Altman and Amodei Identity Replacement VIDEO Tutorial (Prompts Included)
Step 1
Open pollo.ai, select Image Generation, upload your reference image as source material, paste the image-to-image prompt below and click Generate. Set GPT Image 2/GPT Image 2.5/Nano Nanana as the default image model. Adjust the aspect ratio according to your video needs; multiple sizes including 16:9 and 9:16 are supported.
Image Prompt
Image 1
Reference Image 1
Create a clean photorealistic live-action identity reference for the man shown in @Reference Image1. Preserve his accurate face, facial proportions, short brown hair, natural skin detail, and recognizable identity. Preserve the exact outfit from the source portrait: a blue business suit jacket, white striped dress shirt, and dark navy tie with small white dots. Extend the outfit naturally to matching blue suit trousers and ordinary dark dress shoes only where a full-body view is required. Use a neutral seamless studio background, soft even catalog lighting, restrained natural expression, and a clean front or slight three-quarter standing pose. This is an identity-and-wardrobe reference, not a recreation of the original portrait background. Keep the suit lapels, shirt collar, tie width, tie knot, stripe scale, blue fabric tone, and small white tie dots stable. No fantasy clothing, burgundy fabric, embroidered costume, decorative necklace, armor, cape, jewelry, logos, text, watermark, extra people, duplicate body, altered face, long hair, or dramatic pose.
Image 2
Reference Image 2
Create a clean photorealistic live-action identity reference for the man shown in @Reference Image 2. Preserve his accurate face, facial proportions, short dark curly hair, glasses, natural skin detail, and recognizable identity. Preserve the exact outfit from the source portrait: the gray textured shawl-collar knit cardigan over a white shirt. Add only simple dark trousers and ordinary dark shoes where a full-body view is required. Use a neutral seamless studio background, soft even catalog lighting, and a natural neutral standing pose. Keep the glasses shape and placement, cardigan weave, shawl collar, gray color, white shirt opening, curly hair silhouette, and body proportions stable. Do not copy the source hand-to-glasses gesture or portrait background. No armor, shoulder plates, metal sleeves, gauntlets, fantasy costume, cape, jewelry, logos, text, watermark, extra people, duplicate body, altered face, long hair, or dramatic pose.
Step 2
Once your characters are generated, move to Video Generation. A reference video is required for this step; you can either generate it with AI or record one yourself. Upload both the reference video and your character reference images as assets, select Reference-to-Video mode, paste your video prompt, set video duration and aspect ratio, then click Generate.
Video Prompt
Edit the supplied @Reference Video directly into the same 15-second vertical 9:16, 1080x1920, 30 fps clip. Preserve the original video exactly as the authority for the bar or venue, upper balcony, metal railing, lower floor, circular blue spotlight, background people and their movements, architecture, props, shot sizes, framing, camera paths, camera angles, lens perspective, warm balcony lighting, cool blue lighting below, depth of field, grain, motion blur, cut timestamps, shot sequence, edit rhythm, pacing, transitions, original soundtrack, speech, music, and sound effects.
Replace only the two principal characters. Preserve their original actions one-to-one, including every body pose, lean, walk, hand gesture, finger movement, head turn, gaze direction, mouth movement, facial-performance beat, held-prop position, and contact with the railing or floor. The photos control identity, hair, glasses, and wardrobe only. Do not copy either portrait's pose, background, lighting, framing, or hand gesture.
FIXED CHARACTER MAPPING:
BALCONY RAILING CHARACTER = SAM ALTMAN.
Replace the original pale-haired person leaning against the upper balcony railing with the accurate face and identity from @Reference Image1. Preserve Sam's short brown hair. Dress him in the exact reference-photo outfit: blue business suit jacket, white striped dress shirt, and dark navy tie with small white dots. Use matching blue suit trousers wherever the legs are visible. Completely remove the source burgundy embroidered costume, dress, decorative necklace, fantasy clothing, and every remaining trace of that wardrobe. No burgundy fabric, embroidery, necklace, or fantasy garment may appear in any view.
Keep Sam in the original character's exact leaning position, railing contact, hand placement, finger movements, head turns, gaze, facial performance timing, mouth movements, and body actions. Adapt the blue suit fabric, lapels, shirt collar, tie, sleeves, cuffs, and trousers naturally to those poses. The suit lapels, striped shirt collar, and dotted navy tie must remain stable throughout the clip. Track the same Sam identity and blue suit in frontal, side, close-up, rear, and over-the-shoulder shots. When his back is visible, show a blue suit jacket and short brown hair, never the original burgundy outfit or long pale hair.
BLUE SPOTLIGHT CHARACTER = DARIO AMODEI.
