# Midjourney V1 Video Model

- Date: 2025-06-18
- Type: model
- Credit: Midjourney
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9PvSeIO5NY
- Post: https://x.com/midjourney/status/1935377193733079452
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/midjourney-video-v1

The biggest image generator finally animates its own stills. Press 'Animate' on any Midjourney image — or drag one in as a start frame — and V1 Video returns four five-second clips, extendable about four seconds at a time out to roughly twenty-one seconds, at 480p and silent, in Automatic or Manual motion modes. Priced at about one image's worth of compute per second of video, Midjourney called it over 25× cheaper than the market. It ships the same month Disney and Universal sue the company — vertical integration and legal jeopardy arriving in the same week. The start-frame factory is now an end-to-end image-to-video tool.

Links:
- Midjourney — V1 Video Model: https://updates.midjourney.com/introducing-our-v1-video-model/
- TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/midjourney-launches-its-first-ai-video-generation-model-v1/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/midjourney-video-v1
Era: 2025 · The Studio Era
Last updated: 2026-09-28