Veo 3 Prompts: 900+ Video Prompts with Dialogue and Sound
900+ Veo 3 prompts from the Hooked library, plus a guide to Google's prompt formula for Veo 3.1, the current version. It covers how to write camera direction, dialogue, sound effects and ambient noise into the prompt, and which settings belong in the parameters instead.
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Updated September 25, 2026.
Prompt structure
The Veo 3 prompt formula
Google's Veo 3.1 prompting guide (Google Cloud blog, October 2025) opens the prompt with the camera (shot type, movement, lens) and then gives subject, action, context and style. Audio is written into the prompt: dialogue in quotation marks after the speaker, sound effects after 'SFX:' and background sound after 'Ambient noise:'. Duration, resolution and aspect ratio are parameters, not prompt text.
Strengths and limits
What Veo 3 is good at
Good at
- Native audio in the same generation: dialogue, sound effects and ambient noise synced to the picture
- Cinematic prompt adherence when prompts use film vocabulary (shot type, camera move, lens, lighting)
- Ingredients to video: up to 3 reference images to keep a character, object or look consistent
- First and last frame: generates the transition between a start image and an end image
- Extending a clip (Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast only) to build longer sequences
Limits
- Clip length 4, 6 or 8 seconds; 8 seconds is required with reference images, frame interpolation, 1080p or 4K
- Resolution 720p, 1080p or 4K on Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast; 720p and 1080p on Lite
- Aspect ratios 16:9 (default) and 9:16 only; 24 fps
- Person generation is restricted to adults ('allow_adult') in the EU, UK, Switzerland and MENA
- Every video carries a SynthID watermark; API outputs are deleted from Google's servers after 2 days
From prompt to posted video
Paste the prompt, get the video, post it
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Better results
Tips that make a difference
Do
- Start with the shot: 'Medium shot, slow dolly in, shallow depth of field…'. Google's formula puts cinematography first.
- Write dialogue as speaker plus quoted line: A woman says, "We have to leave now." Keep it short enough to fit 8 seconds.
- Label sound: 'SFX: thunder cracks in the distance', 'Ambient noise: the quiet hum of a starship bridge'.
- Describe exclusions as a positive scene: 'a desolate landscape with no buildings or roads' rather than 'no man-made structures'. Use the negative-prompt parameter for anything else.
- For a recurring character or product, use reference images (ingredients to video) instead of re-describing them in text.
- Use first and last frame when you need a controlled move or transformation between two exact images.
- Name lens and focus terms Google lists: shallow depth of field, wide-angle lens, macro lens, soft focus, deep focus.
- Anchor style with a concrete reference ('shot as if on 1980s colour film, slightly grainy') rather than 'cinematic'.
- Plan for 9:16 in the parameters for Shorts, Reels and TikTok; do not ask for vertical in prose.
Common mistakes
- Vague prompts without camera, lighting or style details
- Generic character descriptions for a person who must look the same across clips (use reference images)
- Too much dialogue for an 8-second clip
- Negative phrasing inside the prompt ('no cars') instead of describing what is there
- Asking for durations over 8 seconds or aspect ratios other than 16:9 and 9:16 in the prompt
Tested prompts
920 Veo 3 prompts from the Hooked library
Each prompt was run and kept with its result. Open one to see the full text and the output.
Cyborg Elegance: A Portrait in Monochrome
Monochromatic black and white cyberpunk anime art style. Female cyborg with reflective visor with faint glowing crimson circuitry. Close-up portrait with chiaroscuro lighting.
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Cyborg Soliloquy: A Dawn in Ruins
Medium handheld shot of cyborg soldier advancing through abandoned futuristic city at dawn. Sparks fall from broken neon signs. He pauses scanning and murmurs: Am I human enough?
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Cyclist's Thrilling Descent: Foggy Mountain Adventure
Low-angle tracking shot, cyclist speeds down winding mountain road during foggy morning. Tires spray thin mist from wet asphalt. Trees blur past, sunlight pierces through canopy.
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Dancers in a Strobe-Lit Club: A Dynamic Visual Journey
Whip-pan transitions between multiple dancers in sweaty strobe-lit club. Camera flies through air spinning mid-jump over crowd. DJ drops track, woman flips hair mid-dance.
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Dancing Flames: A Twilight Dance on Ice
Hyper-realistic medium shot of graceful woman dancing on frozen lake at twilight. Deep crimson ball gown with lower third transformed into realistic animated fire that flares with movement.
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Dawn Campfire in a Pine Forest: Mist and Ember Glow
A cinematic shot of a small campfire burning gently in the middle of a dense pine forest at dawn. Soft blue fog drifts between tall trees, creating a mystical calm atmosphere.
