Reference-driven AI video

How to use
Vidu.

Creating short videos with reusable characters, products, props, scenes, or styles and maintaining visual continuity across reference-driven shots.

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Vidu is a AI video platform for text, image, reference, character-consistent, and API generation. Creating short videos with reusable characters, products, props, scenes, or styles and maintaining visual continuity across reference-driven shots. This guide covers the whole path in one place: official access, a first session that produces something reviewable, the checks that make output trustworthy, and the permissions worth limiting before you connect real work.

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

01

Access & setup

Find, install, and sign in to Vidu

Get into the official Vidu experience with the right account and a setup you understand.

  1. 01

    Start at https://www.vidu.com/ and confirm the domain before entering account or payment information.

  2. 02

    Availability: Vidu is available through its web creator and developer platform, with text-to-video, image-to-video, start-and-end-frame, multi-reference, reusable subject, sound, enhancement, and API workflows.

  3. 03

    A supported account or API credential, credits or plan access, authorized reference assets, and explicit decisions about privacy, end-user consent, content monitoring, commercial rights, disclosure, and regional compliance.

  4. 04

    Sign in with the account you intend to keep using, then review plan, data, notification, and permission settings.

  5. 05

    Run one low-risk test task before connecting sensitive files, repositories, or workspace data.

  • Use official download pages.
  • Review permissions during setup.
  • Keep installers and applications updated.
02

First session

Your first useful Vidu session

Learn the interaction loop using a small task with a clear outcome.

  1. 01

    Define the story beat, subject, action, camera, setting, duration, aspect ratio, sound, continuity rules, and distribution rights.

  2. 02

    Prepare one to seven clean authorized references that show stable identity, product, scene, or style details without private metadata.

  3. 03

    Name each reference clearly in the prompt, specify only necessary motion, and generate a short economical preview.

  4. 04

    Review face, outfit, object, logo, scene, camera, motion, audio, disclosure, and rights across every frame before downloading or publishing.

  • State the outcome before the background.
  • Provide the real source material.
  • Review the result before expanding the task.
03

Quality control

Check the quality of Vidu output

Turn a promising generation into an asset you can legally and safely ship.

  1. 01

    Restate the brief, the deliverable format, and where the asset will appear before judging any output.

  2. 02

    Inspect at full resolution: generated media hides its errors at thumbnail size.

  3. 03

    Check the details these systems reliably get wrong — hands, text, logos, reflections, symmetry, and edge artefacts.

  4. 04

    Confirm the licence and commercial-use terms for your plan, and check the output does not reproduce a recognisable style, mark, or likeness you have no right to use.

  5. 05

    Review for accessibility and delivery: alt text, contrast, colour profile, file size, and the exact export format.

  • Inspect at full resolution before approving anything.
  • Confirm commercial-use rights before an asset reaches a client.
  • Keep the prompt and settings with the asset so it can be reproduced.
04

Privacy & permissions

Use Vidu safely

Use the platform without surrendering rights, likenesses, or client material you do not control.

  1. 01

    Confirm you hold the rights to every reference image, voice, or clip before uploading it.

  2. 02

    Check whether your plan trains on submitted content, and opt out before uploading client work.

  3. 03

    Never upload a real person's likeness or voice without their explicit, documented consent.

  4. 04

    Review the output for marks, styles, or likenesses you have no licence to reproduce.

  5. 05

    Label synthetic media where your client, platform, or jurisdiction requires disclosure.

  • Multi-reference generation can reproduce identifiable people, brands, products, locations, and styles. Vidu requires sufficient rights and consent, may monitor inputs and outputs for operational purposes, and prohibits hiding deep-synthesis indicators or using person-related output for consequential decisions. Keep references minimal and authorized, preserve provenance, review privacy and cross-border processing, test continuity frame by frame, and validate commercial terms for the exact web or API service used.
  • Follow your organisation's approved-use policy.
  • Never treat fluent output as authorization to act.
05

Core workflows

Step-by-step ways to use Vidu for the work it does best.

Each workflow is a separate guide with its own steps and review checkpoints.

01 WorkflowBuild a multi-reference brand video in Vidu

Coordinate product, character, and scene references without losing brand accuracy or authorization across generated motion.

 02 WorkflowOperate a governed Vidu API video workflow

Add reference-driven video to an application with bounded inputs, consent, credentials, cost, moderation, and human release control.

06

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 guide.

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