Place one moving portrait inside a longer tribute.

Before you open the editor

• Download the MP4 from your private order page and save it with a clear name.
• Note its length: five or ten seconds.
• Remember it is silent. Any music on the slideshow will play over it.
• Decide where it belongs in the story before you start dragging things around.

In iMovie on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad

Apple’s instructions cover adding photos and video clips to a project, arranging them, and exporting the result. In outline:

1. Create a new movie project.
2. Add the still photographs and the portrait MP4 from your library or files.
3. Drag the clips into the order you want on the timeline.
4. Play the section around the portrait to check pacing.
5. Export or share the finished movie as a video file.

In Clipchamp

Microsoft’s guides describe importing media into a project and editing on the timeline. In outline:

1. Import the photos and the portrait MP4 into your project’s media.
2. Drag them onto the timeline in order.
3. Trim the start or end of a clip if needed by dragging its edge.
4. Preview, then export the video.

Menus and buttons change between versions of both apps, so follow the current help pages linked below if something looks different.

Where the portrait fits best

• Show the still photograph first, then the animated version, so viewers see what the movement came from.
• Let the clip play at its full length. Slowing or speeding it up can make generated movement look less natural.
• Avoid looping it several times in a row. Repeating the same generated gesture draws attention to it.
• Add a short caption such as “Animated from a 1950s photograph with AI”.

A sample running order