Cat litter: Vidu the pour; overlay formula vs the pet-food bag
Diegetic pour after the pail still. Clumping line is overlay. Pet-food OEM already spent the bag; /for/pet-product-brands is the catalog page. Do not generate a cat.
Diegetic pour after the pail still. Clumping line is overlay. Pet-food OEM already spent the bag; /for/pet-product-brands is the catalog page. Do not generate a cat.
A litter clip that ships is the pail you hang: this colourway, this handle, this weight, this formula word already on the lid. Motion is granules leaving that pail. The clumping line is type you typed. A generated house cat is a private animal you did not grant. Photograph the pail. Pour that still. Burn the formula. Leave the animal off the generate.
The pail still, then the pour
The buyer is matching a jug they will carry from the aisle. Lid graphic, scoop if the scoop is in the still, the net weight you actually sell. Text-to-video “premium clumping litter pouring in a sunny kitchen” will invent a cousin bucket and a formula word the legal team did not approve. That is a different SKU.
Photograph the pail you would print. Even light. Label readable. Empty of paws. If the only photo includes a cat, crop it or shoot again. If the still would not pass as the listing hero, reshoot the jug, then buy seconds.
Diegetic pour means the motion is this product leaving this container. It is not a cartoon cascade the model sampled from every sand ad it has seen. If the granules are not in the still, open the pail on the floor, photograph that, then pour.
AI product video is the object-hold door when the jug has to stay yours while the shot moves. Check the lid at 100% before you keep a take. Do not feed a finished pail still to a restage and ask it to “just add pour.”
Vidu Q3 I2V is the pour
Once the still is the still, image-to-video is the door. Vidu Q3 Image to Video is the still-to-motion sibling: image required, native audio, 5s / 10s / 15s, 1080p, 16 credits, discounted on that row. Prompt the pour, not a second pail. Iterate at 5s.
Write only travel. “Locked pail, slow tip, granules already in frame leave the lip, camera locked, no new lid, no animal.” Stop. Vidu will treat a cat in the prompt as a reason to grow one.
Native audio is on. Write the mix — granule hiss, a quiet room — or write silence. A silent brief still gets a soundtrack you did not choose. Do not write a meow into the prompt and wait for a pet.
Five seconds is the floor on this slug. Ten and fifteen are for a pour that actually lasts that long. Inspect the midpoint. If the middle restages the colourway, reroll the motion, not the still. Optional last frame only when both photographs are the same SKU. Two different jugs is a morph.
Formula is overlay, not bag type
Clumping, unscented, multi-cat, the clay or plant word on the listing — those strings are claims. Video models redraw letterforms every frame. Text you cannot afford to get wrong does not live inside the pour.
Add a text overlay burns one authored line for the whole clip — top, center, or bottom. That is the formula. It does not transcribe. It does not mint a feeding guide. Overlay after picture lock. Swap multi-cat clumping for the next SKU without regenerating the lid.
Do not ask Vidu to typeset the formula onto the pail in flight. If the still already carries a sharp formula line you photographed, keep it. Do not “enhance” the letters.
Pet food: the bag still; do not generate a customer's pet already spent the kibble bag: SKU I2V, no sampled animal. That page is the bag. This page is the pail. Do not rewrite a salmon recipe as a clumping line. Do not I2V a kibble still and caption it litter. The formula overlay is the leftover job the bag page does not own.
Do not generate a cat; the catalog page is the audience
AI video for pet product brands is the audience page: real-pet proof beats studio abstraction — real, as in filmed with a grant, not generated from a review photo. That playbook is “will my specific pet like this.” It is not a licence to mint a house cat from a paragraph.
A known animal is a replica problem. “It is a vibe of an orange tabby” is how you ship a lookalike of a customer’s cat from an unboxing still you scraped. Prefer stock you own, a filmed animal with a grant, or the pail with no animal. Empty is honest. Minors in the frame are a hard stop. Do not generate a child pouring the pail.
Pause on the lid. If the freeze-frame would not pass the listing, the video will not pass the aisle. Overlay the line. Skip the cat. The bag was someone else’s spend. This leftover is litter.
FAQ
Can we generate a generic cat so we are not using a customer’s pet?
A “generic” photoreal cat with no referent is still a lookalike risk if it reads as a marking combo someone will claim. Prefer stock you own or a filmed animal with a grant. The pail does not need a generated face.
Does Vidu Q3 Image to Video add a meow if I describe the box?
Native audio is on. A silent brief still gets a soundtrack. Write “no speech, no animal, granule hiss only,” or score later. Do not prompt a cat and call the mix a pet.
Is the pet-product-brands page the brief for litter?
It is the audience page: real-pet proof when you have a real pet and permission. It does not mean generate one. The pail still is always legal to pour. The animal is optional and expensive to get wrong. Kibble already spent the bag; do not twin that listing as this pail.
Can I text-to-video the pour and skip the pail photo?
You can. You will recast the lid and the formula every take. Photograph the pail so those are not sampled again. Vidu Q3 Image to Video requires the image. Use it when identity is the job.