In this article, we’ll be making Hailuo Ai video clips within Poe Ai.
We’ll first create a set of three clips; each video clip will be based on a still photo + a brief descriptive prompt.
Generating A Video in Hailuo Ai
For the first clip, I started with a simple still photo I had taken, depicting a broken controller on the ground.
“Cyborg device scuttles along the ground and toward the far distance, then deploys wings and flies away.”
I wanted to animate this photo, so I uploaded it to Hailuo Ai within Poe and typed a short prompt describing what should happen in the video.
After about 300 seconds of waiting, the resulting video clip depicts the controller-device moving across the ground and then taking flight.
Note that the background, reflections, and transitions were all AI-generated, producing an imaginative, if somewhat surreal, scene.
All told, that 4-second video cost us about 300 seconds of our life, plus 12,000 Poe compute points.
What if we want a Hailuo Ai video with a duration longer than 4 seconds?
Extending Hailuo Ai Video Clips
Our first clip was 4-seconds long, and we’re going to continue our clip for 4 more seconds.
To make our extended video clip, we’ll first need to do the ‘Screenshot Shuffle’:
Take a screenshot of final-frame of your first clip, and then feed that screenshot back to Hailuo Ai, to serve as the new “starter” image for your second clip.
We’ll also prompt Hailuo Ai with new text, to help the Ai depict our flying cyborg device continuing its journey.
Our second clip shows the cyborg-device taking off, with the view transitioning to reveal rush-hour traffic below.
The video’s overall effect is creative, but the transition is a bit abrupt panning from city sidewalk into the freeway scene.
Additionally, the ‘rush-hour traffic’ isn’t following a logical pattern, because all the lanes are going the same way.
The reflection of the cyborg-device as it hovers over the wet sidewalk is impressive, for the relative lack of input I gave it.
“A flying white and grayish cyborg device with solar panel wings flaps and flies up into the air, away from the city environment. The device briefly leaves the camera’s view, and then the camera pans to the right, revealing the device flying over a busy freeway at rush hour, on an overcast day.”
We’ve now made two clips in Hailuo Ai, and we’re going to add a third clip using the same screenshot method as before.
Finishing Up Our Hailuo Ai Video
We’ll finish our video by doing the ‘screenshot-shuffle’ again, (using a screenshot from the last frame of the second clip), and then we’ll give Hailuo Ai a new prompt:
“The camera zooms along a busy freeway, following a small flying white and gray cyborg device with solar cell wings. It speeds away faster than the camera can keep up and eventually becomes just a speck in the far distance.”
The resulting clip (our third of three) followed the idea of our prompt, but… Hailuo Ai started to produce somewhat too-dramatic (and occasionally bizarre) transformations.
Nonetheless, our three back-to-back clips demonstrated Hailuo Ai’s potential for making dreamlike, short narratives.
Making a Video in Hailuo Ai Live
In the Poe Ai app, there are currently two Hailuo Ai’s listed; for this next prompt, we’re using the other one, called Hailuo Ai Live.
We’ll start by creating our new video by using a photo of a city building.
My goal output video is to have a fuzzy monster with a silly face, rising over the horizon and eventually picking up an apartment building.
I supplied Hailuo Ai with another prompt:
“A furry fuzzy monster with a silly face peaks over the far horizon of a city scene, then walks closer to pick up a white apartment building located in front of an empty alley by a city street.”
Hailuo Ai Live’s Output Video
Our Hailuo Live video output showed a fuzzy monster emerging in the frame, but the background scene we provided, from our original photo, was somewhat morphed.
In the video, we can see strange transformations—bits of the building get melted into noise, and the monster’s shape wavers unpredictably.
Such inconsistencies highlight a common limitation with the current state of Ai-driven video models.
Hailuo Ai can grasp key elements (the fuzzy monster, a building, the movement), but finer details get muddled and context can get lost, especially during longer or more complex sequences.
Hailuo Ai… Why?
Hailuo Ai video in Poe is great for brainstorming visuals, and creating motion clips from still images.
For extended storytelling, high-resolution renders, or professional filmmaking, other tools like Runway might be a better fit.
Those platforms often provide features like in-painting, layering, and greater control over keyframes to ensure continuity and precision.
In short, Hailuo Ai in Poe is excellent for:
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- Concept visualization: Quickly test out a creative idea, or glimpse how an object might move, based on a real photo.
- Rapid experimentation: Produce mini clips in minutes without a deep learning curve for specialized VFX software.
Overall, our two sets of video clips from this article—the three-part flying cyborg device sequence & the fuzzy monster scene—demonstrate that there’s tremendous creative potential for Hailuo Ai’s image-to-video generator in Poe.