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Prompts

What to actually type. Prompt structure, per-model syntax, and the phrasing that produces consistent results.

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The negative prompt set, and why you shouldn't rewrite it

Five exclusions, appended unchanged to every shot. The discipline isn't choosing them well — it's not improving them on shot four.

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Five prompt fields, five different things they want

The same sentence that works in Create will produce jitter in Motion and a wrong edit in Edit. Each field expects a different kind of writing.

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Placing an emotional beat at an exact word

An adjective in a prompt colours the whole clip. An inline trigger lands on one syllable. For a sixty-second cap, that difference buys back seconds.

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Stop repeating your character description in every prompt

The standard advice says paste the same description into every shot. That works until you have a reference system, at which point it's the thing breaking your continuity.

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What to write in an Extend prompt

Restate your subject descriptors identically. Not better, not shorter, not improved — identically. Improving the phrasing is what breaks the chain.

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Dialogue that survives lip-sync and captions

The twelve-word rule has three separate reasons behind it, and knowing which one you're breaking tells you whether it matters.

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How to write a video prompt: the five parts that matter

Shot, subject, action, light, constraint. Everything else is decoration.

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