--- title: "Put 1–5 People in the Band — 19s Video | Tiny Desk AI" description: "Put 1–5 people into the 19-second Outstanding Tiny Desk performance. Keep the original music and cuts. 480p–1080p, no app, no prompt." canonical_url: "https://tiny-desk-video.com/" locale: en meta: "og:description": "Put 1–5 people into the 19-second Outstanding Tiny Desk performance. Keep the original music and cuts. 480p–1080p, no app, no prompt." "og:image": "https://tiny-desk-video.com/og.jpg" "og:image:alt": "Put 1–5 People in the Band — 19s Video — Tiny Desk AI" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Put 1–5 People in the Band — 19s Video" "twitter:description": "Put 1–5 people into the 19-second Outstanding Tiny Desk performance. Keep the original music and cuts. 480p–1080p, no app, no prompt." "twitter:image": "https://tiny-desk-video.com/og.jpg" "twitter:image:alt": "Put 1–5 People in the Band — 19s Video — Tiny Desk AI" "twitter:title": "Put 1–5 People in the Band — 19s Video" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://tiny-desk-video.com/llms.txt) **The Outstanding Tiny Desk trend** # Tiny Desk AI **Put 1–5 people in the band** Upload one photo — or five. We keep the original 19-second Tiny Desk performance, the music and the camera cuts, then swap the performers for the people you choose. Vertical 9:16. No app, no prompt, no timeline. Every clip on this page is a real render of the same 457-frame master. Unmute any card to hear the original track. **No subscription · Original music kept · Failed renders are never charged** **How it works** ## Five photos in. One 19-second film out. The clip has five fixed seats: lead singer, keyboard, two backing vocals and saxophone. Each seat is optional. Fill all five and the whole band changes; fill one and only that performer changes, while the rest of the band stays exactly as it is in the original. The music, the four hard cuts, the camera moves and the 9:16 framing are untouched. That is why the result still reads as the clip you already know — only the people are yours. **Make my band video** **You upload** ![One of the example portraits uploaded to a Tiny Desk AI seat](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/examples/cast-lead.webp)![One of the example portraits uploaded to a Tiny Desk AI seat](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/examples/cast-keys.webp)![One of the example portraits uploaded to a Tiny Desk AI seat](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/examples/cast-vocal-left.webp)![One of the example portraits uploaded to a Tiny Desk AI seat](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/examples/cast-vocal-right.webp)![One of the example portraits uploaded to a Tiny Desk AI seat](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/examples/cast-sax.webp) **You get** ![Tiny Desk AI example video with five performers replaced](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/examples/tinydesk-5-people-poster.webp) **What it is** ## What is Tiny Desk AI? Tiny Desk AI is a video tool built for the “Outstanding Tiny Desk” meme: a 19-second vertical clip of a band performing The Gap Band's “Outstanding”, where the performers are replaced with faces you upload. It is not a text-to-video generator. Nothing about the performance is invented. The original music, the four hard cuts and the camera moves stay locked, and only the people at five fixed seats change. Choose anywhere from one to five seats, add a clear portrait for each, pick 480p, 720p or 1080p, and the clip renders in a few minutes with the original audio bed. - —19.04 seconds, 457 frames, 24fps, 9:16 — the exact structure of the viral clip. - —One to five optional seats. Empty seats keep the original performer. - —Original audio, no watermark, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. ![Before and after: the original band frame and the same frame with five performers replaced](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/bg/before-after.webp) Left: the reference frame. Right: the same frame after five seats were replaced. **The line-up** ## Who you can replace Five fixed seats. Each maps to a specific person in the reference, and each is optional. The numbering is the order photos are passed to the model, so a seat always means the same person across renders. - ![Lead singer](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/seats/lead.webp) **1**** Lead singer** The close-up. The laugh, the head turn, the line everyone replays. - ![Keyboard](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/seats/keys.webp) **2**** Keyboard** Front-centre behind the red keyboard. Appears in three of the five shots. - ![Backing vocal · left](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/seats/vocal-left.webp) **3**** Backing vocal · left** Stands on the left of the band and fist-pumps in the wide shots. - ![Backing vocal · right](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/seats/vocal-right.webp) **4**** Backing vocal · right** Stands on the right of the band with glasses and claps on the beat. - ![Saxophone](https://tiny-desk-video.com/media/seats/sax.webp) **5**** Saxophone** Owns the sax solo near the end of the clip. An empty seat is not removed from the shot — the original performer simply stays. **Three steps** ## How Tiny Desk AI works No timeline, no prompt, no plugin. The only decision is who goes on stage. 