Video Workflows

InvokeAI ships ten ready-made video workflows so you can start generating video without wiring up nodes yourself. Each one is a complete recipe — open it from the Workflows library, pick your models, type a prompt (and/or drop in an image), and press Invoke.

This page helps you choose the right workflow and run it. For how the models work under the hood, VRAM details, and troubleshooting, see the Video Generation guide.

Experimental

Video generation is a prototype feature. These workflows and the models behind them are new — expect rough edges, and check the Video Generation guide if something misbehaves.

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Before you start

1. Install the video models. Open the Model Manager and install a Wan 2.2 starter bundle (Text-to-Video and/or Image-to-Video). The Video Generation guide explains the bundles and what fits your GPU.

2. You’ll select models when you open a workflow. The shipped workflows come with their model slots left empty on purpose — every InvokeAI install stores models a little differently, so a workflow can’t point at yours automatically. When you open one, look at its Notes panel (the note icon in the workflow editor): it lists exactly which model to pick in each slot. Drop those in once and you’re set.

Tip

Whenever a workflow won’t run because a model field is empty, open its Notes — the shopping list of models to select is right there.

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Which workflow should I use?

The workflows come in three families — Text to Video, Image to Video, and Extend Video — each with a high-quality option, a “concept LoRA” variant, and a lighter low-VRAM option — plus an Interpolate workflow that bridges two images and an Extend Video to Image variant that steers a continuation toward a target frame.

I want to…	Use	Notes
Make a clip from a text description	Text to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning	Best quality, fast. Start here.
Animate an existing image	Image to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning	Your image becomes the first frame.
Make a video between two images	Interpolate 2 Images to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning	Provide a start and end image; the model interpolates between them.
Make a video longer than ~5 seconds	Extend Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning	Continues an existing video and stitches the pieces together.
Extend a video toward a specific end frame	Extend Video to Image - Wan 2.2 Lightning	Continues a video and interpolates the new part to a target image.
Add my own style/subject LoRAs	the w/ Concept LoRAs variant of any of the above	Same as the base workflow, plus slots for your LoRAs.
Run on a smaller GPU (≈12–16 GB)	a TI2V-5B (Low Quality) workflow	Smaller model, lower memory, lower quality.

If you’re not sure, start with Text to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning to get a feel for it, then move to Image-to-Video and Extend.

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Bundled video workflows

Text to Video

Text to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning

Type a prompt, get a ~5-second clip. Uses the high-quality A14B model with the Lightning speed-up (just 4 steps). The recommended starting point.

Text to Video - …w/ Concept LoRAs

The same workflow, plus extra slots for your own concept LoRAs (a style or character you’ve trained or downloaded). Every LoRA slot must be filled — if you don’t have concept LoRAs to add, use the plain version instead.

Text to Video - Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B (Low Quality)

Uses the smaller TI2V-5B model. Lower quality and slower per result, but fits comfortably on 12–16 GB GPUs. Good for quick drafts or smaller cards.

Image to Video

Image to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning

Drop in a starting image and a prompt; the model animates outward from your image as the first frame. Uses the A14B model + Lightning. The recommended image-to-video starting point.

Image to Video - …w/ Concept LoRAs

Same as above, with slots for your own concept LoRAs.

Image to Video - Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B (Low Quality)

Image-to-video on the smaller TI2V-5B model. Lower quality, lower VRAM — the low-memory option for animating an image.

Interpolate Between Two Images

Interpolate 2 Images to Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning

Provide a start image and an end image; the model generates a clip that begins on the first and animates smoothly to the second (first-last-frame interpolation). Great for morphing between two stills or bridging two shots. Uses I2V-A14B + Lightning (4-step).

The “Concept LoRAs” variants need a LoRA in every slot

A concept LoRA is an add-on that teaches the model a specific style, character, or subject. The w/ Concept LoRAs workflows are the same as their plain counterparts but add extra LoRA slots. Every LoRA slot is required — if any slot, including the extra concept ones, is left empty, the workflow won’t run. Only use these variants when you actually have concept LoRAs to apply; otherwise use the plain version.

About the “TI2V-5B (Low Quality)” variants

“Low quality” here means lower than the A14B Lightning workflows, in exchange for running on much less video memory. On a 12–16 GB GPU they may be your best (or only) option, and they’re handy everywhere for fast drafts.

Extend Video

The Wan models are trained on short (~5 second) clips, so the way to make something longer is to continue a video and stitch the pieces together. These workflows do that for you.

Extend Video - Wan 2.2 Lightning

Provide an existing video and use the sliders to choose where to continue from. The workflow generates a new clip starting from that point and joins it onto the original with a smooth transition. Run it repeatedly to keep growing the video.

Extend Video - …w/ Concept LoRAs

Same as above, with slots for your own concept LoRAs so the continuation keeps your style or subject.

Extend Video to Image - Wan 2.2 Lightning

Continue a video toward a target image. Provide a starting video and a destination image; the new segment interpolates from the video’s last frame to your image (FLF2V), then joins onto the original with a smooth transition. Combines the Extend and Interpolate ideas — useful for steering where a continuation ends up.

Using “Extend Video to Image”

This variant takes two inputs — the source video and a destination image:

1. Drop your video into the video input and use the start/end frame sliders to pick the slice to continue from.
2. Drop a destination image into the image input. The generated continuation interpolates from the video’s last selected frame to this image, so the extended clip ends on your image.
3. Invoke. The new segment is concatenated onto the source with a cross-fade — tune the join (transition type and frame count) on the Concatenate Videos node.

Because the endpoint is pinned to your image, it’s ideal for bridging a clip to a known next shot or landing on a specific final frame.

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Running a workflow

1. Open the Workflows tab and load one of the workflows from the library.

2. Read the Notes (note icon) and select the models it lists — the main model, VAE, and text encoder, plus the Lightning LoRA pair on the A14B workflows.

3. Set your inputs:

   • Text to Video — type a positive prompt describing the scene and motion.
   • Image to Video — drop a starting image into the image field, and optionally add a prompt.
   • Extend Video — provide a starting video and use the sliders to pick where the continuation begins.

4. (Optional) adjust resolution. The defaults are chosen to balance speed and memory. If you hit an out-of-memory error, lower the resolution preset — see the VRAM tips below.

5. Press Invoke. The finished MP4 appears in the gallery and plays inline in the viewer.

Tip

Leave the frame count and steps at their defaults to start. They’re already tuned for each workflow (for example, the Lightning workflows use only 4 steps, which is what makes them fast).

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Which one fits my GPU?

A rough guide — exact numbers depend on resolution and your system. See Video Generation → OOM errors for the full picture.

Your GPU	Best choice
24 GB and up	Any workflow at 720p.
16–24 GB	A14B Lightning workflows at 480p; TI2V-5B at up to 720p.
12–16 GB	The TI2V-5B (Low Quality) workflows.

If you get an out-of-memory error, lower the resolution first (it helps far more than reducing the frame count), and switch to a TI2V-5B workflow if you’re still over budget.

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Going further

These workflows are starting points. Once you’re comfortable, the Video Generation guide covers what’s happening inside them — the model variants, how image conditioning works, the trick for chaining clips into longer videos, recommended parameters, and troubleshooting.

Read the Video Generation guide