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Using an input merely as an inspirational visual reference rather than a literal starting state (contrast hard-conditioning). Also known as Visual reference. A form of conditioning and guidance in cinematography.
Within Numonic's Cinematography vocabulary, Soft-conditioning sits under conditioning and guidance, alongside related concepts such as Aesthetic-texture matching, Classifier-Free Guidance, and Dynamic CFG scheduling.
Numonic captures conditioning and guidance like Soft-conditioning as structured metadata, so the look you dialled in on one shot can be found and repeated on the next.
Numonic captures the prompt, seed, and node graph behind each ComfyUI generation automatically, so the result you nailed today is still reproducible next month.