Roll-former stations keep the profile SKU on Seedance 2.5 at 47cr
The station photo is the SKU; Seedance 2.5 is 720p, 4–30s, 47cr with native audio so the profile does not morph into a different panel — /for/roofers is the shingle page.
The station photo is the SKU; Seedance 2.5 is 720p, 4–30s, 47cr with native audio so the profile does not morph into a different panel — /for/roofers is the shingle page.
A roll-former listing is this line: station count, the rolls already on the shafts, the exit profile a cut sheet already names. Motion is coil through those stands. A suburban shingle tear-off is a different still. Do not generate a shingle field, and do not let the last station grow a cousin rib.
The station photo is the profile SKU
Dealers compare the ad to the mill they will bid. Inboard versus outboard stands, the number of passes, the tooling on this shaft, the panel that actually leaves the exit. Text-to-video of “a roll former making metal roofing at golden hour” invents a cousin mill and a house you do not own.
Photograph the approved line as a spec sheet: square-on of the stations, exit profile readable, a coil in the decoiler if the listing needs it. Crop a pallet tag. Do not prompt the model to “clean” the shop. Keep people off the generate. A photoreal operator at the exit table is a likeness problem. Empty stations are the spec.
Image-to-video starts from that file. Frame one is the contract. Prompt camera and physics: coil feeding, rolls turning on shafts already in frame, a hold on the exit profile. Do not re-describe the panel. Re-describing draws a second seam. Overlay gauge after lock.
Manufacturers is plant-floor scale — nearby and still not this mill. Standing-seam OEM is the rib that left the last stand: Standing-seam panels hold on Seedance 2.5; /for/roofers is shingles. This leftover is the machine. Do not import a generated shingle field into the station still.
Seedance 2.5 holds the pass at 47cr
Stitching four short clips is how the last station jumps. Seedance 2.5 is the family hold: 4s–30s in one pass, 720p ceiling, listed 47 credits, native audio. The published category on that page is text-to-video. I2V is the still-to-motion job on that family when frame one has to be the JPEG you already approved. The door for that job is image-to-video. The parent model page stays /models/seedance-2-5. Do not invent a folded I2V path. /models/seedance-2-5-image-to-video is not a live catalog row.
720p is the ceiling. Identity of the exit profile matters more than a 4K invention of a different panel. Write only travel. “Locked mill, coil feeding, stations static, exit rib holds, no new tooling.” Stop. Native audio is on. Write a shop bed or silence. A silent brief still gets a soundtrack you did not choose.
Iterate at 4s or 5s until the last station holds. Thirty seconds is the identity ceiling, not a default. Do not morph seam height. Do not turn a snap-lock exit into a mechanically seamed panel in flight. Pause at the midpoint. If a dealer would not match the exit to the line card, you made a different mill.
Add a text overlay burns one authored line after picture lock — whole clip, top / center / bottom. Gauge, yield, station count. Overlay, not generated type on the pan.
/for/roofers is the shingle page
/for/roofers is the trade page: drone inspection, tear-off, underlayment, a homeowner who cannot see the product they bought. 9:16. Facebook and YouTube Shorts. That audience sells transparency on a roof they actually stood on. It is not an OEM catalog of roll-former stations. Do not rewrite that page as a mill SKU, and do not import a generated shingle field into the station still.
A shingle story needs a real roof and a house that exists. A mill story needs stations you photographed. Averaging them is how a profile claim becomes an asphalt tear-off. Photograph the line. Run Seedance 2.5 still-to-motion from that still, via the image-to-video tool. Overlay the line you sell. Leave the shingles to the roofer page. If the only photo is a suburban eave with mixed materials, that is a job still. Shoot the mill on the floor, then Seedance that file.
Do not morph the panel in flight
The failure mode is a beautiful orbit of a different mill. A five-station line becoming twelve. A 1.5-inch rib becoming a 1-inch cousin at the exit. Prompt camera and coil only. Do not first-last a mill into a shingle roof. The mill photo proves the mill. The panel photo proves the panel. A generated house wearing a cousin profile is neither. If you needed a talking estimator walking lead time, that voice is a real named person on a different day. Keep the clip as machinery.
FAQ
Can I text-to-video a mill on a shop floor and skip the station photo?
You can. You will get a cousin stand count and a panel you do not coil. OEM is the line 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 shop bed or silence. A silent brief still gets a mix. Quoted operator talk in the prompt does not become a title card. Overlay gauge after lock.
Can I use the roofers page as a template for roll-former ads?
No. That page sells a job on the house: inspection, tear-off, a roof they stood on. This SKU is a locked station photo. Copying shingle-film ideas onto a mill is the lifestyle miss.
Why not stitch four short clips instead of one Seedance pass?
Stitching is how the last station jumps. Seedance 2.5 is 4–30s, 720p, 47 credits, native audio, one pass. Inspect the exit profile at the midpoint. If it drifted, reroll the motion, not a new mill.