VIDEO

Natural image-to-video motion

Direct character performance, environmental response, and camera path instead of typing a duration. For scenes without people, focus on spatial motion and camera direction.

PROMPT
Use the supplied first-frame image as the visual source of truth. Do not redescribe or redesign what is already visible. Create one continuous, physically coherent shot.

MOVING SUBJECT OR FOCAL ELEMENT
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If a person is present, preserve the same face, apparent age, body proportions, hairstyle, clothing, accessories, initial pose, and screen position. If there is no person, explicitly treat the named object, landscape feature, weather system, or light source as the focal element.

SUBJECT PERFORMANCE
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Describe one primary action with a readable beginning, transition, and resting state. For a person, include gaze, facial expression, breathing, weight shift, hand behavior, and interaction with the environment. For a person-free background shot, describe only the focal element’s natural change and omit human performance.

ENVIRONMENTAL MOTION
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Describe how hair, fabric, foliage, dust, water, smoke, reflections, shadows, practical lights, and background traffic react consistently to the subject and wind. Use restrained secondary motion; nothing moves without a cause.

CAMERA
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Define framing, angle, camera support, one motivated move, subject relationship, focus behavior, and the point where the camera settles. Avoid combining contradictory moves.

LOOK AND MOTION CHARACTER
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Specify live action or animation language, lighting continuity, color grade, lens response, motion energy, and whether movement feels smooth, handheld, weighty, delicate, or urgent.

CONTINUITY CONSTRAINTS
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Maintain identity, anatomy, object geometry, screen direction, scale, lighting direction, and background layout. No morphing, flicker, teleportation, duplicate elements, sliding feet, rubbery limbs, sudden zooms, or unmotivated cuts.

Negative prompt

identity drift, face mutation, age change, wardrobe change, warped anatomy, rubbery limbs, sliding feet, floating contact, object morphing, duplicate subjects, disappearing props, geometry drift, flicker, exposure pumping, texture crawl, background warping, teleportation, abrupt zoom, unmotivated cut, camera jitter, reversed screen direction, text, subtitles, logo, watermark

Production workflow

  1. Define the subject and scene first, then camera, lighting, and style.
  2. In the first result, judge only identity, geometry, composition, and the primary action.
  3. Change one action or one camera instruction per iteration.

Video prompting principles

  • Choose duration in the product’s generation settings; do not type it as a prompt variable.
  • For people, describe appearance, expression, gaze, posture, weight shift, hand behavior, and the action’s resting state.
  • Without people, prioritize foreground/midground/background motion and the camera path.
  • In image-to-video, the image establishes appearance, so use text primarily for motion.
  • Begin with one primary action and one motivated camera move per clip.

Verification

Inspect face, hands, product geometry, ground contact, screen direction, lighting direction, background position, flicker, and frame-to-frame deformation.