Design a shot with depth
Describe foreground, subject and background. A walkway in the foreground and towers fading into haze create a clearer spatial brief than cinematic quality alone. Give the subject one meaningful action.
Motivate the lighting
Choose light that belongs to the setting: an overhead hangar light, a sunset behind a window, or reflected neon on wet pavement. Ask for a clear direction and color rather than many conflicting light sources.
Choose a restrained camera move
Start with a slow push-in or a lateral track. Keep the action visible and avoid large viewpoint changes during a short test. Evaluate continuity before combining several generated shots.
Finish the film outside the generator
Public clips are silent standard-resolution footage. Add a deliberate sound design, captions and color grade in editing. The separately upscaled fantasy showcase is a selected example, not the resolution promised by the public studio.
Settings and credit budget
Choose 5, 10 or 15 seconds. Text tasks cost 6 credits; image and two-frame tasks cost 8. New Google accounts receive a one-time 60-credit grant valid for 30 days. Landscape output is 896 × 512 and portrait output is 512 × 896 at 24 fps. Each account can have one active task. Wait for a confirmed result instead of repeatedly submitting.
A prompt to start with
A silver robot carefully sets down a glass sphere on a dark studio table, slow push-in from a medium shot, soft rim lighting reflected in the glass, one continuous shot, no cuts.
Use this as a starting point, then adjust one action or camera instruction at a time. It is a prompt example, not a guarantee of a specific result.
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