How to make the Hotel Lobby AI video

Every method starts from photos, and the photos decide most of the result. Get these right once and you can reuse them for all three methods.

• One person per photo. Crop group shots so only the person you want is left in the frame.
• Facing the camera. A straight-on face with both eyes visible swaps far better than a profile or a tilted head.
• Waist-up or full body. The outfit carries over into the video, so include it.
• Good, even light. Skip heavy filters, sunglasses and hands over the face.
• A clear original. Use the photo itself, not a blurry screenshot of it.

Decide now who stands on the left and who stands on the right. In the original performance the two sides have different moves, so the choice changes who does what.

This is the only method that keeps the original choreography. The generator uses the real performance as its base and replaces the two performers with the people in your photos, so every point, turn and beat lands where it should.

1. 1Upload two photos

   Open the Hotel Lobby AI generator and add one photo to the left slot and one to the right slot. One person per photo.

   

2. 2Pick who stands left

   The left photo replaces the performer on the left. Use the swap button if you want them the other way round, then choose 720p or 1080p. The price is shown before you generate.

   

3. 3Generate and download

   Press Generate. The clip is usually ready in 3 to 6 minutes and is saved to your creations, so you can leave the page. Download the vertical MP4 and post it.

   

Time

Usually 3-6 minutes

Output

Vertical 9:16 MP4, 720p or 1080p

Cost

Paid per video, price shown up front

Watermark

None

CapCut has user-made Hotel Lobby templates. They are free and quick, but a template is a fixed video with your photo pasted over the faces, so the bodies, the moves and the timing belong to whoever made the template.

1. Open CapCut (phone app or desktop) and go to Templates.
2. Search for hotel lobby and open a template whose preview shows the orange booth.
3. Tap Use template and add your photos in the order the template asks for.
4. Preview the result, then export and share.

The catch

• The moves don't match the original. You get the template creator's clip with new faces on top.
• Free exports can carry a CapCut watermark or end screen.
• Length, cuts and framing are fixed by the template, so you can't extend or re-time it.
• Templates come and go. If one disappears, search again.

If you would rather build it yourself, any current video model can get close to the look. Kling, Veo and Sora all take a text prompt plus an optional start image. Starting from a photo of your two people (image-to-video) keeps their faces far closer than text alone.

Start with this prompt and adjust the people and outfits:

Variants for couples, pets, kids and solo videos, plus a negative prompt and settings, are on the Hotel Lobby AI prompts page.

Expect randomness. The same prompt gives different moves every time, and no model reproduces the original choreography from text alone. Budget several attempts and keep the best one.

The face doesn't look like the person

Use a sharper, front-facing photo with even light, and crop so the face is larger in the frame. Remove sunglasses and heavy filters.

The wrong person is on the wrong side

In the generator, swap the left and right photos. In a prompt, describe each person by position, for example "on the left, a woman in a red jacket".

The background isn't orange

This happens with prompts and some templates. Put "seamless matte-orange studio booth" early in the prompt and add "background color other than orange" to the negative prompt.

The lip-sync or audio is out of sync

Templates and prompt videos are not timed to the song. Line up the start in your editor, or add the sound in TikTok and nudge it. The generator keeps the original timing.

Short version: if you want it to look like the real thing, use the generator. If you want free and fast and don't mind different moves, use a CapCut template. If you enjoy tinkering, write a prompt.