🎬 Google Just Dropped the Ultimate Veo 3.1 Prompting Guide

Finally moving past "prompt and pray"! Google's new guide breaks down how to actually direct Veo 3.1 like a cinematographer.

Key Highlights:

✨ The 5-Part Formula: Cinematography + Subject + Action + Context + Style & Ambiance = consistent, pro results.

🎙️ Audio Game-Changer: Veo 3.1 now generates dialogue, SFX, and ambient sound. Use quotation marks for specific speech (e.g., "We have to leave now") and describe sound effects directly in your prompt.

🎯 Character Consistency: "Ingredients to Video" lets you use reference images to maintain consistent characters, objects, and styles across multiple shots. Perfect for building actual scenes with dialogue!

📸 First & Last Frame: Generate smooth transitions between two images - like a 180° camera arc in a single generation. Combine with Gemini for the start/end frames.

🎥 Timestamp Prompting: Direct complete multi-shot sequences with precise timing:

[00:00-00:02] Medium shot...

[00:02-00:04] Reverse shot...

[00:04-00:06] Tracking shot...

Pro tip from the guide: Master cinematography language (dolly shots, shallow DOF, crane shots) - it's your most powerful tool for controlling tone and emotion.

Available now on Vertex AI.

Who's testing this? Drop your first Veo 3.1 experiments below!

Additional info on the Veo 3.1 & Flow updates

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