Prompt Engineering for AI Video

I know why your AI video prompts frustrate you

4 reasons your prompts are not producing what you imagine

What you will learn about prompt engineering for AI video

8 things you get in the prompting part of the course

• 1
  The script → prompt formula

  Your 3-sentence script from chapter 5 becomes one element of the prompt. Chapter 7 walks through the full transformation on a physiotherapy example: 9:16 format, person, location, setup without timestamps, dialogue, style and DISPLAY NO TEXT.

• 2
  An explicit language line and choosing the prompt language

  Dialogue in quotes alone is not enough: the model often guesses the wrong language. An explicit instruction before the quote (for example ACTOR SPEAKS IN ENGLISH:, and the same works for other languages) switches the pronunciation. Plus the rule for when to write the whole prompt in English and when in the language of the dialogue.

• 3
  Phonetic spelling of acronyms, numbers and abbreviations

  Tables for 5 categories: English acronyms (AI, API, B2B, SEO, CEO, ROI and more), numbers, dates and years, hard proper names, local abbreviations, and currencies and symbols. Plus a list of what does not need phonetic spelling.

• 4
  4 prompt templates, empty and filled in

  Talking Head, Product Showcase (I2V from a real photo), Before/after in a single scene, and Silent video. Each as a fill-in version and a ready-to-copy example.

• 5
  Multi-clip workflow

  One actor, one location, one shot per clip. A longer video (15-30 s) is assembled from 2-4 separate clips joined in CapCut. It is also how you work around Veo 3's 8-second limit.

• 6
  10 lip-sync rules with WRONG/RIGHT pairs

  Setup before dialogue, dialogue under the language line, max 8 seconds of speech, phrases with pauses, close-up or medium shot, speaking to camera throughout, DISPLAY NO TEXT, emotional context, phonetic spelling, portrait 9:16.

• 7
  Checklist, troubleshooting and phrase dictionary

  10 points to check before clicking Generate, a table of the 5 most common problems with fixes, 5 safety-filter categories with rephrasing examples, and a phrase dictionary: scene setup, lip-sync, camera moves, visual style, closing instructions.

• 8
  A bank of 150 prompts across 35 industries

  A separate 48-page PDF: 10 universal prompts, 5 in-depth industries with 10 prompts each plus safety-filter notes and CTA variants, and 3 prompts for each remaining industry. Plus the full talking-head and B-roll templates.

Prompt anatomy from chapter 7

7 elements every prompt with dialogue should contain

In the course a prompt is an instruction for the model, not an essay. Every template in chapter 7 is built from the same elements in the same order, and your script is only one of them.

Course curriculum

What the course actually contains about prompting

Prompting is not a separate course. It is part of the full AI video course (a 168-page PDF, a workbook and a prompt bank). Most of the prompting material is in chapter 7, model choice is covered in chapter 6, and ready-to-copy prompts are in the bank. Below is what those parts actually contain.

Note on language: the English edition of the course (PDF, workbook, prompt bank) is in English. The Polish edition lives at kursvideoai.pl/kurs-prompt-engineering-video.

Guessing vs the chapter 7 templates

What changes when you write prompts from a template

Common mistakes compared with the rules the course applies to every prompt. These are not measurements and not a promise of a specific number of attempts, just a description of what you do differently.

AI generation is probabilistic, so even a good prompt sometimes needs another run. The template and checklist remove the mistakes that most often ruin a clip before you spend credits on it. See also our full AI video courses hub.

Why prompt language and structure both matter

A good idea is not enough: structure is what the model actually reads

The course's view, from chapter 7: video models were trained mainly on English-language data, so English remains their default language. For English-language content you write the prompt in English. For videos with dialogue in another language, you write the whole prompt in that language, because the model then renders the local context of the scene better and the dialogue sounds more natural. You do not mix languages in one prompt.

The common mistake is treating a prompt like a creative brief for a human: "a warm, cinematic scene in a coffee shop." Too abstract, and the model fills the gaps with the most generic match. The chapter 7 templates force concrete fields instead: who the person is, what they wear, where they stand, how the scene starts, what they say, and what the frame must not contain.

The second layer is lip-sync. The model reads dialogue literally, so acronyms and numbers can come out letter by letter, and without an explicit language instruction the presenter may speak with the wrong accent. An explicit language line before the quote and phonetic spelling from the chapter 7 tables deal with both problems.

The third layer is the shot itself. A static, undirected frame rarely looks like a commercial. The phrase dictionary gives you camera moves and shot types to paste in, and the lip-sync rules tell you which shots keep the mouth readable (close-up or medium shot, not a wide shot).

Results in practice

See what the same tools produce

Example from chapter 7

From script to finished prompt in 5 steps

This is how chapter 7 turns a 3-sentence script from chapter 5 (a physiotherapy clinic, storytelling type) into a Veo 3 prompt. The dialogue is written in the language of the target audience, and the rest of the prompt follows Template 1.

Vertical 9:16 video. Male physiotherapist (30s) in white polo,
professional clinic background, natural lighting.

He begins still, makes eye contact with camera, then speaks.

AKTOR MÓWI PO POLSKU:
"Ten ruch boli was co rano? To siedzenie 8h, nie wiek.
W FizjoRuch Kraków pomożemy."

Confident energy, animated gestures between phrases.
Actor speaks directly to camera throughout.
DISPLAY NO TEXT. No captions, no subtitles.

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