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Recast a Video

A video you already have. Someone you love in it.

Your daughter played Jasmine in the school play. Now she can be Jasmine on the carpet. Upload one video and three photos of the person going into it — the performance, the camera, the costume and the sound all stay exactly as they were filmed. Only who that person looks like changes.

From $49 · Professional from $79

What you send

Two things.

One video

An mp4 or mov, up to ten minutes. Trim it to the moment that matters and pay only for that.

The person going in

Three photos: from the left, straight on, from the right. Face large, no sunglasses.

Who they replace

Point at whoever is on screen. The director watches the video and confirms it can be done before you spend anything.

What comes back

Nothing else moves.

Your original sound, untouched

The dialogue, the music, the laughing in the back row — all of it, on the same frame it was on.

A test cut before you commit

We recast the few seconds where the face is clearest and show you. Approve it, and we do the rest.

Only the seconds they are in

The video is cut at its own scene changes. Shots they are not in pass through untouched and cost you nothing.

The mouth says the real words

Where they speak or sing to camera, the new face is lip-synced to the sound already on the video. Priced on those seconds alone.

A director who says no

If the face is too small, too dark or never turned to camera, you are told before you pay, and told what would fix it.

Prices

What a recast costs.

ExampleLengthStandardProfessionalIs this Hollywood?
A 15-second moment15 seconds of video$29$69$119
A 40-second scene40 seconds of video$49$79$119
A 1-minute clip60 seconds of video$59$109$119
A 2-minute scene120 seconds of video$109$199$219
A 4-minute short240 seconds of video$199$379$419
An 8-minute film480 seconds of video$369$729$819

No revisions included in these figures; you choose 0 to 3 on the quote. Full price list.

Questions

About recasts.

What video can I upload?
One you have the right to use — your own footage, a film you made, something you were filmed in. Not somebody else's film.
Does it change the voice?
No. The original sound is kept exactly as it is — and where they speak on camera the new mouth is synced to it, so the words still land.
What if the two people look nothing alike?
The director says so up front. The body, height and costume stay as filmed, so a very different build shows. You get told before you pay.
How long can it be?
Up to ten minutes in one go, and you can set an in and out point. A forty-second scene starts at $59.
Can I put a child in a video?
Only your own child, with your consent as their parent, and never in anything sexual, violent or defamatory. Photographs of anyone else's child are not allowed.
Start

Tell us the film. The storyboard is free.

You will get a director’s questions, a full storyboard as a page and a PDF, and three fixed quotes. Nothing is made and nothing is charged until you choose one.

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