Ideogram V4: lock this still before you buy motion (6cr)

Ideogram V4 is the stills row. Animate after approval. Do not generate the pack inside the video model. The catalog description: “Ideogram V4 text-to-image. Creates high-quality images, posters, and logos with crisp visuals, accurate text rendering, fine detail, and full creative control.” Category is text-to-image. No image required. Credits: 6. No duration. No video resolution.

Ideogram V4 exists because words inside the pixels are a stills problem. A video model asked to “animate a poster that says SUMMER SALE” will animate a poster that says SUMR SAIE, then spend a 40-credit clip doing it. Spend 6 credits. Read the type. Lock the PNG. Then move it.

This is not a remake of Ideogram owns words in the frame. That post is the specialist argument. This page is the lock: V4 is a 6-credit still. Motion comes after.

Six credits, lettering included, motion not included

Features: Text-to-image, Text rendering, Posters & logos, Ideogram. Aspect ratios: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Generate the ratio you will ship. A 16:9 poster squeezed into 9:16 after the fact is how the headline loses a word you already spelled.

The text-to-image tool is the door. The brand switcher is an Ideogram alternative if the question is leaving Ideogram’s app. On Versely, V4 is one stills row at 6 credits. It is not a video generator. It is not 4K on this record — no resolution is listed. If the print spec is 4K, pick a stills row that lists 4K or upscale after lock. Do not invent a 4K badge for V4.

Approval means a screenshot still reads. If the lockup is the product, zoom in. If a letter is wrong, reroll the still, not a clip. Six credits is cheap enough to be strict. A video credit is not.

Animate the locked poster. Do not regenerate the type in motion.

Image-to-video is the next row after legal, design, or you would actually post the PNG. Prompt only the camera: slow push, no morph, type stays the type. If the video model restypes the headline, the still was not held as frame one — or you accidentally used text-to-video and described the poster again. Describing a poster you already have is how V4’s 6 credits get wasted twice.

Flux 2 Flex is a 5-credit versatile still. Higgsfield is a 23-credit 4K drama still. V4 is the 6-credit lettering still. Those are not interchangeable just because all three are “lock this still.” If the job is a cinematic key with no type, V4 is the wrong lock. If the job is a logo and a date, V4 is the lock.

The ranked stills list is best AI image generator. Use it to compare families. Use this page when you already know the type has to live in the image and you are about to spend a video credit too early.

The pack is a PNG. The orbit is a later bill.

Product packs with a readable lockup follow the same order: V4 (or a photograph), approval, then first-last or image-to-video. Generating “the can turns and the logo stays perfect” from text is a cousin can. Ideogram V4 will not turn the can. It will spell the logo. That is the division of labour. 6 credits for the spell. Then a video row for the turn.

No audio, because there is no audio on an image. If the brief says “the poster talks,” you need a voice file and a lipsync or talking row after the poster exists as pixels. V4 will not speak. It will typeset.

FAQ

Does Ideogram V4 output video?

No. Content type is image. Category is text-to-image. 6 credits. Animate after you approve the still.

Why lock before motion on a poster?

Because motion copies pixels. Wrong type in a 6-credit PNG is a reroll. Wrong type in a clip is a restype you will watch for 8 seconds.

Is 4K listed?

No resolution is listed on this record. Do not treat V4 as a 4K generate. Ship the aspect you generated.

Do I need to upload an image?

Not for a generate. requires_image is false. If you already have a poster and need a change, an edit row may be kinder than a new V4 roll that restyles the whole lockup.