Wood-stove fire is Vidu crackle after the casting locks
Lock the stove SKU, then Vidu Q3 I2V for diegetic fire; a built-in surround film is a different appliance.
Lock the stove SKU, then Vidu Q3 I2V for diegetic fire; a built-in surround film is a different appliance.
A wood-stove listing that books is this casting: legs, door, air control, the soapstone or steel the catalog actually ships. Fire is motion and sound you are allowed to buy once that body is locked. A cinematic built-in fireplace with a millwork surround is a different SKU. Do not glue those jobs into one generate.
The casting is the SKU
Photograph the stove you sell. Square to the door. Legs in frame. Handle and air control readable. If the listing still would not pass a lot audit — wrong door grid, extra soapstone, a cousin flue collar — stop. Lock the still before you spend on motion. Reshoot the floor sample. Then buy seconds.
Text-to-video will invent a prettier stove with a cleaner paint job and a surround you do not stock. That is a failed SKU, not a cinematic upgrade. The buyer is matching iron, not a living-room mood.
AI image to video keeps frame one as the file you sent. Labels on the ash lip, the cracked hearth behind the unit, the exact glass — those survive because they were already in the picture. The prompt is for physics: flame behind the glass that is already there, a slow pulse, no new legs. Re-describing the stove in the prompt is how the model starts drawing a second body.
If the still includes a homeowner’s face, crop it. You do not need a person for this ad. You need the casting. A constructed “hearth expert” walking clearance distances is a second file, with a real named person, on a different day.
Vidu Q3 I2V is diegetic fire after lock
Vidu Q3 Image to Video is the still-to-motion row with native audio: 5s, 10s, or 15s, 1080p, 16 credits, discounted. Audio is on. Write the mix you want — a wood crackle, a quiet iron tick, a closed-door hush — or you will get a soundtrack you did not choose. A silent brief still gets sound. Prompt the fire, not a lecture.
Diegetic means the sound is in the picture: flame, glass, flue. It is not a host. It is not a chimney inspector. It is not a “when you should burn” read. The catalog row is image-to-video with audio, not a presenter meter.
Iterate at 5s. Fifteen seconds of the same box is a long miss unless the flame actually travels. Aspects follow the still. Wide if the stove is the hero. Vertical if the feed is. The prompt will not mint a stone surround because you said “cinematic.”
This slug requires the still. Frame one is the file. Do not send a paragraph about a roaring fire in a farmhouse and expect your door grid. Text-to-video is a different row and will invent a fireplace.
If you needed a last frame — cold glass to a full fire — that is a first-last job on a row that accepts two stills of the same casting. This Vidu slug is one still, then motion. Photograph the state you want to start from. Overlay BTU, pipe size, or “EPA listed” after picture lock if the mute feed needs it. Vidu will not typeset the spec plate.
A built-in surround is a different appliance
A freestanding wood stove stands on legs you photographed. A built-in fireplace insert lives in a surround, a mantel, millwork, often a different flue story. Generating a millwork wall around your floor sample is how you advertise an appliance you do not sell. Keep the legs. Keep the hearth you actually have.
Do not prompt “cozy built-in fireplace, marble surround, Christmas living room” on the stove still. The model will grow a surround. That surround is a claim. A buyer who wanted a stove will see an insert. A buyer who wanted an insert will see a cousin of a cousin.
Do not first-last a stove photo to a surround photo from a different product line and call the middle an upgrade path. Last frame is a second approved still of the same unit — door cracked, door shut — not a paragraph about millwork.
Leave Christmas extras, kids, and pets out of the generate. You are selling iron. Lifestyle is a later shoot of a real room, with people who were there.
HVAC /for is seasonal prep, not this stove
AI video for HVAC companies is the nearby trade page: pre-summer AC checks, pre-winter furnace tune-ups, thermal-camera finds, technician intros. That audience is seasonal demand on forced air. It is not a wood-stove dealer’s casting.
Do not rewrite that /for as a hearth film. Do not paste its “voiceover seasonal checklist” onto a constructed tech in front of your stove. A talking generate that tells a stranger when to burn is a presenter you did not hire. Silent fire on the photographed door is the dealer job.
Appliance repair shops own a different nearby argument: repair versus replace on a machine the retailer wants to scrap. A wood stove is not a fridge teardown. Do not borrow that explainer.
This job is the casting, then Vidu crackle. Installers who need crew proof can still film the real set. Generation can still do the flame on the photograph you already have. Mixing them in one generate is how a stove clip becomes a constructed adviser, or a surround you do not stock.
FAQ
Can I prompt Vidu “no voiceover” and still get a host?
If you describe a person, you can still get a person. Hold the stove. Prompt flame and crackle. Overlay the line you wrote. Do not add a TTS bed “just for watch time.”
Does Vidu Q3 image-to-video invent the stove if I only write a paragraph?
No — this slug requires the still. Frame one is the file. Text-to-video is a different row and will invent a fireplace. Upload the casting you actually sell.
Why not a built-in surround in the same clip so it feels more “home”?
Because a surround is a different appliance. Growing millwork on a freestanding body is a false SKU. Lock the legs. Fire lives behind the glass you photographed.
Is /for/hvac-companies the page for wood-stove content?
It is the seasonal HVAC page: AC, furnace, tune-ups. This page is a dealer SKU plus diegetic fire on Vidu. Do not rewrite the HVAC audience as a hearth ad.