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GLOSSARY · PRODUCTION

IMAGE-TO-VIDEO

Generating a moving shot from a still you have already approved, rather than from text alone.

ALSO CALLEDI2V

This is the default working method for anything that has to look like a specific thing. You settle composition, lighting, product and wardrobe as a still (cheap, fast, reviewable) and only then spend a video render on it. Text-to-video is for exploration; image-to-video is for delivery.

It also puts the gates in the right place. A label that fails at the still stage costs one image. The same failure discovered after motion costs the clip.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Is image-to-video better than text-to-video?

For controlled work, almost always. You approve the frame before you pay for the motion, and the model has far less room to reinvent the subject.

THEORY IS FREE

Knowing the word is the cheap part.

Running it on a deadline, at volume, without burning the budget is the expensive part. That is the bit we do.

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