Chimney caps letter the UL stamp, Ideogram owns the type

The rain-cap catalog mark has to read: Ideogram V4 at 6cr, or overlay if the cap still already exists; a soot-to-clean sweep interpolation is a different trade.

A chimney-cap listing that ships is a readable stamp on this rain cap: the UL mark, the series, the mesh a distributor will match on a pallet. It is not two stills of a dirty flue becoming a clean flue. That interpolation is a sweep job. Letter the mark. Lock the cap. Do not morph creosote.

The catalog mark has to read

Distributors compare the still to the carton. Diameter versus diameter is a warehouse fact. UL versus a smear that “looks certified” is a claim. A wrong glyph is a different listing.

Photograph the approved cap the way you would print a line card: square-on, lid true, mesh readable, stamp filling enough of the frame to survive encode. If the mark is already sharp, keep the photograph. Do not ask a poster engine to redraw a cap you already shot.

If the stamp is not in the file yet — a training graphic, an end card, a “UL listed” lockup that has to read at thumbnail size — that is lettering. Most photoreal models will give you a cap-shaped object with a badge smear. That is not a mark.

Do not generate a prettier crown and present it as the kit on the quote. A talking tech walking “what you should do before winter” is a constructed expert. Film a real named installer, or do not put a mouth on the clip. The stamp job does not need a presenter. Do not ask Ideogram for a ninety-word listing block in one prompt.

Ideogram V4 owns the type

Ideogram V4 is the lettering row: 6 credits, text-to-image, text rendering, posters and logos listed. Aspects 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Quote the string. "UL listed" and the series ID are the brief, not “an official chimney cap with some lettering.” Proof at 100%. A wrong character is a different SKU.

A video model asked to hold a UL mark while it also does a slow push across a roof will spend the expensive meter on a misspelled stamp you cannot edit. Legal lines that will change are overlay, not pixels in the generate. A short lockup is the SKU. Read every glyph against the card you will hang. Animate only after the stamp is the stamp. If you would not print the still on a spec sheet, do not buy motion. Crop people. A tech in the still becomes a tech in the motion.

Overlay if the cap still already exists

If the cap is already in a photo and the stamp is small, glare-hit, or will fail at feed encode, do not regenerate the mesh to “fix the type.” Keep the cap. Burn the string.

Add a text overlay burns one authored line — the UL mark, a CTA, the series — for the whole clip. Position is top, center, or bottom. It does not transcribe. Copy lock can be later than picture lock. A mark baked into Ideogram pixels is a reroll. A mark burned as overlay is an edit.

Crop to 9:16 before you overlay. If the line has to change at timestamps — UL, then series, then a CTA — that is timed overlays. If the photo already shows a sharp printed stamp, you may not need overlay. Proof the still.

Once the still is the still, AI image to video is the door. Seedance 2.5 is the still-to-motion family: 4s–30s in one pass, 720p ceiling, 47 credits listed, native audio with the picture. I2V is the still-to-motion job on that family; the published URL is the family page. Prompt camera and physics only. Slow orbit of the cap already in the still. Do not re-describe the kit. Native audio will invent a soundtrack if you leave the mix unnamed. Write silence or plan score after lock. Quoted “book a sweep” does not become a readable title.

A last frame is optional control. Use one when you photographed two states of the same cap. Two photos of two different diameters is a morph of the SKU.

Soot-to-clean is a different trade

Chimney sweeps interpolate creosote to a clean flue is the nearby service page: two stills of the same stack, dirty then clean, first-last on that geometry. A rain-cap OEM ad is a lettered catalog mark on a cap you ship. Do not first-last a sooty crown into a cap you never photographed. That is a morph of two businesses.

/for/contractors is process transparency behind walls — demo, framing, a walkthrough. A chimney cap is not a renovation arc. This page owns the catalog mark. The flue, the van, the crown are the proof of an install. The carton photo is the SKU.

It is not soot-to-clean interpolation. That is the sweep page, two stills of one stack. It is not a talking tech walking “your air is unsafe.” It is not a text-to-video “stainless rain cap dropping onto a Victorian stack.” That invents the mesh. The mesh is the SKU.

Pause on the stamp. Is it the mark on the quote? Yes: ship. No: you used a video model as a typesetter, or you first-last'd a dirty flue into a cousin kit. Go back to the still.

FAQ

Can Veo typeset the UL stamp on the cap if I put the string in the prompt?

Do not. Prompted type in a video generate is a miss you cannot edit. Generate the lockup on Ideogram V4 at 6 credits, keep a photograph, or overlay the line after picture lock.

Do I still need Ideogram if the photo already shows the printed stamp?

No. Keep the photo. Ideogram is for type that is not in the file yet. Overlay if the print is too small to survive encode. Animate the real cap only after the mark reads.

Can I interpolate a dirty flue into a cap install and skip the catalog photo?

No. Soot-to-clean is the sweep job: two stills of the same stack. Rain-cap OEM is a lettered catalog mark. Pin the cap still. Animate that on Seedance 2.5. A morph from creosote into a lid you never photographed is a different product.

Is this the contractor audience page?

No. Contractors is process on a job that exists. This job is a rain-cap catalog mark: Ideogram V4 at 6 credits, or overlay if the still already exists. Do not copy that /for onto the kit.