Each model wants its prompt written differently. These are the rules we measured.

Two synthetic characters, two voices, two lines — and the right mouth moved for each on the first try. The structure that made it work, and the failures that taught us each rule.

Kling 4.0 really is less than half the price of Seedance 2.5 on the same platform. What the price comparison leaves out is the three default behaviours you have to prompt against, and the question nobody has answered yet: faces.

We rewrote a camera move and the walk direction and got a byte-identical video. We changed only the seed and got a different film. What H3 actually listens to, measured on a local 16 GB GPU.

We asked LTX 2.5 for a red apple on a white table and got a woman — twice. The fix was not a setting. It was seven sentences.