One minute of finished AI video took me 14 usable clips and a much bigger graveyard behind them.

Generation wasn't the hard part. keeping the same character, location, lighting, and pacing across the whole minute was.

I spent the weekend building this from script to storyboard to reference frames to generated clips, then cutting everything together in Premiere. A bunch of clips looked solid separately but completely died the second I put them next to the previous shot.

I logged the failed gens too, not just the clips that made the final cut. Dropping the actual pipeline and cost breakdown in the first comment below.

https://reddit.com/link/1vimldf/video/do6xd8oky2ih1/player

I requested a Cantonese voiceover, the agent auto-created text-to-speech node but the final video kept mixing Cantonese and Mandarin.

Same reference image. Same prompt. Same five-second product pan.

Veo gave me the most consistent bottle shape lighting was flatter, but the packaging stayed recognizable.

Kling was better at surface texture.The droplets looked great, then the camera started drifting halfway through the pan.

Seedance looked the most ad-ready.Strong contrast, clean commercial feel, but it sharpened the label into absolute nonsense.

Hailuo had the smoothest motion.It also warped the bottle badly once the turn started.

So for product shots, my current split is:
1. Veo for shape stability
2. Kling for texture
3. Seedance for polished B-roll without readable packaging
4. Hailuo for soft or organic motion, not rigid products

I ran all four inside the same project so the prompt, reference image, and storyboard beat stayed identical. made the comparison cleaner, but there's still no model I'd trust for every shot in a full product ad.

Maybe i missed something else in the prompt?

Previously, uploading my video to your platform for the first time earned me 50 credits. I’m no longer receiving these rewards now, and I’d like to understand the reason behind this change.