EV charger installs are wall stills that must match the SKU
I2V from the install photo. T2V invents a different charger.
I2V from the install photo. T2V invents a different charger. An installer ad is not "an EV wall box in a clean garage." It is this faceplate on this wall: connector family, amperage marking, cable hang, LED ring, the lockup the homeowner already bought. If the clip shows a different inlet or a badge that is not on the unit you hang, the video is a listing for hardware you do not stock.
The still you already have — the finished install, the boxed SKU — is the contract. Motion is allowed. A cousin charger is not.
The faceplate is the listing
A Level 2 install is a specific object. The buyer knows whether they ordered NACS or J1772, tethered cable or socket. Text-to-video does not. It invents a generic wall box: a pretty garage, a plausible LED, a connector that is "EV-shaped." That is a different SKU. The homeowner who pauses on the inlet notices before they notice your logo.
Seedance 2.5 Image to Video is the still-to-motion row: one approved still in, a continuous clip out, up to 720p, four to thirty seconds, native audio, optional last frame. Image required. Seedance I2V is still the still-to-motion job is the router. This page is only the wall unit.
Image-to-video starts from the file you upload. Frame one is the install photo. Prompt camera and physics — a slow push to the inlet, a cable settle — not a second faceplate. Re-describing the charger in the paragraph is how the model draws a second charger.
Text-to-video will swap the connector
Text-to-video has no plate. You asked for "a modern EV charger on a garage wall at dusk," and the model decides whose charger. Average is not your SKU. Average is an inlet that does not match the unit on the van.
That is lock the still before you spend on motion, except the miss sells the wrong connector. Do not prompt the model number into a text-to-video row and call the missing jpg a technicality. A sentence is not a faceplate.
If you need the same unit in a garage you never photographed, that is not I2V. Restaging while holding shape, colour, and label is the AI product video generator: reference-to-video, photographs of the real object as ground truth. Check the badge at 100% before you keep a take.
Do not mix the two on one shot. I2V from the hung still. R2V when the room has to change and the unit must not. T2V for neither.
Animate the wall you already photographed
Once the install still is locked, the generate may move the camera and land on a second approved still — boxed SKU as first frame, hung unit as last — of the same model. Two photos of two different units is a morph of the SKU.
It may not clean up the LED ring, add a second cable, or swap the inlet. Those are claims. Keep the faceplate large in frame. Connector geometry is the first thing a generator loses at postage-stamp size. 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.
Crop the crew and the van in the still before you buy seconds. Do not prompt them out and hope the model rebuilds the drywall.
Pause on the inlet. Is it the charger in the quote? Yes: ship. No: you used text-to-video, or you first-last'd two SKUs. Go back to the still.
FAQ
Can I prompt the SKU into text-to-video instead of uploading the install photo?
No. A sentence is not a plate. The model will still invent the inlet. Upload the install 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 — a garage you do not have a photo of, a 9:16 crop of a unit you shot on a bench. That is reference-to-video. The install-site hero is I2V from the hung still. Do not feed a finished wall shot to R2V and ask it to "just add motion." It will restage.
Do I need a last frame of the finished hang?
Only when you have a second approved still and the shot travels from boxed SKU to hung unit. A single hero install with a slow push is the usual job. A last frame is control, not a default.
Is 720p enough for an installer ad?
For feed and a Google Business clip, yes. The connector matching the quote 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.