AI video prompt generator

An AI video prompt is a structured text brief you give an AI model (Runway, Kling, Sora, Pika or Hailuo) to generate a video. Unlike text or image prompts, a video prompt has to describe motion: what happens over time, how the camera moves and how the lighting changes.

A good prompt has seven components: style (cinematic, anime, documentary), subject (who or what is in the shot), action (what happens), setting (location, time of day), camera movement (smooth push-in pan, hand-held shake, aerial shot), lighting (golden hour, neon glow, overcast) and mood (emotional tone). Our generator automatically combines all seven into an optimized prompt.

Key principles of effective video prompts:

• Be specific. "A young woman walking through rain-soaked Tokyo at night" beats "a girl in a city".
• Describe the motion. AI models struggle with static scenes — add "slow dolly zoom", "camera follows from behind", "handheld shaky".
• Use professional terms. Cinematic, bokeh, depth of field, anamorphic lens flare — models learned these terms from millions of videos, and they noticeably improve results.
• Spell out the lighting. "Golden hour light", "harsh shadows", "overcast flat lighting" — without it, the AI falls back on neutral studio lighting.
• Add a negative prompt. A list of exclusions (blur, distortion, watermark, extra limbs) filters out typical AI generation artifacts.

The generator is optimized for six leading AI video platforms:

• Runway Gen-3 Alpha Turbo — handles complex multi-part prompts and works great with cinematic descriptions up to 500 characters.
• Kling 2.0 (KuaiShou) — a Chinese model with highly realistic faces and bodies; accepts both short and detailed prompts in English and Chinese.
• Sora (OpenAI) — handles the longest and most complex text instructions; the best choice for narrative scenes.
• Pika 2.2 — ideal for short, dynamic clips and especially effective with action prompts.
• Hailuo MiniMax — delivers high quality from relatively simple prompts and works well with anime and stylization.
• Grok Aurora — xAI's multimodal model; accepts prompts in the standard format and excels at creative, conceptual scenes.

To make AI video look like it was shot on a pro camera:

• Add a camera brand: "shot on RED Dragon", "filmed with ARRI Alexa", "Leica lens"
• Add camera settings: "f/1.8 bokeh", "ISO 800 film grain", "24fps cinematic motion blur"
• Reference real locations: "streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo", "Sahara desert at dusk"
• Add atmospheric details: "steam rising", "dust particles in light", "rain on window"
• For people: "skin texture detail", "natural skin pores", "realistic eye reflections"

Avoid words like "beautiful", "amazing" or "perfect" — they tell the model nothing. Instead of "beautiful sunset", write "golden hour sunset with long shadows and warm orange tones".