Unleash Your Creativity with Lumalabs AI's New Modify Video Tool

Modern video post-production demands both speed and creativity. Luma AI's new Modify Video tool harnesses cutting-edge AI to let creators redefine existing footage without expensive reshoots. Whether you want to transform a live-action clip into a cyberpunk scene, replace the background with a space vista, or even tweak individual character outfits, Modify Video makes it possible with just text or image prompts. In this article, you'll discover its core features, practical applications, a step-by-step guide, real-world examples, and how to further elevate your videos using HitPaw VikPea.

Part 1. Introduction to Modify Video: Redefining Video Post-Production

Luma AI's Modify Video is a groundbreaking AI tool that streamlines and amplifies video post-production workflows. Instead of recreating entire scenes, you upload up to ten seconds of footage, provide simple text or image prompts, and let AI reimagine every frame, maintaining original motion, framing, and performances. The result is seamless, high-quality edits ranging from style transformations to background replacements, all without complex manual rotoscoping or re-shoots.

Core Feature Highlights of Luma AI Modify Video

• Style Reshaping: Transform visual style (e.g., real footage → cartoon, cyberpunk, or retro aesthetics).
• Scene & Background Replacement: Swap entire environments (e.g., city street → desert or outer space).
• Character & Action Editing: Modify appearance, clothing, or performances of people without re-shooting.
• Independent Element Editing: Target specific objects or effects (e.g., change a car into a spaceship).
• Editor Tab Extras: Access Extend Video, Reframe, Upscale, and Audio Generation to polish every detail.

Part 2. What Can I Do with Luma AI Modify Video?

Luma AI Modify Video equips creators with immense creative control over their video assets. With Modify Video, your creative possibilities expand dramatically. Here's what you can achieve:

Style Reshaping: Users can change the artistic style of the video through text prompts, such as converting real scenes into cartoons, cyberpunk, or retro styles.

• Scene and Background Replacement: Supports replacing the video background with a completely new scene, such as transforming urban streets into deserts or space environments, creating an immersive visual experience.
• Character and Action Editing: Users can adjust the appearance, clothing, and even performance of people in the video without re-shooting to achieve personalized expression.
• Independent Element Editing: Allows modification of specific elements (such as objects or effects) within the video, enhancing the precision of creation.
• Extended Functions: Through the new Editor tab, users can access additional features like video extension (Extend Video), frame adjustment (Reframe), resolution enhancement (Upscale), and audio generation (Audio), further perfecting the post-production process.

Part 3. How to Use Luma AI Modify Video?

Getting started with Modify Video is straightforward even for beginners. Follow these simple steps to transform your footage

• 1.Open a new Board in Dream Machine and access Modify Video. Select 720p or 1080p based on your needs.

• 2.Click the "+" icon above the prompt field to add your footage (10 seconds max).

  

• 3.Specify Style vs Start Frame:

  If set to Start Frame, the video will follow the motion of the source video, extending from the frame you provide.

  If set to Style, the image will be used purely as a Style Reference, not as the literal first frame of the video. However, you can click Preview to view a range of start frames generated from your style reference.

  

• 4.Add your creative instructions: Prompt(Describe what you want to see) and set your Transformation Level to decide how dramatically you want to change things.

  

• 5.Generate your result and watch your vision come to life.

Part 4. Examples of How to Achieve Element-Level Changes with Luma AI Modify Video

In this section, we'll showcase several real-world scenarios where Modify Video makes precise, element-specific edits possible. You'll see how simple text prompts can transform individual aspects, such as outfits, backgrounds, styles, or objects-while preserving the original motion and continuity of your footage

1. Outfit Changes

Prompt: "A person wearing a sleek futuristic silver jumpsuit"

Original Video: Shows a person in a regular t-shirt and jeans.

Result: The person's clothes are transformed into a silver jumpsuit, while their motion and the background remain consistent.

2. Background Replacement

Prompt: "Replace city street with a vibrant alien marketplace at dusk"

Original Video: A pedestrian walking down a typical urban sidewalk.

Result: The sidewalk becomes an alien bazaar vendors, neon signs, and alien merchants appear seamlessly behind the subject.

3. Style Reshape to Retro Animation

Prompt: "Convert footage into a 90s cartoon style bold outlines and flat colors"

Original Video: A live-action scene of two friends talking in a park.

Result: The entire video adopts a vintage 90s animation look, maintaining the original dialogue pacing and camera movements.

4. Object Transformation

Prompt: "Change the black sedan into a hovering futuristic car with neon underglow"

Original Video: A black sedan driving down a freeway.

Result: The sedan now hovers above the road, emitting neon light, yet retains its original trajectory and environment.

Further Reading: Supercharge Your Videos with HitPaw VikPea

For creators working with animation or low-res footage, preparing pristine inputs is crucial before using AI editing tools like Luma AI's Modify Video. HitPaw VikPea is a specialized AI enhancer designed to improve animation, anime, and live-action videos, addressing issues like blur, noise, and low resolution. By upscaling footage, reducing grain, and restoring fine details, HitPaw VikPea ensures your video assets are crisp, clear, and ready for advanced AI transformations. Whether you need to polish old animation or refine live-action clips, this tool lays the perfect foundation.

• Enhances animated scenes, preserving sharp line art and vibrant colors.
• Boosts resolution dramatically for crisp, high-definition playback.
• Cleans up grain and artifacts to ensure clean visuals.
• Recovers fine details lost in low-res or compressed footage.
• Improves facial clarity for live-action shots, preserving natural expressions.
• Adds realistic color to black-and-white clips and fixes corrupted frames.

• Step 1.Download and Launch HitPaw VikPea on your computer. Import your video by clicking on "Choose file." You can also drag and drop your footage directly into the software menu.

  

• Step 2.Choose the Appropriate AI Model. This software offers multiple AI models. A General Model is perfect for real-scene videos; the Animation Model works best for old animated videos, while the Face Model is appropriate for upscaling blurry portrait videos.

  

• Step 3.Click "Preview" to review the enhanced video. If satisfied, press "Export" to save your high-quality output.

  

Conclusion

Luma AI's Modify Video tool represents a paradigm shift in AI-powered post-production. From style reshaping and immersive background swaps to character tweaks and targeted element edits, it empowers creators to achieve polished, professional results without costly re-shoots. Coupled with HitPaw VikPea's advanced video enhancement capabilities, especially for animation and anime, your workflow becomes faster, more flexible, and infinitely creative. Embrace these AI innovations and take your video projects to the next level.