What it cannot do
Short and specific. Finding this out after paying is worse for both of us than finding it out now.
Editing a backdrop is an edit, not a redraw — but it is still an edit
You type what should change and the photograph is edited: same camera, same perspective, same light, and whatever you did not mention left alone. What it will not do is keep the picture honest for you. Adding a sofa is ordinary virtual staging; resurfacing a countertop on a house that is for sale is not, and the tool cannot tell the difference — only you can.
Your original photograph is kept and restorable in one click, and every video made from an edited photo is labelled as such in the studio. Labelling it where you post it is your responsibility, and for a property it is generally expected.
A drawn world is not a photograph of anywhere
If you describe a place and we draw it, the result does not depict a real location. It is a backdrop, not a record of a property you are selling. Use a photograph for that — it is the mode that keeps the pixel-exact guarantee.
Changing how you look will usually keep your face
The appearance tool — clothing, hair, skin — is asked to keep you recognisably yourself and to keep your movement and your backdrop exactly as filmed, and it runs on your video before anything else so the photograph is untouched by it. But it is a generative model working on every frame, and the honest warning is that faces sometimes drift. Watch the result before you post it. This is the one tool here that costs a credit and the one we would tell you to use least.
You are always in front of the furniture
There is no depth information in a photograph, so you cannot stand behind the kitchen island with it covering your legs. Beside it, in front of it, anywhere on the visible floor — but never behind something.
One person
The cut-out finds people, and two people in your video come out as one silhouette. Record separately.
Thirty seconds
A take runs up to 30 seconds — the studio refuses a longer file before the upload wastes your time on it. This is a short-clip tool, and every second of video is real work when you are being cut out of it.
You do not walk
The movement is the camera travelling through your backdrop. If you also walk across your own frame, the two motions fight. Stand still and let the world move.
Light direction is not fixable
If your backdrop is lit from the left and you are lit from the right, the two will not sit together, and nothing in the studio repairs it. We measure both and tell you before you spend a credit — but the fix is to record again, not to move a slider.
Your backdrop has to be big enough
A small or narrow picture is enlarged to fill a vertical frame, so it goes soft, and it leaves the camera very little room to travel. Wider is better.
It is one continuous shot
One take, one world, one camera move. Not a multi-shot edit — for now.
It shows you somewhere you were not
The place in the video is your photograph, unaltered, which is the whole point. But the finished video does show you standing somewhere you were not physically standing.
Whether that needs saying out loud depends on what you are using it for. A backdrop for a talking-head post is one thing; advertising a property or a venue is another, and there the rules that already apply to your advertising apply here too — for a licensed agent in Texas, TREC's. Most platforms also have their own labelling rules for synthetic media. We are not the right people to advise you; we would rather say plainly that it is a question than pretend it is not.