How to use Kadapt — the 2-minute flow, and the controls underneath

To use Kadapt: add the listing basics, upload 5–10 photos, review the reel plan it drafts, and approve the credit quote — the finished vertical reel arrives about ten minutes later, ready to post. That’s roughly two minutes of your attention, and every automated choice — photo order, camera moves, script, captions, voice, music — can be overridden before you approve, or updated after the render where it doesn’t need one.

Kadapt is built so the fast path is genuinely fast — about two minutes of your attention from photos to an approved plan — and so that every automated decision can be overridden when you care. This guide covers both: the happy path first, then the deep-dive controls in the order you’ll meet them.

The happy path: photos in, reel back

1. Start a project and add the listing basics. Address or title, price, beds and baths, and a few key features (“minutes from the university”, “half-acre fenced yard”). These facts ground the script — Kadapt never invents details you didn’t give it.
2. Upload 5–10 listing photos. Kadapt looks at every photo — it recognises the room, judges the shot, and flags anything that would cause problems (people in frame, for example, which the video engine rejects). Then it suggests an order that walks a buyer through the home the way a showing would.
3. Review the plan. Kadapt drafts the whole reel: a hook, a per-shot sequence with camera moves, on-screen captions, a voiceover script, and a music bed. You see it all before anything renders.
4. Approve the quote. The exact credit cost is shown before you commit — no surprise billing. If a voiceover change pushes the cost up, Kadapt asks again rather than quietly charging more.
5. Wait about ten minutes. The render takes a few minutes, then captions, voiceover and music are mixed in. You get a notification when the reel is ready to download and post — vertical 9:16, captions inside the safe zone, ready for Reels, TikTok, or Shorts.

When you want control: the manual layer

Everything the automation chose is editable before you approve — and the sound, captions, stamp and script stay updatable even after the render, without re-rendering.

Photo selection and order

Drag photos into your own order, or switch to manual selection to lock the exact set and sequence — Kadapt then treats your order as a contract: nothing dropped, nothing rearranged. Use this when you know the story you want to tell (our shot-sequencing guide covers what orders work and why).

Templates and effects

Pick the template (property montage, listing teaser, just-sold) and the effect style. Under the hood every shot has two slots: a camera move (slow push, cinematic sweep, drone rise, golden-hour drift, kitchen hero…) and an arrival transition (cross-dissolve, doorway fly-through, flash cut — or a plain hard cut). The planner assigns sensible ones; the plan preview lets you change either, per shot.

Script and captions

The voiceover script and every on-screen caption are plain text — edit them in place. Kadapt keeps captions short enough to stay readable on a phone and checks copy against fair-housing rules (see the compliance guide). There’s also a style-notes box: your own render instructions (“slow and premium”, “lead with the pool”) that ride along with the plan.

Voice and music — updatable after the render, as a new take

The narrator voice and the music bed are mixed onto the video, not baked into it. On a finished reel, swap the soundtrack, fix captions, restyle the stamp, or change the script and hit Update reel: the new version lands in about a minute as a new take beside the old ones — flip between takes to compare two voices or two soundtracks side by side. One tap, a flat five credits, no re-render. If a new script runs longer than the video can hold, Kadapt says so honestly and offers a re-render sized to fit every word. Four voice personas ship today: warm & local, luxury calm, high energy, and straight facts — each with a tap-to-audition sample.

Stamps

JUST LISTED, SOLD, UNDER OFFER — kinetic overlay stamps with three looks (gold badge, rubber stamp, bold) and adjustable size. An overlay, not part of the video — adding, removing or restyling one never re-drafts your plan, and on a finished reel it’s the same flat-price update.

Takes

Not sure about a render? Generate another take of the same plan — each take is kept, so you can compare and download whichever lands best. Editing the plan and re-approving renders as its own new take too.

It learns your voice

Scripts you edit and ship become style examples for your next drafts — the more you correct it toward how you actually talk, the closer the first draft gets next time. One listing can become a month of different reels: different opening shot, different hook, different order, same photos.

What it costs to try

Sign-in is by email link. The trial includes enough credits for about three reels, and every render shows its exact credit price before you approve it. If a render fails our own quality check — say the video engine hallucinated on-screen text — the re-render is on us, not you.

Common questions