Why three is the floor
One photo gives the software a flat plate with no depth to work from; any move has to invent what it reveals. Two give a start and an end with an unconstrained middle. Three pin the beginning, the middle and the end of the path, and that is the point at which the result stops arguing with itself. Every Villenza move asks for three; some accept an optional fourth.
What each photo does
- 1The opening frame — where the clip starts, exactly.
- 2One or more views along the path — what the camera passes through.
- 3The landing frame — where the clip ends, exactly.
How many rooms
Four to six for social; more for the full walk-through. The listing video guide covers choosing them, and the photos-to-video guide covers what makes a set work.
Questions
Do more photos make a better clip?
Up to a point. Several photos along the middle of the path help; more than a handful in one clip and the model starts to skip or blend them. Villenza caps a clip at eight.
Will my existing listing photos work?
Usually most of them: professional sets have the wide and the feature shot for each room and lack the step between. One extra photo per room on the next visit completes the set.
Read next
- How to Turn Real Estate Photos Into a VideoHow real estate video from photos works: what the software needs from a photo set, which sets turn into a convincing moving shot, which fail, and how to fix a set before you upload.
- How to Make a Real Estate Listing Video (Without a Videographer)A step-by-step guide to making a real estate listing video from the photos you already have: which rooms to cover, how to shoot each one, and how to cut it for the MLS and social.
- How to Make a Dolly Real Estate VideoA dolly copies the first thing a buyer does at a showing: walk in. Everything grows as the camera moves forward, so the room feels like a place you enter rather than a picture you look at.