Text And Logos In AI Video: Negatives, Prompts And Clean Plates
Nothing announces “AI-generated” faster than lettering. A beautiful street scene, good light, a character you actually like — and then the shop sign behind her
Style Anchors: Film Stock, Lens And Era Words That Set The Look
“Cinematic” is the hardest-working empty word in AI video. It appears in millions of prompts, it feels like direction, and it changes almost nothing a viewer
How To Read A Generator’s Settings Panel: Duration, Motion And Guidance Explained
Open any AI video generator and you will find a panel of dials that nobody explained to you: durations, motion sliders, guidance numbers, quality modes with
The Reference Board: One Page That Runs Your Whole Shoot
Every AI video project starts tidy and ends in a scroll. Character sheet in Downloads, location photo in a chat thread, palette screenshot on the desktop, and
Action Verbs That Animate: Choosing Movement Words Models Understand
If your clip looks dead, the verb is usually the problem. Not the model, not the seed, not the resolution. The verb. I learned this the expensive way in my own
Prompting Hands, Eating And Contact: The Shots That Break First
Every AI video creator has a private folder of almost-great shots ruined by one hand. The face held. The light was right. Then the character reached for a cup
Budgeting Retakes
Nobody publishes their discard rate. Scroll the launch posts, the tutorials, the one-take-wonder demos, and AI video looks like a medium where creators type a
Emotion Without Melodrama: Writing Expressions Models Can Hold
Ask a model for “happy” and you get a theatre kid. Teeth, squinted eyes, head tilt, the whole face performing happiness at the camera like it is being graded
Credit Expiry, Rollover And Top-Ups
Nothing in AI video stings quite like opening your account on the first of the month and finding last month’s unused credits simply gone. You paid for them.
Shot Vocabulary: Twenty Camera Terms Every AI Creator Should Know
When you describe a shot to an AI video model the way you would describe it to a friend — “get closer”, “show the whole place”, “make it feel dramatic” — the
Extending A Broken Clip: Hiding Bad First And Last Seconds
Watch a raw AI generation from the very first frame and you will usually see it wake up. The first half-second shimmers, softens, or arrives half-formed; the
Melting Backgrounds: Saving A Good Performance From A Bad Set
It is the cruelest pattern in AI video: the face is perfect, the performance lands, and behind the subject the room is quietly turning to soup. Door frames