POV: you wake up as a kid in December of 1999. Your own hand stirs a bowl of frosted cereal while mom does the dishes and cartoons hum on the little kitchen TV. Your sneakers stretch across the minivan back seat between shopping bags. You raise a red soda cup over a pan pizza while your parents laugh across the booth. The first-person nostalgia trend taking over feeds right now, shipped as one click on EmpirioLabs.
Time Capsule is an aesthetic template. The first-person camera, your own hands in frame, the warm nostalgic grade, and the era-accurate props are baked in. You name the year and the moment. The template handles the rest, and it is not locked to 1999: a 1985 BMX summer, a 1994 arcade Saturday, and a 2002 living-room gaming session all work the same way.
See Time Capsule in action
Adding the caption overlay
The model generates ambient audio alongside the video: kitchen clinks, store chatter, street sounds. For the "POV: You wake up as a kid in December of 1999" caption you see on the viral posts, add the text in post with CapCut or a similar editor. Keeping generated video free of baked-in text is what makes the caption look clean.
How to generate Time Capsule videos on EmpirioLabs
You need an EmpirioLabs account with active credits.
Step 1: Open the playground
Sign in to platform.empiriolabs.ai, click Playground, switch to a video model. Time Capsule recommends Seedance 2.0 Pro.
Step 2: Open the Templates picker
Click Templates. Filter by Viral or search for Time Capsule.
Step 3: Pick Time Capsule and describe the memory
Click the Time Capsule card. Name the year and the moment, or click one of the suggested chips: Christmas morning cereal as a 90s kid, Friday night at the video rental store, the back seat after holiday shopping, pizza night with the family, the arcade in 1994, a BMX ride in the summer of 1985.
Step 4: Generate
Hit Send. Generation typically takes 60 to 180 seconds.
Using the Time Capsule template via the API
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/videos/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"template": "time-capsule", "prompt": "Eating cereal in a cozy kitchen on Christmas morning, December 1999, mom doing dishes, cartoons on the small TV"}'Pricing
Seedance 2.0 Pro starts at $1.50 for a 5-second 720p clip. Time Capsule also supports Seedance Fast, Wan 2.7, Wan 2.6, Kling O3, Happy Horse, Pixverse, and MOSS Video+Audio for variety. Full pricing on the pricing page.
Try Time Capsule now
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