Prompt library

AI video prompts

The prompt is the hard part, not the button. These are the trends people are actually making, each with the exact wording behind it — copy it anywhere, or open it in the generator with the text already in place.

Prompt library

Prompts that need a photo say so on the card. The rest run from text alone.

People

In the stadium crowd

Your photo

Drops the person from your photo into a packed stand, cheering with everyone else.

The person in the photo is in the middle of a packed stadium crowd at night, wearing team colours, jumping and cheering with both arms raised as the people around them celebrate. Floodlights and camera flashes flicker across the stand, confetti drifts through the air, handheld camera with a slight shake.

Make them dance

Your photo

The classic: your still photo starts dancing, on beat and in full body.

The person in the photo starts dancing with confident, rhythmic full-body moves, shoulders and hips on the beat, feet stepping in place. Club lighting sweeps across the scene in colour, the background stays where it is, the camera holds steady at a medium shot.

Runway walk

Your photo

Turns a standing portrait into a catwalk entrance.

The person in the photo walks straight towards the camera down a fashion runway with a slow, deliberate stride, chin level and arms swinging naturally. Photographers flash from both sides, the runway lights glow underfoot, the camera tracks slowly backwards to keep them centred.

The reunion

Your photo

Two people in one photo turn towards each other and embrace. Works with old family pictures.

The people in the photo turn towards each other, break into a smile and pull into a warm embrace, holding it for a beat before easing back. Soft natural light, gentle breathing motion, the camera drifts in very slightly.

Talking to camera

Your photo

A still portrait starts speaking and gesturing, like a piece to camera.

The person in the photo speaks directly to the camera with natural mouth movement, blinking, small head tilts and one hand gesturing to punctuate what they are saying. The framing stays on a steady medium close-up.

Looping reaction sticker

Your photo

A short seamless loop for chats — the GIF format, not a clip.

A single expressive character reaction on a clean flat background, exaggerated and readable at small size, animated as a short seamless loop that returns exactly to its first frame. Bold outlines, limited colour palette, no text.

Pets

Your pet dances

Your photo

The pet in your photo stands up on two legs and dances.

The animal in the photo rises onto its hind legs and dances in place, front paws bouncing side to side in rhythm, head bobbing, tail moving. It keeps its own fur, markings and expression. Warm indoor light, camera locked off.

Pet double-take

Your photo

Ears up, head tilt, wide eyes — the reaction shot every pet video needs.

The animal in the photo snaps its head towards the camera in a sharp double-take, ears pricking up, eyes widening, then tilts its head slowly to one side. Everything else in the frame stays still.

Seasonal

Snow starts falling

Your photo

Turns any winter photo into a snow globe. The December one.

Thick snowflakes begin drifting down across the whole frame, settling slowly on every surface. Warm string lights flicker into life in the background and a faint mist of breath hangs in the cold air. Everything else holds still; the camera pushes in very gently.

Horror flicker

Your photo

The Halloween one: lights stutter, shadows crawl, something moves behind.

The lights in the scene stutter and cut in and out, throwing long shadows that crawl across the walls. A cold blue haze creeps in from the edges of the frame and something shifts in the darkness behind. Handheld camera with an unsteady drift.

From text only

Product turntable

From text

No photo needed — describe the product and it spins on a lit set.

A single product sits centred on a matte pedestal in a dark studio, rotating slowly and smoothly through a full turn. A soft key light sweeps across it to catch the edges and texture, with a subtle rim light behind. Shallow depth of field, locked-off camera.

What makes a video prompt work

A video prompt is not an image prompt with "video" added. Four things change the result more than anything else.

Describe the motion, not the picture

"A woman in a red coat" is an image prompt. "She turns towards the camera and her coat lifts in the wind" is a video prompt. If nothing in your sentence moves, the model has to invent what does.

Say what the camera does

Push in, hold still, track backwards, handheld. Leave it out and the camera drifts on its own, which is the single most common reason a clip feels wrong without you being able to say why.

Keep it to one action

Five seconds fits one thing happening. Ask for a character to stand up, walk over and open a door and you get a blur of all three. Chain shots instead of stuffing them.

When you start from a photo, say what stays

Models drift the face and the background if you let them. "Keeps their own features, the background stays where it is" costs you six words and saves the take.

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