Reference images

Reference images are how you move from “an image like this” to “this product, this character, in a new scene”. Generation nodes accept them alongside the prompt — Image Gen takes up to ten, Collection up to four, and Video Gen uses them next to its start/end frames.

Wiring references

Add an Image input node per reference (or paste images straight onto the canvas with ⌘V) and connect each to a numbered reference slot. Clicking any reference well or frame slot opens the asset picker — upload something new or pull any image the project already holds:

On a video node the ports sit on the card’s left edge, just under the title: Images, Videos and Audio each take as many wires as the model accepts. Hover a dot to see its name.

To mention a reference in the prompt, type @ — a list of the node’s references opens (thumbnail, @image1…, and the name of the node each comes from). Keep typing a number or part of the name to narrow it, then press Enter or click. Hovering a mention shows which node it points at.

References are numbered in order — wires on the Images port first, then uploaded ones — and @image1, @image2… in the prompt follow those numbers. Connecting a new image can therefore move the others down; when that happens on a node whose prompt already mentions references, the canvas tells you to check the mentions.

Getting the most out of them

• Address references in the prompt. Models follow better when told what each image is for: “the jacket from the first reference, worn by the woman from the second, at golden hour”.
• Order matters. Put the reference that must dominate first — several model families weight earlier images more heavily.
• Fewer, cleaner, closer. Three sharp, well-lit images of the subject beat ten mixed ones. Crop out clutter that isn’t the point.
• Style vs. identity. For identity (this exact product/person), use photos of the subject. For style (this look), consider distilling it into a library style instead — text travels across models more predictably than a style-reference image.

Character consistency across shots

The pattern that holds a campaign together:

1. Generate (or choose) canonical stills of your character with Image Gen + references.
2. Reuse those stills as references — and as start_frame / end_frame anchors on Video Gen — for every subsequent shot.
3. Keep the canonical set in the project references so every new shot starts from the same truth.