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HeyGen Video

HeyGen · Video · Text → Video

HeyGen Video — video with native audio from text, a first-frame image, or up to 12 reference images, videos and audio. Refer to references in the prompt as Picture 1, Video 1, in input order. Up to 15s at 768p.

Model ID: heygen-video-1Workflow: heygen/v1/models/video/generate
Start FrameMulti-Image InputVideo InputAudio InputAudio5-15 sec
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Overview

Alongside the unified model APIs, we expose compatibility APIs that take each vendor's original parameters exactly as the vendor defines them — nothing renamed, nothing reshaped on the way through.

That makes them the shortest path onto Picsart if you already work with the vendor directly: the request bodies you've already written keep working as they are. You keep their parameter names and defaults, and you get the vendor's full parameter set rather than the subset that is shared across every model.

The cost is that a request is written for one vendor — switching models later means rewriting it, and results come back in the vendor's own shape. When you'd rather write once and change models freely, use the unified API.

Make a request

Call the workflow with ai.apis.run() in TypeScript, or hit /workflows/{workflow}/execute directly — params is passed through untouched either way.

These endpoints are addressed by workflow name rather than model id: the one in this model's header, since one model runs as one workflow. Authentication is unchanged — your Picsart API key as a bearer token (see Authentication).

ts
import { createClient, ApiRunMode } from '@picsart/ai-sdk';

const ai = createClient({
  apiKey: process.env.PICSART_API_KEY,
  apiUrl: 'https://api.picsart.com',
});

// Calls the 'heygen/v1/models/video/generate' workflow directly — params are sent as-is.
const { result, usage } = await ai.apis.run('heygen/v1/models/video/generate', {
  prompt: "A serene mountain lake at golden hour, ultra detailed"
}, {
  mode: ApiRunMode.SYNC,
});

console.log(result); // workflow-specific output
console.log(usage?.credits); // credits charged

Async (submit & poll)

This model can run longer than the sync limit (~20s). In TypeScript, ai.apis.run(…, { mode: ApiRunMode.ASYNC }) polls for you; over HTTP, submit and poll yourself.

ts
import { createClient, ApiRunMode } from '@picsart/ai-sdk';

const ai = createClient({
  apiKey: process.env.PICSART_API_KEY,
  apiUrl: 'https://api.picsart.com',
});

// mode: ASYNC submits the job and polls under the hood — you just await.
const { result } = await ai.apis.run('heygen/v1/models/video/generate', {
  prompt: "A serene mountain lake at golden hour, ultra detailed"
}, {
  mode: ApiRunMode.ASYNC,
});

console.log(result);

Parameters

13 parameters, sent inside params. These are the vendor's own names, so they line up one-for-one with the vendor's documentation. Required ones must be supplied; the rest fall back to their defaults.

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDetails
prompt
Scene description, 1 to 32,000 characters. Long prompts give materially better output. The generated audio is directed by the same prompt
stringyes——
model
Model identifier; defaults to heygen-video-1
stringno——
mode
How the model is conditioned. Resolved from the inputs when omitted: image → image_to_video, any reference → reference_to_video, a bare prompt → text_to_video. Each mode has its own fields — a field from another mode is refused when it carries a value
stringno—
text_to_videoimage_to_videoreference_to_video
duration
Clip length in whole seconds, 5 to 15; defaults to 5
numberno——
resolution
Size class; defaults to 768p
stringno—
480p768p
aspect_ratio
Output shape. text_to_video defaults to 16:9; reference_to_video defaults to adaptive (the first reference's ratio); image_to_video always follows the first frame
stringno—
21:916:94:31:13:49:16adaptive
prompt_enhancement
Pre-generation prompt expansion; defaults to turbo. Use disabled to have a fully written prompt followed word for word
stringno—
turboqualitydisabled
seed
Unsigned 32-bit seed. The same prompt and seed return an identical clip; random when omitted. The completed job reports the seed it used
numberno——
image
First frame of the clip (image_to_video only, required there). The output opens exactly on this image and follows its shape
objectno——
└type
How the media is supplied
stringyes—
urlasset_idbase64
└url
Public HTTPS URL of the media (for url type). The vendor fetches it without following redirects
stringno——
└asset_id
HeyGen asset ID from POST /v3/assets (for asset_id type)
stringno——
└media_type
MIME type of the inline media, e.g. image/jpeg (for base64 type)
stringno——
└data
Base64-encoded media (for base64 type)
stringno——
reference_images
Reference images whose subjects survive into the shot (reference_to_video only, at most 9). List order is the prompt label: the first entry is <Picture 1>
MediaReference[]no——
└type
How the media is supplied
stringyes—
urlasset_idbase64
└url
Public HTTPS URL of the media (for url type). The vendor fetches it without following redirects
stringno——
└asset_id
HeyGen asset ID from POST /v3/assets (for asset_id type)
stringno——
└media_type
MIME type of the inline media, e.g. image/jpeg (for base64 type)
stringno——
└data
Base64-encoded media (for base64 type)
stringno——
reference_videos
Reference videos (reference_to_video only, at most 3). The first entry is <Video 1>
MediaReference[]no——
└type
How the media is supplied
stringyes—
urlasset_idbase64
└url
Public HTTPS URL of the media (for url type). The vendor fetches it without following redirects
stringno——
└asset_id
HeyGen asset ID from POST /v3/assets (for asset_id type)
stringno——
└media_type
MIME type of the inline media, e.g. image/jpeg (for base64 type)
stringno——
└data
Base64-encoded media (for base64 type)
stringno——
reference_audio
Reference audio (reference_to_video only, at most 3). At most 12 references in total across all three lists
MediaReference[]no——
└type
How the media is supplied
stringyes—
urlasset_idbase64
└url
Public HTTPS URL of the media (for url type). The vendor fetches it without following redirects
stringno——
└asset_id
HeyGen asset ID from POST /v3/assets (for asset_id type)
stringno——
└media_type
MIME type of the inline media, e.g. image/jpeg (for base64 type)
stringno——
└data
Base64-encoded media (for base64 type)
stringno——
options
Options controlling safety checks and drive integration
objectno——
└safety_checks
Safety check settings
objectno——
└enabled
Whether to run content moderation. Defaults to true.
booleanno——
└drive
Save result to Picsart Drive
objectno——
└name
File name in Picsart Drive
stringyes——
└attributes
Custom attributes to attach to the file
objectno——
└folder
Target folder in Picsart Drive
objectno——
└inputs_transformation
Input transformation settings
objectno——
└downscale_oversized_images
Whether to downscale oversized input images. Defaults to false.
booleanno——

Response

Over HTTP the output arrives inside a status envelope, at response.result. ai.apis.run() unwraps that envelope for you and resolves to { result, usage } instead. Either way the resultitself is the vendor's own shape.

json
{
  "result": {
    "url": "https://cdn.picsart.com/…/result.mp4",
    "video_id": "wf_abc123",
    "duration": 0,
    "seed": 0,
    "width": 0,
    "height": 0,
    "mimeType": "video/mp4",
    "driveFile": {}
  },
  "usage": {
    "credits": 1
  }
}