Fireworks Video Effect for one photo and a 10-second night sky

The light drops to dusk, gold trails climb behind you and open into red, gold and blue bursts while you look up and smile.

The fireworks video effect turns one photo into a 10-second vertical clip: your picture holds for a moment, the sky behind you darkens to blue, and gold trails rise into large red, gold, blue and pink bursts that tint your face before the sparks drift down.

1Add your photo(Front portrait, clear lighting)

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Kept from the original: Your photo holds, the light turns to dusk and a sky full of colored firework bursts blooms behind you while you look up and smile

2Generate

About 5 seconds of you in this format.

This video: 20 credits

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Example output10s · 9:16

Fireworks Night Sky

Choreography locked · Facial reference enabled

Format: 9:16 Vertical HD

It is a short celebration scene for greetings and posts, not a recording of a real display and not a text-to-video fireworks reel with no one in it. The subject stays you, a friend who agreed, or a pet. New Year, Guy Fawkes night, a birthday or a graduation all work as a reason to post it.

Input: one clear photo of one adult or one pet, face fully visible, with open space above the head.
Output: one 10-second vertical 9:16 MP4 with the sound of rising and bursting fireworks and distant cheering.
Price: 20 credits a video; your first credit pack is 50% off. No subscription is required.

Three clips made with the fireworks video effect

Each clip below went through this exact template once, from a different AI-generated portrait. They are shown as they came out, only resized, with what worked and what did not written under each.

Clip 1: a grey-bearded man in a denim shirt, from a workshop selfieIn: One AI-generated portrait: a man in his fifties with grey hair, a short grey beard and sunglasses pushed up on his head, wearing a denim shirt, taken as a phone selfie in a garage workshop with a pegboard of tools.Out: The selfie holds for about two seconds and the camera eases in. Then the workshop is gone: the whole background becomes a deep blue evening park with a crowd far behind him. He looks up, a few gold trails climb, and red, white and gold bursts open above his head and colour his face pink. In the last seconds he looks back at the lens with a wide smile.A full render from the template on this page, shown as it came out, only resized. His face, beard and sunglasses stayed the same all the way through. What did not stay was the room: the pegboard and workbench vanish and he ends up outdoors, so the clip does not look like it was shot where the photo was. A few people in the far crowd are blurry shapes.

Clip 2: a woman in a dusty pink headscarf, from a bedroom selfieIn: One AI-generated portrait: a young woman in a dusty pink headscarf and a cream top, taken as a phone selfie in a bedroom with a clothes rail and an arched mirror behind her.Out: She smiles at the lens for two seconds, then the ceiling opens into a blue dusk sky. Three thin gold trails rise, and big red, blue, gold and violet bursts bloom one after another while she tilts her head up with a calm look. The pink glow of the bursts moves across her face. She turns back and ends on a broad smile.A full render from the template on this page, shown as it came out, only resized. This is the cleanest of the three: the clothes rail and mirror stay in view below the sky, so it still feels like her room. The small flaw is the ceiling, which simply stops being a ceiling, so the room has no top edge at all. Her face, scarf and top match the photo in the last frame.

Clip 3: a woman in a cream knit sweater, from a bathroom mirror selfieIn: One AI-generated portrait: a woman in her thirties with straight black shoulder-length hair, small hoop earrings and a cream knit sweater, taken as a phone selfie beside a round mirror in a bright bathroom.Out: The bright bathroom holds for the first second, then it turns dark blue very fast. She looks up while a red and a violet burst open and a tall trail climbs between them. Gold and pink bursts overlap in the sky above her and light her cheeks. The final burst is a huge gold one, and she looks back and smiles with teeth showing.A full render from the template on this page, shown as it came out, only resized. The switch from bright room to night is abrupt, with no dusk in between, and the bathroom disappears completely: there is only sky behind her. Her face and sweater match the photo in the last frame, so the change is all in the background.

What the fireworks video effect is

A fireworks video effect puts a display of aerial bursts into a clip that did not have one. The popular version starts from a photo of a person on a street or a balcony and animates the sky behind them: the light fades, trails shoot up, bursts open, and the face is lit by colour. It is a celebration format, so it travels around New Year, Guy Fawkes night, Independence Day, Diwali, birthdays and graduations, when people already want a greeting with a bit of spectacle.

