Creating fly-throughs

Photos

• 3 photos minimum, 50 maximum — 5 or more gives a noticeably smoother, fuller tour, and the wizard nudges you below that.
• Uploads accept JPG, PNG and WebP; big files are compressed in your browser before upload, so phone-camera photos are fine.
• Photo order — by default the AI re-sequences your photos into the smoothest walkable tour. Dragging a photo switches to your manual order (and “Listing / manual” restores the original listing order at any time).
• Photos under 1000px wide get a low-res badge — they’ll render soft, and 4K can’t add detail that isn’t there. Prefer clean photos too: a watermark baked into a listing photo warps as the camera moves (Soarly never adds its own watermark to your video).
• Floor plans — up to four (one per level), added in their own slot. Suspected floor plans among your photos are detected and moved there automatically; hover one to send it back if it was wrongly flagged. Plans are used for routing and the mini-map, never rendered as scenes.

Style, length and format

• Look — the signature Drone style is the current default: one continuous FPV-style flight through the home, room to room through doorways. More looks are rolled out as they pass our quality bar.
• Duration — 30s, 60s, 90s, or Full. Films are built from ~5-second scenes; Full uses every photo (one scene per photo), so more photos means a longer film and more credits. Timed lengths curate the best subset of your photos.
• Pacing — slow, standard or fast; every pace stays a smooth glide.
• Aspect ratio — 16:9 for portals, 9:16 for Reels/TikTok (+2 credits), or 1:1 for feeds.
• Toggles — background music (on by default), animated room captions (on), show people (off — the clean empty-home look; Soarly never adds people who aren’t in your photos), and opt-in 4K enhance (charged only if it actually runs).
• Creative direction — an optional free-text brief (“slow and luxurious, lead with the kitchen and pool”) that shapes the ordering, captions and camera moves. An Auto-generate button writes one for you from the photos, free.

The Route step — your storyboard

Before anything renders, Soarly plans the camera’s route through the home and shows it as a filmstrip you can edit. Planning and tweaking here is free — the AI route is included in your render cost, charged once when you render.

Stops

Each thumbnail is a stop — one scene of the film, in order. The first stop is the opening establishing shot. Reorder stops with the ‹ › arrows or by dragging; captions and floor-plan markers travel with them. Click a caption to rename a room. With a floor plan attached, each stop is pinned on the plan and the camera path is drawn room to room; markers are draggable if the AI placed one slightly off, and multi-level homes show a level badge you can tap to correct a stop’s floor.

Seams: glide, cut, fade

Between every pair of stops is a seam chip. Tap it to cycle the transition:

• ⤳ glide — one continuous camera move that flies from this room into the next. The signature fly-through look; it only holds when the next room is already partly visible in the current shot.
• ✂ cut — a clean hard cut. Never melts, always safe.
• ◑ fade — a cut smoothed with a quick dip to black. Reads as an intentional transition.

The Smooth-glide check

A glide between rooms that don’t share a view would force the AI to invent the unseen part of the house — that’s what causes “melting” — so the planner flags every jump that can’t glide yet, names the two rooms, and tells you exactly what bridging photo would fix it (e.g. “a shot from the living-room doorway looking toward the kitchen, so both rooms share the doorway”). For each flagged jump you can hit Make transition to smooth it with a fade — or fade all of them at once — or add the suggested photo in the Photos step and come back for a true glide. Flags also appear as amber pins on the drawn camera path.

Photos that don’t fit

A timed film only holds so many scenes, so leftovers show dimmed under the strip with a one-click “use all N” switch to a Full-length film. A film holds up to 50 photos. If the planner sets photos aside because they look like floor plans or documents, you can add them back with one click if they were wrongly flagged.

Reset and undo

Every route edit is undoable, and Reset restores the original AI route for your current photo set — it puts things back how they were, rather than rolling a new plan.

Review and render

The Review step recaps everything — photos, style, route, duration, format, price in credits — plus a quality check with suggestions (never blockers). Rendering takes minutes; you can leave the page and come back. When it finishes you land on the film with share, download, edit, reel and 4K actions. If a render fails, your credits are refunded automatically and you can retry with one click.

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