Veo 3.1 Prompt Assistant
Write Veo 3.1 prompts for one strong shot: framing, a finished action, camera, light and sound.
Start from a use case
- Write a shot with soundThe action, the room tone, the effects and one short line.Prompt
- Fit two beats into 8 secondsTwo short beats, each with its own small time range.Shot plan
- Bridge a first and a last frameOnly the motion and the camera path between your two pictures.Frames
- Make a product momentOne close shot with light and texture doing the work.Prompt
- Fix a shot that ran out of timeFind out why the action didn't finish and resize it.Fix
What you provide
- One momentA single shot: who, the action and how it finishes inside 4, 6 or 8 seconds.
- What it should sound likeThe room tone, the effects and any short line, with who says it.
- Frames, if you have themAn opening picture, and optionally a closing one, and what each shows.
How it works
- Size the actionThe action is kept small enough to finish inside the clip.
- Build the shotFraming, subject, the action, the camera move, then light and look, in that order.
- Write the audioAmbience, effects by their source, and any line in quotes with who says it and how.
- Send itPrompt, checks and settings, ready to open with Veo 3.1.
One idea, before and after
一个老奶奶在厨房包饺子，孙子偷吃了一个，奶奶发现了笑着摇头
Medium two-shot. In a cozy home kitchen, an elderly grandmother with neatly pinned gray hair and a floral apron expertly pinches and folds fresh dumplings on a flour-dusted wooden table. Beside her, her adult grandson in a casual knitted sweater sneaks his hand onto a nearby ceramic plate, snatches a warm dumpling, and quickly pops it into his mouth. The grandmother looks up, catches him in the act, and affectionately smiles while gently shaking her head. The camera slowly dollies in at eye level. Warm soft indoor lighting, golden kitchen ambiance, gentle steam rising from a pot on the stove in the soft-focus background, natural cinematic color grading. Sound: quiet kitchen ambience, faint bubbling of water, soft rustle of flour, and the grandmother softly chuckles with fond amusement. No on-screen text, no subtitles, no captions, no watermark. Coherent anatomy, natural hands.
Questions
How long are Veo 3.1 clips?+
4, 6 or 8 seconds. The assistant keeps the action small enough to land and the speech to one short line.
Does Veo make sound?+
Yes, together with the picture, so the assistant writes the ambience, the effects and any spoken line into the prompt.
Can I fit more than one beat?+
Two or three short beats inside one clip, each with a short time range. More than that belongs in separate clips.
Why doesn't it write "no …"?+
Negative phrasing can draw the very thing you don't want, so the assistant describes what should be there instead.
Can it use reference pictures?+
On PopNow, Veo 3.1 works from text or from an opening frame, with an optional closing frame; there is no multi-reference mode.
What does a run cost?+
A few credits, shown on the button before you run. You never pay more than that price, and nothing is charged if no usable result comes back.