A shop that already has a sentence, or a photograph of the thing it sells, still has to decide what the video is for. A caption on the site is not yet a shot. A product photo is not yet a scene. The useful split is simple. One path starts from the words. The other starts from a picture you are allowed to use. Neither path is a pile of free tools, and neither one posts itself.
The line you write
Topview T1 AI Video Generator is the name for Topview’s first video model. The page also calls it the newest. You describe the action, the people or the product, the mood, and the camera. Text is a full way in. A reference image can guide the look, and audio can guide the sound, when you have the right to use them. The glance card allows up to 50 assets combining image, video, and audio.
One generation runs up to 30 seconds. Output is 720p or 1080p, and the published price is for 1080p. Every member pays 2.2 credits per second, against a list price of 2.75 credits per second. The rate does not change with the plan. Thirty seconds at 1080p is 6.60 US dollars on this model. The same page prices thirty seconds at 1080p on Seedance 2.5 at 17.55 US dollars, about 62 per cent less on T1. Ultra Annual members also receive 30 days of unlimited T1 generation. That extra sits on that plan. Minutes of generated footage are not the length of the finished edit.
The page recommends 1080p for everyday work. A phone post may want a vertical frame. The starter example on the page is 16:9, five seconds, and silent. Dialogue and subtitles can be written in more than one language. The line still has to be one you wrote, about a product you sell.
The jobs the page names are short drama, film shots, animation, a music video, variety, and a studio doing more than one take at that same rate. A shop video is the short case: one product, one action, one line a customer should remember. A photograph of the product can be a guide. The clip is a new picture. Small type on a label can drift. If the post has to show the real packet, use the photograph.
The brief you should not retype next week
Next week’s product is different. The way the shop’s videos should look often is not. Lighting, colour, and pacing get typed again, then a file gets downloaded from a chat and uploaded somewhere else.
A Topview Bot sits in the Board and can remember those preferences. It can bring them in from ChatGPT, from Claude, or from a Board you already use. You can also say the rules in your own words. Read what it kept. A look saved for a dark launch film will miss a bright daytime product.
On the Board, the conversation and the generation stay in one place. A result the product supports can go into the next task without a download and a second upload. You still watch the shot. The Bot is not the video model. It does not set the 1080p price, and it does not lengthen a generation past the model’s limit.
If you can picture a move and cannot find a frame, describe it in ordinary language. The Bot searches the film references it can reach, and it can also look through image results and Pinterest. Which sources come back depends on the task. Use the frame as a reference for the motion. Leave it out of the shop’s post.
When stills and cuts pile up, ask the Bot to group them. When the same steps return each week, it can store that sequence as a Skill. Memory is the look. A Skill is the sequence. Sharing a configured Bot with a colleague is marked as a preview. What travels with it, who can open it, and when it is finished can still change.
A short start
- Write the product, the action, and the line a customer should remember. Keep the action inside 30 seconds.
- Set the look in the Bot, or bring it from a chat or a Board you already trust, if this week should match last week.
- Give the model the action, the mood, and the camera. Add a photograph only when you may use it.
- Choose the length, the shape of the frame, and 1080p unless you have a reason to use 720p.
- Generate, watch, and change the note if the move or the label is wrong. Another take is the same per-second rate. It is still a draft until you accept it.
What a free-tool list leaves out
A list that calls every generator free, unlimited, and ready in minutes is not a description of this model. The page prints a rate. One generation stops at about 30 seconds. A photograph guides the shot and does not have to survive unchanged. Commercial use follows the terms and the plan. Anything you upload has to be something you are allowed to use. The shop’s sentence, and the packet you actually sell, still have to be checked by a person.
