Candle OEM vs /for candle-makers: this is the SKU factory still
I2V the production still. Maker /for is lifestyle.
I2V the production still. Maker /for is lifestyle.
A candle OEM line card is a factory SKU: the jar on the white card, the batch tag, the exact label lockup. The job is to keep that jar while the camera moves. It is not a pour reel, a first-light close-up, or a cozy-routine template.
AI video for candle makers is the brand-side page: the pour and cure as proof of handmade quality, first-light for a new scent, packaging detail, scent notes as type or voiceover because video cannot smell. Platforms there are Pinterest and Instagram Reels. Three posts a week. That is a consumer candle maker. An OEM filling line is not that audience.
The production still is the contract
Factory SKU stills already exist. Someone photographed the jar for the catalog, the line sheet, the buyer deck. That file is the product. If the vessel, the wax colour, or the label is wrong, every second of video is a mis-ship.
Iterate the still until the buyer who knows the mould would ship the box. Then animate. Prompt only motion — a slow orbit, a light rake across glass that is already in the photograph, a hold. Do not prompt "a woman lighting our signature scent in a linen-sheeted loft." That restages the SKU as a campaign still you do not have, and it invents a private person if the "woman" is a face.
Text-to-video of "a soy candle rotating on marble" re-decides the jar. OEM cannot survive that. The mould is the mould.
Seedance I2V holds the jar
Seedance 2.5 Image to Video is the still-to-motion row: one locked frame into a continuous clip, up to 30 seconds, up to 720p, native audio with the picture. A second image sets the closing frame when the shot has a destination — lid on, then lid seated; front of label, then the batch stamp. Image required. Listed 47 credits. Features: image-to-video, first frame, last frame, long form, audio sync. Durations run 4s through 30s. Qualities: 480p and 720p.
A last frame is useful when you have a second approved still. It is control, not a default. Do not invent a lifestyle last frame the factory never shot.
Thirty seconds in one pass is how a label does not drift across a stitch of eight-second text-to-video clips. If you only need a five-second orbit for a line-sheet loop, generate five seconds. Length is a dial. Identity is not. Overlay scent notes after picture lock, or leave them off the OEM plate — the buyer already has the spec sheet.
Do not borrow the maker page
/for/candle-makers optimises for watchable process: wax-pour, wick-trim, first-light, a cozy-routine integration piece. Scent has to be said, because it cannot be shown. That is a brand calendar.
OEM shipping a SKU to a buyer needs the jar isolated, matching the card; motion that does not recast the vessel or the lockup; no invented burner, loft, or hand. A hand in frame is a likeness if you referenced a real person without a grant. A first-light is a different still, a different brief, and you have left OEM for the maker page.
The pour is the maker's proof of craft. The unlit jar on the card is the OEM's proof of inventory. Do not average them.
If a sentence in the brief contains "batch," "vessel," or "line sheet," you are on the factory still. If it contains "first-light" or "pour," you are on the maker page. Do not copy the maker film ideas onto a factory card.
FAQ
Should OEM use the candle-makers /for page as the brief?
No. That page is pour, first-light, and scent storytelling for a consumer maker. OEM is I2V of the approved production still. Link the maker page when you are the maker.
Do I need a last frame for a jar turn?
Only when the landing must match a second approved still (lid off, stamp, reverse label). A single card still with a slow orbit is the usual SKU job.
Why not generate the candle from text so I do not need a photo?
Because T2V re-decides vessels, wax colour, and lockup every take. The still is the cheap lock. I2V is how you stop paying video credits to discover the label changed.
Is 720p enough for a factory turntable clip?
For a feed, a line-sheet embed, and most buyer WhatsApp clips, yes. 720p is the ceiling on this Seedance 2.5 I2V endpoint. For a 2K plate you intend to grade, pick a higher-resolution generate and still start from the locked still.