Add friends or coworkers to a Tiny Desk AI video
The short version: the group is already in the clip. You upload the person who should lead, and the band behind the desk comes with the template. That is the whole trick, and it is also why a group photo is the wrong upload.
How the swap works
Each template is a finished reference clip with one lead performer. The model keeps that performance — the timing, the head turns, the moment the camera lands — and replaces the lead’s identity with the face, hair and outfit from your photo. The other performers never change, because the model is not asked to touch them.
That is why one upload is enough for a clip that looks like a group activity.
Which template suits which crew
Friends Band is four people losing it behind you — the pick for a real friend group. College Teammates packs a shouting team into the frame and reads as a club, a team or a cohort. Coaches’ Desk turns headphones, a whistle and a playbook into a session, which lands better with colleagues than with friends. Five Strangers is five people meeting for the first time, and The Original Desk is the warm office concert with the sax solo.
All four group templates run 14 seconds except Five Strangers at 11.
Send one portrait, not a group photo
A group photo produces a worse result than a single portrait. The model has one slot for the lead, so extra faces are ignored rather than blended in, and a wide shot makes every face smaller and softer. Crop to the person who should lead the performance, head and shoulders, front-facing, evenly lit.
If you want everyone in it, there is a better route: run the same template once per person. Same band, same room, same camera — a set instead of a crowded frame.
Consent, and whose face goes in
Upload your own photo, or one you have permission to use. Coworkers count: ask before you put a colleague in a branded clip. Photos of celebrities and public figures are rejected, and a generated clip must not be presented as real footage of a real person or of a real event.
A team account posting an AI clip of the team should say it is AI. That single line keeps it funny instead of misleading.