Guides
Understanding why a prompt names a focal length or a light direction is what lets you adapt any of them to your own work. Each of these is written to be read once and applied.
The structure that separates a prompt producing something usable from one producing a pretty, generic clip.
Inside
Then, in any order
Framing
9:16, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5 are not the same shot at different sizes. Each one demands a different composition.
The crop is not a container · 9:16 — the platform eats the edges · 4:5 — the quiet performer
Camera
Dolly, track, crane, orbit, whip, rack focus — what each one means and when it is the right choice.
Why the specific word matters · Dolly and track · Crane and rise
Lighting
6 min read
Key, fill, rim, practical, motivated, raking. A short vocabulary that changes output more than any style keyword.
Three lights, and what each is for · Ask for the shadow side · Motivated light
Read the guideContinuity
5 min read
Why separately generated clips refuse to cut together, and the prompt discipline that fixes it.
The problem · Write a constant block · Vary only one axis at a time
Read the guideDiagnosis
6 min read
Six specific habits that produce stock-footage output, and the specific replacement for each.
You described a subject instead of a shot · You used style words instead of physical ones · Everything in your frame is perfect
Read the guideEverything above is written against the library itself — the same camera, lighting and beat vocabulary the prompts use.
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