A practical guide to writing Veo 3 prompts with camera language, lighting control, and audio cues.
Veo 3 understands cinematic language, realistic motion physics, and audio cues. Prompts need to read like a short directing brief rather than a casual description.
The more specific your camera, lighting, and sound instructions are, the closer the output matches your intent.
Veo 3 responds best to structured prompts: subject, context, action, camera, lighting, and audio.
Veo 3 understands film language like dolly in, crane up, handheld, and orbit shots. Use one camera move per shot for clarity.
Write prompts in a text editor, run one shot at a time, then chain the best results into a sequence. Reuse the same style lock in every shot to avoid drift.
Avoid negative phrasing like "no" or "don't". Describe the desired outcome directly.