# Replicate Prompt Videos — prompt skill for prompts by model

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Prompt video models like a director: shots, camera motion, four audio layers, dialogue, time-coded beats.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://skills.varg.ai/prompts.md) · [Prompts by model](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/prompting.md)
- **Slug:** `replicate-prompt-videos`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Replicate (vendor, verified)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/replicate/skills/tree/main/skills/prompt-videos
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Replicate account and API token
- **Cost:** Billed by Replicate per prediction
- **Adoption:** 2,500 installs, 142 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Prompting techniques for video generation models on Replicate: layered scene description, shot types, camera motion and position, lens language, an escalation pattern, prompting all four audio layers, dialogue syntax that avoids burned-in subtitles, pronunciation, and multi-shot or time-coded prompts. Like its image sibling, it picks the model through the API first.

## Use when

- Writing prompts for a video model
- Dialogue or sound in generated video
- Multi-shot or time-coded clips

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-videos -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-videos -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-videos -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-videos -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** veo_3_1, seedance_2, wan-2.2

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/replicate-prompt-videos.mp4 — 'Detailed prompt' result from Replicate's 'How to prompt Veo 3' guide: a directed noir scene (a man answers a ringing payphone in a green-lit alley, cutting to close-ups); audio not kept (credit: Replicate, https://replicate.com/blog/using-and-prompting-veo-3)

## Used for

- [Animate a photo](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/animate-photo.md): A still photo brought to life: a subtle smile, blink, camera move or full scene motion.

## More prompts by model skills

- [fal Prompting](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-prompting.md): Prompt specific model families well: Kling, GPT Image 2 and Happy Horse guides, loaded only when needed.
- [Replicate Prompt Images](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/replicate-prompt-images.md): Write better image prompts and edits: photographic language, lighting, text rendering, consistent characters.
- [Video Prompting Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-video-prompting-guide.md): Write prompts that video models follow: shot types, camera moves and per-model tips from Veo to Sora.
- [FLUX 3 Prompt Doctor](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-prompt-doctor.md): Diagnose a FLUX 3 video brief before spending: resolve missing, conflicting or schema-changing asks.
- [FLUX Image Best Practices](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-image-best-practices.md): Prompt FLUX image models well: structure, JSON prompts, hex colors, typography and multi-reference edits.
- [AI Film Director (Visual Skills)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/visual-skills-video-director.md): AI film director for video prompts: dramaturgy first (Murch, blocking, montage), then exact syntax per model.