Cereal boxes: Recraft the front panel; pour is a different job

Layout-native still for the box. Bowl pour is Vidu later if you need it.

A cereal listing that can ship is a front panel a buyer can read: brand, flavor, net weight, the mascot pose legal already signed. That is a stills job. Milk into a bowl is motion, sound, and a different plate. Mixing them in one generate is how the name becomes cousins of itself while flakes invent a second fill. Lock the panel. Pour only after the panel is the panel.

The front panel is a layout, not a breakfast film

The SKU is the printed face. Hierarchy, flavor chip, claim bar, the legal line at the foot. A paragraph that says “cinematic breakfast, golden flakes pouring into a bowl, happy kitchen” will decide a new box and a new fill. The buyer is matching a carton they already saw on a shelf, not atmosphere.

Do not ask a video model to typeset the flavor. Video models smear lettering you have not locked. Do not ask a photoreal stills row with no typography support to “make our Honey Crunch front.” You will get almost-letters. Almost-letters at 24 frames a second is a misspelt pack.

Photograph the printed carton if you already have it. If you are locking art before print, generate the layout, inspect every glyph at 100%, and treat that file as the card. Lock the still before you spend on motion applies twice on cereal: the name is cheap as a still and expensive as a pour retry.

Ecommerce brands is the nearby D2C page: UGC-style reviews, unboxings, the first three seconds of an ad. That audience is a founder testing hooks. It is not a carton die-line. Do not rewrite that /for as a breakfast film, and do not paste a UGC talking mouth onto the front panel.

Recraft V4 locks type and hierarchy

Recraft V4 is Recraft’s latest text-to-image model with exceptional design quality and typography support. Category is text-to-image. Five credits, flat per call. audio is null. No duration. That is a poster, a label, a lockup — not a clip.

Typography support is a listed feature. If the brief has words that must be words — brand, flavor, a net-weight line legal will read — lock them here. There is no max_output_resolution listed on this slug. Do not advertise 4K because a sibling stills model has it. Generate, inspect the type, then upscale if the placement needs more pixels. Upscaling mushy type will not invent spelling.

Pick the ratio of the panel you are locking. Generating 9:16 and “we’ll crop for the box” is how the flavor chip dies in the crop. Vector-style is a listed feature, not a promise that the file is an SVG. Treat the output as a raster still.

Prompt layout, not foley. Five credits buys a still. Do not prompt camera moves. Do not prompt milk. Recraft will not become a pour because you described a kitchen. Approve the panel. Then decide whether it ever needs motion.

Bowl pour is a later Vidu job

Pour is physics on a different plate: bowl, milk, flakes that already match the approved fill. It is not Recraft with a longer prompt. It is image-to-video after you have a still of the bowl you actually shoot or an approved pack sitting beside it.

Vidu Q3 Image to Video is the still-to-motion row with native audio: 5s, 10s, or 15s, 1080p, 16 credits, discounted. Audio is on. Write the mix you want — milk hitting ceramic, a quiet kitchen — or you will get a soundtrack you did not choose. A silent brief still gets sound. Prompt the pour, not a lecture, and do not re-describe the box in the video prompt. Re-describing the carton is how the name swims.

Iterate at 5s. Fifteen seconds of the same bowl is a long miss unless the milk actually travels. If the bowl still shows a flavor you do not sell, stop. Recraft the panel again. Do not “fix” a wrong box by pouring it.

Product video is not a new box

The AI product video generator exists so the object in the ad is yours: reference photographs as the contract, camera and scene allowed around them. That door is for a carton you already locked — printed, photographed, type already approved. It is not a shortcut around Recraft. Feeding a muddy phone snap of a competitor’s shelf and asking for “our cereal in motion” is how you ship a cousin panel.

Reference-to-video will restage if you treat a finished hero layout as a casting call. Image-to-video keeps frame one as the file you sent. For a front panel that must remain itself, start from the Recraft still or the press photo and describe only motion. If the legal line must stay sharp, leave the panel as a still.

Do not glue a talking breakfast host onto either job. A constructed person pouring “your” flakes is a mouth you did not hire and a fill you cannot certify. Overlay a flavor name after picture lock if the mute feed needs it — type you typed, not Recraft glyphs inside a video prompt.

Order: Recraft the front panel; inspect every word; pour later on Vidu if the week actually needs milk. Reverse that order and you will pay the video meter to discover the mascot changed.

FAQ

Can Recraft V4 generate the pour in the same call?

No. Content type is image. Five credits buys a still with design quality and typography support. Animate after approval, on a video slug, if the panel should move at all. Milk is Vidu on a bowl still.

Why not invent the box inside the product video generator?

Because that tool holds a product you already photographed. A paragraph about flakes is a new carton. Lock the panel on Recraft V4. Then, if you need motion, attach that still or a press photo.

Does Vidu Q3 image-to-video need the Recraft file as frame one?

It needs a still. The honest pour plate is a bowl and fill you stand behind. Using the Recraft panel as frame one is a pack-shot wiggle, not a pour. Pick the plate that matches the job.

Is /for/ecommerce-brands the brief for cereal content?

No. That page is UGC-style D2C ads. This page is a carton front: Recraft for type, Vidu later for milk. Do not rewrite the ecommerce audience as a breakfast film.