Pasta sauce: overlay cook minutes; spice-tin names already spent

Jar still is Seedance I2V. Minutes and net weight are overlay. Spice-blend tins already spent Ideogram-the-blend-name.

A pasta-sauce listing that ships is a photograph of this jar: lid colour, glass shoulder, the label a shopper will match, then a few seconds of the jar moving. Cook minutes and net weight are type you typed. They are not a generated simmer of a cultivar you do not put in the kettle. Photograph the jar. Stamp simmer 8 min and 24 oz after lock. Leave the blend-name poster to the tin post.

The jar still is the SKU; Seedance I2V holds it

Shoppers do not buy "red sauce." They buy the named jar they already reach for. A video model that redraws the lid, melts the wordmark, or grows a sprig that is not in the formula sold a different SKU. Identity lives in the glass you photographed.

Photograph the approved jar square-on or three-quarter, lid in frame, no invented steam if the still is a studio pack shot. Do not prompt the model to "improve" the grind.

Image-to-video starts from that file. Frame one is the contract. Prompt camera and physics: a slow orbit, a hold on the lid. Do not re-describe the sauce. Re-describing is how the model draws a second jar.

Seedance 2.5 is the family hold: 4s–30s in one pass, 720p ceiling, listed 47 credits, native audio. I2V is the still-to-motion job on that family. The published URL is this page, not a second Seedance slug. Do not invent a folded I2V path.

Iterate at 4s or 5s until the glass holds. Thirty seconds is the identity ceiling, not a default. A five-second hold that keeps the lid is an ad. A thirty-second wander that grows a second herb is a reroll.

The AI product video generator is the same contract: reference photos are the ground truth. Zoom to 100% and read the small print before you keep a take. If the still is a studio pack shot, keep the studio. Do not prompt a trattoria into existence so the ad "feels Italian."

Overlay cook minutes and net weight

Cook time is a claim. simmer 8 minutes, ready in 15 — those digits are why a weeknight buyer pauses. Net weight is a claim with a pack size behind it. A 24 oz that becomes a 32 for six frames is a mis-ship.

Do not ask a video model to typeset either. Video models redraw letterforms every frame. Write the prompt as a clean plate: dark glass, no readable minutes, no invented net. Then put the real string on later.

Add a text overlay burns one authored line for the whole clip — top, center, or bottom. That is the cook-minute line, the net weight, a CTA. It does not transcribe. Glyphs inside the Seedance pass are uneditable. Overlay after picture lock. Swap 8 min for the next SKU without regenerating the jar.

Muted autoplay is how these clips get watched. The minutes belong on screen. Speech in the take is optional. The overlay is not.

Spice-tin names already spent Ideogram

Spice tins: Ideogram the blend name; Veo will invent a cultivar already owns the lid lockup: shaker versus solid, the blend string a cook will search, Ideogram V4 at 6 credits when the graphic does not exist yet. That is a tin job. This page is leftover jar. Do not rewrite that post as marinara. Do not Ideogram a blend name onto a pasta lid you photograph.

If the brief names a cultivar or a 2 oz shaker, you are on the tin post. If it names simmer minutes or a 24 oz jar, you are here. Two SKUs are two stills.

Ecommerce brands is a storefront page: PDP loops, a pack that has to survive a cart. This listing is not that page rewritten. The job here is jar still plus authored minutes.

Do not prompt Seedance to letter a spice blend on the sauce label because the tin post used Ideogram. The tin spent the lettering row. The jar spends overlay. Mixing them is how a marinara grows a fake pepper.

Native audio is not a kitchen lecture

Seedance 2.5 generates native audio with the picture. Write a quiet simmer, a faint lid click, or silence. A silent brief still gets a soundtrack you did not choose. Quoted VO about "what you should cook tonight" is how you get a mouth you did not cast.

A constructed chef pointing at a cousin jar and prescribing minutes is a presenter you did not hire. Keep lips out of frame. Minutes and net weight still go on as overlay. Do not expect the sauce to speak the label.

The test is who has to recognise the object. If it is a shopper matching a jar, you are on the photographed glass plus an authored minute line. If it is a cook matching a blend name on a tin, you are on the other post. One generate cannot be both.

FAQ

Can I text-to-video a simmering pot and skip the jar photo?

You can. You will get a cousin lid and a minute plate you did not print. Pasta sauce is the jar you photographed. Seedance 2.5 still-to-motion from that still, via the image-to-video tool, is the hold. The live model URL is Seedance 2.5, not a folded I2V slug.

Does Seedance 2.5 add a soundtrack if I do not ask for one?

Yes. Native audio is on. Write a quiet simmer, a lid click, or silence. A silent brief still gets a mix. Quoted kitchen talk in the prompt does not become a title card. Overlay minutes after lock.

Why not Ideogram the cook minutes onto the lid the way spice tins letter the blend?

Because that lettering job is already spent on spice tins. This leftover is a jar you photograph. Minutes and net weight are overlay you can swap without regenerating glass. Do not Ideogram a blend name onto marinara.

Where do allergen lines go if they will not fit on the overlay?

Off the generate. Burn a short minute/net-weight badge after picture lock. A full warning block is an editor job, not a Seedance paragraph and not a second Ideogram poster.