Coohom, Homestyler or Planner 5D render to video: built-in tools, 360 tours or a six-image film

You designed a living room or a kitchen in Coohom, Homestyler or Planner 5D, the renders look good, and the client wants something they can watch on a phone. Each planner has its own answer: a template video, a camera-path animation, or a 360 tour. Those are worth knowing before you go anywhere else, because they come straight from your 3D model. This guide covers what each planner's built-in video and walkthrough tools do as of October 2026, where they stop, and how to get six strong renders out of any of them for a short AI-generated vertical film.

Key takeaways

• Coohom and Homestyler both render video from the 3D model itself: Coohom from video templates with a resolution choice, Homestyler from keyframes and camera paths in its Video 2.0 mode.
• The Planner 5D render help page lists still renders from Draft to 4K and 360 panoramas and walkthroughs for PRO users, but describes no video export.
• A planner's own video is the honest one: the camera moves through your actual model, so nothing is invented, which makes it the right tool for a layout review.
• For a 30-second social film, render six stills with fixed light, one style preset and a portrait frame where the planner offers it, at 4K or at least 1,500 pixels on the long side.
• An AI film from six renders reinterprets the room, adds a fictional cast and can soften catalog furniture, so review it and present it as a visualization, not a specification.

Can Coohom or Homestyler turn a render into a video?

Yes, both can, but they make the video from your 3D model, not from a finished render. Coohom renders interior template videos at a resolution you pick, and Homestyler's Video 2.0 mode animates a camera along a path you draw, with clips of up to 30 seconds and videos of up to 60 seconds. Planner 5D's render help page offers 360 panoramas and walkthroughs rather than a video file. To turn finished renders into a short vertical film with music, export six stills and use an image-to-video tool.

The difference matters. A planner video records a virtual camera moving through geometry you built, so the sofa stays the sofa. An image-to-video film starts from flat pictures and invents the motion between them.

What each planner's own video and walkthrough tools do (as of October 2026)

Coohom

Coohom's help article on rendering interior and exterior effects, last updated September 18, 2026, describes the video route in five steps: "Click Images/Videos at the top, then select Interior," "choose a video template, and click Create Video," edit the basic parameters and generate a preview, then "select the video Resolution and click Confirm to start rendering"; the finished video appears in the Gallery (Coohom Help Center). The same page covers the 360° Walkthrough: "Place a camera in any room, adjust it to a suitable angle, and click Generate." The article doesn't list the resolution options or video lengths, so check your own account's panel before promising a format.

Homestyler

A tutorial from the Homestyler Official account, dated August 26, 2026, lists the rendering modes as "Normal, Panorama, Aerial, Top View, and Video 2.0," and advises for stills: "Start with 1K or 2K while testing. Once the result looks right, switch to 4K for the final render" (Homestyler). It also warns that "the aspect ratio directly affects the visible composition area," which matters when you render for a vertical phone screen.

For video, Homestyler's own update notes say a clip can be "customized within the range from 1 to 30 seconds" and that "the maximum duration of a single video is up to 60 seconds (a single clip can not exceed 30 seconds, and a video can be composed of multiple clips)" (Homestyler update notes). Two effects are offered: a walkthrough effect, where the camera moves through the room, and a grow effect, where an empty room fills with furniture. Homestyler's video page summarizes the process as "Set the keyframes and camera pathways," then "Choose the animated motion effect and edit the clips" (Homestyler video rendering). The grow effect is something an AI film can't do honestly, because it depends on knowing which objects are separate pieces.

Planner 5D

Planner 5D's help article on screenshots and renders lets you "select the preferred quality, from Draft to 4K," with 4K reserved for PRO subscribers, and offers an aspect ratio setting to "choose portrait or landscape orientation" (Planner 5D Help Center). It also lets you "create a 360 Panorama or a 360 Walkthrough for a more immersive view of your design," again for PRO users. The page describes no video export, but the portrait option gives you vertical stills ready for a phone-format film.

Planner video, 360 tour or six-image film: which one for which job

Use the planner's own video when the client needs to understand the layout: where the island sits, how the hallway connects, what you see from the sofa. Use a 360 tour when they want to look around a room themselves on a link. Use a six-image film when the goal is a 30-second post, a WhatsApp message to a client's family or a portfolio piece, and the room's mood matters more than its dimensions.

The routes combine well: the planner walkthrough goes with the approval email, the AI film goes out once the design is approved. The off-plan launch guide shows how developers pair a vertical film with brochure renders.

Getting six strong renders out of a planner

A planner makes it easy to render twenty views of one room that all say the same thing; the work is choosing six that each say something different.

Pick six roles, not six angles

Plan the six before you render: one establishing view of the main space, one from the opposite corner, one of a secondary room, a close detail (a backsplash, a joinery edge, a light fitting), a view toward the window or balcony, and one closing view. The six roles a project video needs explains each one. For a single kitchen, use the detail slots for the worktop, the tall units and the lighting.

