Vidu Q3 Image to Video

Name: Vidu Q3 Image to Video
Price: 0.77 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Vidu

vidu/q3/image-to-video

Vidu Q3 by Shengshu - animate still images into dynamic videos with AI. Transform photos into cinematic clips with natural motion, camera movement, and optional audio generation.

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Playground

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Input

Prompt(string)

Text prompt for video generation, max 2000 characters

Image Url(string)

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PNG, JPEG, WebP, or GIF · 20 MiB maximum

URL or base64 image to use as the starting frame

This field is required.

Additional Settings More

Customize your input with more control.

End Image Url(string)

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PNG, JPEG, WebP, or GIF · 20 MiB maximum

URL of the image to use as the ending frame. When provided, generates a transition video between start and end frames.

Audio(boolean)

Whether to use direct audio-video generation. When true, outputs video with sound (including dialogue and sound effects).

Resolution(string)

Output video resolution. Note: 360p is not available when end_image_url is provided. Allowed values: 360p, 540p, 720p, 1080p.

Duration(integer)

116

Duration of the video in seconds (1-16 for Q3 models) Range: 1 to 16.

Seed(integer)

Random seed for reproducibility. If None, a random seed is chosen.

Result

Example

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Examples

Select an example to load its inputs and result into the playground.

Input

{
  "image": "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/c5e6585e-7e89-4c14-a4e1-6fb94916f126/input/066353de-0ec8-4d21-bf03-46efafa9db7b.png",
  "prompt": "The astronaut waved and the camera moved up."
}

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Human preference

Arena

Elo ratings from blind side-by-side votes, compared with other image and video models.

Rankings sourced from Artificial Analysis Arena

Leaderboard: Image to Video
Rank: #22 of 29
Elo: 915 ±19
Gap to #1: −215

Image-to-video arena (silent): people pick the better of two clips animated from the same image, without seeing the model names; audio is not judged.

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#20Veo 3.1 LiteGoogleOn SandBase924±19
#21LTX-2.5 FastLightricks915±20
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Vidu Q3 Image to Video

Vidu Q3 image-to-video: animate a first frame, optionally toward a last frame, into a 1–16 second clip with native audio.

Fields

Field	Type	Default	Notes
`prompt`	string, required	—	Up to 2,000 characters.
`image`	image URL, required	—	First frame. JPEG, PNG, or WebP URL.
`end_image`	image URL	—	Optional last frame.
`audio`	boolean	true	Generate native audio. Same price on or off.
`resolution`	`360p` / `540p` / `720p` / `1080p`	`720p`	Sets the per-second rate.
`duration`	integer 1–16	5	Output length in seconds.
`seed`	integer	random	Fix it to compare prompt changes.

Billing

You pay for output seconds: $0.07 at 360p or 540p, $0.154 at 720p, $0.16 at 1080p.

Output	540p	720p	1080p
4s	$0.28	$0.616	$0.64
5s (default)	$0.35	$0.77	$0.80
8s	$0.56	$1.232	$1.28
16s	$1.12	$2.464	$2.56

Failed runs are not charged.

Prompting

Describe subject, action, camera, and sound.

Also on SandBase

Other Vidu Q3 endpoints: vidu/q3/text-to-video, vidu/q3/reference-to-video/mix, vidu/q3/text-to-video/turbo, vidu/q3/image-to-video/turbo.

Start building

Send your first request

Submit this model through the SandBase Unified Run API.

Production API

Unified Run API endpoint

https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run

Model ID

vidu/q3/image-to-video

# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "model": "vidu/q3/image-to-video",
  "audio": true,
  "image": "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/shengshu/vidu/q3/image-to-video/input_image_0.png",
  "prompt": "The astronaut waved and the camera moved up.",
  "duration": 5,
  "resolution": "720p"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
run_id=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .id)
for attempt in $(seq 1 120); do
  status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
  case "$status" in completed|failed|timeout) break ;; esac
  sleep 2
  result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
    "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$run_id")
done
status=$(printf '%s' "$result" | jq -r .status)
[ "$status" = completed ] || { echo "Generation ended: $status" >&2; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$result"

2. Authentication

Create a SandBase API key and set it in your server environment. All requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable

export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep the key on your server. Do not expose it in browser code or commit it to a repository.

3. Queue

Submit a request

POST to /v1/run with this model ID and its inputs. The request example above includes submission and polling.

Fetch request status and result

Use the returned run ID to poll until the status is completed, failed or timeout. Read output only after completed.

Poll run status

curl "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$RUN_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY"

4. Files

Hosted files

Pass a publicly accessible file URL in the model’s image, video or audio field. Supported formats and limits are shown beside each Playground input.

Uploading images

Use the upload or replace control on supported image fields in the Playground. Video URL fields accept a hosted driving video; they do not imply video-upload support.

5. Schema

Input

`seed`integer

Random seed for reproducibility. If None, a random seed is chosen.

`audio`boolean

Whether to use direct audio-video generation. When true, outputs video with sound (including dialogue and sound effects).

Default: true

`image`stringrequired

URL or base64 image to use as the starting frame

`prompt`stringrequired

Text prompt for video generation, max 2000 characters

Default: ""

`duration`integer

Duration of the video in seconds (1-16 for Q3 models)

Default: 5

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 16

`end_image`string

URL of the image to use as the ending frame. When provided, generates a transition video between start and end frames.

`resolution`string

Output video resolution. Note: 360p is not available when end_image_url is provided.

Default: "720p"

Possible values: "360p", "540p", "720p", "1080p"

Request body

{
  "model": "vidu/q3/image-to-video",
  "audio": true,
  "image": "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/shengshu/vidu/q3/image-to-video/input_image_0.png",
  "prompt": "The astronaut waved and the camera moved up.",
  "duration": 5,
  "resolution": "720p"
}

Output

A completed run exposes its result in output. The following is the model’s saved example, not a new generation.

Example output JSON

[
  {
    "poster": "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/posters/af23a44614db7c182757.jpg",
    "source": "Vidu schema mirror",
    "source_url": "https://www.vidu.com/",
    "url": "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/c5e6585e-7e89-4c14-a4e1-6fb94916f126/output/5e3156b2-ba4a-46cd-81ea-42cb4992d563.mp4"
  }
]

Vidu Q3 Image to Video

Playground

Examples

Arena

Vidu Q3 Image to Video

Fields

Billing

Prompting

Also on SandBase

Send your first request

2. Authentication

3. Queue

Submit a request

Fetch request status and result

4. Files

Hosted files

Uploading images

5. Schema

Input

seedinteger

audioboolean

imagestringrequired

promptstringrequired

durationinteger

end_imagestring

resolutionstring

Output

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`seed`integer

`audio`boolean

`image`stringrequired

`prompt`stringrequired

`duration`integer

`end_image`string

`resolution`string