EV charger factories lock the unit photo, not a garage
OEM ads I2V the catalog shot on Seedance 2.5; a generated garage wall invents a different charger than the SKU sheet.
OEM ads I2V the catalog shot on Seedance 2.5; a generated garage wall invents a different charger than the SKU sheet.
A factory listing is the unit: inlet family, amperage marking, cable hang, LED ring, the badge on the faceplate you actually ship. A garage is a room. Text-to-video will happily invent a pretty wall and a cousin charger to hang on it. That is a listing for hardware you do not make.
Catalog still, not a hung wall, not a generated garage
An installer ad is a different plate. EV charger installs are wall stills that must match the SKU is the hung unit on a real wall: I2V from the install photo so the inlet matches the quote. This page is the factory cut. You may not have a garage. You have a catalog shot — bench, cyc, the boxed SKU. Animate that. Do not invent the drywall.
Electricians is another nearby surface: panel work, anonymized hazard finds, "don't DIY this." That is a contractor audience. It is not an OEM SKU sheet. Do not rewrite the electrician page as a charger homepage.
Manufacturers is the plant: line footage, QC, recruitment. A charger OEM can film a real line when the brief is capacity. The listing that procurement pauses on is still the unit photo, not a six-shot hall tour that invents a seventh SKU on a workbench.
Do not prompt "a modern Level 2 charger on a suburban garage wall at dusk." The model will pick an inlet. Average is not your NACS or J1772. Average is a badge that is not on the carton.
Seedance 2.5 on the unit photo
The still-to-motion job on this family is image-to-video. Open it from AI image-to-video. The published family page is Seedance 2.5: four to thirty seconds in one pass, 720p ceiling, forty-seven credits listed, native audio with the picture.
Upload the catalog still. Frame one is the faceplate you would print. Prompt camera and physics — a slow push to the inlet, a cable settle if the cable is already in the still, a boxed-to-unboxed travel only if you have two approved stills of the same model. Do not re-describe the charger in the paragraph. Re-describing is how the model draws a second charger.
Thirty seconds in one pass holds a SKU. Stitching four short text-to-video clips is how the inlet drifts. 720p is the ceiling on this endpoint. Connector geometry is the first thing a generator loses at postage-stamp size. Keep the faceplate large in frame.
Native audio will invent a soundtrack if you leave the mix unnamed. Write silence, a click you actually want, or plan score after lock. A talking installer in a generated garage is a different, worse object. Crop people out of the still before you buy seconds. Do not prompt them out and hope the model rebuilds the bench.
If the still is a wrong colourway, you are buying up to thirty seconds of the wrong colourway. Lock the still before you spend on motion.
Restage the room only with the product generator
When the object must stay yours and the scene is new — a garage you do not have, a 9:16 crop of a unit you shot on a bench — that is not I2V. I2V commits to the room in the photo. Restaging while holding shape, colour, and label is the AI product video generator: reference-to-video, photographs of the real object as ground truth.
Photograph the unit properly: even light, plain background, three or four angles including the front of pack. Describe surface, environment, light, camera. The references already say what the object looks like. Check the badge at 100% before you keep a take. Fine text is the first defect a buyer will notice.
Do not mix the two on one shot. I2V from the catalog still when the bench is the ad. R2V when the room has to change and the unit must not. T2V for neither. Feeding a finished catalog shot to R2V and asking it to "just add motion" will restage. That is how a bench becomes a garage with a cousin inlet.
Pause on the inlet
Run the take. Pause on the connector. Is it the charger on the SKU sheet? Yes: ship. No: you used text-to-video, you restaged without references, or you first-last'd two different units. Go back to the still.
A generated garage is not proof you hang this hardware. It is proof a model can invent a wall. The factory listing does not need that wall.
FAQ
Can I prompt the model number into text-to-video instead of uploading the catalog photo?
No. A sentence is not a faceplate. The model will still invent the inlet. Upload the unit photo and describe only the camera.
When is the product video generator the right row?
When the object must stay yours and the scene is new. That is reference-to-video. The catalog hero is I2V from the bench still. Do not feed a finished unit shot to R2V and ask it to "just add motion."
Is this the same job as the installer wall still?
No. The installer page is a hung unit on a real wall. This page is the factory catalog shot, empty of a garage you did not photograph. Both lock the SKU. They are different plates.
Is 720p enough for an OEM listing?
For feed, a line-sheet attach, and most web product clips, yes. The inlet matching the SKU sheet matters more than a higher-resolution invention of a different charger. If you need a higher ceiling, start from the same locked still — do not switch to text-to-video to chase resolution.