Dye tests want Vidu water on the return you filmed
Vidu Q3 I2V puts diegetic water on the return still you actually shot; pool-builders is a different trade, and a generated leak is not the test.
Vidu Q3 I2V puts diegetic water on the return still you actually shot; pool-builders is a different trade, and a generated leak is not the test.
A dye-test clip that books is dye on a fitting you already photographed: this return, this skimmer throat, this light niche, the crack the dye actually entered. The buyer is matching a vessel they have. The sound that belongs on that clip is water against tile, a pump, a quiet basin. A generated plume on a cousin pool is a fake test. Photograph the return. Put water on that still. Do not invent the leak.
The return you filmed is the test
Leak detection is a location question. The frame that answers it is the actual fitting: the eyeball, the grout line, the niche ring a homeowner will recognise from the deck. Text-to-video will invent a cleaner pool with a cousin return and a tile you do not service. That is a failed test, not a cinematic upgrade.
Photograph the return you actually tested. Same tile, same waterline, same fitting family. AI image to video keeps frame one as the file you sent. Labels, grout, and the cracked plaster behind the fitting survive because they were already in the picture. The prompt is for physics — dye drifting, a pull into the joint, a return that does not grow a second eyeball. Re-describing the pool in the prompt is how the model starts drawing a second vessel.
If the still includes a homeowner’s face, crop it. You need the return, not a person. Minors at the waterline are a hard stop. Do not generate a prettier leak and present it as last week’s find. A plume whose path is not the path in the report is a complaint. The still is the contract.
Vidu Q3 puts diegetic water on that still
Vidu Q3 Image to Video is the still-to-motion row with native audio: 5s, 10s, or 15s, 1080p, 16 credits, discounted. Image required. Category is image-to-video only. Audio is on. Write the mix you want — water against tile, a pump kick, a quiet basin — or you will get a soundtrack you did not choose. A silent brief still gets sound. Prompt the water, not a lecture.
Iterate at 5s. There is no 3s retry on this slug. Fifteen seconds of the same return is a long miss unless the dye actually travels. Qualities include 360p through 1080p; the ceiling is 1080p, not 4K. There is no aspect-ratio list on this slug — crop the still to 9:16 or 16:9 before upload.
Diegetic means the sound is in the picture: water, pump, fitting. It is not a host and not a “signs your pool is leaking” read. Write the mix into the 5s prompt: dye pull, waterline lap, no speech. Leave audio unspecified and Q3 invents a splash the return never had.
The still is frame one. Prompt physics, not a second vessel. “Locked return, dye drifts into the joint, camera static, no new tile.” Stop. “Show a leak blooming across a lagoon pool at sunset” is a restage. This Vidu slug is one still, then motion. A last frame of a different fitting is a first-last job on a different row.
A generated leak is not the test
A paragraph is a new identity. “Dye test revealing a leak in a luxury pool” rebuilds the vessel. That is not a test. A test is dye on a fitting you stood over. Vidu Q3 Image to Video requires the still. Text-to-video is a different row and will invent a pool.
Do not morph the fitting. Do not turn a 1-inch eyeball into a 1.5-inch cousin in flight. If the generate redraws those, throw the take away. A discounted 15-second miss is still a drifting leak with a soundtrack.
Keep lips out. If a real named technician must speak, that is footage of that person on a different day, or overlay type you wrote. Add a text overlay burns one authored line — a “return #2,” a CTA — whole clip, top / center / bottom. Vidu will not letter the fitting size. A constructed inspector walking “your shell is unsafe” is a photoreal health presenter. The water moves. The claim sits on top, in words you will stand behind.
Pool-builders is a different trade
Pool construction is a different plate: excavation, steel, a gunite day, a finished lagoon. That crew sells a vessel they are building. This crew sells a test on a vessel that already leaks. Mixing them is how a dye clip becomes a golden-hour pool that hides the return. A builder who I2Vs a dye jpeg as proof they poured the shell has used the wrong still.
Plumbers sit nearby as water work: the satisfying fix, a diagnostic walkthrough. That page is a crew on a job. It is not a dye-test SKU hold. Do not paste a “signs of a hidden leak” voiceover onto this still.
This job is the return. Generation can still do the water on the photograph you already have. Pause on the fitting. Is it the return you tested? Yes: ship. No: you generated a leak.
FAQ
Can I text-to-video a dye plume and skip the return photo?
You can on a different row. You will get a cousin pool and a leak you did not test. Vidu Q3 Image to Video requires the still. Frame one is the file. Photograph the return. Animate that.
Does Vidu Q3 image-to-video add a soundtrack if I do not ask for one?
Yes. Native audio is on. Write water against tile, a pump, or silence. A silent brief still gets a mix. Quoted technician talk in the prompt does not become a title card. Overlay the line after lock.
Why not invent a more dramatic crack so the test “reads” on a phone?
A generated leak is not the test. The buyer is matching a fitting they have. A cinematic crack is a different vessel. Dye on the return you filmed is the ad.
Is pool construction the same content as leak detection?
No. Builders sell a vessel they are pouring. This page is dye on a return you actually shot. Do not restage a new-build lagoon as proof of a leak, and do not replace the fitting with a talking explainer.