You already have a strong idea for a video. But there’s one challenge: you’re not sure how to write a Veo 3.1 prompt that creates the exact video you imagine.

This is where most creators get stuck. It’s not about lacking creativity. It’s about not knowing how to communicate your ideas to the AI. A prompt like “a person walking” leads to a flat, forgettable clip. A clear, detailed prompt gives you a cinematic moment that feels real and polished.

Here’s the truth: AI video quality is 80% prompt and 20% model. You can use the best technology available, but if your prompt is weak, your video will be too.

Veo 3.1 gives you two different creation paths. Text-to-video builds everything from scratch. Image-to-video animates what you already have.

Each one needs a different prompting style. Mix them up and your results will feel inconsistent.

This guide gives you a clean, simple structure to write Veo 3.1 prompts for both methods. You’ll see examples, learn the logic behind the structure, and get templates you can use right away.

Let’s begin.

What’s Different About Veo 3.1 Prompts?

If you’ve used Veo 3 before, you might wonder whether Veo 3.1 requires a new writing style.

The short answer: not really.

The structure is the same — but the model is smarter, more accurate, and more capable. Here’s what changed.

Better at Understanding You

Veo 3.1 understands detail more precisely. If you describe a specific camera move, like a slow dolly into a character’s face, Veo 3.1 will follow that instruction closely. Veo 3 often gets close; Veo 3.1 hits the mark consistently.

Clearer, More Natural Audio

Both Veo 3 and Veo 3.1 support audio. But Veo 3.1 creates sharper dialogue and more realistic ambient sound. Voices sound lifelike. Effects like rain or footsteps feel grounded and believable.

You Can Do More

Veo 3.1 lets you build multi-scene sequences, switch angles, and keep characters consistent across scenes. It also lets you control how videos start and end. In short, you get more freedom and more professional results.

In short: You’re teaching the AI what to create. Veo 3 is a good student. Veo 3.1 is an excellent student. You teach them both the same way, but Veo 3.1 learns better and remembers more details.

Text-to-Video Veo 3.1 Prompts

You need rely on a simple 5-element structure when writing Veo 3.1 prompts. This order matters because it follows how filmmakers plan shots, from camera to emotion.

The 5 elements are:

• Cinematography – how the camera frames and moves
• Subject – who or what the viewer sees
• Action – what happens on screen
• Context – where and when it happens
• Style and Ambiance – the look, color, and sound

Start with the camera, then fill in what appears inside the frame. This sequence helps Veo 3.1 understand not only what to show, but how to make it feel real and cinematic.

1. Cinematography – The Camera

The camera is where every strong video begins. It controls how the audience sees and feels the story.

Choose your shot type first: wide for space, medium for conversation, or close-up for emotion. Then describe how the camera moves. A slow dolly-in adds intimacy, while a smooth tracking shot creates motion and energy. If you prefer calm composition, go with a static shot.

Finally, mention focus. A shallow depth of field makes your subject stand out. A deep focus keeps everything sharp for a documentary look.

Prompts:

• Wide establishing shot, locked-off tripod, subtle depth of field
• Slow dolly-in from wide to medium shot over 4 seconds, shallow depth of field keeping the subject sharp, building intimacy
• Slow push-in, gentle backlight shaping silhouette, intimate close-up of a young adult at a rain-streaked window

2. Subject – Who or What

Your subject is the heart of the frame. Tell Veo 3.1 exactly what the camera sees.

Describe people with a few clear traits: age range, hairstyle, clothing, and mood. For objects or products, focus on texture, material, and color. These small details help the AI keep visuals consistent across different clips.

Prompts:

• Weak: Man
• Better: A friendly founder in a bright studio with soft key light, wearing professional attire
• Professional: A man in his late 20s with shoulder-length auburn hair, confident posture, dark intelligent eyes, wearing a vintage denim jacket with excitement in his eyes

3. Action – What is Happening

Use verbs that describe how and why something happens. “She walks” is fine, but “She walks with calm, deliberate steps” tells Veo 3.1 what mood to show. If you include dialogue, keep it short and natural — just enough to suggest tone.

Remember, clear action turns a static frame into a moment that feels alive.

