Step 1: Start from the photos of the shoot
Use the professional photos from the listing shoot, at full size. Screenshots and the small copies on a listing site look soft on a big screen, and a video is only as sharp as its photos. Bring the real photos, not edited versions: a video made from a photo that hides a crack or adds a lawn carries the same problem as the photo, in motion. Pick one good photo of each room and each outside view, and leave out the near-duplicates.
You do
- Bringing the real, full-size photos from the shoot
- Leaving out any photo that shows the home differently from how it is
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- Keeping every photo as it is: no retouching, nothing added
Step 2: Put the photos in the order a buyer walks the home
A tour reads like a showing. Start outside, at the front of the home, walk in through the entry, then the main rooms, the kitchen, and the bedrooms, and finish where the home is at its best: the back yard, the pool, or the view. If one room sells the home, it can also go first, as the hook. Keep each photo on screen for a few seconds: long enough to see the room, short enough to keep moving.
You do
- Naming the room that goes first, if one sells the home
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- The order, from the front of the home to the back
- How long each photo stays on screen
Step 3: Move the camera slowly over each photo
A still photo comes alive with a slow camera move: a zoom toward the best part of the room, or a pan across a wide room. Slow is the word. A fast zoom looks cheap, and a move that runs past the edge of the photo shows space that isn't there. Point each move at what the buyer should notice: the island, the windows, the view.
You do
- Saying what a buyer should notice in a room, when it matters to you
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- A slow zoom or pan on every photo, aimed at the best part of the room
Step 4: Make the wide tour and the vertical reel from the same photos
One set of photos makes two videos. A wide 16:9 tour fits your website, YouTube, and a listing presentation on a TV. A vertical 9:16 reel fits Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. Frame each one for its screen from the full-size photo: a vertical video cut out of a wide one looks soft, because it uses only a narrow strip of it.
You do
- Choosing where each one gets posted
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- Both shapes, each framed from the full-size photo
Step 5: Add motion only where it is real
Some photos already have something in motion: water in a pool, a ceiling fan, palm leaves, a fire. AI can make that part move while the camera stays still, and the home stays exactly as the photo shows it. A camera that flies from one room into the next is different. No photo shows the space in between, so the AI draws it, and what it draws may not match the home. If you use a move like that, label it on screen. NAR's Code of Ethics asks for a true picture in advertising (Article 12): never let a video show the home differently from how it is.
You do
- Saying yes or no to motion on a photo
- Asking for a move between rooms, if you want one
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- Motion that stays inside the photo, with the camera still
- The on-screen label on any move between rooms
Step 6: Add short captions, then watch it like a buyer
Give each room a short caption, a few words that name what's there, and put your name at the end. Then watch the tour once the way a buyer would. Does anything look different from the house? Does a room look bigger, newer, or greener than it is? If it does, cut that shot. Add a song in Instagram or TikTok when you post the reel.
You do
- The last check before you post
- Posting it on your website and your accounts
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- A short caption for each room
- Your name at the end, when you want it
Where Reddy fits
Send Reddy your listing photos in your chat, or upload them on the Content page of your Workspace, and ask for a photo tour. Reddy puts the photos in order, moves the camera slowly over each one, writes a short caption for each room, and sends back both previews: a 16:9 tour and a 9:16 reel. Ask for a change in plain words, such as "start with the pool" or "change the kitchen caption", and a new version comes back.
A tour starts with no AI motion. Where something in a photo already moves, Reddy offers to add that motion once, and you decide. A move from one room into the next is made only when you ask for it. The AI draws the space between the two photos, so it may not match the home, and the move shows an "AI-made motion" label while it plays. Reddy never adds, removes, or changes anything in your photos, adds no music, and doesn't post for you.