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.
Festive K-Pop Magic: Girls Light Up Christmas Stage
Three cheerful girls in Christmas-themed K-pop outfits perform energetic dance on festive stage with Christmas trees, fairy lights, and falling snow. Camera circles smoothly capturing synchronized moves.
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Festive Whimsy: A Girl's Snowy Adventure
Girl in red coat running through Christmas town.
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Fierce Elegance: A Cyberpunk Yakuza Muse
Highly detailed close-up digital anime-style illustration of fierce young woman with pale skin and sharp golden-yellow eyes. Long straight black hair with blunt bangs. Black kanji tattoo on cheek. Gripping gleaming black katana.
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Fierce Fashion Meets Futuristic Vibes on Stage
A young South Asian woman with fierce stage presence, posing like a global pop sensation. Holographic silver asymmetrical crop top with geometric panels.
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Fiery Awakening: A Cinematic Journey
Cinematic montage of young man with messy brown hair. Opens eyes in extreme close-up, places wireless earbud. Wide shot standing in barren field under stormy sky. Massive explosion erupts behind as he spreads arms.
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Fighter Jet's Urban Ascent: A Hyperreal Journey
Rooftop-level tracking shot locked onto fighter jet in full afterburner through dense urban core. Jet snaps between towers. Vapor cone forms. Hard bank through construction crane span. Vertical climb.
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First Person Perspective of WWII Bombing Raids
A first person perspective of a citizen in London during Germanys night time bombing raids in World War 2. Make the scene appear cinematic and realistic, with bombs dropping and people running for shelter.
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Fjord Fracture: A Kayaker's Race Against Nature
God view of glacier calving with kayaker in fjord.
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Flavor Explosion: Biryani in Mid-Air Marvel
🔧 Parameter Settings Breakdown Looking at these settings, here's what makes this video work so well for capturing a delicious biryani explosion. Let’s break down each key parameter and how it affects the final quality of your video.1. Prom…
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Fleeting Moments: Dandelions and a Vanishing Figure
The camera pans into a detail of the dandelions softly moving in the wind as the man runs away, not in focus
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Floating Wonders: The Sky-Fish Phenomenon
Lush green meadow on rolling hillside with grass swaying in breeze. Crystal clear blue sky with fluffy clouds. Shimmering school of fish swims gracefully through sky with scales reflecting sunlight. Surreal yet photoreal.
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Floral Tunnels: A Skyward Journey
Realistic upward-looking shot from beneath terrace framed by bougainvillea. Vivid magenta and pink clusters hang from above creating irregular floral border. Sunlight filters through petals.
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Focused Study Session in a Cozy Room
3D rendered animation of teenage student sitting at wooden study table at night, working on homework. Open can of Red Bull energy drink beside notebook with visible condensation.
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Fog and Footsteps: An Urban Night Journey
Ultra-real cinematic of night street under dense fog and light drizzle. Physics-driven disturbance as fog compresses under footsteps. Anamorphic wide lens, 8K realism.
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Foggy Heights: Supercar Thrill on a Mountain Bridge
Supercar on foggy mountain bridge.
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Foggy Mornings: A Realism Challenge in Urban Art
Ultra-real locked-off early-morning residential street in light fog.
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Footprints of Solitude: A Model's Journey Through the Desert
In a vast desert, a model wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a flowing bohemian robe walks alone toward the distant horizon, leaving a long trail of footprints behind her.
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FPV Chase Shot of a Red Network Cable
Low-angle FPV chase shot skimming centimeters above compact soil. Following red network cable snaking through shallow ground trenches. Ultra-wide look with fine dust motes. HDR texture.
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FPV Journey Through Ancient Magadha
extremely fast paced, cinematic, realistic, and highly aesthetic FPV flying through the ancient Indian Magadha kingdom, capturing vast fortified cities, grand palace complexes, bustling markets.
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FPV Journey Through the Ancient Indian Sauvira Kingdom
Extremely fast paced FPV cinematic flying through ancient Indian Sauvira kingdom. Fortified cities, bustling trade routes, riverbanks, marketplaces, palaces with early Indian architecture.
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Fractured Dimensions: A Hyperspeed Journey Through the Abstract Void
Abstract void where space fractures into pure energy and geometry.
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Fractured Horizons: A Journey Through Mirror Dimensions
Lone figure walks through vast mirror desert under twilight sky. Horizon begins to fracture like glass. Giant shards of reality float upward revealing layered alternate dimensions.
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From A to Unlimited: A Journey Through Cinematic Time
Adobe red A floats in black corridor. Camera races toward it. Enters through the A triggering kaleidoscopic time-tunnel of film history. Tunnel warps with light speeding up. Collapse into white void. UNLIMITED materializes.
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From Anxiety to Glory: The Power of Number 11
Cinematic 8-second night football match video. Young player number 11 looks up nervous. Giant tifo unfurled revealing massive 11 in team colors. Crowd goes wild. Close up of transformation to determination.
