“Google Veo 3.1: Supports a Frames to Video workflow using an opening and closing image, making it useful for shots that need to land on a specific composition.”
“Best for cinematic transitions”
“Upload a starting and ending image.”
“Describe the motion between them.”
“Available in multiple Veo 3.1 quality modes.”
“Pika: Pikaframes allows two to five ordered images, with AI-generated transitions between consecutive images.”
“Two to five images.”
“Generates motion between each pair.”
“Useful for more stylized, sequential animations.”
“Runway: An important distinction: Runway's own Gen-4.5 model is not the same as using Kling or Veo inside Runway's model marketplace.”
“Not natively in its own model”
“No equivalent native timeline keyframe system”
“Seedance 2.5: Supports first-and-last-frame generation, useful for controlled visual transitions.”
“Supports first-and-last-frame generation, useful for controlled visual transitions.”
“MiniMax H3 | Yes | Yes | First/last-frame control”
“Kling: Its Start and End Frames feature is explicitly designed to generate a transition between two uploaded images.”
“Explicit first and last frames.”
“Additional keyframes in supported settings.”
“Good for controlled camera and subject transitions.”
“Kling 4.0 also offers more flexible keyframe control.”
“Luma: Ray 3.2 is particularly interesting because it goes beyond just two images.”
“Up to 64 image anchors.”
“Can specify where keyframes occur in the timeline.”
“Better suited to complex, staged motion.”
“Its documented workflow supports up to 64 keyframes, with control over when keyframes occur in the timeline.”