How to Edit a Video with AI (Video-to-Video) in Ethiopia, 2026

Video-to-video on Addis Vids lets you upload a short clip (up to 8 seconds), describe what should change — "turn this into an anime scene", "make it night with neon lights", "replace the background with the Simien Mountains" — and get a re-rendered video that keeps the original motion. It runs on Google Gemini Omni 1.1, is priced per second of input in credits, and is paid in Ethiopian Birr.

Step by step

1. 1Open Generate and choose Video-to-video.
2. 2Upload an MP4 clip. Longer clips are trimmed to the first 8 seconds in the built-in trimmer, so pick the part you want.
3. 3Write the edit as an instruction: what changes, what stays. Mention the subject you want preserved.
4. 4Generate. The output matches the input length.
5. 5Download or share, or feed the result back in for a second pass.

What works well

• Style transfer: live footage to animation, painting or film looks.
• Environment swaps: change weather, time of day, or the location behind a subject.
• Product shots: re-light or re-stage a phone-shot product clip for an ad.
• Music-video and TikTok effects without After Effects.

Reference-to-video: keep a subject consistent

If you want the same person, mascot or product across several new clips, use reference-to-video instead: upload one or more reference images (and, on Gemini Omni, short reference clips) and the model generates new footage that keeps that subject. It is the mode to use for a character series or a brand mascot.

Cost

Video-to-video is billed per measured second of the uploaded clip, at the Gemini Omni rate of 205 credits per second — an 8-second edit is 1,640 credits (about 263 Birr). Video-to-video needs a paid account — your 500 signup credits do not cover it.