Creative GenerationVerified
Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Midjourney deployed an image-to-video generation feature (V1 Video Model) in June 2025 that allows paying subscribers to animate any still image into a short video clip. Users select an existing or uploaded image and the AI produces a five-second video that can be extended up to 21 seconds.
Details
The V1 Video Model, released on June 19, 2025, takes a single image (either generated by Midjourney or uploaded by the user) plus an optional text prompt describing motion, and outputs a five-second animated video clip at approximately 480p resolution. Users can extend the video in four-second increments up to a maximum of 21 seconds. Two motion settings — Low Motion and High Motion — control the intensity of movement. The feature is available exclusively through the midjourney.com web interface (not via Discord) and is included in all subscription plans starting at $10/month, though each video job consumes approximately eight times more GPU processing time than a single image generation. HD video output (720p) is available on Standard tier ($30/month) and above.
Products affected
Midjourney Web (midjourney.com)
Sources & Evidence
Cite this record
Trace Foundation. (2026). Midjourney: Midjourney deployed an image-to-video generation feature (V1 Video Model) in June 2025 that allows paying subscribers to animate any still image into a short video clip. Users select an existing or uploaded image and the AI produces a five-second video that can be extended up to 21 seconds (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/54216e12-22df-499f-8de4-40dad7c301e2. Accessed October 4, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/54216e12-22df-499f-8de4-40dad7c301e2
- Data as of
- May 11, 2026
- Last verified
- Not recorded
Other practices by Midjourney
Creative GenMidjourney deployed an AI image generator that creates original artwork from text descriptions typed by users. Since its open beta launch in July 2022, any paying subscriber can type a written prompt and receive four AI-generated images within about a minute.Creative GenMidjourney offers a specialized image generation model called Niji, developed in collaboration with Spellbrush, that focuses on Eastern and anime illustration aesthetics. It is available to all paying Midjourney subscribers and has its own dedicated website and Discord server.OtherMidjourney trains its AI image and video generation models on datasets that include billions of images crawled from the public web, licensed data, and user-submitted prompts and outputs. This training practice is active and ongoing since 2022.
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