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Dawn of the Rusting Titans: Eye of the War Machine
Massive rusting war robots lie dormant and shattered across a mist-choked valley at dawn. The camera glides low through the fog, weaving between twisted limbs and fractured metal faces, their expressions frozen in silent defeat.
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Dawn Ride: A Thrilling Bicycle Descent
First-person POV riding bicycle downhill through narrow city street at dawn. Camera shakes naturally with pedaling. Wind rushes past, sunlight flickers between buildings.
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Dawn Training: Close-Up of Focused Hands and Gaze
A powerful cinematic scene set just before dawn in a training gym, beginning with a slow push-in on a person wrapping their hands, jaw set and eyes focused.
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Demon Titan Emerges: A Fiery Urban Catastrophe
Horned demon titan with magma skin and burning wings erupts from fiery crater in city center. Ring of fire expands through streets. Camera nose-dives toward crater.
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Desert Convoy: Armored Vehicle in High-Speed Chase
Lead armored vehicle accelerates violently ahead of convoy through narrow desert road. Camera follows directly behind as it swerves aggressively. Dust walls erupt.
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Desert Couture: A High-Fashion Odyssey
Vogue-style fashion video of eccentric couple walking through vast desert toward camera. Man in wide-brimmed hat and flowing coat, woman in brown mini dress.
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Desert Drift: Power and Chaos in Slow Motion
Extreme close-up ground-level tracking shot on rear wheel of matte black Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. Performance tire digs into parched desert earth. Sand and pebbles explosively ejected. Powerful controlled drift.
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Desert Duel: A Quest for Wisdom at Sunset
Medium shot standoff in a desert at sunset. Rugged gunslinger facing calm Native American warrior. Dialogue: I came for answers not blood. Answers come to those who respect the land.
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Desert Odyssey: A Wanderer's Quest in Epic Fantasy
Epic fantasy realism. Solitary wanderer in ragged cloak traverses endless desert beneath scorching sun. Wide shot pans behind capturing undulating dunes. Drone ascends revealing vast ancient city ruins.
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Desert Odyssey: Unveiling Alien Monoliths
Rugged sci-fi exploration vehicle with oversized off-road tires drives across dusty alien desert at sunset. Armored truck with angular matte dark metal body. Three colossal triangular towers in distance.
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Desert Racer: A Symphony of Speed and Shadows
Low-angle tracking of modern motorbike racing along empty desert highway. Rider in sleek black helmet and leather. Dust and heat waves rising from asphalt. Dramatic sunset lighting.
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Desperate Escape from the Eclipse
Battleship Eclipse dies under plasma fire. Lieutenant Voss blasts fighter through burning hangar breach. Weaves through graveyard of fleet as enemy interceptors close in. Dives into atmosphere.
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Dragons Over the Inferno: A Fiery Cinematic Journey
Orbiting shot of dragons circling a burning fortress.
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Dread in the Upside Down: A Drone's Descent
Extremely fast-paced FPV drone dive through ruined modern city transformed into Upside Down dimension. Camera plunges between collapsed skyscrapers covered in organic vines and alien tendrils.
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Drone Sentinel: A Colossal Rise
Worms-eye shot of a colossal drone sentinel rising above a shattered outpost. Its spotlights sweep the ruins; camera rotates upward as the machine deploys weapon arrays that hum with rising charge.
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Drones Paint the Night Sky with Holiday Magic
Cinematic winter night over snowy village. Hundreds of synchronized drones glowing in warm reds, golds and icy whites animate into Santas sleigh flying across sky. Reform into MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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Dust and Shadows: A Gunslinger's Journey
Low-angle tracking shot, dramatic wide shot with shallow depth of field, a lone gunslinger walks slowly through a dusty western town street at sunset, long shadows stretch behind him, dust swirling in the orange light.
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Dynamic Afro-Futuristic Warrior in a Cinematic Realm
Powerful Afro-futuristic warrior woman in dynamic pose surrounded by glowing embers and arcane halo. Cinematic fantasy style.
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Dynamic Chase: Elemental Creatures in Motion
Photorealistic 8k render. SUBJECT A made of aggressive element chasing SUBJECT B made of fragile element. Dynamic inference, material logic, trajectory arc with shattering impact.
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Dynamic FPV Drone Race Through Metro Tunnels
FPV drone racing through partially submerged metro tunnels, LED wayfinding signs refracting through clear water, bubble wake trailing behind drone propellers.
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Dynamic FPV Fly Through Shot Tutorial
Dynamic high speed FPV fly through shot weaving and tightly cutting corners through scene description and place. Motion blur, lens glare.
