Prompt pairs that cancel each other out
Contradictions like 'static handheld' make a model pick one instruction at random, take to take. The common conflicts and how to collapse each into one.
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Depth of field and rack focus in video prompts
Shallow and deep focus are executable prompt instructions. A focus pull is not, unless you stage it across two generations. How to specify the focus plane.
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Describe the camera or hand it a reference clip
Which camera moves survive as text, which get silently approximated, and what a motion-reference clip costs you in framing freedom. With a three-bucket rule.
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Dialogue coverage: two-shots and reverse angles
Two people talking needs four shots, not one. The coverage set, the eyeline rule that makes reverses cut together, and the reference discipline behind both.
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Dolly in or zoom in? Name the mechanism
A dolly and a zoom both read as getting closer, so models pick at random. How to name the physical mechanism and read the background to check what you got.
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Focal length words that actually change the frame
24mm, 85mm, macro and anamorphic shift field of view and depth of field, not just mood. Which lens words are load-bearing and which are decoration.
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Hard or soft: source size in lighting prompts
Shadow edge hardness is set by apparent source size, not by adjectives. A size-and-direction vocabulary that outperforms five style words in every prompt.
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Keep the prompt structure, vary only the action
Multi-shot consistency comes from freezing the prompt skeleton and changing one clause. The template, the fields that must never move, and how people break it.
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How to get a genuinely locked-off shot
Leaving camera language out of a video prompt does not give you a static frame. The explicit phrasing and staging that produce a truly motionless camera.
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Motion blur and shutter language in prompts
Motion blur names an outcome, not an instruction. Shutter and exposure phrasing for crisp versus smeared movement, and when to add the blur in post instead.
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Motivated lighting: name the source in frame
Name a light that exists in the shot and shadows land consistently. Motivated-light phrasing for interiors, night scenes and product work, plus the tells.
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How to repeat a camera move across takes
Slow dolly is re-estimated on every generation. Parameter-based camera control and endpoint framing are the two ways to lock one move across a whole sequence.
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Put the camera first: prompt order that holds framing
Leading a video prompt with shot size and angle changes the framing you get back. A five-slot shot-card skeleton you can fill for any shot, in order.
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The 180-degree rule across generated clips
Independently generated clips flip screen direction and the cut reads as a jump. How to state the axis in every prompt, and the check to run before assembly.
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Camera Instructions Models Silently Ignore
Some camera directives are real parameters. Others are prose the model approximates and quietly drops. How to tell which is which, and test for it.
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Crash Zooms and Whip Pans: Prompting High-Velocity Camera Moves
Why whip pans and crash zooms break text-to-video prompts, what Wan 2.2 docs reveal about how camera motion is learned, and when to switch to motion transfer.
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Hailuo 2.3 Prompting Guide
A practical Hailuo 2.3 prompting guide: prompt structure, motion and physics language, Fast vs Standard tiers, and fixes for common failure modes.
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