AI Video Prompts
Video models share one language: subject, motion, camera, light, duration. These prompts speak it plainly and note where a model wants the aspect ratio or duration phrased differently.
Abstract Presentation Loop
Abstract looping background for a presentation slide: [a slow moving gradient mesh] in [deep indigo], [violet] and [teal], folding and drifting like liquid…
Animate A Still Photo
Use the attached photo. Animate it gently without changing anything in it: keep the face, skin tone, hair, body and clothing exactly as photographed, and keep…
Anime Style Street Scene
Hand drawn anime style clip of [a quiet side street after evening rain]. Painted backgrounds with fine detail: wet asphalt reflecting lanterns, the glow of a…
Architecture Walkthrough Clip
Architectural walkthrough of [a minimal concrete and oak apartment], moving forward smoothly on a gimbal from the hallway into the living room and stopping at…
Bakery Hands B Roll
B roll of [hands kneading and folding bread dough on a floured wooden counter]. Only hands and forearms in frame, sleeves rolled back. Top down camera drifting…
Coffee Pour Ad Clip
Advertising clip of [milk being poured into a glass of iced coffee]. The pour starts mid frame, the milk curls through the ice in slow billowing clouds, a few…
Falling Petals Social Loop
Seamless vertical loop of [pale pink blossom petals falling] against a plain [soft sage] background, the last frame matching the first so it repeats without a…
Forest Fog Cinematic Shot
Cinematic landscape clip of [a pine forest filling with fog on a cold morning]. The camera rises slowly on a crane move from the forest floor to just above the…
Slow Motion Sports Clip
Slow motion clip of [a runner pushing off the blocks on a wet outdoor track]. Side tracking shot with the camera moving alongside the athlete at the same…
Stop Motion Desk Scene
Stop motion animation of [paper clips, pencils and sticky notes arranging themselves into a neat row] on a plain [light grey] desk. Deliberately stepped motion…
Talking Head B Roll
B roll clip to cut into [a talking head video about remote work]. Static tripod shot of [a tidy home desk with a laptop, a notebook and a cup of tea], with no…
Weather Transition Clip
Single continuous shot of [a wheat field under a wide sky] in which the weather changes across the clip: clear warm light first, then a cloud shadow sweeping…
AI Video Prompts: questions people ask
These work across several models. What has to change when I switch?
The sentences stay, the settings move. Duration and ratio are typed into the prompt in some tools and chosen from a control in others, so delete those words when the interface owns them. Animating an uploaded still sometimes lives on its own tab. What carries everywhere is the order these blocks follow: subject, what moves, what the camera does, then the light.
Can I animate a photo I already have instead of generating a scene?
That is what Animate A Still Photo is for. You attach the picture, and the wording allows only motion that already belongs in it, such as hair lifting in a breeze, clouds drifting or water rippling, plus a push in of a few percent. It also forbids new objects and any morphing of the face, which is the failure this mode is most prone to.
How do I get b roll that sits under a voiceover instead of fighting it?
Hold the frame still, keep people out of it, and let one small thing move. Bakery Hands B Roll and Talking Head B Roll both use a locked tripod, shallow focus and a single slow action at six seconds, long enough to cut into and short enough to stay clean. Keep colour neutral so it matches your own footage, and mute any audio the model attaches.
Why does a clip start well and fall apart near the end?
Coherence decays as a generation runs, and the more elements you set moving, the faster it goes. Limit yourself to one action, keep the background simple, and ask for a static or slow camera so the model is not inventing scenery as it travels. Then cut before the drift: using the first four usable seconds of a six second render is normal practice.
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