Making AI dance videos for Reels and TikTok
For Reels and TikTok, pick a vertical full-body template with large, legible movement, keep the clip short, and make sure the first second already shows the person moving — a feed gives a video about one second to earn the next one.
Framing for a vertical feed
Short-form is 9:16 and watched at arm's length on a phone. A routine with small, intricate footwork reads as nothing at that size; a routine with big arm movement reads clearly.
Generate in the aspect ratio you will post in. Cropping a horizontal clip to vertical throws away the sides of the frame, which on a dance video is where the arms are.
The first second
Pick a template that starts moving immediately. A routine that opens with two still beats has spent the only second you were given.
This is a template choice more than an editing one — trimming an AI clip to skip a slow opening also throws away seconds you paid for.
Length
Shorter is both cheaper and better here. Identity drift grows with length, feeds reward completion, and a fifteen-second AI clip gives a viewer more time to find the frame where the hands go wrong.
Disclosure
Both platforms have AI-content labelling, and both have gotten better at detecting generated video whether or not you declare it. Labelling it yourself costs nothing and is the difference between a novelty and a takedown.
Posting a generated video of someone who did not agree to be in it is a separate problem, and platform rules are the least of it.