What you get here is a fixed 10-second scene in three beats. In the first three seconds the photo holds and the sky darkens. In the middle four seconds the bursts open while the person looks up. In the last three seconds the largest burst fades into drifting sparks and the person turns back to the camera with a smile. The sound is the whistle of rising rockets, the dull thump of bursts and a crowd cheering far away, with no music, so you can lay your own track over it in an editor.

It is a visual effect on a real subject, not an animation tool with layers. You cannot choose the colours, change the number of bursts or add a second person. What you control is the photo, and as the three clips above show, the photo decides how much of your own setting survives.

How to make your fireworks video in 3 steps

First, pick one photo and upload it at the top of this page. You can choose the file before you sign in; pressing Generate then asks for an account and shows the price. Second, press Generate and leave the tab. A full clip usually takes about 10 to 15 minutes in the shared queue, and the finished file appears in your dashboard, so you do not have to stay on the page.

Third, watch the whole clip before you post it. Check two things. The first is the face in the last second, which should match the photo you sent. The second is the background, which in our three runs was always replaced by sky and sometimes by a different location, so decide whether that suits your caption. Then download the vertical MP4 and post it as it is, or add a date, a greeting or a music track in your phone editor.

Captions work best in the lower third or in a text bar, because the top half of the frame belongs to the bursts. If you add a countdown or a year, keep it clear of the face so the colour changes on the cheeks stay visible.

Photos that work for a fireworks video and photos that do not

Use one adult, or one pet, looking roughly at the lens, with the whole face visible and some empty space above the head. A head-and-shoulders selfie is the safest. The upload becomes the first frame, so your clothes, hair and glasses are kept and the face is the thing that is held steady. In our runs the glasses, headscarf and sweater all survived, while rooms did not.

Photos that tend to fail are the ones with something above the head: a hat brim, a low ceiling, a hand holding a phone up high, or a tall plant. The sky has to open there, and busy shapes make the opening look cut out. Group photos do not suit it either, because the scene has one lead and the others may blur or merge into the crowd.

Use a photo you own or one where the adult in it agreed. Do not upload a celebrity, a politician or someone else’s child. For a pet, a clear front view of the eyes and ears works better than a side profile. The best result in our tests came from a photo where the background was already plain and indoor, because the change to a night sky then felt like a window opening rather than a teleport.

Price for one fireworks video

Option	Price	Details
Full video	20 credits	A 10-second full render. Your first credit pack is 50% off. Credits do not expire.
Free preview where offered	No charge	A separate watermarked 5-second preview of the opening. It is not the full show and is not available to everyone.

Questions about the fireworks video effect

Is the fireworks video effect free?

A full 10-second clip is paid: 20 credits, and your first credit pack is 50% off. Credits do not expire and no subscription is needed. Some visitors are offered a free watermarked 5-second preview first, which shows the opening of the scene so you can judge the photo before paying. The preview is not the full show and it is not offered to everyone, so treat it as a quick check rather than a free video. If you do not see an offer, the price is shown before anything renders.

Will it use my own photo and keep my face?

Yes. The photo you upload is the first frame and the only subject in the clip. In our three test runs the face, hair, glasses and headscarf stayed the same from the first frame to the last, and the person looked up and then back at the lens. What can change is the setting behind you: the room or street in the photo is replaced by an evening sky, and one clip moved outdoors completely. Check the final frame before posting, because small details such as fabric folds can shift.

Can I put a pet in it?

Yes, one pet works as the lead. Pick a photo where the eyes, ears and muzzle are clear and there is empty space above the head. The template sends the animal into the same three beats: it looks up while the bursts open and turns back at the end. We have not rendered a pet on this page yet, so treat the first result as a trial. A photo of a pet in a harness or a plain collar is safer than one with a hat or costume, which the scene can change.

Which occasions suit a fireworks video?

It fits any greeting where fireworks are the natural symbol: New Year’s Eve, Guy Fawkes night on 5 November, Independence Day, Diwali, Lunar New Year, a wedding announcement, a birthday or a graduation. Because the clip has no text and the sound is only rockets and a distant crowd, you can add the date, a caption or your own music afterwards. If the occasion is sad or tense, this is the wrong effect, since the whole scene is built to feel bright and celebratory.

How long does it take and what format do I get?

You get one vertical 9:16 MP4, 10 seconds long, with sound that you can keep or replace. A full render usually takes about 10 to 15 minutes, though it can be longer when many people are generating at once. You can close the tab and come back to your dashboard to download the file. It is shaped for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and it also works as the opening or closing shot of a longer greeting that you finish in a video editor, with your own words and a date added on top.

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