Prompts:

• Generic: A person exploring
• Better: Exploring a street market, sampling different foods while talking, occasionally looking into camera
• Professional: She’s sampling different street foods while talking, occasionally looking into the camera before turning to point at interesting stalls, speaking with enthusiasm about each discovery

4. Context – Where and When

The same pose can feel completely different in a luxury penthouse, a cozy coffee shop, or a busy street market. Describe the setting with specific details: what kind of place it is, what’s visible in the scene, the time of day, the lighting direction, and even the season or weather.

A strong context description anchors your scene in a vivid, believable world that the viewer can instantly picture and connect with.

Prompts:

• Vague: Outside, daytime
• Better: A bustling Tokyo street market with vendor stalls and busy atmosphere, afternoon sun creating beautiful shadows between stalls
• Professional: A modern tech startup office with exposed brick walls, standing desks, multiple monitors, plants, and large windows showing a bustling city street at golden hour, warm sunlight creating long shadows across the floors

5. Style & Ambiance – The Mood and Audio

Style and ambiance define how your video looks and sounds. They set the emotional tone that ties everything together.

Choose your visual style first. Do you want something cinematic, documentary, or commercial? Then describe the color palette. Warm tones feel inviting; cool tones feel calm and clean. Finally, add audio direction. Be clear about music, ambient noise, or dialogue. Instead of saying “background music,” describe it by feeling — soft piano, upbeat rhythm, or ambient rain.

Prompts:

• Weak: Professional style, nice lighting, good audio
• Better: Cinematic documentary style with warm color grading. Audio: quiet office ambience and subtle keyboard taps, she says: Prototype ready
• Professional: Cinematic luxury commercial style with warm champagne and cool grey tones, professional 4K quality. Audio: Subtle footsteps, distant ambient office sounds (computer hum, faint phone ring), soft piano underscore very faintly mixed beneath, shallow depth of field throughout

Prompt Template

• CINEMATOGRAPHY: [shot type], [camera movement], [lens properties]
• SUBJECT: [detailed description of who/what is in frame]
• ACTION: [what is happening, how they’re moving, their intention]
• CONTEXT: [where, when, weather, lighting direction, time of day]
• STYLE & AMBIANCE: [visual style, mood, color palette], Audio: [dialogue/SFX/ambient/music]

Complete Example

• CINEMATOGRAPHY: Slow dolly through a minimalist living room, wide shot transitioning to medium, shallow depth of field, clear white backdrop
• SUBJECT: A professional woman in her mid-30s, polished appearance, tailored blazer, confident posture, intelligent eyes
• ACTION: She walks purposefully into the room, pauses at a large window, gazes out contemplatively at the city below, then turns back to the camera
• CONTEXT: Modern minimalist living room with floor-to-ceiling windows, morning sun casting long, soft shadows across oak floors, clean white walls, contemporary furniture, cityscape visible through windows at golden hour
• STYLE & AMBIANCE: Cinematic luxury documentary style, warm and inviting, professional 4K. Audio: Subtle footsteps, distant city ambience very faint, soft piano underscore beneath, no dialogue, no subtitles

Image-to-Video Veo 3.1 Prompts

Why Image-to-Video Prompts Are Different

Image-to-video works differently. You’re no longer describing the whole scene. The image already shows the subject, lighting, and environment.

Your job is simply to animate it.

This means your prompts are shorter. Usually 50–100 words, instead of 100–180 for text-to-video.

The CCAD Framework

You can use the CCAD Framework for image-to-video prompts:

• [C]amera – How should the camera move?
• [C]haracter – Who or what is in the image (briefly—the image shows them)
• [A]ction – What actions should happen?
• [D]ialogue – What should they say?

You don’t have to include all four elements every time. Many great clips skip dialogue entirely, and some skip the character line. The key is to stay specific about what needs to move or be heard.

Complete Examples

1.Professional Portrait to Animation

Reference Image: Professional woman at desk with laptop

Prompt:

• Camera: Slow push-in over three seconds from wide to medium close-up
• Character: The professional woman at her desk
• Action: She types on her laptop, pauses, looks up at camera with knowing smile, then looks back down
• Dialogue: Says “I’ve got this handled”
• Audio: Subtle keyboard typing, soft office ambience

2.Product Animation (Luxury Watch)

Reference Image: Luxury watch on marble surface

Prompt:

• Camera: Slow 360-degree gimbal rotation around the watch, centered framing
• Action: The watch slowly rotates to show all angles, light catches polished surfaces
• Audio: Realistic mechanical watch ticking, soft and rhythmic, no dialogue.

