Tell Bernini what to add, remove, or alter in a clip in plain language, and it makes just that change. The planner works out what the edit means before the renderer paints it.

Locked scene consistency

Everything you don't name stays frozen. Untouched regions hold across the whole clip with no flicker or drift, which is the model's strongest editing trait.

Reference-guided swaps and insertion

Feed a reference image or a second clip to steer the edit. Swap a garment onto a moving subject, or insert a product or screen-content video so it tracks the source.

Subject-to-video identity

Place a person or character from reference images into a new scene and the face stays recognizable as they move. Identity preservation is the model's standout result in ByteDance's subject-to-video evaluations.

Motion redirection

Change what a subject is doing inside an existing clip, a person crouches instead of bending over, while pose continuity, lighting, and background stay put.

Open-weights model family

An MLLM planner paired with a 14B DiT renderer built on Wan2.2, released under Apache 2.0. The weights are self-hostable on your own hardware.

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Technical specifications

Planner + DiT

Qwen2.5-VL planner, 14B Wan2.2 renderer

Edit, Generate, R2V

Editing, generation, subject-to-video

480p / 16fps

Default render setting

Apache 2.0

Open weights, self-hostable

Use cases

Augment real footage

Add or remove props, fix a detail, or restyle an element in a clip without re-shooting. The consistency lock keeps the rest of the shot identical, so edits read as native.

Recurring characters and avatars

Keep the same face across episodes, ads, or an avatar series. Subject-to-video holds a person's identity from a few reference images as they move through new scenes.

Virtual try-on and product placement

Swap clothing onto a moving model from a reference, or drop a product or on-screen video into a shot, for fashion and ad work that needs the source clip kept intact.

Re-block an action

Change what someone is doing in a take, a stand becomes a crouch, without re-filming. Motion editing alters the action while identity, framing, and lighting stay fixed.

Prompt examples

Consistency edit

Add a snowman beside the dog on the snowy path, and keep the dog, the road, and the trees unchanged

Edit prompt

Identity-locked subject

Place this person on a neon city rooftop at night, gently turning to camera, keeping their face and jacket

Edit prompt

Reference swap

Replace the outer shirt with the one in the reference image, keep the pose, lighting, and motion exactly

Edit prompt

Overview

Bernini is ByteDance's open-source framework for AI video generation and editing, released under Apache 2.0 in June 2026. Its design splits the job in two: an MLLM-based planner (Qwen2.5-VL) decides the semantics of the result, then a DiT-based renderer built on Wan2.2 paints the pixels. Because the plan and the render are separate stages, Bernini is unusually good at the thing most video models struggle with, editing a real clip while leaving everything you didn't ask to change untouched. It spans text-to-image, image editing, text-to-video, instruction-based video editing, reference-guided edits like garment swaps and video insertion, and subject-to-video, where its standout result is preserving a person's identity as they move through a new scene.

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FAQs

What is Bernini?

Bernini is ByteDance's open-source unified framework for video generation and editing. It pairs an MLLM-based semantic planner with a DiT-based renderer built on Wan2.2, and was released under Apache 2.0 in June 2026.

What can Bernini do?

It handles text-to-image, image editing, text-to-video, instruction-based video editing, reference-guided editing such as garment swaps and video insertion, and subject-to-video that places a person or character into a new scene.

How is Bernini different from a standard video model?

Most video models generate from scratch. Bernini splits the work: an MLLM planner decides the semantics, then the renderer paints pixels. That design gives it strong consistency on edits, untouched parts of a clip stay frozen, and strong identity preservation in subject-to-video.

Is Bernini open source?

Yes. The inference code and the renderer weights are public under Apache 2.0, on GitHub and Hugging Face. You can run it on your own hardware; a Hopper-class GPU is recommended, with multiple GPUs for video.

How well does Bernini preserve a subject's identity?

Identity preservation is its standout result. In ByteDance's subject-to-video evaluations it leads comparable systems on face similarity, holding a recognizable face as the subject moves, which makes it a fit for avatars, character work, and serialized content where the same face has to recur.

What resolution does Bernini output?

The default render setting is 480p at 16fps. The release prioritizes editing fidelity and consistency over maximum resolution, and higher settings are possible at greater compute cost.

More about Bernini

Guides, prompts, and comparisons for Bernini.

ByteDance Bernini: complete guide to AI video editing and prompts

The complete guide to ByteDance Bernini, the open-source AI video model: features, specs, the consistency lock, and prompt structure by task.

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