Billiard halls: Ideogram owns the specials board; felt color cannot morph

The cloth is the SKU. Recraft the colorway if the still is wrong before you buy motion. Overlay hours. Do not fill stools with generated faces.

A billiard-hall clip that books a table is the room you recoth: the felt, the rails, the specials board a regular can read from the door. It is not a constructed league night of extras on stools, a talking bartender walking "what you should drink," or a cousin blue that is not the cloth on the invoice. Get the colorway right as a still. Letter the board. Burn the hours. Leave the crowd off the generate.

The cloth is the SKU

Tournament green, club blue, the colourway on the recoth ticket — that is what a player recognises before they recognise your logo. Text-to-video will invent a prettier hall with a felt that blooms mid-clip. That is a different room. The league captain who pauses on the cloth notices.

Photograph the table you actually run, empty, lights as they sit, pockets in frame. Same lens height you would use for a facility tour. No one on the stool. No generated face in the background. The still is the contract. Motion is allowed only after the still is the colorway you will ship.

If the photo is last year's cloth, do not buy seconds hoping the model "fixes" the hue. A wrong still becomes a long wrong still. Reshoot after recoth, or generate a colorway plate you will label as a render, never as tonight's room.

Cocktail bars is the nearby hospitality page: pours, a back bar. This listing is felt. Mixing them is how a hall grows a generated bartender. Do not rewrite /for as a 9-ball special.

Ideogram owns the specials board

The board is type. League night, table rate, "9-ball after 8." A viewer who screenshots the post still has to read the line. Video models treat lettering as a texture. Over a few seconds that texture crawls, respells, and grows a rate you do not charge.

Ideogram V4 is the stills row for words in the frame: posters and logos, accurate text rendering, 6 credits, text-to-image. audio is null. No duration. No max resolution listed on this slug — do not invent 4K. Quote the strings. Specify case and how many lines. Proof at 100% and at the size the door camera will see.

Ideogram owns words in the frame is the specialist argument. This page is only the hall case: the specials board, not a foundry specimen, not a pack label. Short-to-medium on-image copy. Not a newspaper of house rules.

Do not ask a motion model to add the board. If the showing needs a new line, go back to the still. Text to image is the picker; Ideogram V4 is the model choice inside it. If you already have the real board photographed and the letters hold, do not regenerate the letters. Composite.

Recraft the colorway before you buy motion

Recraft 4.1 Text to Image is Recraft's standard text-to-image row: style control and consistency, 4 credits, flat. audio is null. No duration. No max resolution listed. It cannot ingest the hall photo. It will decide a table. Use it when you need a closed colorway still of the cloth you sell — empty bed, rails in frame, no bodies — and you are willing to say the picture is a render, not tonight's room.

That is the honest Recraft job here. It is not an edit of last year's green into this year's blue. Text-to-image does not hold this camera. If the real hall photo exists and the cloth is already the colorway, use that file. If the cloth is wrong, reshoot, or generate a labeled colorway plate. Then stop. Do not spend motion on a still you would not print.

Prompt the cloth, not the crowd: one table, one colourway, rails locked, empty stools. "Busy Saturday night" is how faces appear. Proof the felt at 100%. If the hue is a cousin of the recoth invoice, throw it out before you buy seconds.

Motion after that lock is camera only — a slow push, no new cloth. Re-describing "tournament blue, cinematic hall" in an image-to-video prompt is how the model starts drawing a second bed. If the colorway morphs, the clip is scrap.

Overlay hours; do not fill stools with generated faces

Hours, a phone, "league Tuesdays" — those belong in type you typed after picture lock when they are not already readable in the still. Add a text overlay burns one authored line, whole clip, top / center / bottom. It does not transcribe. It does not invent a bartender.

A generated extra on a stool is a private figure you invented. Empty stools are honest. Do not generate hands on a cue so the table looks in use. The cloth is the subject.

Do not glue a talking host onto the table file. If a night needs a voice, that voice is a real named person on a different day. If the first three seconds look like a crowded bar, rewrite until they look like a table.

FAQ

Can Recraft 4.1 restyle our existing hall photo to the new felt?

No. Recraft 4.1 is text-to-image, 4 credits. It cannot ingest the room. Reshoot after recoth, or generate a labeled colorway still. Then buy motion. Do not animate last year's cloth and hope the hue lands.

Why Ideogram for the specials board instead of overlaying later?

When the board is the picture — a poster, a door card, a tile that has to read at thumbnail — Ideogram V4 (6 credits) letters inside the pixels. When the table still is already approved and you only need hours, overlay after lock. Do not do both to the same string.

Can we fill the stools so the hall looks open?

No. Generated faces are a likeness problem. Empty cloth, empty stools. Overlay hours. A real named person on a different shoot if you need a host.

Should we generate the whole night as one talking clip?

No. A talking generate of a bartender or league host is a mouth you did not hire, and the felt will morph. Colorway still first. Board type second. Hours overlay last. Motion only on the approved cloth.