a clip past its ending. Video renders in the background and takes minutes.
Ask for a clip, an animation, or a short film and the assistant generates video into the task. Unlike everything else it makes, video does not come back inside the conversation — it renders in the background and appears on the task when it is ready.
Where it runs: in a task, when video generation is enabled for your deployment. AI staff can also generate a video during an unattended run.
What the assistant can do
| It can | What that looks like |
|---|---|
| Generate a video | A new clip from a shot description |
| Animate an image | An image already in the task becomes the first frame and starts moving |
| Extend a video | The clip carries on from its last frame, as a new version |
| Regenerate a video | A fresh take of the same clip, optionally with a refined prompt |
What a clip is
Clips are 4 to 8 seconds, in widescreen (16:9) or story (9:16) format, at 720p or 1080p. A video can be extended up to five times, each extension continuing from where the last frame left off — so a longer sequence is built in passes rather than asked for in one go.
A finished clip carries its format, length and version, with Extend and New take on the card.
Why it takes minutes
Generation runs as a background job. The assistant will tell you the clip is rendering and carry on with the rest of your request; it is instructed never to claim a video is ready before it is. You do not have to keep the tab open — the clip appears on the task’s media board when it lands, and you will see it fail there too if it fails.
Animating an image
This is the useful path, and the reason images and video share one board. Generate the still first, edit it until the framing and subject are right, then ask for motion — “slow push in, leaves moving in the wind”. You get a clip that starts from an image you already approved, rather than a fresh roll of the dice.
The image’s first frame is also kept as the clip’s poster, so the board shows a real still rather than a black rectangle.
Getting good clips
Write a shot, not a sentence. Subject, action, camera move, lighting, mood. “Handheld close-up of hands kneading dough, warm kitchen light, slow push in.”
One motion per clip. Eight seconds cannot hold a scene change. Ask for the next beat as an extension.
Fix the still first. Correcting a frame is cheap; correcting a clip is not.