3.Travel Photo to Motion

Reference Image: Travel photo of a canal at sunset

Prompt:

• Camera: Camera eases forward 30%, subtle parallax effect
• Action: Maintain original framing and color palette, add slow ripples on water, drifting clouds
• Audio: Soft ambient city sounds, water ripples

Timestamp Prompting: Create Multi-Scene Videos

Veo 3.1 adds a powerful new feature: timestamp prompting.

Instead of generating a single shot, you can create a full sequence inside one eight-second video. You split the clip into small time blocks, like:

• [00:00–00:02]
• [00:02–00:04]
• [00:04–00:06]

Each block tells Veo 3.1 what camera move, action, or dialogue happens at that exact moment.

This lets you:

• Change angles
• Introduce new actions
• Switch locations
• Keep characters consistent

All in one prompt.

Multi-Shot Scene

[00:00-00:02] Medium shot from behind a young female explorer with a leather satchel and messy brown hair in a ponytail, as she pushes aside a large jungle vine to reveal a hidden path

[00:02-00:04] Reverse shot of the explorer’s freckled face, her expression filled with awe as she gazes upon ancient, moss-covered ruins in the background. SFX: The rustle of dense leaves, distant beautiful bird calls

[00:04-00:06] Tracking shot following the explorer as she steps into the clearing and runs her hand over the intricate carvings on a crumbling stone wall. Emotion: Wonder and reverence

[00:06-00:08] Wide, high-angle crane shot, revealing the lone explorer standing small in the center of the vast, forgotten temple complex, half-swallowed by the jungle. SFX: A swelling, gentle orchestral score begins to play

Professional Dialogue Scene

[00:00-00:02] Medium shot, a woman in business casual attire sits at her desk in a modern office, working on her laptop

[00:02-00:04] Close-up of her face as she looks up from the screen and smiles, nodding to acknowledge someone entering. Dialogue: She says, “You’re on time. I appreciate that.”

[00:04-00:06] Over-the-shoulder shot showing another person sitting across from her at the table

[00:06-00:08] Wide shot of the full office, pulling back slowly to show both people in conversation by the window overlooking the city

How to Post Your Videos to 1000+ Accounts

Now your Veo 3.1 videos look cinematic and professional. But making them is only half the job — you still need to publish them.

Uploading manually to 10, 50, or 100 accounts takes hours. And posting from the same device is risky. Platforms detect shared IPs and device fingerprints, which can trigger shadowbans or permanent suspensions.

What is GeeLark?

GeeLark combines two powerful tools in one platform — cloud phone and antidetect browser. This setup lets you run multiple accounts safely and manage everything from a single dashboard. You don’t need physical phones or multiple devices. Each cloud phone or browser profile run on its own isolated environment with its own.

You can manage dozens or hundreds of accounts without worrying about detection or account bans.

Automating AI Video Creation: The GeeLark Workflow

You can create your AI videos and publish them to your accounts in one smooth workflow. Everything happens in the same place, so the process is quick and easy. I will show you how to complete everything in 4 simple steps.

Step 1: Generate Your Video

Open GeeLark’s AI section (Library → AI).

Choose between “Text-to-video” or “Image-to-video,” write your prompt, choose the model, set the format, select whether to generate sound, and click “Submit.”

Your video will appear automatically in the “Library.”

Step 2: Select Automation Template

In the Automation → Marketplace, choose a template like “TikTok video posting.” This lets you automatically push videos from your Library to multiple TikTok accounts.

Step 3: Configure “TikTok video posting”

Select which video to post, choose your target accounts (10, 50, or more), set your posting schedule, and customize titles, captions or AI tags. Click “Confirm publication” and GeeLark does the rest.

Step 4: Automate Tasks in The Cloud

Once you set your schedule, GeeLark will automatically post your videos to your TikTok accounts at the time you choose. It runs in the cloud, so it keeps working even if you close GeeLark or turn off your computer. It works 24/7, making sure your videos are always posted on time.