Kling 4.0 Video Edit
Change what is in a clip and keep how it moves. Swap the person, the setting, the style or the weather in 3 to 30 seconds of footage, with reference photos for the new look, at up to 1080p.
Kling 4.0 Video Edit: Change What’s in a Clip, Keep How It Moves
Kling 4.0 Video Edit takes a clip you already have and changes what’s in it. Swap the person, restyle the setting, replace an object, turn day into night. The camera, the choreography, the timing and the cuts stay as you shot them. You get the same clip back, same framing, with your changes rendered in.
Tag the clip as @Video1, attach reference photos as @Image1, @Image2 for the look you want, and say what changes in plain words. Clips can run up to 30 seconds, and the output comes back at 720p or 1080p.
What can you do with it?
- Recast a performance. Attach a photo of the new person and tell it to replace the performer in @Video1. The gestures, lip movement and timing carry over.
- Move a scene somewhere else. “Edit @Video1: set it in a snowy forest like @Image1” keeps the action and rebuilds the background around it.
- Restyle footage. Turn a phone clip into anime, claymation or a film look, frame for frame.
- Swap wardrobe or props. Change the jacket, the car, the coffee cup, without reshooting.
- Change the weather or the hour. Rain, fog, golden hour, night. The clip’s motion stays.
- Change a performance. A smile instead of a frown, a wave instead of a nod, the camera a little closer.
- Clean up a shot. Remove a distracting object or a person in the background from a take you otherwise like.
How to use it
- Attach the clip. 3 to 30 seconds, 720p or better, under 300 MB.
- Attach reference images. Up to 10: a face, a location, a style frame. Each becomes @Image1, @Image2 in order.
- Write the edit. Start with “Edit @Video1”, say what changes and what stays: “Edit @Video1: replace the man with @Image1. Keep his movements, the room and the lighting unchanged.”
- Pick length and resolution. Keep the clip’s length or set your own. 720p to check the edit, 1080p to finish.
What you get
One video, the same framing as your clip and the same length unless you change it, as mp4 with sound.
Tips
- Say “Edit @Video1”. It tells the model to change this clip. “Reference @Video1” on its own reads as a request to imitate it in a new video.
- Say what to preserve. “Keep the camera, the choreography and the lighting” pins down everything you don’t mention, so the edit stays surgical.
- One edit per pass. A single clear change renders cleaner than four stacked ones. Chain runs for bigger transformations.
- Use a frontal, well-lit photo for a face swap. Identity holds up through turns and profiles when the reference is sharp and straight on.
- Assign by position in the frame. With more than one person, say “the person on the left becomes @Image1” so nothing gets mixed up.
- Draft at 720p, finish at 1080p. Same prompt, same clip. Check the edit reads right, then rerender the keeper.
- Trim first. Edit only the seconds you need. Shorter clips render faster.