PPF installs are film-on-paint stills that cannot drift
Identity hold. 30s Seedance if the panel must not change.
Identity hold. 30s Seedance if the panel must not change. Paint protection film is a layer on this paint, this bumper radius, this door gap. A wrap video that morphs the fender mid-squeegee is not cinematic. It is a different car.
Text-to-video will invent a cousin sedan and a film edge that never existed on the quote. Photograph the panel. Animate that file.
The wrap is a still of this car
The buyer already walked the lot. They know the colour, the parking sensor, the chip the film is covering. Frame one has to be that metal. Image-to-video treats the upload as the opening frame. Orange peel and the wrap line survive because they were already in the pixels.
Shoot square-on or a three-quarter that still shows the edge. Crop the shop truck and any VIN you would not put in an ad. Do not prompt those objects out. A model that "cleans" the driveway is redrawing the quarter panel.
If you have a before still and a finished still of the same panel, same height, same lens, that pair is first frame plus last frame. The interpolate is between two facts. A last frame of a different car is how you buy thirty seconds of drift.
Thirty seconds is identity, not a mood
A squeegee pass is a long hold. Stitching four short clips is how the gloss and the edge jump. Seedance 2.5 is the hold: native audio, 4s through 30s in one pass, 480p / 720p, listed 47 credits, billed resolution-based per second. The image-to-video row requires the still. Optional last frame when the shot has a destination. Catalog copy: one frame into continuous motion without stitching shorter clips.
720p is the ceiling on this family. That is enough for a panel. It is not a reason to skip the photograph.
Why one pass matters is the duration argument in Seedance 2.5: 30-second single pass: identity and lighting have more distance to drift the longer the generate runs. PPF is the case where that distance is the product.
Prompt only the motion: a slow lateral along the door, light sliding across a texture. Do not rename the colour. Native audio can be a shop bed if you write it into the prompt. It is not a talking installer unless you shot one.
Do not typeset the film brand in the generate
Warranty years and "self-healing" lines are claims. Generated type on a fender is a typesetting problem across every frame. Keep the plate clean. Burn the badge after lock if the brief needs one.
Text-to-video of "a luxury PPF install at golden hour" has no plate. The model will pick an average car. Average is not the quote. If you do not have a photo yet, get one. A wet panel in shop light is enough. Then animate that.
FAQ
Can I text-to-video "match this wrap" instead of uploading the panel?
No. A sentence is not a plate. Upload the install photo to image-to-video and describe only the camera.
Do I need the full 30 seconds?
Only when the panel has to hold across a long move. A five-second close on a locked still is the usual feed job. Thirty seconds is the identity ceiling, not a default.
What if the only photo includes the shop and a second car?
Crop until the quoted panel is the frame. Do not prompt the second car out. Shoot again if the crop kills the wrap line.
Is 720p enough for a wrap ad?
For feed, yes. Identity of the paint matters more than a 4K invention of a different paint.