The outcome

Produce a transformed shot that preserves the approved performance and camera dynamics.

Dream Machine is a generative image and video platform from Luma AI. Developing images and short video shots, controlling transitions with keyframes, and transforming existing footage while preserving motion. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Choose authorized, sharp footage with clear subjects, stable motion, and a simple enough scene to track.

  2. 02

    List what must remain unchanged and whether the transformation targets style, setting, wardrobe, prop, or character.

  3. 03

    Choose the adherence strength and add a style, start-frame, or character reference only when it improves control.

  4. 04

    Write a positive, localized instruction and test a short representative clip before spending credits on more footage.

  5. 05

    Inspect face, hands, silhouettes, occlusion, lip sync, audio, and background continuity frame by frame.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Start with clean footage.
  • Modify one concept at a time.
  • Save prompts outside the product when needed.

Generative and modified video can distort identity, anatomy, physics, and continuity while using significant credits. Confirm source rights and inspect every frame and retained audio.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.