Animate a Product Photo with Magic Hour

Animate a product photo, wait for the video and retrieve the file.

Setup

Connect Magic Hour in Generate the video and Check the video project. Set the image URL or uploaded asset path and prompt in Generate the video. The template requests a one-second, silent 480p video with ltx-2.5. Allow the video download hostname in Download the video; the default is videos.magichour.ai and the returned URL may use another host.

In n8n, install the Magic Hour community node (the source used version 1.0.3), connect its API credential and set the image URL or uploaded asset path and prompt in Magic Hour. The model is configured as an expression for ltx-2.5 because version 1.0.3 does not list it in the model menu. Run either format manually.

Behavior

The workflow creates one video project and waits 10 seconds between status checks. Open Flow makes at most 60 checks; request time can extend the run beyond 10 minutes. n8n polls for roughly 10 minutes. A completed video is downloaded. Open Flow returns the download URL, project ID and run-owned video artifact; the temporary vendor URL can expire. n8n returns the downloaded binary. Generated videos may differ between runs; review the result.

Generation, polling or download failure stops the workflow. A lost response or timeout can occur after the project was created. Inspect Magic Hour and use the project ID in the execution before retrying; a new run creates another project. Open Flow accepts MP4 downloads up to 1 MiB, and its artifact is available to subsequent workflow steps. Restrict access to temporary URLs and generated content.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

• Both formats use ltx-2.5, a currently documented model, in place of the source’s ltx-2.3. Open Flow uses formal video creation and project-status Actions with a visible polling loop and artifact download; it validates MP4 bytes and returns the project ID and temporary URL.

Adapted from Animate a product photo with Magic Hour in enescingoz/awesome-n8n-templates.

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