How to Use AI Video Try-On in PhotoDirector
Change what someone is wearing in a video clip, not just in a photo.
Updated Aug. 21, 2026 · 5 min read
In a hurry? Use the AI Video Try-On quick guide instead.
Changing an outfit in a photo means getting it right once. AI Video Try-On has to hold the same outfit together while the person moves, turns and their clothes fall differently in every frame. You give it a short clip and something to dress the person in, and it hands back the same footage with different clothes on.
- In PhotoDirector, open Guided & GenAI, click Portrait in the rail, then AI Video Try-On under GenAI on Style, then Start Now.
- Import a clip of 3 to 15 seconds and pick an Output Resolution.
- Choose the outfit from Template, Full Outfit, Individual Items or Custom.
- Click Generate, then open My Creations to Download the finished clip.
Steps to Use AI Video Try-On
Step 1: Open AI Video Try-On
Open Guided & GenAI from the PhotoDirector launcher.
Click Portrait in the rail on the left; AI Video Try-On is under GenAI on Style, one row below the photo version it's easily confused with. Clicking it shows the job in three stages: your clip, the outfit, the dressed result. Click Start Now.
Step 2: Import a Clip and Set the Resolution
Drop your video into Import a Video, or click to browse. This is the step with real constraints on it, and they are printed in the drop area rather than hidden in a help file.
3 to 15 seconds, MP4 or MOV. Anything longer has to be trimmed before it will load, so cut the clip down to the part you actually want dressed before you come here. A single person, filmed head to foot, is what the tool is built around.
Output Resolution sits on its own in the column on the right, above everything else, which makes it easy to scroll straight past. Set it now: the clip comes back at the size you asked for, and changing your mind afterwards means generating again.
Step 3: Choose the Outfit
Four tabs sit under the video, and they differ in what you have to supply rather than in what they produce. Pick on that basis:
| Tab | What you supply | Reach for it when |
|---|---|---|
| Template | Nothing. Pick a thumbnail from the gallery | You want to see the feature work, or you have no particular outfit in mind |
| Full Outfit | One photo of a complete look | You have the whole outfit in a single image, such as a lookbook shot or a product photo |
| Individual Items | Separate photos of a top, a bottom and shoes | You are putting a look together from pieces that were never photographed together |
| Custom | A written description, up to 2,000 characters | The thing you want does not exist as a photo, or you care more about a style than a specific garment |
Template is a gallery split into Female and Male, and clicking a thumbnail is the whole interaction.
The next two tabs take photographs instead. Full Outfit wants one image of the whole look, and reads the styling from it as a set.
Individual Items splits that into three slots instead, so pieces photographed separately, product shots off a retailer's site for instance, can be combined into one outfit.
Custom drops the photos entirely and takes a written brief. Ours read "American street style fashion, clothing suitable for street dance", which describes a register rather than a garment, and that is the kind of thing this tab is good at. Then click Generate, checking the number on the button first.
Step 4: Collect the Clip
Nothing renders on your machine. A message confirms the task is generating and that you'll be told in PhotoDirector and by e-mail when it's ready, so the window is yours to close.
My Creations, top right, holds every clip you've made here with its date and length. The line along the bottom is the one to read: these sit on the cloud server for a year, so Download anything you want to keep rather than treating the list as storage.
Opening a clip plays it beside the source video and the outfit brief that produced it, which is worth having when you've run several versions and can't remember which was which. Re-Generate runs the same inputs again for a different take.
Haven't got PhotoDirector yet? Holding an outfit together while someone moves is the hard version of this, and it is the one PhotoDirector does.
Download PhotoDirector Free →FAQ About AI Video Try-On
MP4 or MOV, between 3 and 15 seconds. The limit is short on purpose, since every frame has to be redressed, so trim to the part you want before importing rather than loading a long clip and hoping. One person, filmed full length, gives the tool the most to work with.
Yes, in practice. It's a choice between 1080p and 720p made before you generate, and the finished clip comes back at whichever you picked. There is no way to raise it afterwards without running the job again, so decide where the clip is going before you click.
No. The four tabs are alternatives rather than layers, and the one you're on when you press Generate is the one that gets used. If you want a template look with one item swapped, the closest route is Individual Items, where the top, bottom and shoes are supplied separately.
