Mischief 1 How to Use: A Hands-On Tutorial from Upload to Download

This is the Mischief 1 how to use tutorial for mischief1.com: one sitting, from a picture on your device to an MP4 in your downloads folder. It follows the generator form in the order you meet it, gives you a prompt routine you can reuse, and says which settings to pick on a first run. The model comes from The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), which put it out on October 30, 2026; under the hood it is Alibaba's open Wan 2.2 with extra post-training (OpenRouter, The Next Web). You hand it one still and a sentence about motion, and it hands back a short silent clip.

For what the model does with your image and how to pick a first frame, read the image-to-video guide. This page stays on the clicks.

Before you start

Have three things ready before you open the form:

• An account. You can open the form signed out, but Generate asks you to sign in. Signing up with Google adds free credits on sign-up; the pricing page lists the current amount and what an email sign-up gets.
• One image file. JPG, PNG or WebP, 4 MB or smaller. Output is always 16:9 landscape, and the image is fitted to that shape with a center crop by default (fal API schema). A landscape picture with the subject near the middle keeps the framing you chose.
• Permission to use it. The form asks you to confirm that you have the rights to the image and that any real person in it has agreed.

The file you will get back is widescreen at 832×480 (480p) or 1280×720 (720p), runs 3 or 5 seconds at 16 frames a second, and has no audio track (fal API schema). If you need sound or a different shape, plan to finish the clip in an editor.

How to use Mischief 1, step by step

1. Open the form. Head to the generator on the home page. It starts on Mischief 1. If a Model menu is shown, leave it on Mischief 1 for this tutorial.
2. Add the picture under “1. Reference image”. Click “Click to upload an image” and choose the file. The dashed box turns into a preview with Replace and Remove image buttons. No preview means no file is attached yet.
3. Tick the permission box. It appears once a picture is attached. Generate will not run until it is ticked.
4. Write the motion under “2. Motion prompt”. Use the routine in the next section. The field takes up to 2,000 characters, but three short sentences are usually enough.
5. Set Resolution and Duration. Pick 480p or 720p, then 3 s or 5 s. The button changes to “Generate · N credits”, and N is the price of this one click. See the settings table below.
6. Generate, then download. A clip usually takes 30 to 90 seconds. You can leave the page; the job keeps running and the clip appears in My videos. When it is ready, press Download MP4 to save the file. On a phone, Share MP4 sends it to an app instead.

A prompt routine you can reuse

The model already sees the picture, so the prompt only has to say what changes. Fill in this template, one sentence per line:

[One thing in the picture] [moves how], [at what speed]. [Two or three things you can see] stay exactly as they are. [Static camera / The camera pushes in slowly].

Before you press Generate, read the prompt back with the image open:

• Can you point to every noun in the picture? Delete any you cannot.
• Is there only one main motion? A second action is a second clip.
• Could the motion finish in 3 to 5 seconds without anything leaving the frame?

Three prompts written with the routine

Each one follows the template above. Use them only with a picture that shows the same things, and change the nouns to match yours.

For many more, grouped by subject, see the Mischief 1 prompt library.

Which settings to choose

Cropping a widescreen clip for vertical feeds has its own walkthrough in the vertical video guide.

How credits are charged

Credits are spent per job you start. 720p costs more than 480p and 5 seconds more than 3; the exact number is always on the Generate button before you press it. A refusal shown in red under the form happens before a job exists and costs nothing. A job that ends as Failed returns its credits automatically. A clip that finishes but does not look the way you hoped is not refunded, which is why the first try of a new prompt belongs at 480p and 3 seconds.

After the free credits on sign-up, low-cost credit packs and plans are on the pricing page. To estimate what a batch of clips costs, use the pricing guide.

If something goes wrong

Read the red line under the form or the badge on the card in My videos first. The troubleshooting guide explains each message and stage, including a Done clip whose download does not save.