Holiday C9s want Vidu twinkle, not a TTS homeowner
Vidu Q3 image-to-video native audio on the install still; do not TTS a closed-mouth homeowner over the lights.
Vidu Q3 image-to-video native audio on the install still; do not TTS a closed-mouth homeowner over the lights.
A C9 drop is a photographed eave, a roofline, a tree wrap you already hung. The ad is those bulbs moving. It is not a constructed neighbour narrating "we just love our display." Native audio on the still is twinkle, night air, a distant street. A TTS bed on a closed mouth is a lie about a person who is not speaking, laid on a house you already have.
The install still is the product
Holiday lighting is a site. The buyer knows the gable, the porch columns, the tree in the yard. Text-to-video will invent a suburban stock shot: a pretty two-storey, a cousin string, a colourway you do not hang. That is a different address.
Photograph the finished drop — or the layout you are quoting — from the angle a homeowner would recognise. Even night exposure. Bulbs in frame. If a competitor's trailer is in the shot, crop it.
Image-to-video is the door. Frame one is the file. Labels on a van, house numbers, a neighbour's facade that is actually in the plate — keep them if they are real, crop if the quote is only your run. Do not generate a cleaner version of someone else's house. That is a new picture of a private building.
The quote is the still plus a line you typed: C9, C7, mini, colour, a date window. Motion does not invent the SKU.
Vidu Q3 twinkle is native audio on that plate
Vidu Q3 Image to Video turns a static image into a clip. An image is required. Category is image-to-video only. Audio is on. Max output is 1080p. Durations are only 5s, 10s, and 15s. The catalog lists 16 credits and marks the row discounted.
That is the twinkle row. Prompt the physics you want on the bulbs that are already in the photograph: gentle flicker, a slow push along the eave, night hold. Write the mix: outdoor night, no voice, no door-knock VO. Native audio will invent a soundtrack if you stay silent in the brief. Name the bed or you will cut against a score you did not choose.
Five seconds is the shortest legal clip on this slug. There is no 3s cheaper retry. If the motion fails in five seconds, fix the still. Ten seconds is double. Fifteen is triple. A 6-second idea is a 5-second clip you trim or a 10-second clip that pads. Choose before you generate.
1080p is the ceiling, not 4K. Iterate identity at a lower listed quality if you are still arguing with the house; spend 1080p on the 5s take you will actually post. Crop the still to 9:16 or 16:9 before upload. This slug does not publish an aspect menu.
Discounted is not a sketch pad. A cheap 15-second miss is still 15 seconds of the wrong gable, with a soundtrack attached.
A TTS homeowner is a closed-mouth lie
Do not generate a neighbour, a couple on the lawn, or a talking "homeowner" over the lights. A closed mouth with a TTS bed is still a closed mouth, and it is a constructed person on a private property. The bulbs do not need a host.
If the clip needs a line — colourway, install window, a CTA — burn it as type. Add a text overlay is one authored line for the whole clip, top, center, or bottom. It does not transcribe. It does not invent a speaker. Muted autoplay still needs that line; Vidu will not letter it.
A real named installer on camera is a different shoot, on a different day, with a mouth that actually moved. Do not lipsync a stranger onto the still as a shortcut to "testimonial." Do not scrape a review photo of a customer and animate their face.
The mix you want is diegetic to the drop: flicker, a faint transformer, night. Native audio on Vidu is for that. TTS is for a script with no picture of a mouth. Combining them on this plate is how a lighting ad becomes a fake person talking about a house.
Landscaper glow-up is not this drop
AI video for landscapers is a yard transformation: locked-angle before and after, hardscape, plantings. That is a nearby contractor page. It is not a C9 install. Copying the glow-up brief onto holiday lighting is how you get a generated lawn and a cousin roofline.
The lighting installer job is the eave still. Before/after on this niche is two photographs of the same facade — dark house, then the drop — which is a first-last job if you own both ends. This page is the single-still twinkle: one approved night plate, Vidu, native audio, overlay. If you do not have the night plate yet, shoot it. Do not text-to-video a "magical Christmas home."
Would you print the still on a quote? If no, stop. If yes, run 5s. Confirm the gable. Overlay the SKU. Leave the homeowner out of the generate.
FAQ
Can I TTS a voiceover if I keep the homeowner off camera?
You can score a script after the plate exists, as a separate audio job, over a clip that never shows a mouth. Do not generate a closed-mouth person and lay TTS on their face. The install still does not need a host.
Why Vidu Q3 instead of a talking-head row?
Because the product is bulbs on a photographed eave. Vidu Q3 image-to-video is 5s / 10s / 15s, 1080p, native audio, 16 credits listed, discounted. A presenter row will talk over a house it invented.
Do I need a last frame of the unlit house?
Only when you own both stills and the shot is meant to travel from dark facade to lit drop. That is first-last, a different row. The usual C9 ad is one night still with a twinkle.
Will Vidu invent extra strings that were not in the photo?
It will if you prompt a fuller display or if the still is too dark to read. Prompt hold on the bulbs that are already there. If the still is wrong, reshoot. Motion will not hang a second eave.