Compounding pharmacies: the bottle still is the label contract
Seedance I2V. Ideogram if the label words are the product.
Seedance I2V. Ideogram if the label words are the product. A compounding pharmacy does not sell a vibe of a white bottle. It sells a labelled container a patient will match against the vial in their hand. The words on that label — drug, strength, beyond-use, pharmacy name — are the product. Drift is not a style. Drift is a different pharmacy.
Do not start in a video model. The pack is a still. The still is a contract.
The label on the bottle is the contract
A pack shot is not a paragraph. It is a still you already approved: label, colour, proportion, the face of the bottle the patient will recognise. The job from there is motion, not invention.
Seedance 2.5 Image to Video is the model you point at that job: a single still into a continuous clip at up to 720p, four seconds to thirty, native audio with the picture. A second image can set the closing frame — front of pack to an approved back panel.
Thirty seconds in one pass is why this family holds a product. Stitching four short text-to-video clips around a bottle is how the colourway changes. 720p is the ceiling on this endpoint. Identity is the I2V choice. Resolution is a delivery choice.
Text-to-video is a different job: there is no still. The model decides the frame and the motion together. That is how you get a cousin bottle with a cousin label. If you find yourself prompting “a white pharmacy bottle rotating on marble, exact sage cap, the words matching our label,” you do not have a T2V problem. You have a missing still.
Ideogram spells the pack; Seedance moves it
When the words on the bottle are the product — and in compounding they are — lock the type before you buy seconds.
Ideogram V4 is the stills row for that lock. Catalog: text-to-image, text rendering, posters and logos. Six credits, flat. No duration. No video resolution. Aspect ratios: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Generate the ratio you will ship.
Approval means a screenshot still reads. Zoom to the label. If a letter is wrong, reroll the still, not a clip. Six credits is cheap enough to be strict. A video credit is not.
If you already have a photographed bottle, skip Ideogram. Photograph is ground truth. Ideogram is for the lockup that does not exist yet. Treat the generated label the same way you would treat a print proof. Once it is in the reference set, every subsequent shot will faithfully reproduce whatever typo made it through.
Then animate. Prompt only the camera: slow turn, no morph, type stays the type. If the video model restypes the strength, the still was not held as frame one — or you accidentally used text-to-video and described the bottle again.
Do not let T2V open a second pharmacy
Arena text-to-video rewards a pretty eight seconds. It does not reward a beyond-use date that is still spelled at second twenty-two. Seedance can lose a T2V week and still be the correct I2V pick, because those are not the same contest.
Lock a pack still. Run Seedance 2.5 I2V at a length you would ship. Run the same brief as T2V. Pause both on the label. The T2V clip may win a beauty contest. The I2V clip is the one that is still your product.
Do not send a talking pharmacist to I2V and hope the mouth is the point. Do not iterate the label design in video. Freeze the keeper where the type is most visible and compare it word-for-word against the canonical still. This is production hygiene, not medical advice. The generate is a picture of a bottle. The picture has to match the bottle you actually dispense.
FAQ
Does Ideogram V4 output video of the bottle?
No. Content type is image. Category is text-to-image. Six credits. Animate after you approve the still.
Why not generate the bottle in T2V and skip the still?
Because T2V re-decides the product every take. Labels, caps, colourways and proportions are the expensive failure. The still is the cheap place to lock them.
Do I need a last frame as well as a first?
Only when the shot has a destination that must match a second approved still — a turn that lands on the back of pack. A single hero still with a camera move is the usual job.
Is 720p enough for a product clip?
For feed and most web product clips, yes. For a 2K plate you intend to grade, pick a 2K generate and still start from a locked still if you can. Resolution is a delivery choice. Identity is the I2V choice.