How to Make the Outstanding Tiny Desk AI Video, Step by Step

1. Choose the band size. Open the Tiny Desk AI page or the generator below and tap 1 to 5 next to the photo step.
2. Add the photos. One waist-up photo per person, facing the camera, works best because the band is filmed close. Or switch to one group photo where everyone stands side by side with their face visible.
3. Check the price on the button: 7 credits at 480p, 12 at 720p, 24 at 1080p, the same for one person or five. This one has no free preview: the free 2-second preview is only for the default Hotel Lobby video and the Bulin 47 effect.
4. Create and wait about 5 to 15 minutes. The MP4 is 15 seconds, 9:16, with "Outstanding" on it, ready for TikTok or Reels.

Behind the button, each person is first drawn as a waist-up portrait, and the video model re-shoots the trend clip from its first "Outstanding" with those portraits and the photos for the faces. With a group photo, the people in it are counted first, so a photo of four makes a band of four even if five was picked.

Put the person you want at the red keyboard in photo 1. The person who should crack up laughing in close-up is a good photo 2: a photo where they are already smiling helps.

1. Find a Tiny Desk or Outstanding template post on TikTok; creators link it in the caption.
2. Open it in CapCut or Kling AI, sign in, and upload one photo when the template asks for it.
3. Export, then add the "Outstanding" sound from TikTok’s library if the template did not keep it.

Templates are quick for one face. A whole family or team in their own parts is where they struggle, which is why the trend posts with five different people mostly come from tools that take several photos.

A video prompt can describe the scene (a band crammed in front of a bookshelf, a red keyboard, headphones, a sax solo), but it cannot reproduce the trend’s cuts and timing, and a model given five faces at once often mixes them up. Use it for a look-alike, not for the Outstanding moment itself.

• Waist-up photos with clear faces beat full-length shots taken from far away.
• For a group photo, keep everyone in the frame; a person cut off at the edge may be left out of the count.
• Glasses only appear on people who wear them in their photo.
• Only use photos of people who agreed to be in it. No celebrities, coaches or athletes who did not.
• The song belongs to its rights holders; if an app mutes the post, add "Outstanding" from its sound library.
• Not rendered on this site yet: our results so far come from the same clip and instructions on another site in our group.