Stayframe Media
Cinematic video for vacation rentals and real estate listings, built from the professional photography you already have. No reshoot, no crew, and nothing in the video that isn't already in your photos.
Why video
Every listing is a grid of still photos — a cabin on Vrbo, a house on the MLS, same format either way. Yours may be better photos, but they sit next to fifty listings presented exactly the same.
Video is a different format, and it's the one that plays natively on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, where a photo gallery doesn't. It also travels. A guest booking from three states away, or a buyer who won't see the house in person before making an offer, is deciding from a screen — and a walkthrough answers questions a grid can't.
Same property, same photos, somewhere new to put them.
Vrbo, Airbnb, direct booking, social
MLS, your site, YouTube, social
Sample work
Every frame below started as a photograph the owner already had. Nothing was added, removed, or upgraded.
Greystone Pointe LodgeGatlinburg, TN
Big Bear CoveGatlinburg, TN
Grand ViewElk Springs Resort, Gatlinburg, TN
How it works
Share your existing gallery, or just send the listing URL. I'll tell you straight whether the photography is strong enough to build from before anyone commits to anything.
The strongest feature opens it, and the property is shown in the order that actually tells its story — the feeling of the place for a rental, the room-to-room flow a buyer is mentally walking through for a listing. Camera moves stay slow and physically plausible. If a move distorts the space, it gets dropped.
One round of revisions is included. You get the finished MP4, sized and formatted to upload straight to your listing or post as-is.
Who it's for
Worth saying up front, so neither of us wastes a week finding out.
Questions
No — that's the whole point. This is built from the professional photography you already paid for. If your current photos are phone snapshots, get those handled first; the video can't be better than its source.
It shouldn't, and that's the standard I hold it to. Every frame comes from your actual photos. Nothing is added, removed, relocated, or upgraded — no invented amenities, no rooms made to look bigger than they are, no skies swapped for better ones. Motion stays slow and physically plausible, and if animating a shot warps a wall or bends a window, the motion gets reduced or dropped. A still shot beats a broken one.
Rentals: your Vrbo and Airbnb listings, your direct booking site, Instagram Reels, TikTok and Facebook.
Listings: your MLS entry where the platform supports video, your own site, YouTube, and the same social channels.
It's delivered as a standard MP4, so it's yours to post anywhere.
Real estate listing videos do. Music is part of the format there — licensed instrumental, chosen to match the property rather than one house track played over everything.
Vacation rental videos are delivered silent by default. Vrbo can pull a video over background audio it can't verify, and it pulls the whole video rather than muting it. Most social feeds autoplay muted anyway, so silence costs you nothing there. If you want a scored version of a rental video for social or your own site, you get it as a separate file with the licence on record — so the silent cut is still what goes on the listing.
No, because you get two cuts and only one of them is branded.
The unbranded version has no agent name, no logo, no contact card, no watermark — property only. That's the one that goes in the MLS, where most boards prohibit branded media in the feed so a buyer's agent can share a listing without pushing your marketing at their client.
The branded version has your name, your brokerage, and a closing card. That one is for social, YouTube, paid, and your own site.
Rules vary board to board — some now permit contact information in virtual tours specifically. Tell me your MLS and I'll build to its rules rather than to a general one.
Yes, but I'll advise against it on the main video and here's why: a price reduction turns that file into a liability. Either it gets re-cut or it quietly goes out of date on every channel it's sitting on.
Address, beds, baths and square footage don't change, so those go on by default. Price is better suited to a short social cut with a deliberately short shelf life — say so and you'll get one.
Ask your broker or your own counsel — the answer depends on your state, your board, and your MLS. What I can give you is an accurate account of what's in the file, so you can answer that question properly.
The motion is generated from your photographs. The property in the video is the property in the photographs: same rooms, same furniture, same finishes, same view, same time of day. Nothing is staged, added, removed, or improved.
Rules like California's AB 723 and the "true picture" standard in the NAR Code of Ethics are aimed at media that changes what a property looks like — virtual staging, furniture that isn't there, a better sky than the one on the day. That isn't what this is. You'll get a written description of how your video was made, so it's on file whichever way your broker wants to handle it.
Three business days from the time I have your photos for a rental video, four for a full-length listing video. Revisions come back within two. If the photography needs sorting out first, that clock starts once it's in hand.
Pricing is per property and comes with the proposal. Send your listing over and you'll get a straight answer, along with whether I think the photography is strong enough to be worth it.
One round of revisions is included — tell me what's off and I'll rework it. Because everything is built from your own photos, there's rarely a surprise about what the property looks like.
Get started
Send the listing and I'll take a look at the photography. If it isn't strong enough to build something good from, I'll tell you that instead of selling you a video.