Veo

Verified against Veo · 2026-08-12

Turn a full shot list into a batch of continuity-locked Veo generations instead of one impossible mega-prompt

A Veo 3.1 prompt template for generating one shot at a time from a multi-shot list, with a locked continuity block repeated identically across every shot in the list so a character, setting, and style stay visually consistent across separately generated clips meant to be edited together.

Veo 3.17 fillable variables

The prompt

Ready to copy — highlighted parts are example details you can swap.

You are generating one shot out of a full shot list, where the finished sequence will be several separately generated Veo 3.1 clips edited together, not one clip trying to cover the whole list. Each shot needs its own prompt built from this same template, with the continuity block copied forward unchanged into every one of them.

CONTINUITY BLOCK — REPEAT IDENTICALLY IN EVERY SHOT'S PROMPT
a woman in her 30s, short red hair, wearing a forest-green field jacket; a misty pine forest clearing at dawn; muted, naturalistic color grade throughout. This exact wording — character appearance, wardrobe, location description, and named visual style — must appear the same way in every shot generated from this list; Veo has no memory between separate generations, so any drift in how this block is worded from shot to shot is rendered as an actual visual difference in the character or setting, not just a difference in description.

THIS SHOT'S CONTENT
Shot 3 of 6: she crouches to examine a set of animal tracks pressed into the wet ground. Describe only what this specific shot needs to show — its own subject, action, and framing — layered on top of the continuity block above, not a re-description of the whole scene.

CAMERA FOR THIS SHOT
a low-angle close-up on her hand tracing the track's edge. Each shot in a list typically has its own distinct camera treatment (wide, close, tracking) that varies shot to shot even while the continuity block stays fixed — state this shot's specific camera choice clearly so it reads as intentionally different coverage of the same continuous scene, not an unrelated new scene.

LIGHTING CONSISTENCY
the same low, cool dawn light and thin ground mist as the establishing shot, matched to the same time of day and light quality used across the rest of the shot list, even though only this one shot is being generated right now.

AUDIO
quiet birdsong and a faint rustle of damp leaves, matching the ambient bed used in the other shots, kept in the same sonic register as the other shots in the list so the edited sequence doesn't jump between inconsistent ambient beds from one cut to the next.

WHAT TO AVOID
Do not rewrite or paraphrase the continuity block between shots even slightly, even if a different phrasing feels more natural for this particular shot — treat it as a fixed asset to be pasted, not rewritten, since paraphrased continuity is the single most common cause of a shot list's separately generated clips looking like different characters or different rooms when edited together.

OUTPUT
The finished prompt for this one shot, followed by a note confirming the continuity block matches word-for-word what was used in the previous shot's prompt, so drift can be caught before generating.

Customize

Optional — swap in your own details for the highlighted parts above.

Why this works

A shot list assumes a viewer will experience several separately captured angles as one continuous scene, and the core challenge in generating that with Veo is that the model has no memory carried over between separate generations — each shot prompt is evaluated fresh, with no awareness of what a previous shot in the same list looked like, which is why this template's entire structure is built around a continuity block that has to be copied forward identically, word for word, rather than paraphrased shot to shot. This is not a stylistic preference but a direct consequence of how the model actually works: any variation in how a character's appearance or a location is worded between two shots gets interpreted as an actual instruction to render a different-looking character or space, not as a harmless rephrasing of the same intended visual, so a shot list where each prompt describes the same red-haired woman in slightly different words will very plausibly generate several visually distinct women across the finished sequence. Explicitly separating the fixed continuity block from the shot-specific content — camera, action, framing — lets each shot vary in exactly the ways a real shot list is supposed to vary (different angles, different framings of the same scene) while holding everything that should stay constant genuinely constant, which mirrors how a real multi-camera or multi-setup shoot maintains continuity notes across coverage even though each individual shot is captured separately. Matching lighting language and audio register across shots for the same underlying reason a film production keeps a continuity supervisor on set — a sequence edited from generations with subtly different color temperature or ambient sound from cut to cut reads as spliced-together mismatched footage rather than one continuous scene, undermining the entire premise of a shot list, which is that all its individual shots belong to the same moment in the same place.

What you get back

Shot 3 of 6: a low-angle close-up on the red-haired woman's field-jacketed hand tracing an animal track pressed into wet ground, the same cool dawn light and thin mist established in shot 1, quiet birdsong and damp leaf rustle matching the ambient bed used across the rest of the list.

Verified against

Veo 3.1 · 2026-08-12

Changelog

  • 2026-08-12 — Initial publish, verified against Veo 3.1.

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