Scale tickets must letter; Ideogram owns the weight line
Legal-for-trade capacity has to read: Ideogram V4 at 6cr, or overlay if the deck still already exists; do not TTS a closed-mouth weigher over a silent plate.
Legal-for-trade capacity has to read: Ideogram V4 at 6cr, or overlay if the deck still already exists; do not TTS a closed-mouth weigher over a silent plate.
A livestock-scale listing a buyer can match is a readable capacity on this deck: platform size, the ticket printer, the legal-for-trade string an inspector will look for. Asking a video model to typeset “10,000 lb” while it invents cattle is how you get a misspelled ticket on a deck you do not pour.
Legal-for-trade capacity has to read
Livestock-scale demand is a capacity-and-deck question. The frame that answers it is the actual string a dealer will match on a line card: NTEP or equivalent marking, class, the kilogram or pound line, the platform you stock. Inventing a prettier scale does not answer “is this legal-for-trade at this capacity.”
Do not generate a deck and present it as yours. Photograph the actual deck, the actual indicator, the actual stamp. The still is the contract. Motion is allowed only after the still is true.
Keep livestock out of the still, out of the driver, and out of the prompt. Empty stall steel is the honest plate. A generated steer as scale is an animal you did not photograph. A generated calf is a hard stop. The number on that ticket is lettering, not a smear a photoreal model guessed onto the glass. Photograph the approved unit so the stamp still reads.
Ideogram V4 owns the weight line
When the ad is the ticket graphic — an end card, a capacity lockup, a class title you do not have as a photo yet — that is a stills job.
Ideogram V4 is the catalog row for words in the frame: 6 credits, text-to-image, text rendering, posters and logos listed. Quote the string. "10,000 lb" and "legal for trade" are the brief, not “a rustic livestock scale with some lettering.” Case, alignment, how many lines. Proof at 100%. A wrong character is a different SKU.
Text-to-image is the door. Name Ideogram when the letters have to read. A photoreal row will give you a nicer indicator that is not your ticket. Do not prompt Ideogram for a weigher, a herd, or a child on the rail. Those are people and animals. If the type is wrong, regenerate the still. Do not “fix it in a video model.”
Aspects on this slug are 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Pick the ratio of the lockup. Six credits buys a still. Letter the capacity string you will actually print. Composite a real ticket image after lock if the listing needs a sample you already issued.
Overlay if the deck still already exists
If the capacity is already cast or printed in a photo you took, keep the photograph. Ideogram is for the graphic you do not have yet. Overlay catalog lines in the editor. Do not pay a lettering model to redraw a stamp you already shot.
Add a text overlay burns one authored line, whole clip, top / center / bottom. It does not transcribe. It does not typeset a kilogram inside the indicator glass. If the listing string will change before the deck does, keep the wrap clean and overlay the claim after picture lock.
Video models are a bad typesetter. Generate the lockup as a still. Then move the deck. Once a wrong digit is in the reference set, every subsequent orbit reproduces it.
Image-to-video starts from the frame you already own. Prompt only the motion: a slow orbit, a hold on the numeral. Do not re-describe the steel. If you find yourself writing “cattle stepping on, auctioneer calling the weight,” you have left the still. A three-second deck turn plus a caption is an ad. An eight-second invented feedlot is a capacity you cannot ship.
Do not TTS a closed-mouth weigher over a silent plate
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is a 4-credit text-to-speech row: thirty voices, tags, multilingual synthesis. That is a voice file. It is not deck physics. Laying a closed-mouth read under the platform — “here is what you should spec for this herd” — turns a machinery clip into a talking explainer. The mouth does not even have to be in frame. The voice is the presenter.
Keep lips out. Keep advice out. If a real named applications person must speak, that is footage of that person on a different day, or it is overlay type you wrote. Do not lipsync a generated face holding “your” ticket.
Do not ask Ideogram to letter the weight and invent a weigher in the same still. Do not ask TTS to prescribe a platform size. Capacity still goes on as Ideogram or overlay. The silent deck does not have to talk. Pause on the ticket. If a freeze-frame would not pass a weights-and-measures glance, the video will not pass the yard.
FAQ
Can a video model typeset the capacity if I write it in the prompt?
Do not. Prompted type in a video generate is a miss you cannot edit, and the model will still invent a barn around it. Generate the lockup as a still on Ideogram V4 at 6 credits, or keep a photograph. Overlay if the deck still already exists.
Do I still need Ideogram if the capacity is already in the photo?
No. Keep the photo. Ideogram is for type that is not in the file yet. Animate the real deck with image-to-video. Overlay the line if the stamp is unreadable. Do not pay a lettering model to redraw a plate you already shot.
Why not Gemini TTS under a silent scale loop?
TTS is a voice file. Under a deck still it reads as a presenter. A closed-mouth weigher is still a weigher. Overlay the capacity you wrote. A real named person talking is a different shoot.
Can I generate cattle so the deck looks in use?
No. Scale is a tape, a known platform width, or a second still of the empty deck. A photoreal animal is livestock you did not photograph. A generated calf is a hard stop. Plate the empty steel. Leave the herd off the prompt.