Softener grain ratings must letter in-frame
Capacity numbers have to read: Ideogram V4 at 6 credits owns the type, or overlay if the tank still already exists.
Capacity numbers have to read: Ideogram V4 at 6 credits owns the type, or overlay if the tank still already exists.
A water-softener OEM listing is a grain rating, a resin volume, a pipe size, an enclosure. The buyer is matching a tank to a hardness number, not watching a kitchen film. If "32,000 grain" lands as "32000 grian" in the pixels, the clip is a different SKU. Letter the capacity. Then, if you still need motion, move that plate.
Grain ratings are type, not atmosphere
Softener catalogs argue over grains and cubic feet. A text-to-video "modern water-softener in a bright utility room" re-decides the tank diameter and the faceplate every take. That is a pretty eight seconds and a failed spec sheet. The number is the product.
Do not hide the rating in a voiceover. Muted autoplay drops the line. Do not hide it in a prompt and hope a video model typesets a capacity. Video models invent keypad glyphs. Image models built for lettering will still miss; they miss cheaper.
What has to survive a pause:
- Grain capacity as printed on the catalog row
- Resin volume if you sell it that way
- Service flow or pipe size if that is the listing hook
- The tank colourway you actually stock
What does not belong in the generate: a constructed plumber prescribing salt dose, a photoreal family at a tap "finally tasting better," a hardness testimonial you did not collect. The OEM job is the tank. The install crew is a different page.
Ideogram V4 letters a plate you do not have yet
Ideogram V4 is the stills row for words inside the pixels. Catalog description: high-quality images, posters, and logos with crisp visuals, accurate text rendering, fine detail, and full creative control. Category is text-to-image. Six credits. No duration. No video resolution. audio is null.
Generate the ratio you will ship. A 16:9 spec sheet squeezed into 9:16 after the fact is how the grain line loses a zero you already spelled. Features: text-to-image, text rendering, posters and logos. Prompt the tank and the string together only when the plate does not exist: "tall mineral-tan resin tank, catalog lighting, faceplate reads 32,000 GRAIN, no person, no kitchen." Then zoom. If a letter is wrong, reroll the still. Six credits is cheap enough to be strict.
Do not treat V4 as a 4K generate. No resolution is listed on this record. Do not treat it as a clip. It will not speak. It will typeset.
A video prompt that includes "the tank says 32000 GRAIN" is how GRAIN becomes GRAlN for the length of the take. Spend six credits. Read the type. Lock the PNG.
Overlay if the tank still already exists
Most OEM teams already have the pack shot. Photograph the unit. Do not Recraft a cousin tank because a lettering model is sitting in the catalog. The still is the contract. The rating you need on the file is a string you type.
Add a text overlay to a video burns one authored line, whole clip, top / center / bottom. Optionally size, color, background. It does not transcribe. It does not listen. "32,000 grain / 1" inlet" is overlay copy. Offers and capacities change by SKU; copy lock can be later than picture lock.
If you needed the words to change at 0s, 2s, and 4s — grain, then flow, then a CTA — that is timed overlays, not a persistent headline. If someone spoke, that is captions. Overlay is the catalog string on a silent tank orbit.
Do not overlay before you crop. Top / center / bottom sit in a different safe zone after a 9:16 reframe. Crop the keeper, then print.
The product-video door is the AI product video generator when the job is this tank, moving. Animate after the type is right. Prompt only the camera. A slow push on an approved still. Not "a family kitchen with soft water."
Plumbers get the install. OEM gets the tank.
/for/plumbers is the nearby audience: the satisfying fix, the clear-pipe reveal, the diagnostic walkthrough. That page is not a grain-rating catalog. Name the difference. Do not rewrite /for. A plumber's clip can show a brine line being set. An OEM clip that borrows that hook is making install-crew content with a tank accidentally in it.
OEM content that books a distributor is the tank, the rating, the colour chip. Crew content that books a house call is a real job, anonymized. Mixing them is how a capacity plate becomes a DIY salt lecture, and how a fake expert starts talking hardness.
Hold the tank. Letter the grains. Leave the wrench to the plumber page.
FAQ
Does Ideogram V4 output the orbit?
No. Content type is image. Six credits buys a still with accurate text rendering. Animate after you approve the type, on a video row, if the tank should move at all.
The pack shot already shows the rating. Do I still generate a new Ideogram tank?
No. Overlay is for a string the still is missing. Ideogram is for a plate you do not have. Regenerating a cousin tank to "improve the type" is how the diameter drifts.
Why not put the grain number in the video prompt?
Because motion copies pixels and invents glyphs. Wrong type in a six-credit PNG is a reroll. Wrong type in a clip is a restype you will watch for eight seconds. Letter in-frame on V4, or burn overlay on the real still.
Can a constructed technician explain regeneration on camera?
Not as this OEM job. Capacity is overlay. A synthetic tradesperson prescribing salt or hardness treatment is a health-adjacent or expert-persona shape you do not need. Show the tank. Type the grains.