Hold the settings still across all six

• One design version. Render all six from the same saved file, so the cushions don't change color between views.
• One style preset and one lighting setup. Daylight in four renders and evening in two will read as two different projects. If you want a night view, make it the last image and keep it to one.
• One camera height. Eye level, roughly where a standing adult would look, for every interior view. Mixed heights make the cuts feel random.
• A moderate field of view. Very wide lenses bend walls at the frame edges, and a video model will exaggerate that bend once it starts moving.
• Portrait framing where available. Planner 5D offers portrait directly; in Homestyler, set the aspect ratio before you compose, since it changes what the frame shows. A landscape render still works, but it gets recomposed into a 9:16 frame and its edges can drop out.

Resolution and file

Render the final six at the highest quality your plan allows: 4K on Homestyler or Planner 5D PRO, or the top resolution in Coohom's panel. For Arch2Video, the long side must be at least 512 pixels and 1,500 pixels or more gives the sharpest scenes; JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF and WebP are accepted, up to 30 MB each. Download from the planner's gallery, never screenshot the editor viewport: a screenshot captures your screen's resolution and the interface around the picture. Rendering export settings for Instagram and AI video covers file formats in more detail.

Checking the renders before you animate them

A video model extends whatever it's given, including mistakes, so fix them in the planner, where another render is cheap.

• Floating objects and gaps. A hovering lamp or a gap behind a cabinet is easy to miss in a still and obvious once the camera moves.
• Mirrors and glass. Large mirrors, glass shower screens and glossy splashbacks are where image-to-video struggles most; what AI video does badly in a room goes element by element. Angle mirrors to reflect a wall.
• Text and logos. Wall art with lettering, appliance logos and book spines smear when animated. Swap them for plain objects.
• People. Leave planner figures out. An Arch2Video film includes a small cast of original, fictional adults in at least one scene anyway, and people already in your images are replaced rather than animated.
• Watermarks and interface marks. If your plan stamps anything on the image, the video model will treat it as part of the room.

A floor plan exported from the planner can be one of the six images. It's treated as a document, with a slow pan over the drawing rather than a camera flying into it, and the AI director decides where it sits in the film.

Turning the six renders into a 30-second vertical film

With six checked renders, upload them to Arch2Video. The AI director plans the scene order, which may differ from the order you uploaded, and uses every image once. You get a 1080 × 1920 vertical H.264 MP4 of about 30 seconds: six connected five-second scenes, an original soundtrack (Still Air by default, or Quiet Piano, Concrete or none) and your studio logo if you add one. A logo film also comes in a no-logo version. Generation usually takes an hour or more and you're emailed when it's ready; afterwards you can switch the soundtrack or logo and re-export without paying again.

Uploading costs nothing. The price, USD 15 per video as a one-time card payment with no subscription, is shown after the upload, and the video is made once it's paid. There is no prompt box, editing timeline or 3D import: the six images are the brief. Example films, including videos made for real customers from their own uploads, are on the homepage.

Before you send the film, watch it the way the client will, on a phone with the sound on. Check that the furniture still looks like the pieces you specified and that no cabinet door opens into a wall. If the client is choosing products, send the planner renders alongside it, since those show the exact items. For unbuilt work, say so in the caption: "Design visualization, rendered in Homestyler and animated with AI. Not yet built" is enough.

Frequently asked questions

Can Homestyler or Coohom export a vertical video for Instagram Reels?

The help pages I read don't list the video aspect ratios for either planner as of October 2026. Homestyler has an aspect ratio setting for renders and Coohom asks for a video resolution, so check the options in your own account's video panel first. If the video only comes out landscape, crop it to 9:16 in an editor, which loses the sides of the room, or render portrait stills and make the vertical film from those.

What resolution should I render at before making a video?

The planner's highest quality for the final six: 4K in Homestyler or Planner 5D PRO, or the top option in Coohom. That leaves enough detail for close views of tile, timber and fabric. For Arch2Video, a long side of 1,500 pixels or more gives sharp scenes; the minimum is 512.

Is a planner walkthrough or an AI film better for a client presentation?

For approving a layout, the planner walkthrough, because it shows exactly what you modeled and invents nothing. For winning attention, a social post or a message the client can forward to family, the AI film usually works better, because it has cinematic motion, light, people and music. Sending both is common: the walkthrough for the decision, the film for the announcement.

Will the furniture in my renders look the same in the AI video?

Mostly, but not exactly. An image-to-video model reads pixels, not your furniture catalog, so it can soften a chair's legs, change a handle or invent what lies behind a sofa when the camera moves. Review every scene before posting, and if a client is buying the specific pieces shown, give them the planner renders or the product list as the reference rather than the film.