How to cast a five-person Tiny Desk AI concert

Start with the Outstanding band scene

Open the editor and choose Outstanding band. The scene sets the presentation; you decide which roles receive your portraits by tapping them directly. A five-role band can contain one supplied identity and four fictional adults, or five supplied identities.

For five different people, add a portrait to all five positions. If you only have three portraits ready, place them on any three roles: lead, backing vocals, keys or sax. You can also supply just the sax player; a lead photo is not required. Empty roles become fictional adults. A duet has two singer positions and accepts a portrait on either one or both.

Want to compare the whole set first? The Tiny Desk AI scene guide explains Outstanding band, both solo sessions and both duets.

Put each portrait in the role you want it to play

The upload board is a visual map. Tap the large plus over a role, choose that person’s portrait, and check the thumbnail that appears. Tap the thumbnail to replace it. You can also drop an image onto a position and remove it with the control below the board.

1. 01Lead singerThe main close-up
2. 02Backing singer · leftViewer’s left backing voice
3. 03Backing singer · rightViewer’s right backing voice
4. 04Keyboard playerAt the keyboard
5. 05Sax playerThe sax close-up

Illustrative portraits and role positions. The map assigns identities; it does not paste faces into the reference footage or guarantee an identical final composition.

Left and right mean the viewer’s left and right. Decide the assignments before adding photos, especially when everyone sends a portrait separately. An easy preparation method is to name your files lead, left-vocal, right-vocal, keys and sax. Those filenames are a personal checklist; the position you select in the editor determines the role.

Use one consenting adult per photo, even if you start from a group picture

Choose an individual portrait for each role. Keep the face clear enough to recognise, with both eyes visible and without a heavy filter. If you only have a group picture, make an individual crop of each person before uploading. The editor does not split a group photo into five faces automatically.

Inspect each crop at normal size. Enlarging a tiny face does not recover detail that was never in the original. If a crop becomes soft or pixelated, ask that person for a separate photo. The photo guide shows clear, dark, small and blurry references so you can compare before spending a credit.

Each person must be an adult who has agreed to this AI use of their likeness. The product creates a fictional performance; it is not a recording of those people actually singing or playing instruments.

Check the cast and frame before using a video credit

Review my concert opens a free, local storyboard. It is useful for finding a misplaced portrait or wrong option; it is not a generated sample and cannot prove that all five identities will stay accurate in motion. Changing scenes keeps unused portraits locally. Only photos assigned to roles in the current scene go into generation.

HD is 15 seconds at 720p, with a single video priced at $9.90. Adding people does not increase the selected quality’s credit cost. Full HD uses a different model and credit balance; see the resolution and model comparison before choosing it.

After payment adds the required credit, generation still needs your confirmation. If a completed result has a serious technical issue, save its job ID and ask support to review it before repeating the same paid request.