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Dynamic FPV Fly Through Video Prompt
Dynamic high speed FPV fly through shot weaving and cutting corners through scene description and place. Motion blur, lens glare.
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Dynamic Heartbeat: The Art of Visualization
macro time-lapse of the human heart set against a white clinical studio. A high-tech computer vision overlay is superimposed on the subject. bright white skeletal wireframe track specific features of the brain as it beats, with thin lines c…
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Dynamic K-POP Dance: A Powerhouse Performance
Intense mesmerizing K-POP power-dance choreography. Sharp rhythmic isolations, electric hair whips, dynamic fluid transitions. Rapid-fire cuts, intense handheld shakiness, whip pans, crash zooms.
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Dynamic Poses in Harmony: A Visual Dance
Static camera with three women evenly spaced. Each strikes different pose then returns to neutral. Left: cool provocative. Middle: sweet charming. Right: stylish trendy. 5 seconds each.
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Dynamic Transitions Through Evolving Landscapes
Camera accelerates through shifting environments without stopping - alley to hallway to forest to tunnel. Seamless transitions mid-motion. Speed never drops. World bends under velocity.
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Dynamic Van Gogh-Inspired Animation
Van Gogh Post-Impressionism animation. Heavy impasto texture, signature swirling brushstrokes. Deep blue night sky with yellow stars and moon. Twisted cypress tree. Sleeping village.
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Eagle's Precision: A Dance with Nature's Salmon
Bald eagle folds wings and dives toward salmon-rich river. Talons skim water, droplets sparkling against emerald spruce reflections. 500mm telephoto realism with backlit spray.
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Echoes of a Cybernetic Dream: A Portrait of Desolation
Full-body portrait of burned-out cyberpunk anime netrunner. Body slumped in salvaged high-backed chair surrounded by tangled cables and defunct monitors.
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Echoes of a Forgotten Era
Abandoned 19th century station with massive glass dome and iron framework. Old steam locomotive rests on overgrown tracks. Sunlight filters through dust-covered glass. Cat walks past rusted wheels.
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Echoes of a Haunting Carnival
Single unbroken tracking shot through abandoned carnival drowned in relentless rain. Most lights dead. Carousel turns imperceptibly with frozen horses. Low metallic sound. Black water on ground reflecting warped silhouettes.
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Echoes of Desolation: A Survivor’s Journey
Lone Survivor in Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland. Children of Men and The Road influences. Desaturated muted grays, browns, greens. High contrast film grain for gritty realism.
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Echoes of Silence: A Desolate Cityscape Unveiled
A lone character exploring rain-slicked ruins of a post-apocalyptic city.
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Echoes of Solitude: A Dance of Light and Shadow
wide shot, slow pan from left to right, a young girl dances alone in an empty theater stage surrounded by dusty red curtains, soft particles float in the air as light beams down from a single spotlight above.
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Echoes of the Past: 1940s Blues Unveiled
Macro close-up of phonograph needle dropping onto spinning vinyl record. Soft warm crackle precedes soulful 1940s blues singer. Camera pulls back revealing Gilded Age study with mahogany and leather.
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Echoes of the Void: A Ghost Ship Awaits
Colossal derelict warship wreck drifts silent above dead moon. Camera glides along broken hull, weaving through jagged armor plates and torn cables floating weightlessly.
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Echoes of Tomorrow: A Soldier's Lament
Medium handheld shot of soldier from unknown future war stepping through field littered with broken robots. Rain washes oil from battered armor. Eyes haunted, whispering: When does it end?
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Eclipse: A Cosmic Prophecy in Shadows
The sun vanishes behind blackened moon. Shadows stretch and twist. Stars blink out. In celestial darkness, the word ECLIPSE appears, etched in starlight, orbiting slowly.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is the latest Veo model?
Veo 3.1, released in October 2025 and updated in January 2026, with Veo 3.1 Fast and Veo 3.1 Lite. Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are deprecated, and there is no Veo 4 as of September 2026.
Do Veo 3 prompts work on Veo 3.1?
Yes. Veo 3.1 uses the same prompt structure: camera first, then subject, action, context and style, with audio written into the prompt.
How long can a Veo 3.1 video be?
4, 6 or 8 seconds per clip. Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast can extend a clip to build longer sequences.
How do I add dialogue and sound in a Veo prompt?
Write the speaker and the line in quotes, for example A woman says, "We have to leave now." Add sound effects after "SFX:" and background sound after "Ambient noise:".
Can Veo 3.1 make vertical videos?
Yes. It supports 16:9 and 9:16. Set the aspect ratio in the parameters rather than asking for it in the prompt.
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