1. ### **Pick the seats** Tap a seat and add a clear, front-facing portrait. One is enough to start; five fills the band. 2. ### **We render each shot** The clip is five shots. Only the shots containing one of your people are re-rendered, then stitched back on the original hard cuts. 3. ### **Download and post** You get a vertical MP4 with the original music and no watermark. Post it, or download a silent copy for platforms that mute licensed music. **Make my band video** **Ideas** ## What people make with it Sports groups, offices, birthdays, group chats — anywhere a fixed cast of characters should end up on stage. ### **The friend group** Five faces, one band. Fill every seat and drop it in the group chat. ### **The team that lost** The original meme was a losing college-football line-up. Same energy for your five-a-side team. ### **Birthdays and send-offs** Put the birthday person in the lead seat so the close-up belongs to them. ### **Work and weddings** The whole team or the whole wedding party, seated exactly like the original band. **Pricing** ## One-time credits. No subscription. Buy credits once. They never expire, and a failed render is never charged. Two things set the price: how many of the five seats you fill, and the resolution. **Starter** **$6.99** 7 credits **1.00 credits per $1** - ✓1–5 people in one video - ✓Original music and camera cuts - ✓720×1280 vertical, no watermark - ✓Credits never expire - ✓Failed renders are free **Band Pack** **$14.99** 16 credits Save 7% vs Starter ·** 1.07 credits per $1** - ✓1–5 people in one video - ✓Original music and camera cuts - ✓720×1280 vertical, no watermark - ✓Credits never expire - ✓Failed renders are free **Studio Pack** **$44.99** 50 credits Save 11% vs Starter ·** 1.11 credits per $1** - ✓1–5 people in one video - ✓Original music and camera cuts - ✓720×1280 vertical, no watermark - ✓Credits never expire - ✓Failed renders are free ### **What one 19-second video costs** | **Cast** | **480p ** | **720p ****Best value** | **1080p ** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **Solo**1 performer, 2 shots | **7**credits | **10**credits | **15**credits | | **Duo / trio**2–3 performers | **9**credits | **13**credits | **20**credits | | **Full band**4–5 performers, all 5 shots | **11**credits | **16**credits | **25**credits | Credits per finished video. 480p is the cheap check, 720p is the default for posting, 1080p is an AI upscale of the 720p master. **Why this one** ## A fixed performance, not a slot machine Most AI video tools ask you to describe a scene and hope for the best. This one already knows the scene. - ### **The music is the original** We never generate audio. The original track is muxed back at full length, so the beat lands on the same frames as the clip you have already seen. - ### **One photo or five, same flow** Seats are optional. You never have to assemble four friends before you can try it. - ### **Only the shots you touch get rendered** Replace just the lead and only his two shots are generated. That is faster and cheaper than re-rendering all 19 seconds. - ### **Vertical, watermark-free** 720×1280 at 24fps with no logo burned in, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. - ### **Failed renders refund themselves** If a photo fails the safety check or a shot fails upstream, the credits go straight back to your account. - ### **Private by default** Photos are used to render your video and deleted with it after 14 days. Ask us and we will delete them sooner. **Guides** ## Questions people actually ask Each page answers one thing: how it works, which photo to use, what it costs, and where the limits are. **FAQ** ## Tiny Desk AI FAQ Short answers to the things people ask before they upload a photo. Still deciding? Start with [the full how-to](https://tiny-desk-video.com/how-to-make-tiny-desk-ai-video) ## Put your people on stage One photo is enough to start. Five makes the whole band. **Make my band video** [**See pricing**](https://tiny-desk-video.com/pricing) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Tiny Desk AI","url":"https://tiny-desk-video.com","logo":"https://tiny-desk-video.com/icon.png","email":"help@tiny-desk-video.com","description":"Tiny Desk AI puts 1–5 people into the 19-second Outstanding Tiny Desk performance: same music, same camera cuts, 9:16 vertical video."},{"@type":"WebApplication","name":"Tiny Desk AI","url":"https://tiny-desk-video.com","applicationCategory":"MultimediaApplication","operatingSystem":"Web","description":"Put 1–5 people into the 19-second Outstanding Tiny Desk performance. 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