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“How Do You Want It” – High-Impact Face Swap Video Template

“How Do You Want It” is a professional-grade face swap video template built on Magic Hour’s AI video engine. It lets you drop your (or your actor’s) face into almost any video clip in a few clicks, producing realistic, production-ready content for campaigns, UGC, ads, and experiments — without a studio, crew, or editing skills.

This template is powered by Magic Hour’s AI Face Swap technology and is ideal for marketers, creators, and product teams who want to ship more video, faster.

What This Template Does

  • Ultra-realistic face swaps in video – Replace one or multiple faces in a clip with your own, a client’s, or a performer’s face while preserving expressions, lighting, and motion.
  • Ready-made structure – The template gives you a pre-framed, high-energy “performance” layout inspired by short-form social and promo formats, so you only worry about inputs, not editing.
  • Brand-ready visuals – Add your brand face, product, and messaging to a single master asset and reuse it across channels.

Under the hood, this template uses the same core engine as Magic Hour’s Face Swap Video workflow, so anything you can do there, you can remix here — and vice versa.

How To Remix This Template in Magic Hour

You can create your own version of “How Do You Want It” in a few minutes by starting from the Face Swap Video template and swapping in your own assets.

  1. Start from Face Swap Video
    Go to Face Swap Video. This is the base product flow behind “How Do You Want It.”
  2. Choose your base video
    Use:
    • A pre-shot promotional or UGC-style video of a performer
    • A short TikTok/Reels-style performance clip
    • A video you generated elsewhere (e.g., with Image to Video or Text to Video)
    The stronger the performance (clear expressions, good lighting, visible face), the more convincing your face swap will be.
  3. Add the face you want to swap in
    Upload a clear, front-facing photo or headshot of the person whose face you want in the video. For best results, use:
    • High-resolution, well-lit images
    • Neutral expressions or the expression that matches your base video
    You can generate new, on-brand faces with tools like AI Headshot Generator, Avatar Generator, or AI Face Generator.
  4. Optionally swap multiple faces
    If your video has more than one person, you can set up swaps for each of them. This is useful for:
    • ‘Team cameo’ videos where your whole team appears in a single spot
    • Side-by-side comparison or “before/after” style content
    • Multi-character storytelling content
    The “How Do You Want It” template is particularly effective with 1–3 distinct faces in frame.
  5. Refine your visuals with AI image tools (optional)
    To get a consistent brand look across swaps, you can preprocess your source images or create stylized ones using: These help keep outputs sharp and consistent, especially for paid campaigns.
  6. Preview, iterate, and download
    Once your swap is processed, watch the full preview. If expressions or angles don’t feel right:
    • Try a different base video with clearer facial angles
    • Use a different reference photo (e.g., better lighting, closer expression match)
    • Regenerate or re-edit the face image for clarity with the tools above
    When satisfied, export your video for social, paid media, landing pages, or internal demos.

You can save this setup as your own “How Do You Want It” variant and reuse it for new campaigns simply by swapping in a new face or a new base performance video.

Where This Template Works Best

For Marketers & Growth Teams

  • Personalized ads at scale – Put your founder, salesperson, or influencer into multiple variations of the same creative for A/B tests and localization.
  • UGC-style performance videos – Start with a high-performing UGC script and performance, then swap faces to test different “creators” without re-shooting.
  • Landing page hero videos – Create a face-forward explainer with the same structure and simply update the on-screen face for region, role, or vertical.

For Creators & Studios

  • Character-led storytelling – Turn a single actor’s performance into multiple “characters” by swapping faces for different scenes.
  • Parody, memes, and trend-jacking – Quickly adapt trending formats by putting your persona into an existing base performance or meme asset; pair with AI Meme Generator to create matching stills.
  • Multiplatform content packs – Use this template as the “master” vertical video, then spin off GIFs via AI GIF Generator or shorter clips for ads and stories.

For Product & Startup Teams

  • Founder-led announcements – Generate founder videos for launches, fundraises, or product updates without needing them on set every time.
  • Localization & segmentation – Keep the same script and visual pacing but adjust who is on-screen for different markets, using different faces created via AI Character Generator or AI Anime Generator if you’re building stylized brands.
  • Internal training and demos – Create internal how-to or onboarding videos where a consistent “company avatar” delivers all training content.

How This Template Compares to Other Magic Hour Flows

“How Do You Want It” is optimized for face swapping pre-existing video. Depending on your workflow, you may want to combine it with other Magic Hour tools:

  • Need to animate a static photo instead?
    Use AI Talking Photo or Lip Sync to bring a still image to life with speech or synced audio, then add face swaps on top for different personas.
  • Want to restyle an entire video, not just the face?
    Try Video to Video to change the style, medium (e.g., live action → animation), or visual look while preserving motion. Then use “How Do You Want It” to swap in your face on the restyled clip.
  • Building fully animated content?
    Start from Animation to get stylized motion or characters, then layer face swaps or use Animated Characters Generator for consistent cast design.
  • Need short, loopable face swap content?
    Use Face Swap GIF with your favorite reaction shots or mini-performances for replies, stickers, and social reactions.

Best Practices for High-Quality Face Swap Videos

  • Use high-quality source media – Clear, well-lit base videos and high-res face images significantly improve realism. If needed, enhance legacy photos with Unblur Image or Old Photo Restoration.
  • Match pose and expression – For the most natural results, use reference faces with similar orientation and expression to the base performance.
  • Respect rights and policies – Only use faces and source videos you have permission to use. Face swapping is powerful; align your usage with your brand, legal, and ethical guidelines.
  • Design for your channel – Keep aspect ratios, hook length, and pacing in mind for TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, or ads. You can polish and resize outputs using Video Upscaler and thumbnail flows like Thumbnail Maker.

Beyond the Template: Building a Full AI Video Stack

Many teams use “How Do You Want It” as one piece of a broader AI-native content pipeline:

Why Use This Template Instead of Custom Editing?

  • Speed – Go from idea to published face swap video in minutes instead of days of manual VFX or compositing.
  • Consistency – Reuse the same structure and pacing across campaigns, changing only faces, scripts, or backdrops.
  • Cost control – Reduce dependency on repeated shoots, reshoots, and manual editing for every new persona or market.

For teams that iterate on creative weekly or even daily, “How Do You Want It” becomes a reusable building block for your content system — not just a one-off effect.

Try “How Do You Want It” and Make It Your Own

To build your own version of this template:

  1. Open Face Swap Video.
  2. Upload your base performance video.
  3. Add one or more faces you want to appear in the video.
  4. Optionally refine faces and assets with tools like AI Image Editor, AI Headshot Generator, or Avatar Generator.
  5. Preview, iterate, and export for your channel of choice.

From there, you can duplicate and remix your setup for new campaigns, personas, and tests — using the same core “How Do You Want It” structure as a reliable, high-performing foundation.

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