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From Ape to Astronaut: The Evolution Saga
A video depicting the evolution of humans over time, featuring a monkey evolving progressively into a human, and finally becoming Elon Musk, then turning into a rocket man and flying to Mars.
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From Concrete to Canopy: A Shoe's Journey
Hyper-realistic product transition ad for running shoe. Macro to medium shot pull-out, starting on sole hitting sidewalk then pulling back as environment transitions.
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From Cube to Creation: A Visual Transformation
Simple cube smoothly morphs into different objects - phone, shoe, car - then back into cube. Centered composition with studio lighting and clean transitions.
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From Cuddles to Chaos: The Shocking Cat Encounter
Indoor living room. Fluffy white cat on floor playing with charging cable plugged into wall. Cat paws and bites at connector playfully with soft meow sounds.
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From Darkness to Dynamic: The Countdown Begins
UNLIMITED title storm formation.
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From Dusk to Dawn: NYC's Skyline Transformation
Wide cinematic shots transitioning from sunset to dawn capturing New York City skyline - Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan, One World Trade Center, Brooklyn Bridge. Slow upward camera tilt.
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From Ink to Skyline: Crafting a Neon Metropolis
Black ink blueprint of futuristic city on drafting table. Camera tilts down into lines and ink strokes rise into skyscrapers of glass and neon as sketch becomes living metropolis.
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From Neon Dreams to Nature's Embrace
Hyper-realistic cinematic fast continuous dolly shot along glowing river path, transitioning from futuristic city street at night to lush forest stream in day. Seamless morph.
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From Page to Tempest: A Storm Unleashed
8-second hyper-realistic video of ancient open book illustration transforming into living stormy sea diorama. Ink lines of waves begin to shimmer and ripple as if coming to life.
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From Paper to Peaks: A City Springs to Life
Close-up of hand placing push pin on paper map of USA. Map tears open, miniature 3D landscape grows upward - Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, The Alamo, preserved colonial architecture.
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From Ruins to Refuge: A Time-Lapse Transformation
Static time-lapse wide-angle shot. Solitary female worker in gray uniform transforming disgusting abandoned bedroom from mold and trash into clean room. Fast-forward satisfying motion.
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From Sketch to Life: The Magic of Octoplus
Close-up of finger touching pencil sketch of octopus on antique manuscript. Ripple emanates as 2D drawing transforms into photorealistic glistening 3D octopus that lifts its head.
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From Static to Stunning: The Transformation of Adobe's 'A'
Adobe A to UNLIMITED morph.
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From Suburbia to the Upside Down: Nike Air Max Transformation
Cinematic transformation of Nike Air Max sneaker from realistic nighttime suburban street into dark Stranger Things Upside Down setting. Hyper-realistic close-up on cracked asphalt under moonlight.
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Frost and Flame: The Ice Mage's Assault
Ice mage storming toward crystal fortress.
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Frostbitten Valor: A Wolf Rider's Tale
A lone warrior in a snowy mountain landscape riding a giant white wolf, fantasy realism style. Cold, misty alpine environment with tall snow-covered peaks.
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Frosty Elegance: The Rushberry Shake Experience
Rushberry shake bottle centrally placed and slightly submerged in crushed ice and frosty snow. Cold condensation droplets with a thin frost layer on the bottle.
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Frozen Dawn: The Tundra Animation
Vast icy landscape at dawn with word TUNDRA formed from massive frozen ice letters. Frost crystals spreading slowly, misty cold air drifting. Warm sky reflecting off frozen surface.
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Frozen Echoes: A Titan Odyssey
Lone astronaut descends onto icy surface of Titan, Saturn looming overhead with swirling rings. Camera performs dramatic orbital sweep. Neon-blue flares pulse from probe tower.
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Frozen Frontiers: A Cinematic Expedition Unveiled
Crane-to-drone transition, expedition team crossing icy tundra with sled dogs. Camera lifts revealing vast frozen horizon. Wind gusts and sled runners slicing through snow.
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Frozen Horizons: A Sci-Fi Explorer's Quest
Wide-angle landscape shot of explorer in advanced EVA suit trekking across frozen alien moon surface. Ice shards glint like glass. Distant crashed satellite half-consumed by ice. Soft green auroras dancing across sky. Sci-fi isolation.
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Frozen Majesty: Aerial Views of Antarctic Icebergs and Penguins
High-angle drone shot gliding over massive blue icebergs in clear water. Penguins gathered on edge, some diving in slow motion. Crisp icy whites and blues.
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Frozen Moments: The Grizzly's Grasp
Grizzly bear lunges into cascading river, jaws clamping on silver salmon. Water droplets freeze mid-air like scattered pearls under low sun. 400mm telephoto realism.
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Frustration on Film: A 1960s Jazz Scene Unfolds
1960s jazz bar crowd looking for Rosie.
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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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