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Santa Caught AI is a Santa Caught on Camera AI video generator. You upload one photo of a room in your home and it renders a short clip of Santa in that room, filmed in the style of a home security camera. It is the fastest way to answer "how to catch santa on camera" without owning a camera or filming anything.

One landscape photo of the room, taken from a high corner so the tree, the fireplace and a good stretch of floor are all in frame. Lights on, nothing blocking the middle of the room. Do not upload photos with people or pets in them — those are rejected.

No. We only accept photos of rooms. Photos of people are rejected at upload, and we never accept photos of children. The clip is about the room and the figure walking through it, not about anyone in your family.

Santa Caught AI runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, so there is no app to install and nothing to update. Sign in, upload the room photo, download the MP4.

There is no free trial: every render costs real GPU time, so there are no free credits. The smallest pack is $4.99 for one 6-second video. Credits never expire and stack up, so nothing is lost if you buy a small pack first, and a render that fails refunds its credits automatically. There is no subscription and nothing renews.

Most videos finish in 2–8 minutes depending on length and queue. You can close the page; finished videos wait in My videos.

Each second of video costs one credit. Credits are bought in packs, never expire and are refunded automatically if a render fails.

Only if you are allowed to photograph it — for example a relative’s living room you are making the video for. Photos containing people, including photos of minors, are not accepted at all, and accounts that keep trying are closed.

Uploads are private, used only to make your video and deleted automatically 7 days after upload. Finished videos are kept for 30 days after they finish. Deleting your account removes everything right away.

That is your call, and it is the part worth thinking about before Christmas morning. The file is labelled as AI-generated in its metadata and on any page you share it from, so an older child who looks will find it. Many parents treat it the way they treat the rest of the story, and tell them later.