Turntable cars are first-last product turns

Two approved angles. Interpolate.

A car turntable that ships is not a paragraph about a slow orbit under a rim light. It is two stills a photographer already signed: front three-quarter and reverse three-quarter, or closed door and open door, same height, same lighting family. The model is allowed to travel between those photographs. It is not allowed to invent a third car.

First-last frame is the product-turn model. This page is that router applied to a vehicle. Text-to-video of "cinematic turntable of a sports car" will give you a car. It will not give you this VIN.

Two stills is the spec

Car photographers already have the spec. The approved pair is the job.

Pick two connectable frames: same object, same lens height, same light. Front and three-quarter. Closed and a few degrees of door. A nose macro to a wide of the lot is not a turn. It is a warp.

Do not describe the car in the prompt. Badge, colourway, wheel design, and glass graphic are in the pixels. Prompt the camera: slow table-top yaw, locked tripod, no morph, product remains the same object. Keep the car large in frame. Badging and tyre sidewall are the first things a generator loses.

Inspect the midpoint. First-last holds the ends by construction. The middle is where a turntable cheats — an extra vent, a badge that swims, a wheel that gains a spoke. If the middle is wrong, reroll the motion, not the stills, unless a still was the lie. One axis per generate: a 180° yaw or a door opening. Two axes at once is how the model blends a turn with a transform.

If you only have one approved still, you do not have a turntable job yet. Image-to-video from a single plate keeps the start and guesses the end. Shoot or lock the second angle. Then spend the video credit.

Flux 3 interpolates. It does not restage.

Flux 3 First Last Frame to Video is the catalog row built for that contract: FLUX.3 interpolates a smooth, coherent transition between a defined start frame and end frame, with native audio, up to 1080p, 5–20 seconds. Image required. Features on the card: first-last frame, transition, interpolation, native audio, 1080p. Aspects include 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1. Qualities: 720p or 1080p.

A product turn wants the short end of that dial and "no music" in the prompt, because you will score the plate later. A 20-second orbit of a car is a different film than a 6-second yaw for a dealer site loop. Native audio does not mean you should ask the model to typeset the trim name. Overlay the spec after picture lock.

The photographs are the product. The prompt is the camera. That is why a badge can survive a yaw when a paragraph cannot.

What is not a car turntable

A to B as a scene change. Studio still → canyon still is a transition, not a turn. Here the vehicle has to survive as itself.

A talking presenter walking around the car. The mouth is the shot. Generate the presenter elsewhere and cut.

A paragraph about "cinematic product video, slow orbit, wet tarmac." That is text-to-video, and it will invent the car.

A turn you will recrop into five ratios after the fact. Generate the ratio you will ship. First-last inherits the composition of the stills.

The decision rule is the same as any other pack turn. Do you know the start picture and the end picture, and is the point to travel between them without inventing a new object? Yes → first-last. Pin both stills. Prompt the camera only.

FAQ

Can I prompt "slow turntable of the car" in text-to-video and skip the stills?

You can. You will get a car. It will not be the car often enough to ship to a dealer or a manufacturer. First-last exists because the stills are the spec.

Do both frames have to be photographs from the same shoot?

They have to be the object you are willing to publish, in lighting that can interpolate. Same shoot is the honest path. If the stills disagree about the badge, the turn will hallucinate a compromise.

Is a loop the same as a turntable?

A loop is first-last with the same frame in both slots. A turntable is first-last with two different frames of the same car. Same endpoint, different job.

Should I run 20 seconds so the orbit feels expensive?

Only if the yaw lasts 20 seconds. Flux 3 first-last meters duration from 5s to 20s, 720p or 1080p. A six-second dealer loop does not get better at 20s. It gets padded, and the midpoint has more time to cheat.