Shower-pan OEM vs /for/kitchen-and-bath-remodelers
The pan SKU is Seedance 2.5 I2V from the product photo; the remodeler /for page is a bathroom story, different still.
The pan SKU is Seedance 2.5 I2V from the product photo; the remodeler /for page is a bathroom story, different still.
An OEM clip is this base, this drain location, this threshold height, this colour chip. A remodeler clip is six weeks of dust in a house that exists. Mixing them is how a manufacturer ships a fake bath of a cousin pan, and how a local crew ships a catalog jpeg as proof they were on site.
Two businesses, two stills
The pan in the carton is a specific object. Pitch, flange, drain offset, the exact acrylic or cultured-marble face. A specifier already has the cut sheet. What they need is motion that does not recast the part.
The remodeler's buyer is a homeowner terrified of the middle six weeks. AI video for kitchen and bath remodelers is that job: sell the process, not another styled after-shot. Film ideas on that page are demolition through to the same room finished, site protection, the crew talking through week three. 9:16. Reels and Pinterest. Three posts a week. None of that is "orbit the pan on seamless white."
Contractors is adjacent and still not the pan: demo-day time-lapse, a problem behind the wall. The shower-pan factory is inventory. If the brief contains "drain offset" or "SKU," you are on the product photo. If it contains "week three," you are on the remodeler page.
I2V the pan you already photographed
Image-to-video keeps the upload as frame one. The still is the opening frame, not a style hint. Prompt camera and physics — a slow orbit, a light rake across the floor of the pan, a hold on the drain — not a second bathroom. Re-describing the pan in the paragraph is how the model draws a second pan.
Seedance 2.5 is the published still-to-motion family for that hold: one approved still into a continuous clip, 4s–30s, up to 720p, native audio with the picture, listed 47 credits. Qualities on the family: 480p and 720p. Optional last frame when you have a second approved still of the same SKU — dry pan to a sheet of water that does not hide the drain; square-on to the threshold. Thirty seconds in one pass is how the flange does not drift across a stitch of short text-to-video clips.
720p is the ceiling. Do not prompt 4K. Aspects include 16:9, 1:1, 9:16. Native audio is on. If you do not want an invented score over a silent turntable, write the mix. A silent brief on a native-audio row still gets a soundtrack you did not choose.
Text-to-video of "a luxury walk-in shower at golden hour" will invent tile, glass, and a pan that is "shower-shaped." That is a different SKU. If the generate moved the drain, throw the take out. One still per SKU. A colourway is a different still.
The remodeler page is a bathroom story
Homeowners spending on a bath are not worried about the finished photo. They are worried about six weeks of dust. A remodeler who I2Vs the OEM jpeg and captions it as last week's install has used the wrong still. An OEM who copies the remodeler playbook — fake crew, invented house — has used the wrong still the other way.
SKU type can overlay a locked pan plate. It cannot invent the house. Add a text overlay burns one authored line — the model number, the drain size — after picture lock. Do not ask Seedance to letter the offset into the acrylic. Do not generate a photoreal homeowner in a towel. OEM catalog video does not need a body in the pan.
Do not morph the pan into a cousin bath
Once the product still is locked, the generate may land on a second approved still of the same model. Two photos of two different pans is a morph of the SKU. Keep the drain large in frame. Five seconds of the real pan outperforms a long take in which the flange crawls.
Pause on the drain. Spec-sheet unit: OEM job. Real bath and real crew: remodeler /for job.
FAQ
Can an OEM run the kitchen-and-bath-remodelers playbook?
Not as a substitute for the pan still. That page is disruption, dust, and a six-week story in a house that exists. An OEM listing is the base. Process type can overlay a locked plate. A generated bathroom is not a cut sheet.
Should a remodeler I2V the manufacturer's catalog jpeg?
Only if they installed that exact pan and the manufacturer allows the still. Pair it with site footage of this house, or the clip is a catalog ad with a local caption. The catalog jpeg is not last Tuesday's floor.
Do I need a last frame for a pan turntable?
Only when the landing must match a second approved still of the same SKU — threshold, reverse drain, wet sheet that still shows the offset. A single hero still with a slow orbit is the usual OEM clip.
Is 720p enough for a pan loop?
For feed and a product-page loop, yes. 720p is the ceiling on this Seedance 2.5 family endpoint. The drain matching the spec matters more than a higher-resolution invention of a different pan. Do not switch to text-to-video to chase resolution.