Replace the original pale-haired armored person on the lower floor with the accurate face and identity from @Reference Image 2. Preserve Dario's short dark curly hair and glasses. Dress him in the exact reference-photo outfit: the same gray textured shawl-collar knit cardigan over the same white shirt, with simple dark trousers where needed. Completely remove the source chest armor, shoulder plates, metal sleeves, gauntlets, armored trousers, fantasy costume, and all other armor components. No armor may remain in any frame.
Keep Dario in the original character's exact standing and walking actions, hand gestures, arm movements, head turns, gaze toward the balcony, facial-performance timing, source mouth movements, and held-prop position. Do not copy Dario's hand-to-glasses portrait pose. Keep the glasses, cardigan weave, shawl collar, white shirt, short curly hair, and facial anatomy stable in distant crowd shots, medium shots, close-ups, and partial views. The cardigan must develop natural folds as the original body moves and must remain readable under the existing cool blue spotlight.
SHOT-BY-SHOT CONTINUITY:
Follow the source clip's existing cut timestamps and shot sequence exactly. Do not add, remove, reorder, lengthen, shorten, or reinterpret shots. In every upper-level shot, identify the railing character as Sam and preserve the blue suit. In every lower-level blue-light shot, identify the spotlight character as Dario and preserve the gray cardigan and white shirt. In every shared, distant, side, rear, partial, or over-the-shoulder shot, maintain the same mapping. Preserve original screen direction and spatial relationships. If either character is partly hidden, continue the correct identity and outfit behind the occlusion rather than revealing the source character underneath.
Match the original perspective, lenses, warm balcony lighting, cool blue lighting below, natural skin detail, reflections, contact shadows, fabric shading, background occlusion, motion blur, film grain, and depth of field. Keep the replacement integrated with the original scene instead of creating clean studio faces pasted over the video. Preserve realistic facial expressions and mouth timing without inventing new dialogue or changing the soundtrack.
AUDIO AND EDIT:
Keep the original soundtrack, speech, music, ambience, sound effects, and exact timing from @Reference Video. Synchronize the replaced faces to the source mouth movements and preserve the original facial-performance timing. Do not generate new dialogue, narration, music, lyrics, captions, subtitles, title cards, logos, or sound effects. Do not change the original cut points, transitions, pacing, or total duration.
FINAL VIDEO NEGATIVE PROMPT:
Sam and Dario swapped, identity swap, wrong character assignment, Sam on lower floor, Dario at balcony, changed screen position, face drift, identity drift, wrong age, altered facial proportions, pale hair, long hair, wrong hair color, missing glasses, extra glasses, unstable glasses, source fantasy face, source armored face, burgundy embroidered costume, burgundy dress, decorative necklace, fantasy clothing, armor, chest plate, shoulder plates, metal sleeves, gauntlets, armored trousers, fantasy boots, cape, jewelry, missing suit, wrong suit color, black suit, burgundy suit, missing striped shirt, wrong shirt pattern, missing dotted tie, wrong tie color, unstable tie, cardigan replaced by armor, wrong cardigan color, missing shawl collar, missing white shirt, changing clothes between shots, wardrobe drift, portrait background, portrait lighting, portrait hand-to-glasses pose, copied portrait pose, new pose, altered hand placement, altered finger movement, changed railing contact, changed walk, changed gesture, changed gaze, changed mouth timing, new prop, missing prop, prop swap, extra principal, duplicate person, missing person, background people removed, new people, changed architecture, changed railing, changed spotlight, changed venue, changed camera angle, changed lens, new shot, missing shot, added shot, reordered shot, altered cut timing, slow motion, freeze frame, morphing, teleportation, jump cut, lip-sync mismatch, audio mismatch, new dialogue, new music, new sound effects, captions, subtitles, text, logo, watermark, low resolution, plastic skin, flat pasted face, lighting mismatch, wrong shadows, missing reflections, missing grain, missing motion blur, broken hands, extra fingers, extra limbs, distorted glasses, distorted tie, distorted cardigan, unstable face, costume remnants.
Final Summary
Create one complete 15-second vertical 9:16, 1080x1920, 30 fps edited video. Use Reference Video as the exact source of the original scene, camera, actions, body poses, facial timing, cuts, pacing, transitions, and soundtrack. Use Reference Image1 only for Sam Altman's identity, short brown hair, and blue business-suit outfit at the balcony railing. Use Reference Image 2 only for Dario Amodei's identity, glasses, short dark curly hair, and gray shawl-collar cardigan outfit in the lower blue spotlight.
The finished clip must preserve the original venue, railing, spotlight, background people, props, lighting, perspective, motion, edit rhythm, and audio. Sam must never wear the original burgundy fantasy costume, and Dario must never retain any armor. Both men must keep their own reference-photo outfits consistently in frontal, side, close-up, rear, partial, and distant views. No identities, outfits, poses, shots, dialogue, music, timing, or scene elements may be exchanged or newly invented.