Battery OEM: pack still, no fake teardowns of competitor packs

Your SKU. I2V. A battery OEM clip that ships is a photograph of this module, this busbar, this label, then a few seconds of the unit moving. It is not a generated cutaway of a competitor's cells. You did not open their pack. The model did not either. Drawing their internals is a claim. A buyer who knows the chemistry will clock it before they clock your logo.

Photograph the unit you will ship. Animate that photograph. Leave Brand B's guts off the prompt.

The pack you ship is the still

Factory SKU stills already exist. Someone photographed the module for the line sheet, the UL file, the catalog PDF. That file is the product. If the cell count, the terminal colour, or the warning diamond is wrong, every second of video is a mis-ship.

Lock the still before you spend on motion applies twice as hard on a pack: fine print and metal are the expensive failure. Iterate the still until the buyer who knows the mould would ship the crate. Then animate.

Seedance 2.5 Image to Video is the still-to-motion row: a locked plate into a continuous clip, four to thirty seconds, native audio, 720p as the ceiling on that endpoint, optional last frame when the move has a destination. Prompt only the camera: a slow orbit that keeps the rating plate readable. Do not prompt "cinematic teardown of a lithium pack on marble." That paragraph restages the SKU.

The AI product video generator is the same contract: reference photos are the ground truth. Zoom to 100% on the pack shot and read the small print before you keep a take. Fine text is the first thing a generator loses. Text-to-video of "a battery pack rotating in a clean room" re-decides the pack. OEM cannot survive that.

A teardown you did not open is a claim

A real teardown is a lab: torque, a jig, a camera over your module, a second still of the opened tray if you are allowed to show it. That pair can be a first-last job on stills you own. A prompt that says "exploded view of Brand B's 21700 layout, thermal paste, nickel strips" is not a teardown. It is a drawing of internals you never saw.

That drawing is not your SKU, and it is a statement about a competitor you cannot point at a photograph for. A synthetic clip that uses a rival's name and pack styling as though you opened their product is the shape the FTC impersonation rule is about: businesses, not vibes. This is general information, not legal advice. Do not "approximate" their cells and crop the logo. Cropping a fake does not make it your SKU.

Competitor guts are not a comparison style

Head-to-head is allowed as your pack versus a claim you can check on a listing — energy, cycle life, a rating plate you photographed. It is not allowed as a generated autopsy of their tray.

If the week is a comparison ad, shoot your unit. Lock that still. Speak claims you can defend, or overlay them as type you wrote. Do not ask the model to invent Brand B's jelly-roll so the edit has a cutaway. A missing cutaway is information. It means you did not open their pack.

AI testimonials and the fake review rule is the adjacent failure: an invented customer who "switched off Brand B after their pack caught fire." Nobody said it. Generating it is a fabricated first-person account. A fabricated teardown is the same category wearing a lab-coat costume.

Label check, then motion

Before you buy seconds:

1. Straight-on, at reading distance, of your pack
2. Three-quarter for volume
3. Terminal / seam detail
4. Back panel if it carries its own text

Neutral background. Even light. Then image-to-video. A last frame is useful when you have a second approved still of your unit — rating plate to terminal, lid on to lid off. Do not invent Brand B's opened tray as the landing. If you only need a five-second orbit, generate five seconds. Length is a dial. Identity is not.

FAQ

Can I generate a generic "exploded battery" if I do not name the competitor?

You can generate a diagram of a pack that is not yours. Do not publish it as their internals or as a teardown of a unit you ship. If the exploded view is not a still you photographed of your SKU, it is not the OEM ad. Keep it off the product page.

Why not text-to-video so I do not need a pack photo?

Because T2V re-decides terminals, counts, and diamonds every take. The still is the cheap lock. I2V is how you stop paying video credits to discover the warning label moved.

Do I need a last frame for a lid-off shot?

Only when both stills are yours — lid on and lid off, same module, same angle. A generated lid-off of a competitor is not a last frame. It is a new claim.

Is 720p enough for a factory orbit?

For a feed, a line-sheet embed, and most buyer WhatsApp clips, yes. Identity of the pack matters more than a 4K invention of a different pack. If you need a higher-resolution plate, start from the same locked still on a model whose ceiling matches delivery — do not switch to a competitor teardown to chase resolution.